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Questions. Variant 2. 1. Choose the correct active or passive form of the verb. 2. Choose the correct verb form: modal verbs.
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Questions
1. What did people use when discussing how to protect New York City against hurricanes?
a. drawings
b. medical help
c. seawater
d. construction projects
2. The threat of another hurricane is a problem for New York City. What have people done to help solve this problem?
a. People have moved to homes outside New York City.
b. People have built sculptures of New York City.
c. People have figured out ways to change New York City.
d. People have spent less money on public transportation in New York City.
3. When a hurricane hit New York City in 2012, the city was not fully prepared to handle it. What evidence from the passage supports this statement?
a. Drawings can help people exchange ideas with each other about how to solve problems, big or small.
b. Because drawings make ideas visible, they can be easier to understand than spoken or written explanations.
c. Sea levels are expected to keep rising, which means New York City may experience one or more hurricanes in the future.
d. Many people struggled to get medical help during the hurricane and were left without homes afterward.
4. What was one reason for using drawings when discussing improvements to New York City after the hurricane?
a. Some people prefer hearing an idea explained by an expert than seeing a drawing of that idea by a non-expert.
b. Drawings made it easier for many people to understand the improvements being discussed.
c. During the hurricane, many people in New York City were stranded and could not get the medical care they needed.
d. Some ideas that people came up with were not as good as others and had to be replaced.
5. What is this passage mainly about?
a. the damage that a 2012 hurricane did to hospitals and the train system in New York City
b. ideas that had to be rejected when figuring out ways to protect New York City from hurricanes
c. how grassy areas in New York City next to the ocean could be used to absorb seawater
d. ways to protect New York City from hurricanes and how drawings helped people discuss those ways
Variant 2
1. Choose the correct active or passive form of the verb.
1. Air pollution can define / be defined as the addition of something harmful to the air at a faster rate than 2. it can absorb / be absorbed. Everyone should be concerned about air pollution. 3. It affects / is affected us all, 4. and as it continues / is continued to worsen, so the environmental impact increases. One of the major causes of air pollution in cities is car usage. 5. Cars use / are used for even the shortest of journeys, 6. and all efforts by governments to encourage people to use / to be used public transport seem to be failing. Industry is another major cause of pollution in our cities, but fortunately, 7. new industrial sites are building / are being built away from large urban centers. 8. It says / is said that there are too many contributing factors for us to decide exactly which one is the main problem, but I believe that one of the most serious problems that needs tackling is the use of the car. 9. In some cities laws have passed / have been passed concerning car usage. 10. Athens, for example, only allows / is allowed a certain number of cars into the city center each day.
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2. Choose the correct verb form: modal verbs.
1. They had to / must delay their research when the engineers came up against a technical problem. 2. You should buy / have bought a better telescope with the money you got on your birthday. This one isn’t very good. 3. We should / had better check the modem. 4. You need / should have passed your biology exam. Why didn’t you? 5. You needn’t have got / needn’t get a new screen; your old one was perfectly adequate. 6. They should / were able to have asked for help when they couldn’t find the file. Why didn’t they? 7. Lee wasn’t supposed / ought not to work in the lab while his boss was away. 8. He ought to / may to have fixed the phone by now, so let’s give him a ring. 9. The company mustn’t / doesn’t have to do any more trials on the vaccine because it has been declared safe. 10. You mustn’t / needn’t use dangerous chemicals without wearing gloves and safety glasses.
3. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words from the list.
amendments, sustainable, expansion, conflict, enabled, images, ratio, disoriented, versions, mentally
1. After receiving a blow to the head, the player was confused and ________, and had to leave the game. 2. A copy of the suggested ________ has been sent to the members for their consideration. 3. The rapid ________ of e-commerce has radically changed the world of retail sales. 4. The flexible hours of my new job have ________ me to spend more time with my children. 5. It is important to ________ organize information in your head when studying. 6. We need to find a ________ energy source to replace our fossils fuels because eventually there won’t be any oil or gas left. 7. George Bernard Shaw observed that there is only one religion, though there are a hundred ________ of it. 8. In the best possible learning environment, the computer-student ________would be 1: 1. 9. The ________ for fresh water is growing in many of the former Soviet republics, which share many of the same waterways. 10. Forming mental ________ of new vocabulary is a valuable aid in learning a second language.
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