11-sinf Ingliz tili olimpiada №2

1. She couldn’t have got home on time,                        , of course, she had been given a lift.

2. The teacher urged me today: “ Call me tomorrow, if I don’t come early”

3.             you                  your parents             your brothers             food for you?

4.             real progress has been made, the gains are likely to be immense.

5. Visitors were not permitted to enter the park after dark________the lack of security and lighting.

6. They should have shown me more consideration. I ought _____.

7. We are told in the passage that the ancient Greeks and Romans used spices for all the following, except ____________.

8. Choose the correct answer according to the passage. Initially, spices were __________.

9. I have never been _________ without finding ___________ interesting to see.

10. Choose appropriate synonym. Before taking a test on vocabulary, one had better brush up on his or her vocabulary.

11. He was charged _____ murder and brought _____ trial _____ jury.

12. I didn’t answer the phone when it ______ because I ______ a shower, so I ______ it until it was too late.

13. No one imagined that the apparently ________ business man was really a criminal.

14. There can be few more depressing stories in the entire history of man’s exploitation of nature than the wide- spread destruction of whales. Whales have not only suffered untold cruelty but now face total extermination. Already entire populations have been wiped out, and the only reason why no species has yet been finished off is due to the vastness and inaccessibility of the oceans. Hence, a few have always managed to escape, but how much longer can this go on? Choose the correct answer according to the passage. The author points out that of all the animals in nature it is probably the whales that _____.

15. `I ______ you know as soon as the telegram ______.

16. Spices were first used _________.

17. Children usually ______ after an illness much more quickly than adults.

18. My rifle was not ________, so I did not hit anything.

19. No one seemed to know _______.

20. All students should bear in mind that these books must be read by mid-semester.

21. The results _________ were satisfactory but not exceptional ___________ to a commercial application.

22. There can be few more depressing stories in the entire history of man’s exploitation of nature than the wide- spread destruction of whales. Whales have not only suffered untold cruelty but now face total extermination. Already entire populations have been wiped out, and the only reason why no species has yet been finished off is due to the vastness and inaccessibility of the oceans. Hence, a few have always managed to escape, but how much longer can this go on? In the passage the author expresses his doubts about whether _____.

23. Highly trained workers, _________ tools-makers became difficult to hire and keep during the war, ____________ they could get better wages elsewhere than in Ford employ.

24. Lack of tolerance is an important problem of our age. People have been so intolerant of each other that even trivial matters may spark serious arguments. Living conditions can be said to compel people to spend most of their time concentrating on their business or their personal affairs. This may deprive people of exchanging their ideas with others or trying to understand different people. However, it doesn't seem impossible to form a tolerant society. The thing we should do first is to take up social activities to require that we share more with other people. We can infer from the passage that .......

25. ___________, pepper is probably the most widely used one in the world today.

26. We carve wood or stone with a ______.

27. Choose irrelevant sentence. (1) Some of the most famous classical composers died quite young. (2) Most of the musicians were died in their beds while sleeping. (3) Among these, for example, Schubert and Mozart, who both died very early in their thirties. (4) But not all composers have had short lives. Bach lived until age 65 and Haydn until 69.

28. Having different types of businesses in a neighborhood can increase _____________ walking trips among residents

29. Complete the sentence. Whenever I intend to buy a dress or a shirt, ____________.

30. A: I took Janet to the cinema last night. B: You _____ me too. I was at home.