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Questions. Variant 2. 1. Choose the correct form. 2. Choose the correct verb form.. 3. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words from the list.
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Questions
1. In 2007, what conclusion did games producers at Nickelodeon come to?
a. The preschool market was unlikely to be sufficiently profitable.
b. One of their hardware products would probably be suitable for preschoolers.
c. Games produced by rival companies were completely.
2. Which problem do the writers highlight concerning games instructions for young children?
a. Spoken instructions take up a lot of the available memory, inappropriate for preschoolers.
b. They should put their ideas for new games for preschoolers into practice.
c. New manufacturing policy led to products which appealed mainly to the US consumers.
3. The study carried out by Nickelodeon …
a. was based on children living in various parts of the world.
b. focused on the kinds of game content which interests preschoolers.
c. investigated the specific characteristics of the target market.
4. Portable gaming systems have done a particularly good job of penetrating the younger market. Which of the following statements does not correspond to particular needs of preschoolers?
a. Written instructions have to be expressed very simply.
b. The children do not follow instructions consistently.
c. The video images distract attention from the instructions.
5. Which is the best title for the reading passage?
a. An overview of video games software for the preschool market.
b. Researching and designing video games for preschool children.
c. The effects of video games on the behavior of young children.
Variant 2
1. Choose the correct form.
1. Dear Professor Michael Smith / Smith Michael. 2. I am a PhD student at the University of Kubla Khan / Kubla Khan University. 3. I attended the Cole-Ridge conference last week and I found your seminar being / to be very interesting. 4. It would be a real pleasure for me to join your research groupand do some further research into innovative dream sequence storage ways / innovative ways to store dreamsequences. 5. Where I think could I / I couldreally add value would be in research work. 6. I have attached a paper and some recent results, which I hope you will find both / both findinteresting and useful. 7. It would / Would itsuit you if I camefrom April next year, for a 3–6-month period? 8. I would be able / have been able to get funding from my university to cover the costs of a placement period, so I would need no grant or scholarship. 9. Please find attached / attachingmy CV with the complete list of my publicationsand a letter of recommendation from my tutor, Professor Shankar. 10. Thank you in advance / In advance thank you for any help you may be able to give me.
2. Choose the correct verb form.
1. I would / would like tosubmit for publication in the Journal of Future Education the attached paper entitled “A Proposal for Radical Educational Reform” by Adrian Wallwork and Anna Southern. 2. Our aim was to test / testingthe efficiency of short- and long-duration degree courses. 3. Our study of 15, 000 male and female graduates aged between 35 and 55 found that they would performfar better in their careers from a financial point of view if they undertook / had undertakena one-year course at university rather than the traditional three to four-year course. 4. Our key finding is that people on shorter courses will / wouldearn up to 15% more during their lifetime. 5. The implications of this are / will benot only for the graduates themselves. 6. In fact, governments can / couldsave considerable amounts of money. 7. Universities (8) will / wouldbe free to accept more students. 8. We believe that our findings will / shouldbe of great interest to readers of your journal, particularly due to their counterintuitive nature and the fact they go against the general trend that claims that university coursesshouldbe increased in length. 9. This research has not been / was notpublished before and is not beingconsidered for publication elsewhere. 10. I look / am lookingforward to hearing from you.
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3. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words from the list.
manipulate, practice, implicit, currency, appreciative, widespread, eventually, thereby, restored, commodity
1. Reports suggest damage is _______ as a result of the flood. 2. In March 1998, the elected government of Sierra Leone was _______ to power, replacing the military regime which had taken control in a coup in the previous year. 3. Any aid given to developing countries by the developed nations seems to carry with it an _______ agreement that the developed country will get something in return. 4. My cousin just opened a dental _______ here in town. 5. Liechtenstein does not have its own _______, but uses the Swiss franc. 6. Predators have a beneficial effect on the health of their prey, in that they often eat the old or diseased animals, _______ keeping the species strong. 7. Psychologists describe thinking as a set of processes used to _______ knowledge, ideas and images. 8. The stocks were once a much-desired _______, but have since lost over 70% of their original value. 9. This disease will probably kill me _______, but it's not going to keep me from living in the meantime. 10. George W. Crane once suggested that _______ words are the most powerful force for good on earth.
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