Use of English Grammar/Vocabulary

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USE OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY

For questions (1-16) read the text below. Look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (?) on the line. If a line has a word which shouldn’t be there, write the word on the line. Thereareexamplesatthebeginning (0 and 00).

USE OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY

Fill in the gaps with speak, talk, say or tell in the correct verb form.
There is an example at the beginning (0).

(0) You’d better speak to me before making plans for the holidays.
1. She ______anything about her trip.
2. But her brother ______us some amusing stories about their holidays.
3. All his friends trust him because he always ______the truth.
4. I couldn’t understand him as he ______with a Lancashire accent.
5. Could you ______me the time, please?
6. The British are believed to ______about the weather all the time.
7. Wait a minute, please! I’d like ______to you.

READING COMPREHENSION

Read the article about text addiction. Fill in the gaps in the article (1-4) with the sentences (A-E) that have been removed from the article. Onesentenceisextra.

Задание предполагает восстановление пропущенных элементов текста (в данном случае – предложений), опираясь на логические и грамматические связи внутри текста.

Text 'addiction' on the increase.
The Short Message Service (sms) dependence is a serious and real disease, which may be dangerous for your thinking abilities. Some teachers in Britain have started saying that texts are damaging your ability to use proper English.
The epidemic passion for mobile phones in the world has brought in a fondness for SMS messages. Short Message Service has already become a part of the young culture.
Professional psychologists already offer their services in connection with the SMS-mania.
(1)______British scientists from the Priory Clinic think that sending SMS has turned into a global mania. Doctors say that more and more people are addicted to sending text messages.
There are people in the Western society, who have become seriously addicted to texting their friends. (2)______Specialists say that a big fan of SMS messages does not think of them as a way of communication. (3)______More importantly, an ill person may not even think that he has psychological problems.
Special help groups are being set up for text addicts, who send as many as 200 SMS messages every day.
Centres will be trying to cure texters in London, Hampshire and Glasgow.
German experts say that not less than 380 thousand Germans have the SMS addiction.
"There is no serious scientific research of the SMS phenomenon in Russia yet. A theory says that the virtual communication is increasing all over the world and people are losing the art of personal communication," Sergei Enikopolov from the Russian scientific center for psychological health said. "Operators are trying to "infect" people with the disease, with the help of the short message service. (4)______On the other hand, the texting communication replaces normal human contacts," he added.
The mobile market is developing very fast, which raises the numbers of those, who cannot live a day without an SMS message.
"Maybe it is not a disease, but it is a clear symptom of the fact that human communication is becoming difficult for people," Sergei Enikopolov said.

A. Sending an SMS may seem a good way to get rid of the feeling of loneliness.
B. Little is known about this side of the mobile communication mania in Russia, although the SMS-addiction has already been studied in the West.
C. They become a whole environment for such individuals.
D. Psychologists say that mobile phones have generated a new epidemic in the whole world.
E. Such people can spend hours, pressing buttons on their phones.