Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Заполнение пропусков"

Task 1. Choose the correct word in brackets.

1. We have to be (economic/economical) of our time.

2. Are you familiar with the (economic/economical) situation in this country?

3. The government’s (economic/economical) (policies/politics) have led us into the worst recession for years.

4. The state as an organized group of citizens is called the body (politic/political).

5. It’s a (classic/classical) example of stupidity.

6. The accused man refused to make an (admission/admittance) of his guilt.

7. Only high officials had (access/accession) to the Emperor.

8. The unusually cold weather (affected/effected) his health.

9. Benny doesn’t show much (affectation/affection) for insects.

10. The law is still in (affect/effect).

11. We have no (conscience/consciousness) during sleep.

12. Mr Brown is a (conscientious/conscious) worker.

13. I am (conscientious/conscious) of my mistake.

14. The (ascent/assent) of the mountain was not difficult.

15. I can give you good (council/counsel).

16. The teacher (deduced/deducted) ten points for my bad handwriting.

17. He was (exalted/exulted) to the high position.

Task 2. Use correct prepositions where necessary.

1. You must fill in that form ___ ink.

2. Not many people avail themselves ___ the opportunity to do what I did.

3. Help yourself ___ the vegetables.

4. The essay treats ___ the progress of medical research.

5. Which doctor is treating you ___ your illness?

6. Mr Black treated us ___ a good dinner.

7. The government has not found a cure ___ unemployment yet.

8. I’m short ___ cash now.

9. The war has involved an enormous increase ___ the national debt.

10. The haystack was set ___ fire by somebody ___ purpose.

11. English abounds ___ idiomatic phrases.

12. You should take pride ___ your work.

Task 3. Use correct articles if necessary.

1. We are studying ___ certain soil bacteria able to take up ___ iron and accumulate it on ___ surface of ___ cells.

2. It may be said that ___ English drama is a growth of ___ Renaissance.

3. It’s ___ fun studying ___ English grammar.

4. ___ number of my short stories have been published.

5. ___ number of such word combinations is practically limitless.

6. ___ thousand people marched from ___ Hyde Park to ___ Westminster Abbey.

7. It was ___ late afternoon when I woke up.

8. What are the products of ___ West Indies?

9. I am at ___ loss what to do now.

10. ___ unemployed are not expected to live on the savings.

11. ___ mankind will be grateful to you.

12. ___ distant is more enchanting than that which is near.

13. ___ Murphy’s law is based on a popular belief that if something goes wrong it always goes wrong in the worst possible way.

14. Just tell what it is in ___ plain English.

15. They made ___ slow progress in the mountains.

16. When the ship reached the port it bore ___ abundant evidence of the storm.

17. That’s ___ useful information.

Task 4. Use correct articles in set expressions if necessary.

1. We have the enemy on ___ run. (=they are in hasty retreat)

2. Our friend gave us ___ run of his house.

3. He said so by ___ way of an apology.

4. She writes ___ good hand.

5. Let me give you a case in ___ point. (=give you an example)

6. The names are arranged in ___ alphabetical order.

7. His fortune took ___ turn to ___ better.

8. How can you have ___ face to say such a thing? (=How dare you?)

9. I’ll lose ___ face if I don’t keep my promise.

10. Are you in ___ line with my suggestion? (in agreement)

11. What’s on ___ air tonight? (=What’s the radio programme?)

12. It suits me to ___ ground. (=completely)

13. The ship had 500 passengers on ___ board.

14. How much do you pay for ___ board? (for meals)

15. My hair stood on ___ end.  

Task 5. Rewrite the sentences using the verbs in brackets in the correct form of oblique moods.

1. I want to go but I have this examination tomorrow. But for this examination I (go) too.

2. She didn’t cry, but she looks as if she (cry) for some time.

3. Why did you come? I’d rather you (not come).

4. She was angry with you, otherwise she (not speak) like that then.

5. The child is crying. If only he (not cry)!

6. And of course I was wearing my very best shoes. If only I (not wear) my very best shoes!

7. I knew nobody at the party, so I didn’t have a very good time, but if I (know) anybody there I (have) a nice time.

8. It’s five o’clock; it’s time he (be) here.

9. It was raining when I set out, but I wish it (not rain).

10. Have you read his book? – Yes, but I wish I (not read) it.

11. I think it necessary that everyone (be) present.

12. The president requested that the prime minister (make) a report.

13. She helped me and I finished in time. But for her help I (not finish) it in time.

Task 6. Use the gerund or infinitive of the verbs in brackets.

E.g. He refused (eat). Š He refused to eat.

1. The government will not countenance (give) in to blackmail.

2. I do not deign (reply) to such an impudent question.

3.  I can’t afford (go) away for a holiday.

4. Mr Smith chose (stay) where he was.

5. Fancy (do) this!

6. He claimed (have reached) the top of the mountain.

7. We hesitated (take) such a big risk.

8. Would you mind (hold) your tongue?

9. The book purported (be) a translation.

10. The teacher told us we risked (be) expelled if didn’t write the test.

11. He proceeded (illustrate) this by his own story.

12. I gave up my small apartment, sold my few belongings and resolved (start) afresh.

13. I’ve got a fifty percent chance of doing what I set out (do).

14. He told me he’d postpone (go) to America.

Task 7. Use the correct form of the gerund of the verbs in brackets. Insert prepositions where necessary.

E.g. But before long it was obvious that our other arms, stuck out as they were, were in imminent danger (tear) away.  Š  But before long it was obvious that our other arms, stuck out as they were, were in imminent danger of being torn away.

1. At first, as I told you, I was inclined to suspect her (concern) in the crime.

2. A dish of coffee and milk was respectfully submitted to the cat, who drank it contemptuously and then retired to her box of shavings with an air (sustain) an insult.

3. The whole time I was conscious (surround) by a network of intrigue.

4. I despair (pass) my driving test.

5. I know you dislike (arouse) early, but it’s nine o’clock.

6. It was on her tongue to tell him that she was not used (speak) to like that.

7. Certainly I should have no objection (work) with him.

8. His pleasure (ask) to dinner was simple and fresh.

9. I grew bored (try) never to be bored.

Task 8. Change the following sentences so as to use the complex subject with the infinitive in the correct form. Underline the complex subject.

E.g. A group of people at the gangway saw that the boat came into harbour.  Š  The boat was seen to come into harbour.

1. It happened so that I was staying for a long weekend not far from Tercanbury.

2. It was not likely that he was going to be drawn into an argument.

3. It was felt that she was perfectly capable of taking care of herself.

4. It is known that he lived with an uncle and aunt on the outskirts of a little Kentish town by the sea.  

5. We think that the government has made a mistake.

6. I suppose that you should come here at three o’clock.

7. I am sure that the boat will be noticed.

Task 9. Change the following sentences so as to use Nominative Absolute Participial Constructions. Underline the Nominative Absolute Participial Constructions.

A. E.g. As it was a hot day, and all of us were thirsty she suggested that we should have a glass of beer.  Š  It being a hot day, and all of us thirsty, she suggested that we should have a glass of beer.

1. When a fortnight of his notice to Mrs Grant had expired Mike really began to worry.

2. When all was settled, he went to bed and slept soundly.

3. Now that the moment had come he found that it was difficult to speak.

4. After it was settled that Joy should come down to Blackstable, Mrs Grey thought much how she should treat them.

5. As there were no other matters to discuss, the old man left.

6. If the sun shines, the weather will be nice.

B. E.g. She looked at me and her eyes widened.  Š  She looked at me, her eyes widening.

1. They walked silently through the street, Tom was very grave and Liza was weeping bitterly.

2. Denny lit a cigarette, his fingers were shaking so violently he could barely hold his match.

3. It was Nancy herself who opened the door for Andrew, her face smiled towards him.

4. ‘Yes,’ said Maggie and the worried look receded from her face.

5. Dinner began in silence, the women faced one another and the man.

Task 1: Name the SD employed. Divide the SD in the examples into categories (phonetic, lexical, syntactical). Comment on the stylistic value of the devices in each case.

a) “I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers” (P. B. Shelley)

b) “At length the man perceives it die away,

And fade into the light of common day.” (W. Wordsworth)

c) “For winter’s rains and ruins are over,

And all the season of snow and sins;

The days dividing lover and lover,

The light that  loses, the night that wins…” (A. C. Swinburne)

d) …at night when the wind rose, the lash of the tree

Shrieked and slashed the wind. (D. H. Lawrence)

e) Second, say the Windsor circle, a head of state should recognize public achievement: visiting hospitals, handing out awards. True, but, once again, is this a role that could only be performed by a single, genetically ordained family? (The Guardian.)

f) "You see, madam," he would explain in his low respectful tones, "I love my things. I would rather not part with them than sell them to someone who does not appreciate them, who has not that fine feeling which is so rare..." And, breathing deeply, he unrolled a tiny square of blue velvet and pressed it on the glass counter with his pale finger-tips.
To-day it was a little box. He had been keeping it for her. He had shown it to nobody as yet.”

(A Cup of Tea K. Mansfield)

g) “When she guessed her pregnancy, she gave a cry, a cry of joy and exultation in her approaching freedom” (W.S. Maugham)

h) “Miserable creature! She thought always of the dead child that had never lived, and her heart ached. But above all she was tormented by the idea that all her pain had been futile…Miserable creature!” (W.S. Maugham)

i) “I am exactly the man to be placed in a superior position in such a case as that. I am above the rest of mankind, in such a case as that. I can act with philosophy in such a case as that”. (Ch. Dickens)

j) “Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,

Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise.” (R. Burns)

k) “Dora, plunging at once into privileged intimacy and into the middle of the room”.

(B. Shaw)

l) “Miss Tox’s hand trembled as she slipped it through Mr. Dombey’s arm, and felt herself escorted up the steps, preceded by a cocked hat and a Babylonian collar” (Ch. Dickens)

m) “It is this do-it-yourself, go-it-alone attitude that has thus far held back real development of the Middle East’s river resources”. (N.Y.T. Magazine)

Task 2: Name the types of narrators in the following extracts:

a. She had never even been to Doane's Mill until after her father and mother died, though six or eight times a year she went to town on Saturday, in the wagon, in a mail-order dress and her bare feet flat in the wagon bed and her shoes wrapped in a piece of paper beside her on the seat. [Faulkner]

b. At home I was the darling of my aunt, the tenderly-beloved of my father, the pet and plaything of the old domestics, the «young master » of the farm-labourers, before whom I played many a lordly antic, assuming a sort of authority which sat oddly enough, I doubt not, on such baby as I was [Gaskell].

с. When Maisie Foster was a child her mother sent her to one of those Edwardian villa private schools where, for a few guineas a term, she could be sure of a kind of exclusive but wholly inadequate education that commoner children were denied [Bates].

Task 3: What subsystems of narration do the following extracts belong to? Pick out and name stylistic devices employed by the authors and comment on their respective value:

a. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight sloop of the shoulders, head forward, and fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. His voice was deep, loud, and his manner displayed a kind of dogged self-assertion, which had nothing aggressive in it. It seemed a necessity, and it was directed apparently as much at himself as at anybody else. He was spotlessly neat, apparelled in immaculate white from shoes to hat, and in the various Eastern ports where he got his living as shipchandler's water clerk he was very popular [Conrad].

b. A thousand lives seemed to be concentrated in that one moment to Eliza. Her room opened by a side-door to the river. She caught her child, and sprang down the steps toward it. The trader caught a full glimpse of her, just as she was disappearing down the bank; and throwing himself from his horse, and calling loudly on Sam and Andy, he was after her like a hound after a deer. In that dizzy moment, her feet to her scarce seemed to touch the ground, and a moment brought her to the water's edge. Right on behind her they came; and, nerved with strength such as God gives only to the desperate, with one wild cry and flying leap, she vaulted sheer over the turbid current by the shore, on to the raft of ice beyond, it was a desperate leap – impossible to anything but madness and despair [Stowe].

Task 4: Give written comprehensive analysis of the following text (use patterns of analysis from recommended textbooks and manuals)

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM by O. Henry

On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild goose honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand.

A dead leaf fell in Soapy’s lap. That was Jack Frost’s card. Jack is kind to the regular denizens of Madison Square, and gives fair warning of his annual call. At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the North Wind, footman of the mansion of All Outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make ready.

Soapy’s mind became cognizant of the fact that the time had come for him to resolve himself into a singular Committee of Ways and Means to provide against the coming rigour. And therefore he moved uneasily on his bench...