Тест №3 а нглийский язык

Составитель канд филос.наук доцент Н. А. Авдеева

Каждое задание предусматривает один правильный ответ

Complete the sentences choosing one of the variants:

1. Attempts have been made at some American schools to connect the parents to the system of the Internet thus:

a) teaching them computer skills

b) getting them involved in their children’s performance

c) making them take their children’s exams on-line

2. Euthanasia can have two forms. One is a direct action, such as a lethal injection and another one is:

a) committing suicide

b) a failure to perform an action necessary to maintain life

c) a voluntary euthanasia

3. The moral purpose of public relations profession is

a) social harmony

b) public trust

c) loyalty to self

4. Public relations professionals don’t normally perform the following duty:

a) duty to Self

b) duty to his family

c) duty to employer

5. Greenhouse gases are:

a) carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and water vapor

b) carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide

c) carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor

6. Greenhouse gases … incoming solar radiation to reach the surface of the earth but … the outward flow of infrared radiation:

a) permit, restrict

b) restrict, permit

c) absorb, re-emit

7. The main sources of carbon dioxide are:

a) heat loss and traffic

b) power stations

c) deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels

8. Household robots and a Terminator are:

a) available from the mail-order catalogues now

b) still confined to science fiction

c) the best helpers ever

9. All cigarette packages sold today carry:

a) implicit health warnings

b) explicit health warnings

c) obscure health warnings

10. Time is:

a)very expensive

b)very cheap

c)free

11. Each of us can improve:

a) the quality of time

b) the quantity of time

c) the value of time

12. Time is:

a) beyond our control

b) within our control

c) uncontrollable

13. Legal drugs are:

a) medicines and anabolic steroids

b) cigarettes and alcohol

c) anabolic steroids and LSD

14. … is the most commonly abused illicit drug produced from a dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the plant Cannabis sativa:

a) Marijuana

b) Heroin

c) LSD

15 In early days calendar was required for:

a) religious observance only

b) civic purposes

c) religious observance and civic purposes

16. Our concept of a year is based on:

a) the moon’s motion around the earth

b) the earth’s motion around the sun

c) the sun’s motion around the earth

17) Easter commemorates Christ’s:

a) crucifixion

b) resurrection

c) birth

18. One common form of Lenten penance for Christians is:

a) fasting

b) cleaning the house

c) eating pancakes

19. Money can take and has taken such forms as:

a) tea

b) cattle

c) clothes

20. Gold has been adopted by almost every nation in the world as the standard medium of exchange as it fulfills the following function best:

a) acceptability

b) capability

c) ability

21. The Iliad made … famous:

a) Atlantis

b) Troy

c) Angkor

22. In many offices where people are engaged in writing there is a large sigh bearing the letters:

a) KISS

b) MISS

c) PLEASE

23 … generally tops a traditional writing form called an inverted pyramid:

a) A review

b) A summary lead

c) An abstract

24 Copy editors:

a) are the eyes and ears of the audience

b) cover a breaking news event

c) prepare a newspaper for the printer

25. The custom of kissing under the … at Christmas is descended from ancient Druid rites.

a) poinsettia

b) mistletoe

c) holly

26. Keeping a daily time log can help you:

a) discover whether your watch is wrong

b) discover when your work starts daily

c) discover how your time is used

27. You can … time:

a) lend

b) spend

c) save

28. … is an infliction of the same wrong on the man who has injured you:

a) substitution of damages

b) personal revenge

c) court

29. The nativity scene depicts:

a) the birth of Jesus Christ

b) Christ’s crucifixion

c) Christ’s celebration of the Passover

30. Most of us inhabit the kind of cities now where highest priority is given to:

a) business.

b) architecture

c) art