5. Jake is a good footballer. Do you know since when ..... football?
he has been playing
he plays
has he been playing
is he playing
6. While I ..... the dishes last night, I dropped a plate and broke it.
washed
was washing
had washed
had been washing
7. You can’t stop me ... what I want.
doing
do
to do
that I do
8. ..... riding Anna's bicycle in the forest?
Who did Nick see
Who Nick saw
Who saw Nick
9. I felt sorry for ..... because I didn’t get that job.
me
myself
by myself
10. I don't know what ..... doing there, do you?
it's
there
their
they're
III Essay Writing
Foreign languages in our life.
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EXAM CARD XX
I Reading
The sewing machine
The sewing machine was the creation of many minds. Walter Hunt, probably the 1800s most prolific inventor, was one of the first to create a device that could sew. He built his machine in about 1833, but thinking it would deprive seamstresses of their work, he withheld it from the market.
Elias Howe had no such compunction; he patented his sewing machine in 1846 and spent years fighting to maintain the exclusive rights for his invention.
Among his opponents was the machinist and promotional genius Isaac M. Singer, who had built a machine with several marked improvements.
In prolonged litigation over patent rights, Howe emerged the victor in 1854. Two years later Howe, Singer, and two more competitors agreed to pool the best sewing machine patents and share the royalties. This reasonable approach proved to be a good idea: Singer and Howe both became millionaires.
Write an annotation translation of the text
II Grammar
1. At the moment, _________ an exercise in order to review the English verb tenses that I have learned.
I do
I doing
I'm doing
2. I _______ to the cinema last night.
went
gone
go
3. Peter ______ here tomorrow
will be
be
is
4. Be quiet! I ____________.
am working
work
worked
5. I'm afraid I'm not hungry. I've _______ eaten lunch.
yet
still
already
6. _______ you ever ________ to Hollywood?
Did ... go
Have .... go
Have ... gone
7. This house is quite old. It .... in 1910.
built
was built
build
8. He plays soccer, ..... ?
don't he?
does he?
doesn't he?
9. ______ you like the film?
Did
Do
Were
10. I've never __________ to England.
been
gone
being
III Essay Writing
My family
Signature of the examiner______________
EXAM CARD XXI
I Reading
Samuel F B. Morse
Morse gave up a successful career as a portrait painter to pursue his interest in telegraphy and gained more fame and wealth than he could have imagined as a painter. Before his invention of the unique dot-dash code that bears his name and the remarkable electromagnetic system that he assembled to transmit the message, the exact location of a fast-moving train was not known, and this lack of exactitude was often fatal.
Morse had completed a model of his system, including the code, by 1853. The telegraph was not patented until 1844 and not put to practical use on the railroad until 1851. Although it immediately proved to be the best available method on communicating between railway stations to determine whether or not a given train had arrived at that point or had already left, established practices diehard, and the telegraph system was not universally adopted for full 20 years after its first use.