Английский язык. Экспресс-репетитор для подготовки к ЕГЭ. Грамматика и лексика

3. Choose the most suitable word for each space. If you tried to visualise a Paris caf e, you would probably _____ (1) plates of golden croissants and cups of steaming hot coffee. Whatever you picture, a teapot is _____ (2) to be part of the scene. Although the _____ (3) of taking afternoon tea is in many _____ (4) an English custom, its popularity is now _____ (5) through Paris. Tea salons have been fashionable in Paris _____ (6) early this century. One of the oldest tearooms in Paris, ‘Angelina’, was _____ (7) in 1903. The atmosphere has a charming turn-of-the-century feel and the menu includes a mouth-watering _____ (8) of cream cakes, meringues and almond macaroons. Tearooms in Paris are unfortunately often overlooked by tourists snared by the bright lights and bistros. But for those who know, tea drinking in saloons is serious _____ (9). Menus often give you _____ (10) descriptions of the teas’ _____ (11), or even what time of the day is _____ (12) for drinking a certain tea. For serious connoisseurs there is only one tearoom _____ (13) visiting ‘Marriage Freres’. In this sunny tearoom you’ll be surrounded by towering green plants and _____ (14) by white-suited waiters. In the adjoining shop, enormous chests of China tea are displayed alongside old canisters containing 350 _____ (15) of tea from more than 30 countries.

1. a) think b) imagine c) consider d) figure

2. a) rarely b) not c) unlikely d) hardly

3. a) means b) fact c) view d) habit

4. a) ideas b) ways c) types d) forms

5. a) spreading b) moving c) going d) swelling

6. a) for b) until c) since d) before

7. a) founded b) set c) run d) found

8. a) mass b) selection c) mixture d) collection

9. a) affair b) trade c) business d) commerce

10. a) tiny b) particular c) special d) detailed

11. a) origins b) births c) sources d) beginnings

12. a) conventional b) relevant c) appropriate d) reliable

13. a) right b) worth c) deserving d) worthy

14. a) shown b) ordered c) served d) brought

15. a) makes b) variations c) types d) breeds

ANSWER KEY

Nouns

Test 1. 1. churches; 2. difficulties; 3. mice; 4. months; 5. children; 6. roofs; 7. boys; 8. women; 9. deer; 10. leaves; 11. geese; 12. potatoes; 13. feet; 14. dresses; 15. radios; 16. oxen; 17. fish/fishes; 18. wolves; 19. countries; 20. teeth; 21. curricula

Test 2. 1. nannies; 2. fathers-in-law; 3. headaches; 4. dictionaries; 5. pincushions; 6. hold-ups; 7. hoofs/hooves; 8. radios; 9. train robberies; 10. painkillers; 11. bushes; 12. pen-friends; 13. videos; 14. pillowcases; 15. violins; 16. wives; 17. media; 18. mice; 19. godfathers; 20. wishes; 21. phenomena

Test 3. 1. deer; 2. ladies; 3. roofs; 4. chiefs; 5. studios; 6. zoos; 7. buses; 8. sheep; 9. species; 10. days; 11. families; 12. dishes; 13. paws; 14. forks; 15. data; 16. Eskimos; 17. leaves; 18. lives; 19. zeroes/zeros; 20. buffaloes/buffalos; 21. criteria

Test 4. 1. trout; 2. composers; 3. insects; 4. oases; 5. analyses; 6. bacteria; 7. waiters; 8. babies; 9. handkerchiefs; 10. churches; 11. memos; 12. ball games; 13. passers-by; 14. letdowns; 15. vowels; 16. buzzes; 17. glasses; 18. men; 19. geese; 20. feet; 21. volcanoes

Test 5. 1. benches; 2. celebrities; 3. lice; 4. baths; 5. women; 6. cliffs; 7. plays; 8. scarves; 9. beliefs; 10. sheep; 11. halves; 12. tomatoes; 13. means; 14. photos; 15. fruit/fruits; 16. swine; 17. activities; 18. thieves; 19. kilos; 20. parties; 21. appendices/appendixes

Test 6. 1. are; 2. are; 3. is; 4. is; 5. are; 6. is; 7. is; 8. are; 9. is; 10. is; 11. is; 12. is; 13. is; 14. are; 15. is; 16. are; 17. is; 18. is; 19. are; 20. is

Test 7. 1. are; 2. are; 3. is; 4. is; 5. are; 6. is; 7. is; 8. is; 9. are; 10. is; 11. is; 12. is; 13. is; 14. are; 15. is; 16. are; 17. is; 18. is; 19. are; 20. are

Test 8. 1. is; 2. don’t; 3. want; 4. was; 5. aren’t; 6. wasn’t; 7. does/ do; 8. isn’t; 9. they are; 10. are; 11. do; 12. is; 13. are; 14. was; 15. is; 16. is; 17. is; 18. are; 19. is; 20. needs

Test 9. 1. were; 2. is; 3. does; 4. makes; 5. enjoy; 6. is; 7. are looking; 8. get; 9. is passing; 10. is; 11. is, is; 12. were (each member of the audience individually); 13. is; 14. was; 15. are; 16. gives; 17. were; 18. was; 19. is; 20. is

Pronouns