Ingliz tili attestatsiya №12

1. Choose the correct answer. The international criminal Jimmy Rosendale is reported … in Ireland now.

2. Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for each question below. Snow is composed of ice crystals. These crystals fall from clouds in cold weather when the air is too cold to melt the ice crystals into rain. In most of the world outside the very hot tropics, most rain starts to fall as snow but melts to rain on the way down. The heaviest snowfalls occur when the air temperature is close to the freezing point at 32°F. For this reason, more snow falls on the northern United States than at the North Pole because it is too cold at the North Pole for snow to fall. Snow can be as much as 90 percent air. For this reason, snow helps to keep the ground warm and protect some plants from extreme cold. Because so much of the snow is composed of air, it takes about ten inches of snow to equal the amount of water in one inch of rain. All snowflakes are six-sided crystals, with some occasional needles or columns. One farmer and amateur scientist photographed thousands of snowflakes through a microscope. He was trying to find two identical flakes. Neither he nor anyone else ever has. Snow often melts slowly because the white color reflects sunlight away. The most snow in a single storm in the United States was 189 inches. It occurred at Mount Shasta, California, in February 1959. Antarctica is buried in an average of two-and-a half miles of snow. When does the heaviest snowfall usually occur?

3. Choose the correct answer. At last I . . . the key that was lost yesterday.

4. Read the text and answer the questions below. Where does the word volcano come from? It comes from the Roman god of fire. His name was Vulcan. A volcano is a mountain that blows its top! Hot lava pushes through the mountain. Then, it flows down the side. Some volcanoes are millions of years old. Some sleep. Others are active. It is hard to tell when a volcano will blow. Many volcanoes have snow. If they blow their tops, hot lava melts the snow. It burns up trees and plants, too, just like a fire. In this story, the word hard means . . .

5. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence. It would require permanent, steady and patient activity to cultivate a new attitude … people's minds towards work, life and society.

6. Choose the best answer. My brother doesn’t like coffee, … I do.

7. Read the text and answer the questions according to it. Spices were known to Eastern peoples thousands of years ago.Arab traders skilfully kept a secret the true source of these spices. Spices became valuable items of sale early in the evolution of the spice trade and were introduced by Arab traders to the West. The initial uses of spices in very early times were in medicine and in the making of holy oils. People believed in the cure of spices, in a powder form, in the Middle Ages and even brought them into early medicine. It is not known when spices were first used in food. Certainly, the ancient Greeks and Romans used spices to flavour food and drinks because they discovered that spices helped to preserve foods, hid the flavour of spoiled meat in part, and also brought a change of flavour. Knowledge of the use of spices to preserve and flavour food slowly spread through Europe. Finally, in the last third of the 15th century, the Europeans decided to build ships and dared to go abroad in search of a route to the spice-producing countries. According to the passage, the ancient Greeks and Romans used spices for all the following, except . . . .

8. Choose the right word. Reading this book is waste … time. It isn’t worth reading.

9. Why do you think crows can live almost any place?

10. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence. They don’t have much free time. Neither….

11. Choose the correct answer. He has been very lonely since ….

12. Choose the correct answer. Romeo fell in love with Juliette … first sight.

13. Read the text and answer the questions according to it.
Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do was
learning how to swim. I was always afraid of the water, but I decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn. I also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I didn’t realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person. New situations always make me a bit nervous, and my first swimming lesson was no exception. After I changed into my bathing suit in the locker room, I stood timidly by the side of the pool waiting for the teacher and other students to show up. After a couple of minutes the teacher came over. She smiled and introduced herself, and two more students joined us. Although they were both older than me, they didn’t seem to be embarrassed about not knowing how to swim. I began to feel more at ease.

What is the main idea of the text?

14. Choose the correct answer. When the fire began at 4:00 AM, most people in the house . . . in their beds.

15. Choose the correct answer. What ... big dogs! They are so scary, aren’t they?

16. Choose the correct answer. It takes a long time to write a novel even if you ... hard. And then you have to get it ....

17. Choose the correct answer. . . . Water is a vital substance for our life.

18. Choose the correct answer. She is suffering from the flu.- . . . .

19. Read the text and answer the questions according to it.

Every day, a fisherman sat on a bridge. He threw the seeds into the water. He had a simple way to catch fish. He cut a branch off a tree and tied a plain string to it. He put a sharp hook on it. Then he whispered, "Come here fish." Like magic, the fish bit the hook. He took the fish home to make a big pot of fish soup from them. One day, another man walked up to him. He said, "My name is George. I am staying at the hotel. I bet that I am a better fisherman than you. I will accompany you today. I want to prove my skill." The fisherman cast his string. George had a lot of electronic tools. One machine showed him the locations of fish. The other machine could weigh the fish. At the end of the day, George subtracted his fish from the fisherman’s. The fisherman had beaten him by forty-seven. George was shocked. The fisherman told George, "I am patient and I believe in myself. Take a breath, and try it in my way."

According to the passage, what is the story mainly about?

20. Choose the correct answer.- I'm going to stay in the same hotel as last year.-...?

21. Choose the correct answer. The instructor made her students write an essay about … hometown.

22. Choose the correct answer. That dog is as … as that child!

23. Are you talking to ?

24. He insisted ... being paid the full sum.

25. Where will the new hotel be . . . ?

26. “She a famous writer one day”. “Yes, I think you are right”.

27. .....were you all night? I was really worried about you.

28. - Is the soup ?- No, it isn’t. It is cold.

29. He promised, “I will do it tomorrow.”

30. - James Smith wasn’t at home at 10 o’clock yesterday.- ... .

31. Those are glasses.

32. .....they need is a big fridge in their kitchen.

33. If I lived in the country, I a lot of farm animals.

34. ". . . sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate but to be indifferent to them", said Ernest Hemingway.

35. A brief outline of the course and bibliography were handed ... to the students at the first meeting.

36. - Is there any difference between English spoken in the United Kingdom and that of India? -Of course, there is: in vocabulary, pronunciation and meaning of some words.

37. I am accustomed to care of myself.

38. I was so relieved when I found my keys. I ... for them all morning.

39. It was a really long trip. You be tired now.

40. The flowers would grow much better if you . . .them regularly.