The lions watched as he put the hands[1] of Big Ben to just after midnight.Susan, Albert, Edward and Beatrice ran down the bank of the Thames

skills? your advice to those who begin tostudy English?

Everything 3).....(be) quiet. His heart 4) .....(beat) fast and his hands 5).....(shake) as he crept silently into the empty house, but he was trying not to panic. He soon 6)......(find) what he 7)..........(look) for. He smiled with relief as he put on the clothes. The men who 8)....(follow)him would never recognise him now.

little white kid gloves while she was talking. 'How CAN I have __4___ that?' she thought. 'I must be ____5____ small again.' She got up and went to the table to measure herself __6__ it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet __7____, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found __8__ that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it ___9____, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

'That WAS a ___10____ escape!' saidAlice, a good ___11__ frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in ____12____; 'and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, __13___! the little door was shut again, and the little __14____ key was lying on the glass table as before, 'and things are worse than ___15__,' thought the poor child, 'for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'

As she said these ___16___ her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in __17___ water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, 'and in that case I can go back by ____18______,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with spades ____19______, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of __20___ which she had wept when she was nine feet high.

Часть 1

Раскройте скобки, поставив глагол в нужную видовременную форму.

1. We are not sure if our clients (agree)_________________to such high prices next year.

2. Kelly was very nervous, because she never (take) _________________examinations before.

3. We came to the airport and then our luggage (check) ____________by the customs officer.

4. My friend left for Australia two years ago and I (not see)_____________him since then.

5. As soon as he (come)___________________, we'll be able to speak to him.

6. My uncle (ell off the ladder while he (paint) __________the ceiling.

7. We wondered where he (stay) ________________________in London next time.

S. They will cancel the trip if there (be) ______________thick fog.

9. I am very busy at the moment. I (prepare) _______________ dinner for my children.

10. Winter is usually warm here and it (not snow) often.

Часть 2

Обведите правильный вариант ответа кружком.

1.____________a modern kitchen and a well-equipped bath room in their flat.

a) It is b) There is c) There are d) There were

2. The policeman showed me several photos, but 1 didn't recognise _________

a) somebody b) nobody c) anybody d) some

3. How much__________ _____to fly to New York?

a) costs b) it costs c) docs cost d) docs it cost

4. The weather today is______ yesterday.

a) worse than b) more bad than

c) worst than d) worse

5. He had no money at that time, ________?

a) did he b) had he c) hadn't he d) isn't it

6. Our house is smaller than _____________.

a) their b) theirs c) them d) your

7. Your watch ________. ________five minutes slow.

a) are b) have c) is d)were

8. __________________late, we must hurry.

a) There is b) That is c) It was d) It is

9. It's a good party. Everybody _____________ it.

a) is enjoying b) enjoying

c) are enjoying d) have enjoyed

10. ____________ something wrong with the car.

a) It is b) This is c) There is d) There be

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