1-year, 2nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 1

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3. Cue card. Describe a person you are very close to. You should say:

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  who this person is
  
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  when you met them
  
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  where you met them
  

and say what it is about them you like so much.

Head of the department: Mirsanov B.M.
1-year, 2^nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 4
1. Complete the missing parts Q1-Q7 of the passage with suitable answers A, B,C or D.
Plantation agriculture flourished in Louisiana in the 18th century. Planters first experimented with indigo and tobacco, but these were soon Q1________ by cotton in the north and sugarcane in the subtropical south. In the late 19th century a lumber industry boom occurred, while the Q2________ of petroleum and natural gas in the early 20th century added other dimensions to the economy. In
the second half of the 20th century industry expanded rapidly, fueled in part by the development of offshore oil fields. Louisiana remains an important agricultural state, but manufacturing, mining, tourism, and commerce now dominate the economy. Farmland Q3________ 30 percent of the total area of Louisiana. Crops are raised on 65 percent of all farmland in the state. Most of the remaining
farmland is used for pasture. The five leading Q4________ are cotton, sugarcane, soybeans, rice, and corn. Cotton is grown primarily on the fertile bottomlands of the Mississippi and Red river valleys, and sugarcane chiefly on the bottomlands of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. The raising of soybeans, used mostly as livestock feed, increased rapidly from the early 1960s to become the most important crop in the 1970s and early 1980s but has since Q5________ . Rice is grown on the
prairie sections in the West Gulf Coastal Plain. Another important crop is corn, which is used both for human consumption and as animal feed. Mechanization and other advances in technology have dramatically changed agriculture Q6________ the 1940s, leading to larger farms with fewer laborers. Improved species and new crops have also affected this sector of the economy. Government farm programs dating from the 1930s add to the list of influences affecting the acreage planted and Q7________ of crops produced in the state.

Q1.	A) brought	B) retreated	C) replaced	D) placed
Q2.	A) invention	B) openness	C) discovery	D) disclosure
Q3.	A) gives back	B) takes in	C) occupies	D) seizes
Q4.	A) cereals	B) grasses	C) grains	D) crops
Q5.	A) declined	B) over	C) finished	D) stopped
Q6.	A) for	B) in	C) while	D) since
Q7.	A) price	B) value	C) cost	D) expenses