III. Writing

6) You want to thank your friend for helping you with a school assignment

Write a message of 50-80 words to your friend in which you

• Thank him/her for their help

• Say whether your teacher was pleased with the assignment

• Suggest treating your friend to pizza to celebrate

EXAMINATION CARD № 14

I. Reading

Read the text and mark the following statements "True" or "False".

The Tale of Two Pebbles

Many years ago in a small Indian village a poor farmer had borrowed a large sum of money from a village moneylender. The moneylender was old and ugly, and he promised to forget the farmer's debt if he could marry his beautiful daughter Myra.

Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified and didn't want to agree. "Let Providence decide he matter!" the cunning moneylender suggested. "I'll put a black pebble and a white pebble into a money bag. Then Myra should pick one pebble from the bag. If she picks the black pebble, she will become my wife and I'll forgive you the debt. If she picks the white pebble she doesn't need to get married and the debt will still be forgiven."

They were standing on a pebble path and the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. But Myra noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. "Now pick a pebble from the bag!" he said.

Myra put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she let it fall onto the path where it became lost among all the other pebbles.

"Oh, how clumsy of me!" she said. "But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked."

1. The character of the story lived in a small town.

2. The farmer didn't have money to return his debt.

3. The moneylender was not a pleasant person.

4. The moneylender wanted to marry Myra and get his money back.

5. The farmer tried to convince his daughter to marry the moneylender.

6. According to the moneylender's offer, Providence had to help decide the matter.

7. Myra wished to pick a white pebble.

8. The moneylender wanted to cheat the farmer and his daughter.

9. The farmer noticed that the moneylender had put two black pebbles into the bag.

10. Myra let the pebble fall and did it on purpose.

II. Use of english

Read and complete the text below.

Monday Morning

Monday morning is the worst time of the week for a lot of people, because it is the end of the weekend and the beginning of another week of work. More things (1) …….. to go wrong on Monday morning than on other days.

Jane, a friend of mine, has two children, a boy and a girl, who often make her life very difficult, especially on Monday morning.

One Monday morning (2) …….. than usual. She wanted to do some baking, so she (3) …….. the children into the garden to play. She (4) …….. her husband's favourite cake and (5) …….. it in the oven. When she (6) ……... she (7) ……….. into the garden and saw David climbing a tree. She was not worried because he had never fallen before.

Then she went upstairs to make the beds. When she was upstairs, she suddenly heard a branch break. She looked out quickly and saw David on the ground. His arm was in a funny position and she thought he (8) …….. it. Her neighbor came to help. Jane asked her to phone the doctor.

In half an hour the doctor came and took David to hospital. Jane sent her daughter to play next door. As she went into the house she smelt something burning, " Oh, no! the cake!", she cried. It was burnt black. She sat down to have a rest.

When John came home for lunch he saw his wife sitting there and felt that something was wrong. He also smelt something burning.

"Tell me the worst," he said. " Well, (9) ……….you the good news first", Jane replied. (10) ……… your favourite cake this morning, the house isn't on fire and our daughter hasn't broken her arms".

1.	A	seems	B	seem	C	will seem	D	seemed
2.	A	was worse	B	is worse	C	will be worse	D	would be worse
3.	A	send	B	sends	C	sent	D	not sent
4.	A	made	B	make	C	makes	D	will make
5.	A	puts	B	put	C	will put	D	had put
6.	A	had finished	B	finished	C	would finish	D	finish
7.	A	had looked out	B	looked out	C	look out	D	would look out
8.	A	broke	B	has broken	C	had broken	D	would break
9.	A	I'll tell	B	I tell	C	I'd tell	D	I'm telling
10.	A	I made	B	I'd make	C	I'd making	D	I've made