SPOTLIGHT 8 Итоговый тест

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Don't be late. The concert .....................  at 8:00 pm.

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Mum advised me .....................  the heavy box up the
stairs.

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The burning of fossil fuels has a bad ...................  on
our environment.

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My mum says she'll never forget................... my dad
for the first time.

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John says that when he was a student, maths
.................  his least favourite subject.

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If Frank ....................  us, we wouldn't have

finished the project on time.

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The plane took off ten minutes after the last

passenger had ................  it.

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This picture ...................... at the beginning of the  century.

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Dan's health has really ............................  ever since he stopped eating junk food.

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Ben tells the ....................  jokes I've ever heard.

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After living in London for a few months, Emma finally ...........driving on the left.

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There was thick black ...................  coming out of the  burning building.

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Mark said that he ...............................  a great time in London the previous summer.

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What time does the train ......................  Bristol?

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It is warm outside, you may take _____your jacket.

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Karen wants to take _______swimming next summer.

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The plane will take ______at 6 o'clock tomorrow.

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Nick is so funny. He takes _______after his father. 

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My art classes take _____a lot of my free time.

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Kate took ______swimming like a duck to water.

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If you  _______ hard you will  pass your exams. 

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If  I were  you,  I _________  a new car. 

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If I  knew   how to swim ,  I ________confident  in the water.

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If yellow is mixed with blue we __________green.

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The effects of global warming are becoming more and more noticeable with the passing of the years. The number of floods, storms and heatwaves has increased as a result of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other greenhouse gases that do not allow the sun's heat to escape the Earth's atmosphere. However, a simple and quite possibly effective idea has been suggested as a way to help lessen the consequences of climate change.

There has been an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases in recent years.        T,  F,  Ns                   

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Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary and a Nobel Prize winner, suggests that painting our rooftops white will help the Earth's temperature to drop. The idea is that if enough surfaces - rooftops, pavements, roads - are painted white, more sunlight will reflect off these surfaces and go back into space. This will help cool our planet down.

Professor Chu suggests painting some surface on the Earth white.  

T (True), F (False) or Ns (Not stated).                         

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According to scientists, if rooftops and roads were painted white it would reduce the amount of CO₂ by billions of tons. This would be the same as taking every car in the world off the streets for 11 years. Not only this, but homes with white rooftops and cars that are painted white wouldn't absorb so much heat from the sun. This means that they would be cooler and people wouldn't have to turn on their air conditioners as much. Consequently, we would save more energy and reduce the amount of CO₂ released in the atmosphere.

Buildings with white rooftops don't need air conditioning.     

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Although the idea of white rooftops has been generally welcomed by the scientific and environmental communities, there appear to be a few problems. One of these is the fact that the colour white would be too bright if it was painted on too many large surfaces. Another concern is that keeping the white surfaces in good condition for a long period of time would be too expensive.

Professor Chu's suggestion has been accepted by many experts.                                                  

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Pessimists feel that though painting rooftops and pavements in light colours is good in theory, it is just a very small step to take towards reducing the Earth's temperature. What we must remember though, is that there is not one solution to global warming. It's the combination of different methods that will help our planet get back on its feet.

  Some people feel that painting surfaces white will  be enough to solve the problem of global warming.

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