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Time: 25 min.
Task 1
For questions 1-10 read the text below and choose A, B or C to fill in the gaps.
It is really great to find yourself in a southern country in winter!
Fine beaches of Thailand, Goa, Vietnam are sure to __(1)__ many visitors who, tired and __(2)__ after several months of snow, frost and a piercing wind, can change their surroundings.
These countries have got hotels, simple or __(3)__, holiday homes, rest houses in all major sea resorts. __(4)__, excellent inns, pubs, small restaurants __(5)__ all over the above-mentioned countries. Some are divinely tiny and serve only local travellers, but __(6)__ are adapted to the tourists and have already established the __(7)__ for both international dishes and local __(8)__.
There is a wide selection of places to go __(9)__ in the evening. Dance clubs with a mixture of cultures are especially popular and have __(10)__ enormous popularity among foreigners.
1. A deprive B derive C attract
2. A exhausted B happy C sociable
3. A primitive B luxurious C ill-thinking
4. A besides B however C in comparison
5. A find B are founded C are found
6. A other B others C each other
7. A reply B word C reputation
8. A specialities B peculiarities C identities
9. A in for B out C through
10. A realised B lost C gained
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Task 2
For questions 11-15 read the text below and fill in the gaps with linking words or phrases from the text.
|particular in fact according to |
|for example certainly |
When you come across a new word in a text, __(11)__ “genuine”, you might want to look up its meaning in the dictionary. It’s important to look through all the definitions in an entry, and choose the correct one __(12)__ the context of the sentence. “Genuine” is a difficult word to pronounce, so it is worth looking at the phonetic symbols, and pay attention to the way the word is stressed. __(13)__ , the stress falls on the first syllable. If you are confronted with an idiom or an expression such as “in one’s blue mood”, you should check the meaning, and then look at the style of the expression: is it formal or informal? This __(14)__ phrase isn’t rude, but you __(15)__ wouldn’t like to offend anyone, so it’s always a good idea to check.
Task 3
For questions 16-20 match the formal words (A-G) to less formal words with the same meaning. There are two extra meanings you do not have to use.
16 commence A get
17 unexpectedly B sort of
18 turn down C begin
19 vague D out of the blue
20 fetch E refuse
F revise
G gain
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