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

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3. Cue card. Tell me about your best friend.

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  discuss who the person is,
  

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  the circumstances of your meeting,
  

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  and what it is that you like about them.
  

Head of the department: Mirsanov B.M.
1-year, 2^nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 5
1. Complete the missing parts Q1-Q7 of the passage with suitable answers A, B,C or D.
Elizabeth I was the longest-reigning English monarch in nearly two centuries and the first woman to successfully Q1________ the English throne. Called Glorianna and Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth Q2________ enormous popularity during her life and became an even greater legend after her death. Elizabeth’s reign was a time of great Q3________ and achievement. It was marked by her effective use of Parliament and the Privy Council, a small advisory body of the important state
officials, and by the development of legal institutions in the English counties. Elizabeth firmly established Protestantism in England; under Elizabeth, England again Q4________ with the pope, Catholic services were forbidden, priests were allowed to marry, and relics and decorations were removed from the churches. Elizabeth encouraged English enterprise and commerce. During Elizabeth’s reign, England Q5________ trade overseas and the merchant community grew. Private
shipbuilding boomed and navigational advances made long sea voyages safer. And finally, she defended the nation against the powerful Spanish naval Q6________ known as the Spanish Armada. In 1588, Queen Elizabeth I of England spoke to her naval troops at the port of Tilbury, located outside of London on the Thames River, before their battles with the Spanish Armada off the English coast. Her personal appearance Q7________ much for her popularity, and the defeat of the Spanish fleet was a decisive factor in ensuring England’s naval and imperial supremacy over the following decades. Her reign, known as the Elizabethan Age, was noted for the English Renaissance. Her court was a center for poets, writers, musicians, and scholars.

Q1.	A) set	B) sit	C) occupy	D) seize
Q2.	A) took	B) enjoyed	C) pleased	D) went
Q3.	A) prosperity	B) favour	C) happiness	D) goodwill
Q4.	A) agreed	B) gave up	C) yielded	D) broke
Q5.	A) extended	B) rose	C) expanded	D) burst
Q6.	A) power	B) force	C) strength	D) capacity
Q7.	A) gave	B) made	C) influenced	D) did