Change agree into another word for keen

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Part А. Read the texts and do the following tasks.

Choose the most suitable heading from the list (A-F) for each part (1-5) of the article. There is one extra heading that you do not need to use.

A A More Attractive Underground

B Happy to Live Underground

C An Unusual Home

D All The Mod Cons

E Going Underground

F Hidden Financial Advantages

      Digging It Down Under

The Harper family live in a large, comfortable home. Like many other houses, it has all modern conveniences. Unlike many other houses, it has no windows. The Harpers live in Coober Pedy, Australia, where two thirds of the population live underground.

Coober Pedy is an opal-mining town in the Australian desert. Above ground, the town does not look very welcoming. The earth is red and dry under the scorching sun. There is a small number of shops and offices and a car park full of lorries carrying explosives. Scrap metal and machinery litter the ground so that visitors often feel as though they have landed on a lunar building site. Underground, however, it’s a very different story. Beneath the parched, red earth is a town where around 3,500 people live and work. There are shops, hotels, restaurants, cafes and churches, all built underground to shelter from the extreme temperatures and violent dust storms of the desert.

The underground dwellings at Coober Pedy range from cave-like dug-outs with only the most basic facilities, to luxurious caverns with beautiful furniture and state-of-the-art amenities. The Harper family home has three spacious bedrooms and a large living room. There is a modern bathroom and a kitchen with fitted units and every electrical appliance imaginable, but the Harper children, Tom and Wendy, spend most of their time in the games room or the swimming pool! The house is clean and comfortable and the Harpers enjoy entertaining guests there. «People are always surprised when they see how normally we live,» says Wendy. «I think they expect us to be like the Flintstones!»

The Harpers’ beautiful home is a result of their own hard work, as it was once just a small, two-room cave home. The advantage  of living underground is that, if you need another room, you just dig it!” says Mr Harper. «And the advantage of living in an opal-mining town is that you often find opals while you are extending your house!» Indeed, pock marks on the walls show where the Harpers found their fortune, and it seems that this is how many Coober Pedy families finance their home extensions. «Now there is plenty of room for the children to play,» says Mr Harper. «Tom and Wendy can make as much noise as they want, because the walls are soundproof!»

The underground homes at Coober Pedy offer an interesting way of life, as well as peace and quiet and relief from the desert sun. The Harper family are certainly content. “Life is so much simpler underground,» says Wendy. «I can’t imagine living anywhere else.»

Part В. Lexical-Grammar Test.

I Change the following words. Look at the example first (10 points):

Change beard into something you can eat BREAD

1. Change cheap into a fruit. ___________

2. Change heart into a planet. ___________

3. Change swap into an insect. ___________

4. Change hated into something that comes to everybody._________

5. Change super into something you keep money in. __________

6. Change toga into an animal. __________

7. Change disease into a popular place to go on holiday. __________

8. Change recall into one of the rooms in a house. ___________

9. Change agree into another word for keen. ____________

10.Change carthorse into a group of musicians. ___________

II Think of one word which can be used to complete the sentences below (7 points):

I bought a white tack suit last week, but now I realized  that I _______________ a mistake. It was my _____________ fault because I should have realized ________________ I bought it that it would need washing immediately because its white colour, and I really paid too ___________ for it. There were also a ____________ coloured ones in the shop that were much _________________ economical and practical, but this one just appealed to me _____ much.

III Translate the fragment in brackets into English (7 points):

1. As we dug (глубже)___________, we discovered a large wooden chest.
2. This is hardly the ideal time to buy a house, (не так ли)____________?
3. I (не могу не рассказать) ___________________________you about it.
4. His message (говорит)________________________ very little.
5. He  (одолжил)____________________ some money from his friend.
6. Once you have become (зависимым)_____________________ the Net, it’s hard to (избавиться) _____________________the habit of browsing the sites every night.

IV Fill in the correct tense forms (12 points):

Yesterday I (receive)__________________________a phone call from an old friend who I (not/hear)_____________________from for months. I asked him what he (do) ______________, and  he told me that he (spend)_________________________the past three months  sailing around the world on an old-fashioned sailing ship. I (always/ love)_____________________ everything to do with the sea, so I was very excited to hear that he (manage)___________________to do something so thrilling. I asked him if we (can)____________________ get together soon,  and made him promise that he (bring)______________________ all the photos he (take)__________________. When he (come)________________ next week, I(expect)___________________________ him to tell me exactly what the trip (be) ______________ like.

V Rewrite the sentences using the word in bold so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence (7 points):

1. You’d better see a doctor.

If __________________________________________________________________

1. It is too hot to work in the garden. cool

____________________________________________________________________

1. Someone should have told her about it. been

____________________________________________________________________

1. People say she’s the best athlete in the country. said

____________________________________________________________________

1. I don’t know your name. introduced

____________________________________________________________________

1. If I drink strong coffee at night, it keeps me awake. prevents

______________________ strong coffee___________________________________

1. She doesn’t let her children play by the river. allowed

The children _________________________________________________________

VI Spot one error in each sentence and write down the correct sentence (4 points):

1. The horses rose a cloud of dust. _____________________________________

2. He made me to do the things I liked doing least of all._____________________

__________________________________________________________________

3. Stop to pull my hair — it hurts!_______________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

4. I get really annoying when people throw rubbish in the street._______________

__________________________________________________________________

VII Choose the correct word to complete the sentences (8 points):

The policeman asked John why he had tried to (1)___________________ his father’s car without license and he answered that he had (2)_________________ it to be easy. John’s mother said that John knew how to (3)________________ a motorbike, and that he had never had an (4)_____________________ on it. But the policeman pointed out that what he had (5) ____________________was very serious. He (6)__________________ John that he might have (7)___________________ a pedestrian if he hadn’t (8)_________________in time.

1. A lead       B drive          C move         D go
2. A waited   B expected    C accepted    D appeared
3. A ride        B drive          C move        D go
4. A incident  B accident    C case           D happening
5. A made       B done         C acted         D created
6. A said         B told           C spoke        D talked
7. A wounded B damaged   C injured      D hurt
8. A remained B stayed       C stopped    D held

VIII Fill in the articles where necessary(a/an, the,-) (5 points):

About _________ hundred miles south of England and within sight of _________ French coast lies _____ small group of _____________ beautiful rocky islands known as _______________ Channel Islands.

IX Complete the sentences using the appropriate derivatives of the words in capitals (5points):

1. The sudden _________________ of the travel agency left many people stranded abroad. CLOSE
2. She’s got an enormous ________________ of flowers in her garden. VARIOUS
3. I find ___________________ books impossible to follow when I want to make some special dish. COOK
4. You should consider your options ___________________CARE before making a __________________________DECIDE