III. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа:

1. The best things in life are (freely / free).

2. I checked the form (careful / carefully) but didn’t notice the mistake.

3. There’s been a lot of talk about European integration (late / lately).

4. The skilled workers in the Production Department are (good / well) paid.

5. Do you feel (awkward / awkwardly) in social situations?

6. Mexico and Europe agreed to work (closer / more closely) together to fight the financial crisis.

7. The position of legal adviser is (currently / current) vacant.

8. We aim to settle all our affairs (timely / in a timely manner).

9. Ms Hugo invested (most / mostly) of her money in commercial shares.

10. The plane arrived (lately / late) so I missed the start of the meeting.

11. You will certainly be promoted; the boss thinks very (high / highly) of you.

12. I was so excited that I (hard / hardly) slept the night before the interview.

13. When running business correspondence, make sure the envelope is (correctly / correct) addressed.

14. It is discouraging to see how (bad / badly) the affairs of our nation are sometimes managed.

15. People who are paid a (month / monthly) salary often pay their bills (in a monthly way / monthly).

16. The rise in the cost of living bears (hard / hardly) on old people living on fixed incomes.

17. Overtime bonus is a payment made to an employee when they work (more longly / longer) than regular working hours.

18. Being (friendly / in a friendly way) to others and smiling often makes you seem (confident / confidently).

19. It is (wide / widely) believed that politicians are people who can’t be (full / fully) trusted.

20. Simon told everyone he would pass the centralised test (easy / easily), so he was (deep / deeply) embarrassed when he came (last / lastly) in the class, with 40 %.

IV. Раскройте скобки, употребив прилагательное или наречие в соответствующей степени сравнения:

1. Nowadays prices are rising (fast) than incomes.

2. Even (carefully) prepared plans can go wrong.

3. They say that the (high) you climb, the (far) you fall.

4. Which of these three candidates is (little) likely to win the Presidency?

5. He took this news (quietly) than I expected.

6. In the IT sector people have to work (hard and hard) to get promotion.

7. Tom prefers to be alone. He is (sociable) person in the office.

8. Could you please stay a few minutes (long)?

9. (Fast) we can improve quality, (profitable) we will become.

10. An opportunity as (good) as this arises once in a lifetime.

11. Prices go up and up. Everything gets (expensive and expensive).

12. These days goods and services are not so (low-priced) as they used to be.

13. The first round of negotiations was rather easy. The next will be far (difficult).

14. The optimist sees a glass as half (full). The pessimist sees the same glass as half (empty).

15. This device uses much (little) electric energy than the previous one. It is far (economical).

16. Mr. Derby is 65 and he is (old) of all the staffers. Nevertheless, he is always the first to come and (late) to leave.

17. She is as (contemporary) as the Greenwich Time signal and as (punctual) a tax demand.

18. Our new product is a little (expensive), but the quality is much (good).

19. Nothing makes me (angry) than waiting on the phone and trying to decide whether to wait (long) or hang up.

20. German is quite a useful language if you are in business in Europe but it is not half as (easy) to learn as English and people say it doesn’t sound as (pleasant) as English.