Lesson 14
A. Read and learn the phrasal verbs and collocations
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"to call" call away - отозвать, отзывать |
"to speak" speak of - упомянуть, коснуться ч-л |
Grammar & Vocabulary Practice
B. Раздел 3 (задание по грамматике и лексике)
Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами B4-B13 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию B4-B13.
| B4 | The New Zealanders Dwayne van der Sluis and Andrew Akers must be the happiest people on Earth now that their invention and latest craze, zorbing, has become a success. | LATE |
| B5 | Zorbing involves standing in a ball or zorb which | STAND |
| B6 | consists of specially hardened plastic. | CONSIST |
| B7 | The zorb is rolled down a hill, speeding at 50 kilometres an hour. Participants can be | PARTICIPATE |
| B8 | garanteed a huge adrenaline rush. It may sound like quite | GARANTEE |
| B9 | a risky pastime, but the 70 centimetres of air between you and | RISK |
| B10 | the ground make it impossible to get hurt. | POSSIBLE |
| B11 | That's why zorbing didn't take long to gain in popularity. | POPULAR |
| B12 | In 2000, inventors broke up their | INVENT |
| B13 | partnership, but zorbing remains popular in many countries worldwide. | PARTNER |
Examination Practice
C. Read the text and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
A Taxi Experience
As a journalist, I'm asked to travel around the globe to all sorts of 1 foreign countries. Over the years, I've used different means of transport. Of course, for long 2 trips, flying is the fastest and safest way to 3 reach a far-off destination.
Unfortunately, I'm not a very organized traveler and despite my travel agent's best efforts, 4 something always goes wrong. Last week, while I was heading for the airport, I realized I had left my passport at home. Obviously, I had to go back so I asked the taxi driver to turn around and take me home. In the meantime, I crossed my fingers and hoped that I wouldn't miss my 5 flight.
All the 6 way home, the driver was speeding in and out of traffic. He got even more carried 7 away when he got on the motorway, 8 travelling at speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour.
By the time we arrived home, I was 9 in a state of shock and it took me a while to 10 catch my breath. So, before driving off again, I decided to pay him 11 a little extra, so that he would go slower as we were bound 12 to have an accident.
Test List
| 1. | A. curious | B. peculiar | C. foreign | D. strange |
| 2. | A. travels | B. excursions | C. tours | D. trips |
| 3. | A. arrive | B. reach | C. get | D. approach |
| 4. | A. anything | B. something | C. everything | D. nothing |
| 5. | A. flight | B. cruise | C. trip | D. journey |
| 6. | A. road | B. way | C. route | D. direction |
| 7. | A. away | B. on | C. out | D. along |
| 8. | A. moving | B. travelling | C. transferring | D. transporting |
| 9. | A. at | B. under | C. on | D. in |
| 10. | A. hold | B. catch | C. keep | D. find |
| 11. | A. many | B. a little | C. a few | D. some |
| 12. | A. to | B. for | C. in | D. of |