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TESTS

Five-Minute Tests

1

Complete the text using these words: built, half, accommodates, enough, travel

Subways

As means of safe, cheap speedy (1)________, subways have no equal. American’s first subway, (2)________ in Boston in 1898, was one and a (3)______miles long. New York City’s system opened in 1904, with 22 miles of track. It is now the largest in the world, with the most stations and cars and a whopping 722 miles of track – (4)__________ to extend from New York to Chicago; it (5)______________ 3.5 million people each weekday.

whopping - колоссальный, огромный

Key: 1. travel; 2. built; 3. half; 4. enough; 5. accommodates

2

Complete these sentences using the correct form of one of the phrasal verbs below. There is one extra verb you shouldn’t use.

get on, count on, turn on, go on, look on, take on

1. If you want to ________ in the future, you should know English.
2. He received a bachelor of science degree in computer science, and they ________ him _______ as an application programmer.
3. I can’t ________ Eric to help me. He has let me down recently.
4. Don’t ____ the washing machine ___. It is broken.
5. If you ______ doing nothing, you will fail your exam.

Key: 1. get on; 2. took on; 3. count on; 4. turn on; 5. go on

3

Read this text and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.

Stetson

It (1)_________ been said that next to the Statue of Liberty and the flag, the cowboy hat is (2)_________ most famous symbol of America. The felt (3)______ with the high crown and the wide brim has (4)________ worn by cowboys to protect (5)________ from sun and rain (6)______ the West was settled. In the 1850s John Batterson Stetson, a hatter from New Jersey, traveled to Missouri and Colorado. (7)_______ returning to the East, he opened a small factory in Philadelphia in 1865 and made the kind of hats he (8)_______ seen cowboy wearing. (9)______ quality and design made Stetson the name synonymous with the cowboy (10)______.

brim - поля шляпы

Key: 1. has; 2. the; 3. hat; 4. been; 5. them; 6. since; 7. After; 8. had; 9. His; 10. hat

4

Complete these questions.

1. ________ you like English?
2. ________ have you been learning English?
3. ________ are you learning English?
4. _________ do you spend your free time?
5. ________ do you feel about sport?
6. ________ do you live?
7. ________ does the school year start?
8. ________ is your sister’s name?
9. ________ months are there in the year?

Key: 1. Do; 2. How long; 3. How; 4. How; 5. How; 6. Where; 7. When; 8. What; 9. How many.

By Youdif Boyarskaya,
School No. 814,
Moscow

to be continued