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The Structure and Written Expression Test

 

Питання цього розділу оцінюють Ваше знання граматики і лексики англійської літературної мови. Частина складається із 40 питань, які діляться на дві групи:

Structure Questions: Включає 15 (1-15) незавершених речень і варіанти відповідей. У цій групі необхідно вибрати варіанти заповнення пропусків так, щоб вийшло граматично правильне речення. На виконання даної частини відводиться 10 хвилин.

Written Expression Questions: Включає 25 (16-40) речень, що містять чотири підкреслені сегменти. Вам слід визначити серед них один з неправильною конструкцією (словом/фразою). На виконання завдань відводиться 15 хвилин.

Наша порада: максимально активізуйтеся, але не напружуйтеся. Намагайтеся не застрягати на незнайомих словах, їх значення ви з'ясуєте потім у словнику, а зараз спробуйте вловити структуру речення у цілому, у багатьох випадках це підкаже вам і структуру відповіді, навіть якщо ви не розумієте якогось слова у запропонованих варіантах. Все, вперед, успіхів!

 

Part A

 

Structure Questions.

 

1. You ___to attend the meeting on Thursday.

(A) must

(B) have

(C) required

(D) be

 

2. New York ironweed with its small, dark purple thistle flowers, sometimes ______ to a height of eight feet.

(A) grows

(B) growing

(C) it grows

(D) up

 

3. With its antlers ____ the feet of a duck, the North American moose is easy to identify.

(A) web-like

(B) webbed like

(C) like a web

(D) the webs like

 

4. The instructions for this model are _________ as possible, so it will be difficult to put together.

(A) clearly more defined

(B) as clearly defined

(C) as defined clearly

(D) more clearly defined

5. __________ several weeks for a person to starve to death, but without sleep the human body dies in about 10 days.

(A) Usually taking it

(B) Usually takes it

(C) It usually takes

(D) To take it usually

 

6. _________ that you borrowed his car, he would be very angry.

(A) Ever were Matt to find out

(B) Were Matt ever to find out

(C) Matt were ever to find out

(D)Were ever to find out Matt

 

7. Newly installed gypsum board walls _________ before they are painted.

(A) with a sealant coated

(B) should coat with a sealant

(C) should be coated with a sealant

(D) coating with a sealant

 

8. Although the color television set _______ almost every American family now owns at least one.

(A) a recent invention is

(B) is a recent invention

(C) recent is a invention

(D) is it a recent invention

 

9. Descendant of a long line of New Englanders, Robert Lowell chose, in his early poems _____ against his background of Bostonian eminence and public service.

(A) for reacting

(B) to react

(C) reacted

(D) to the reaction

 

10. In most cases the current balance available in a checking or savings account ____________ .

(A) can be verified by telephone

(B) on the telephone can verify

(C) in verification by telephone

(D) being verified by telephone

 

11. Not until several years after a war has ended _________ to feel the severe psychological damage it can cause.

(A) do many of its veterans begin

(B) many of its veterans begin

(C) and many of its veterans begin

(D) many of its veterans beginning

 

12. Astronomers rely on measurements of mass and brightness to determine______ .

(A) how old is a star

(B) is a star how old

(C) a star is how old

(D) how old a star is

 

13. ___________ recover from the setbacks they have experienced in recent years the economy of the entire country would be positively affected.

(A) American car manufactures should ever

(B) Ever should American car manufactures

(C) Should American car manufactures ever

(D) American car manufactures should

 

14. ___________ witnesses is forbidden in the Federal Courts of the United States.

(A) Aggressively cross-examine

(B) Cross-examination aggressive

(C) Aggressive cross-examining

(D) The aggressive cross-examination of

 

15. The flora of the arid American Southwest is less varied than _________ .

(A) the semi-tropical Southeast

(B) that of the semi-tropical Southeast

(C) the Southeast is semi-tropical

(D) it is semi-tropical in the Southeast

 

Part B

 

Written Expression Questions.

 

1. The most visible changes physical of aging take place in the skin.

(A) The most

(B) changes physical

(C) take place

(D) the skin

 

2. The Richter scale provides a fairly accurate measurements of seismic disturbances.

(A) The

(B) fairly accurate

(C) measurements

(D) disturbances

 

3. There is fewer oxygen available in the atmosphere of Jupiter than there is on earth.

(A) fewer

(B) the

(C) there is

(D) earth

 

4. Physical exercise has help many people because it relieves stress.

(A) has help

(B) relieves

 

5. People who want to improve their carpentry skills sometimes go to special schools where they learning to build houses.

(A) want

(B) learning

 

6. The Swedish settlers who builded the first log cabins in the state of Delaware brought their logs with them from their homeland.

(A) builded

(B) first

(C) brought

(D) with them

 

7. The discovery of a new primate species, the black- faced lion tamarin, will be formerly announced as soon as scientists have further evidence of its existence.

(A) discovery

(B) formerly

(C) as soon as

(D) further

 

8. An invention's chance of being accepted depends of its superiority to the method or object it is replacing.

(A) An

(B) of being accepted

(C) depends of

(D) it is replacing

 

9. The powerful, destroy force of hurricanes, common in the Caribbean and southeastern United states, sometimes reaches as far north as New England.

(A) destroy

(B) common

(C) sometimes

(D) reaches

 

10. While solvent- based wall paints offer good coverage and sealing power, they are most difficult to clean up than are water- based paints.

(A) offer

(B) they

(C) most

(D) clean up

 

11. Electronic games, much of which can be powerful instructional tools, are becoming more and more prevalent with the proliferation of computers in schools.

(A) much of which

(B) instructional

(C) more and more prevalent

(D) proliferation

 

12. The long- term affects of the American Civil War, which split families and friends apart, are still being felt in the twentieth century.

(A) affects

(B) which

(C) are

(D) twentieth century

13. The ladybug beetle is such helpful in controlling other, more harmful insects, that it is often sold to gardeners as a natural method for pest control.

(A) such

(B) that

(C) often

(D) as

 

14. An amazing variety of animals, by means of elaborate adaptators, are able to thrive in conditions of extreme head and dryness.

(A) amazing

(B) by means

(C) adaptators

(D) are able to

 

15. Musical celebrities from all over the world appear regular in the exclusive nightclubs and casinos of Las Vegas.

(A) Musical

(B) from all over

(C) regular

(D) exclusive

 

16. Humans have a very large and densely brain in proportion to their body size.

(A) very large

(B) densely

(C) in proportion to

(D) their

 

17. Ms. magazine, which began in 1972, has long been considered one of the led publications of the feminist movement.

(A) which

(B) has long been

(C) led

(D) feminist

 

18. It is wise avoiding over consumption of alcohol because of its detrimental effects on the heart liver, and central nervous system.

(A) It

(B) avoiding

(C) because of

(D) the

 

19. The 1960 presidential campaign was market by a innovation into American politics- a series of television debates in which the two candidates responded to questions put by newspaper reporters.

(A) into

(B) of television debates

(C) in

(D) responded to

 

20. Ever when the warmest part of the day in the hottest season of the year, desert sand dunes teem with Bembex, more commonly known as sand wasps.

(A) when

(B) year

(C) more

(D) known as

 

21. Even although the negative and positive charges of isotopes are identical, their masses are not.

(A) although

(B) and

(C) of isotopes

(D) their

 

22. It has always been thought that cell mutation is a random event however, geneticists find evidence to the contrary over the past few years.

(A) always

(B) that

(C) is

(D) find

 

23. During the early 1970s, the American public collectively has become health conscious, turning away from the highly processed foods that had been so popular in the past.

(A) collectively

(B) has become

(C) turning

(D) had been

 

24. Important news are now conveyed electronically from one side of the globe to the other in a matter of seconds.

(A) are

(B) electronically

(C) to

(D) in a matter

 

25. Democrats had dominate the White House for five terms when Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952.

(A) dominate

(B) for

(C) when

(D) was elected