261.Choose the right sentence:

A) Sue is a lawyer, like her father

B) Sue is a lawyer, as if her father

C) Sue is a lawyer, likes her father

D) Sue is lawyer, like her father

E) Sue is a lawyer , so as her father

262.Choose the right variant: She is one of the kindest people….

A) that I know

B) I knew

C) whose I know

D) who I knew

E) which I know

263.Choose the right variant: Football, tennis and cycling are …..very popular sports in Europe.

1. all

B) both

1. C) every

D) all of them

E) none of

264.Join the sentences: She is the one. I told you about her.

1. She is the one I told you about

2. She is the girl I told you

3. She is one who I told her

4. I told you about her.

5. She is whom I told you

265.Choose the right variant: … golf, I enjoy watching football.

1. besides

2. except

3. except for

4. apart for

5. apart at

266.Complete the sentence: She tried to …

A) talk me out of the plan

B) talk out of me the plan

C) talk me the plan out of

D) talk out me of the plan

E) talk out the plan for me

267.Complete the sentence: My parents had ….holiday in England

A) two weeks’

B) two week

C) a two weeks’

D) two week’s

E) a two week’s

268.Complete the sentence: What have we got...?

1. for dinner

2. to dinner

3. for a dinner

4. to the dinner

5. to a dinner

269.Complete the sentence: The teacher gave us … problem to solve.

1. a completely impossible

2. very impossible

3. an absolutely impossibly

4. an extremely impossibly

5. impossibly

270.Complete the sentence: He was busy……his homework

1. doing

2. do

3. that was doing

4. to do

5. to doing

271.Complete the sentence: I still feel very tired…in the morning.

A) when I wake up

B) when I’ll wake up

C) as I wake up

D) while I wake up

E) to wake up

272.Choose the right variant: All…my closest relatives…in or around Almaty.

A) of \live

B) of\is living

C) -\ lives

D) of\ lives

E) of\living

273.Choose the right question: You were talking to someone …

A)Who were you talking to?

B)Who talked to you?

C)Whom was talking to you ?

D)Whom to were you talking?

E)Who were you to talking?

274.Complete the sentence: …for you around 2 o’clock outside.

A) I’ll be waiting

B) I’d waiting

C) I wait

D) I waited

E) I’m waiting

275.Complete the sentence: Do you often listen to …..?

A) classical music

B) the classical music

C) a classical music

D) classic music

E) a classic music

276.Choose the right verb form: Listen to the birds…!

A) singing

B) sang

C) sings

D) will sing

E) to sing

277.Choose the equivalent of the sentence: Please remember to post the letter.

A) Don’t forget to post the letter

B) Don’t remember to post the letter

C) Forget to post the letter

D) Remind to post the letter

E) Don’t post the letter

278.Choose the right variant: The class is having…for the best short story.

A) a competition

B) compete

C) thought

D) a time

E) a contestant

279.Complete the sentence: It was a very …..play.

A)well-acted

B)to wasting

C)anxious

D)hard-working

E)well-respected

280.Complete the sentence: I…..late.

A) apologized for being

B) apologized to being

C) apologize for

D) apologized to be

E) apologized being

281.The given sentence describes: I’ve been reading that book.

A) the activity

B) the completion of an event

C) time reference

D) a future arrangement

E) the happened action

282.Complete the sentence: The woman….works for a TV company.

A) living next door

B) living to the next door

C) lived to the next door

D) live next door

E) who is lives

283.Choose the right conjunction: I’m staying in all weekend … I can get my work done.

1. so that

2. as though

3. because

4. if

5. after

284.Choose the right conjunction: I’ll meet you….like.

A) wherever

B) as if

C) provided

D) although

E) after

285.Choose the right question tag: You said good bye, ...?

A) didn’t you

B) do you

C) don’t you

D) did you

E) aren’t you

286.Choose the right variant: Is there anything wrong ...

A) no, there isn’t

B) no, there is

C) Yes, there isn’t

D) Yes, there are

E) No, there aren’t

287.Choose the right answer: - Didn’t I talk to you about this yesterday? - No, ….

A) you didn’t

B) you did

C) you don’t

D) you aren’t

E) you are

287.Choose the right question tag: That’s your car,…?

1. isn’t it

2. is it

3. does it

4. has it

5. was it

288.Choose the right question tag: Let’s go there tomorrow,…?

A) shall we

B) will you

C) aren’t we

D) are we

E) have you

289.Add suffix and prefix: Attract, responsible

1. – ive, ir-

2. – able, ir-

3. – ion, im –

4. – able, ir-

5. – less, dis-

290.Choose the saying:

A) Don’t play with fire

B) Once in a white

C) To keep an eye on

D) Over and over

E) As a matter of fact

291.Find the equivalent of the saying: Every medal has its reverse.

A) Every medal has two sides

B) Every day is not Sunday

C) Every day has his day

D) Every man is the architect of his fortune

E) Life is not all pleasure

292.Rewrite the sentence using be + adjective + infinitive:

He’s afraid of telling him the truth.

A) He’s afraid to tell him the truth

B) He’s afraid of to tell him the truth

C) He’s afraid of tell the truth

D) He’s afraid to telling him the truth

E) He’s afraid tell him the truth

293.Read the text and choose the right answer:

Mr Jones was very fond of climbing mountains, so one year he went to Switzerland for his holidays. After he had climbed some easy mountains, he decided one day to climb a more difficult one; but he did not want to go up it alone, so he found a good Swiss guide, who had often climbed that mountain.

At first it was not a difficult climb, but then they came to a place which was not so easy. The guide stopped, turned round and warned Mr Jones. 'Be careful here,' he said. "This is a dangerous place. You can easily fall, and if you do, you will fall straight down a very long way. But,' he continued calmly, 'if you do fall here, don't forget to look to the right while you are going down. There is a quite extraordinarily beautiful view there—much more beautiful than the one you can see from here.'

- What did the guide tell him to do if he fell?

A) to look to the right while he is going down

B) to look at the extraordinarily beautiful view

C) to fall straight down

D) to climb

E) to fall easily

294.Read the text and choose the right answer:

One day a big ship hit a smaller ship while they were both going from England to America. The smaller ship was badly damaged, and had to be taken back to England, where a judge had to decide who was to blame for the accident. Several of the people who had seen the big ship hit the smaller one said that, a few seconds before the accident, the big ship had sent a signal to the smaller one. The judge was puzzled by this, so he said, 'Who sent this signal?'

A young signalman came forward and said, 'I did, sir.'

'Oh?' said the judge. 'And what signal did you send to the other ship?'

The young signalman's face went red as he answered, 'Good luck on your voyage.'

-Where did the smaller ship go?

A) to America

B) nowhere

C) to England

D) to Switzerland

E) to seashore

295.Read the text and choose the right answer:

On Saturday mornings our cinema shows films for children. One such morning an old man took his grandchildren to the cinema. At the door there was a list of the prices of tickets, but he could not see any price for tickets for adults for Saturday mornings. The only price which was shown for that time was for children's tickets, so he asked the lady who was selling the tickets how much it was for adults. 'Adults!' she said. 'No, we don't have prices for tickets for adults for our Saturday morning films. Any adult who is brave enough to go in there to see films like that - and with all those children can go in free!'

-Why could adults go in free ?

A) any adult who is brave enough to go in there to see films like that

B) there weren’t any price for tickets for adults for Saturday mornings

C) the only price which was shown for that time was for children's tickets

D) cinema shows films only for children

E) there were no tickets

296.Read the text and choose the right answer:

One of Aldar's rich neighbors gave a big party one evening, but he forgot to invite him. Aldar waited and waited, but no invitation came, so at last, when the party had already begun, he took a piece of paper, folded it, put it in an envelope and took it to his neighbor's house.

'I have a very important letter for the host,' he said to the servants at the door. The servants took him into the big room where everybody was eating, Aldar gave the letter to his rich neighbor and at once sat down and began to fill his mouth with food. The host looked at the envelope, but there was nothing on it, so he said, 'Are you sure that this letter is for me ? There is no address on it.'

'Oh, yes,' said Aldar, 'and there is no writing inside it either—because it was prepared in a hurry.'

-What was there on the envelope ?

A) a piece of paper

B) nothing

C) a letter

D) an invitation

E) an address

297.Read the text and choose the right answer:

An old lady who lived in a village went into town one Saturday, and after she had bought fruit and vegetables in the market for herself and for a friend who was ill, she went into a shop which sold glasses. She tried one pair of glasses, and then another pair and another, but none of them seemed to be right. The shopkeeper was a very patient man, and after some time he said to the old lady, 'Now, don't worry, madam. Everything will be all right in the end. It isn't easy to get just the right glasses, you know.'

'No, it isn't,' answered the old lady. 'And it is even more difficult when you are shopping for a friend.'

- Why was it so difficult for her to choose the right glasses?

A) she was shopping for her friend

B) it wasn't easy to get the right glasses

C) none of them seemed to be right

D) everything was all right in the end

E) they were too expensive

298.Read the text and choose the right answer:

Mr Robinson worked in an office. Every morning he had breakfast with his wife at half-past seven, read his newspaper, drank a cup of coffee and then left his house at 8 o'clock to go to catch his train to town.

One morning he was still sitting comfortably at the break­fast table and reading his newspaper at five minutes past eight. He did not seem to be in a hurry and asked his wife for another cup of coffee.

'Another cup?' she asked. 'But aren't you going to the office today? Have you got a holiday?'

'The office?' he said and looked up from his newspaper very surprised. 'I thought that I was at the office!'

-Was Mr Robinson in a hurry?

A) he didn’t seem to be in a hurry

B) he was in a hurry

C) he was late

D) he catches his train to town

E) he forgot about his job

299.Read the text and choose the right answer:

A letter to a magazine:

'Dear Sirs, Last year I saw an article in your magazine (I think it was in your magazine, but I am not sure) which interested me very much, but I have forgotten what it was. I wrote the name of the article and the magazine in my notebook after I had read it, but I have lost the notebook. I have also lost the maga­zine which the article was in. Will you please send me another copy of the magazine, if it was your magazine? Thank you very much. Yours faithfully, David Williams.'

-What was the article?

A) he forgot what it was

B) he forgot the name of the article

C) he lost the article

D) about magazines

E) was interesting

300.Read the text and choose the right answer:

An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so that soon he had nothing left. Of course, when that hap­pened, all his friends left him. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man and often helped people when they had troubles.

'My money has finished and my friends have gone,' said the young man. 'What will happen to me now?'

'Don't worry, young man,' answered Nasreddin. 'Every­thing will soon be all right again. Wait, and you will soon feel much happier.'

The young man was very glad. 'Am I going to get rich again then?' he asked Nasreddin.

'No, I didn't mean that,' said the old man. 'I meant that you would soon get used to being poor and to having no friends.'

-Why did the young man’s friends leave him?

A) he spent all his money

B) he was foolish

C) he was a kind, clever man

D) he got rich

E) he got used to being poor

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