Словообразование.

The English language is famous for the richness of its vocabulary. Webster’s New International Dictionary lists 450,000 words, and the new Oxford English Dictionary has 615,000, but that is only part of the total. Technical and __________________ terms would add millions more.

1. science

2. scientific

3. scientist

4. scientists

The wealth of existing synonyms means that __________________ of English have two words for something denoted by one word in a different language. The French, for instance, do not distinguish between house and home, between mind and brain. The Spanish cannot differentiate a chairman from a president.

1. speak

2. speech

3. speaker

4. speakers

In Russia, there are no native words for efficiency, challenge and engagement ring. Of course, every language has areas in which it needs, for __________________ purposes, to be more expressive than others.

1. practise

2. practice

3. practical

4. practically

The Eskimos have fifty words for types of snow, though there is no word for just plain snow. __________________, African languages have no native word for snow.

1. natural

2. nature

3. naturalist

4. naturally

Nowadays, globalization influences the __________________ of languages.

1. development

2. develop

3. developed

4. developing

Some native words __________________, giving way to international terms.

1. appear

2. appearance

3. appearing

4. disappear

Among the e-mails waiting for me at work one morning was one from a member of my staff. It was sent from his personal e-mail address and there was only his home phone number. Thinking something was wrong, I immediately called __________________.

1. he

2. him

3. himself

4. his

A sleepy female voice answered and told me he was at work and __________________ home late in the evening.

1. came

2. come

3. will come

4. would come

The __________________ moment was when I remembered that I had recently asked staff members to give me their home numbers. I went right down to the employee’s office to apologize for my call.

1. badly

2. bad

3. worse

4. worst

__________________, however, he thanked me. I had awakened his daughter, who had an exam that morning but had forgotten to set her alarm. Thanks to my call, she hadn't missed the exam.

1. lately

2. late

3. later

4. latest

Ray Douglas Bradbury is a US writer of fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery. He is __________________ considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest and most popular writers of science fiction.

1. widest

2. wider

3. widely

4. wide

His works have been translated into more than 40 languages and have sold tens of millions of copies in different countries. His __________________ continues in the 21st century.

1. popular

2. popularity

3.popularize

4. unpopular

During his long writing career, Bradbury has written almost 600 short stories, eleven novels, as well as __________________ poems and plays.

1. various

2. varied

3. variety

4. variant

He first became famous for his Martian Chronicles, a collection of short stories concerning colonization of the planet Mars. In it, Bradbury portrayed the strengths and __________________ of human beings as they encountered a new world.

1. weakness

2. weak

3. weaker

4. weakest

Bradbury won __________________ literary awards, the most important of them coming from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1. counter

2.countable

3. count

4. uncountable

To learn more about her students, my younger brother's teacher sent home a lengthy questionnaire at the beginning of the school year. She asked __________________about their likes and dislikes and about many other things.

1. them

2. they

3. themselves

4. their

She asked what they __________________ about their school in twenty years time.

1. thought

2. thoughts

3. think

4. thinking