Choose the correct word for each gap to complete the text people have always been

Choose the correct word for each gap to complete the text Would you like to become a famous blogger? Do you want to start your YouTube channel and make it popular? Have you thought of creating your own__? If your answer is «yes» to any of the given questions, then you have to think about the___audience you want to share your ideas with. Your target audience is the people or groups of people who can be interested in the__ you share or services and products you want to offer. These people usually have something in common*. It can be age, gender, location, language, family, education or interests. So, you have to choose your audience based on some of these characteristics. For example, if you are a 12-year-old teenager, your sports blog will probably be interesting for the boys of the same age who are keen on sports. And, no doubt that fewer young men will read women’s beauty advice or celebrity___ . Or, who would like to read__ analytics except for the people who work in this sphere? 1.economic 2.general 3.gossips 4.horoscope 5.information 6.target 7.website​

                                              Mid-term test                                               9 form

Task I        (8 points)

Choose the right option. Write the correct letter in each gap. Transfer your answers to the table (8 points).

Sharks have always been depicted as cruel and murderous creatures. Lots of feature films 1) … to demonstrate how dangerous to people they are. Though some kinds of sharks can really attack people, the number of people 2) … or killed by sharks is very small. Marine biologists insist that most sharks are 3) … to people. Along with that, the shark is one of the most ancient creatures of the world, and it should 4) … by all countries.

One of the sharks which has recently been added to the Red List is the dog-fish or the dumb gulper shark. It is one of Australia’s rarest deepwater sharks. The average length of an adult shark is one meter forty centimeters, 5) … it can live up to forty years, It’s not dangerous to people 6) … people are a real danger to it. The dog-fish population 7) … down by 99 % over the past 20 years.

The trouble of the shark is that its oil (fat) is widely used in cosmetics for producing face and hand creams and in dietary food. People fish it illegally for the oil. Scientists say that if fishing is not stopped immediately, the dog-fish … into the list of extinct creatures very soon.

Task II        (10 points)

Use the words at the end of the line in the appropriate form. Transfer your answers to the table

I’M OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUR FUTURE!

Task III Use the prepositions from the box to complete the text. Some are used more than once

across, at, between, during, in, near, on.                                                                         (4 points)

I come from Brighton but (0) _____in________ the spring of 1995 I moved out and now I live with my wife and children (1) _______________ London. Our life here is much faster than before. I usually get up (2) _______________ 6.00 a.m., have a quick breakfast and rush to work. Fortunately, my office is (3) _______________ our flat so I just need to drive (4) _______________ the bridge to get to work. (5) _______________ the morning it takes me (6) _______________ ten and fifteen minutes to get to the office. I usually work for about nine hours and (7) _______________ this time I rarely find a moment to eat lunch. It is even worse (8) _______________ Mondays when we have weekly meetings.

Task IV                                                                                (8 points).
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Liz.

… I am going to learn a second foreign language. My first foreign language is French. What second language do you think I should choose and why? How many languages do you study at school? Are you planning to enter some language courses?

Write a letter and answer her 3 questions.
Write 100-120 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.

TOTAL -30 points

ANSWERS:

                                                                Task I                                                (8 points)

                                                                         Task II                                                 (10 points)

Task III

In, at, near, across, in, between, during, on.

Task IV

Answers vary

TOTAL -30 points

Wordpower!

2Choose the correct word for each definition.

1This happens when you cant see something that was there before, appear / disappear

2This is the time when you are seven years old. childhood / adventure

3This is the opposite of‘normal’, terrible / strange

4This describes how you feel when something is not right, disappeared / worried

5If you see something far way, you see it in the hide / distance.

6This describes something that’s bad. worried / terrible

7This is when you look at something for the first time, hide / notice

8This means something happened because of bad luck, unfortunately / thoughtfully

3Write a word from the box in each gap to complete the text.childhood • disappeared • distance • notice strange • terrible • unfortunately • worriedI remember a story I read in my (1)__It was an adventure

story about pirates. In the story, the pirates helped people. I thought that was

(2)—1 always thought that pirates were very bad and they did

(3)-things to people. The story was about a group of people

who were (4)-because of a bad man who lived on their island.

That man made them work all the time and (5)_, he didn’t

give them any money. One day, the pirates came to the island.

The man didn’t (6)-them when they arrived and the pirates

took him away in their ship. The people of the island were very happy.

They all climbed to the top of the hill to see the pirates’ ship in the

(7)-as it left. When the ship (8)__ they had

a big party.

4Each of the words in bold is in the wrong sentence. Write a word in bold from another sentence to replace the incorrect one.

1I can see something very dark and scary in the childhood.

2Leslie was unfortunately about the man returning to her front door.

3Did you disappeared that the window was open when we got home?

4She’s got many wonderful memories from her distance.5A woman was standing in front of me, but then she notice.

6Did you hear that worried noise coming from the kitchen?7She wanted to leave the room but strange the door was closed.



Сила слова!

2 Выберите правильное слово для каждого определения.

1 Это происходит, когда вы не можете увидеть что-то, что там было раньше, появляются / исчезают

2 Это время, когда вы семь лет. Детство / приключения

3 Это противоположно of’normal «, ужасно / странно

4 Здесь описывается, как вы чувствуете, когда что-то не так, исчез / беспокоит

5 Если вы видите что-то далеко путь, вы видите его в спрятать / расстояние.

6 Это описывает то, что это плохо. беспокоятся / ужасно

7 Это когда вы смотрите на что-то в первый раз, скрыть / уведомление

8 Это означает, что-то случилось из-за невезения, к сожалению / задумчиво

3 Написать слово из коробки в каждом промежутке завершить текст.Детство • исчез • Расстояние • уведомление странное • страшный • • беспокоятся, к сожалению,Я помню историю, которую я прочитал в моем (1) __ Это было приключение

История о пиратах. В истории, пираты помогли людям. Я думал, что

(2) — 1 всегда думал, что пираты были очень плохо, и они сделали

(3) -things людям. История была о группе людей,

которые были (4) -из-за плохой человек, который жил на их острове.

Этот человек сделал их все время работать и (5) _, он не

давать им деньги. Однажды, пираты пришли на остров.

Человек не (6) -them, когда они прибыли, и пираты

взял его в свой корабль. Народ острова были очень счастливы.

Все они поднялись на вершину холма, чтобы увидеть корабль пиратов в

(7) -В он оставил. Когда корабль (8) __ они имели

большая партия.

4 Каждый из слов жирным шрифтом в неправильном предложении. Написать слово жирным шрифтом с другой предложении заменить неправильный один.

1 я вижу что-то очень темное и страшное в детстве.

2 Лесли, к сожалению, о человеке, возвращаясь к своей двери.

3 Ты исчез, что окно было открыто, когда мы вернулись домой?

4 Она получила много замечательных воспоминаний от ее расстояния.5 Женщина стояла передо мной, но потом она заметила.

6 Ты слышал, что беспокоит шум из кухни?7 Она хотела выйти из комнаты, но странно дверь была закрыта.

Vocabulary

2. Fill in the missing word. There are two words you do not need to use.

1. The heavy rain caused the driver to lose control of his car and crash into a tree.

2. What started out as a light breeze soon became a very strong wind.

3. The well-trained lifeguard was able to rescue the drowning swimmer and quickly bring him to safety.

4. The lead actor felt under the  weather and Daniel was asked to replace him in the school play.

5. The big earthquake caused many buildings to collapse and people were left homeless.

6. When the avalanche hit the area, dozens of people were snowed in for many hours.

7. Cars and factories produce toxic fumes that harm the environment.

8. A terrible flood caused by three days of continuous rain has destroyed many houses inthe small fishing village.

9. drought will occur in an area when it hasn’t rained for an unusually long period of time.

10. The terrible fire left dozens of buildings in ruins