Лексико-грамматический тест.

Лексико-грамматический тест.

Совершенствование лексико – грамматических знаний при чтении страноведческого текста способствует углублению в иноязычную среду и мотивирует дальнейшую потребность в изучении английского языка.

Choose the correct variant:

English.

Sixteen hundred years (1) ago/before, the ancestor of ‘English’ was a language (2) speaking/spoken by a few (3) barbar/barbaric tribes who hadn’t even arrived (4) in/to England. The chances of this eventually (5) become/becoming a world language were a million (6) in/to one. However, it has happened, firstly (7) because of/because the expansion of the British Empire (8) into/in the eighteenth and (9) nineteenth/nineteenths centuries, and secondly (10) for/because of the enormous economic power of (11) the/-- United States in the (12) twentieths/twentieth century. Now, there are (13) around/more 400 million speakers of English (14) like/as a first language in countries (15) such/so as Australia, Canada, Ireland, Jamaica, (16) the/-- New Zealand and (17) the/-- United States. (18) Then/than there are many (19) more/much millions of people (20) which/who speak English as (21) the/a second language, a language (22) using/used in government, business and (23) educations/education. In countries (24) like/as Nigeria or India, where (25) hundred/hundreds of languages exist, English works (26) as if/as a lingua franca – a way of communicating (27) with/to people from (28) others/other parts of the country.

Keys: 1-ago; 2-spoken; 3-barbaric; 4-in; 5-becoming; 6-to; 7-because of; 8-in; 9-nineteenth; 10-because of; 11-the; 12-twentieth; 13-around; 14-as; 15-such; 16- --; 17-the; 18-then; 19-more; 20-who; 21-a; 22-used; 23-education; 24-like; 25-hundreds; 26-as; 27-with; 28-other.