Test

Vocabulary and Grammar

A     Choose the correct item

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

The plane took off ten minutes after the last passenger had ________ it.

This picture _____ at the beginning of the century.

Lisa ______ have cooked this delicious meal. She doesn't even know how to boil an egg!

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

We _____ half the rubbish on the beach by the time Jeff arrived.

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

Gary didn't mean _____ you. He was just in a bad mood.

If Frank _____ us, we wouldn't have finished the project on time.

A good way to ________ a problem is to think
about it calmly and carefully.

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

Michael must ________ on the phone. I've tried calling him but his line is busy.

A have talked         B be talking              C talk

Reading

B  Read the text and mark the statements (16 to 20) as T (ДА), F (НЕТ) 

WHITE ROOFS FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE!

The effects of global warming are becoming more and more noticeable with the passing of the years. The number of floods, storms and heat waves 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.

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.

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 wouldn’t this, but homes with white rooftops and cars that are painted white 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.

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.

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.

  15. Professor Chu suggests painting every large surface on the Earth white. 

 16. Buildings with white rooftops don't need air conditioning.                                    17. Professor Chu's suggestion has been accepted by many experts.                           18. Some people feel that painting surfaces white will not be enough to solve the problem of global warming.   

This is .................  team in the championship league.

Paul got a .............................  as a journalist after he
graduated from university.