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

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3. Cue card. Describe a party you have attended.

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  what type of party it was
  
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  where the party was held
  
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  who attended the party
  

Head of the department: Mirsanov B.M.
1-year, 2^nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 8
1. Complete the missing parts Q1-Q7 of the passage with suitable answers A, B,C or D.
In the city of Solo on the Indonesian island of Java, the town square is a smooth dirt surface illuminated by blue fluorescent lights Q1________ from electrical cords. Every day, from morning to midnight, townspeople sit on easy chairs and watch players strike a small object made of cork, goat leather, and goose Q2________ back and forth with rackets made of wood. The game they play is bulutangkis, and it is a national fixed idea. Outside of Indonesia the game is known as badminton. Badminton was Q3________ in the 1860s by the daughters of the Duke of Beaufort, who entertained themselves with a version of the children’s game known as battledore and shuttlecock. The game they derived soon became known in the house in which they played it, the duke’s Badminton House in England. Soon after it badminton societies and clubs Q4________throughout England. In 1893, the first Badminton Association was formed, and six years later the All-England Badminton Championship was played. Eventually, the sport migrated to continental Europe. From there it Q5________ India via British military officers and Indonesia by way of Dutch colonists. The expansion necessitated the formation of the International Badminton Federation (IBF) in 1934. Badminton took Q6________ in many countries, including Australia,
China, Denmark, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and the United States. But nowhere did it Q7________ on as it did in Indonesia, which ultimately became a global badminton superpower. In 1992, badminton’s inaugural year as an official Olympic sport, Indonesians brought home the country’s first gold medals.

Q1.	A) attaching	B) hanging	C) connected	D) going
Q2.	A) features	B) futures	C) feathers	D) fiestas
Q3.	A) discovered	B) originated	C) appeared	D) invented
Q4.	A) spread	B) came	C) distributed	D) allocated
Q5.	A) reached	B) went	C) got	D) came
Q6.	A) route	B) place	C) root	D) part
Q7.	A) got	B) catch	C) gave	D) put