III. Writing

2) You have received an email from an English friend inviting you to spend Christmas in England.

Write an email of 50-80 words to your friend in which you:

• Thank him/her for inviting you

• Apologize for having to turn down the invitation

• Explain why you cannot accept the invitation

EXAMINATION CARD №27

I. Reading

Read the text. Complete the sentences (1-6) with their missing parts (A-G). There is one extra part of the sentence.

A and carried him to a car

B I saw a car knock into the boy

C would not like to be involved

D Sometimes a policeman is there to help things out

E the driver managed to stop the car

F to get to their cars and buses

G who looked dazed and bewildered

H though his feet were swept

I a witness to one

J It was terrible to witness

K the road becomes almost impassable

The road in front of my school is a narrow one. It is also very busy. Every afternoon when school is dismissed (1) ….. as children, bicycles, cars and buses jostle and struggle to use it. (2) …., but generally chaos reigns and we have to be careful not to get involved in an accident. A few accidents had already occurred. I was (3) ….. It happened just after school. As usual the road was an utter mad house.

Children were running across the road (4) ….. Cars and buses honked angrily at them. Just then I saw a young boy make a dash across the road. There was a loud blare of horn, a squeal of brakes and (5) …. He fell as (6) …… from under him. Fortunately, the car was not moving very fast and (7) ….. before a wheel could run over the fallen boy. All traffic stopped. I ran over to the boy. He was shocked but seemed not to be injured badly. A man came and examined the boy. Then he lifted the boy (8) …… They sped off, presumably to the hospital.

Many people surrounded the driver (9) …… A policeman came to calm things down. As there was nothing I could do, I turned and walked down the road carefully. (10) …… an accident.

II. Use of english

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.

For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.

Easter Island

Easter Island is a small triangle of rock situated in the Pacific Ocean. It is about 2,000 miles from the nearest city. Easter Island is (1) …… for its statues. Hundreds of these huge, stone faces can be (2) ….. all over the island. Who made them? How (3) ….. they move these giant pieces of rock? What happened (4) ….. the people who lived there?

Studies show that people (5) …… arrived on the island about 1600 years ago. They had a very advanced culture. They made many objects and they had their (6) …… written language.

However, the number of people on the island grew and grew (7) …. it reached about 10,000 people. Soon there were too many people and there wasn't (8) ….. food to eat. A terrible war started and many of the statues (9) ……. When western explorers (10)…… the island on Easter Day in 1722, the huge rock statues were the only sign that a great society had once lived there.

1	A	important	B	interesting	C	famous	D	fascinating
2	A	looked	B	located	C	found	D	situated
3	A	have	B	were	C	had	D	did
4	A	to	B	with	C	about	D	for
5	A	once	B	first	C	just	D	already
6	A	only	B	own	C	clever	D	self
7	A	so	B	until	C	although	D	because
8	A	many	B	some	C	too	D	enough
9	A	were broken	B	had been broken	C	has been broken	D	are broken
10	A	invented	B	discovered	C	sailed	D	came