I I. Choose the correct answer. Only one answer is correct.

1. He is ______ intelligent to be taken in by such a trick.

A) enough B) very

C) too D) quite

2. Do you know how to measure the _______ of the building?

A) high B) height

C) highness D) tallness

3. I wish the weather ______ not so cold.

A) will B) were

C) be D) is

4. Would you please ______ write in ink on the books?

A) don’t B) not

C) not to D) to not

5. We are all looking forward ______ your friend.

A) of seeing B) to see

C) for seeing D) to seeing

6. Dad wants me _______ him a glass of cold water.

A) bring B) bringing

C) to bring D) to bringing

7. Look. The baby ______ the dg’s food!

A) shall eat B) is going to eat

C) will eat D) would eat

8. It was ______ good idea to bring an umbrella – look at that rain!

A) such B) the

C) will eat D) –

9. I’ve never insisted on your ______ to us.

A) come B) coming

C) to come D) to coming

10. The bag ______ Jack had left in a bus was returned to him the other day.

A) what B) which

C) who D) whose

11. My parents bought two interesting ______ yesterday.

A) furniture B) pieces of furniture

C) furnitures D) pieces of furnitures

12. His clothes _____ terribly dirty.

A) look B) is looking

C) looks D) are looking

13. Did you fix these shelves _______?

A) all on yourself B) all at yourself

C) all with yourself D) all by yourself

14. My mother’s favorite flower is ______.

A) rose B) a rose

C) the rose D) the roses

15. _______ agreed to come.

A) Both the young men. B) Both the young man.

C) Both of the young man.

16. I don’t understand how Jane could have made ______ in her composition.

A) such rude mistake B) so rude mistake

C) such a rude mistake D) so a rude mistake

17. I think it’s ______. We can take pictures here.

A) enough lightly B) light enough

C) enough so light D) so enough lightly

18. I like to watch football on TV because you can see more _____ than from a seat in the stadium.

A) clearness B) clearer

C) clear D) about

19. It was rude ______ him to leave so suddenly.

A) of B) with

C) to D) about

20. Your argument is more ______.

A) convincing than my B) convincing than mine

C) convinced than mine D) convinced than mine

II. Translate the technical text.

Laying fiber on a per-mile basis still costs somewhat more than laying copper. However, on a per-circuit basis there is no contest; fiber wins hands down. However, if a local loop is being laid to a residence, there is little justification to installing fiber - there will never be a need for more than one or two or three circuits. This realization has led to a transition in our thinking. Shortly after the commercialization of fiber, we talked about fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). It was then realized that there was little need to install fiber for a final several hundred yards, so the industry shied away from fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC). In such a system, fiber would carry a plurality of channels to the "curb," whereupon they would be broken down and applied to the copper drop .leading to the home. In many cases even this was overkill, and fiber-to-the-neighborhood (FTTN) is now being used. The message is clear: apply fiber when it is economical to do so, and otherwise rely on copper.

III. Write the annotation to the text.

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Date: 2015-12-18; view: 2350