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

Q4________ anchor off the coast of New South Wales. Eight days later, Phillip selected the site of settlement, Sydney (then called Port Jackson), and hoisted the British flag. His charges came Q5________, stretching cramped limbs and blinking in the harsh sunlight. There were barely wives and children, and more than 700 male and female convicts. For 1,000 people altogether — a score
of military officers, some 200 soldiers, fewer than 50 this was no ordinary community; it was a penal colony located halfway round the globe as a place of exile for the unwanted outcasts and casualties of the parent country. Thus, in 1788, the colony of New South Wales was established. In 1803, a new penal colony was begun just Q6________ the southeast corner of the mainland which is now called Tasmania. Maritime exploration soon mapped the southwest Pacific, and whaling,
sealing, and trading enterprises quickly followed. Matthew Flinders sailed round the entire continent in 1803, and it was he who suggested the name Australia, from the Latin terra australis, Q7________ “south land.”

Q1.	A) took	B) set	C) sat	D) put
Q2.	A) ship	B) boat	C) board	D) abroad
Q3.	A) way	B) destination	C) spot	D) finish
Q4.	A) dropped	B) put	C) set	D) lay
Q5.	A) on shore	B) the coast	C) ashore	D) the earth
Q6.	A) from	B) off	C) close	D) nearly
Q7.	A) translating	B) discovering	C) meaning	D) inventing

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3. Cue card. Describe your favourite weather. You should say:

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  What the weather is like
  
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  Why do you like it
  
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  Where you can exprerience such weather conditions.
  

Head of the department: Mirsanov B.M.
1-year, 2^nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 7
1. Complete the missing parts Q1-Q7 of the passage with suitable answers A, B,C or D.
In 1849, the United States Army Q1________ Fort Worth, one of a line of ten posts in Texas designed to protect United States-held territory from the Comanche people. The fort attracted settlers and traders, and after the army moved west in 1853, the settlement became a county seat in 1856. The settlement grew after the Civil War, serving as a gathering place for cowboys and cattle buyers and a starting spot for the driving of cattle to Kansas. The city was Q2________ for United States Army General William Jenkins Worth, a hero of the Mexican War. By 1876, Fort Worth had become the eastern terminus for the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The completion of the railroad was financed by Fort Worth citizens after the railroad company Q3________ bankrupt. The railroad quickly attracted industry and commerce to the town. Agricultural products, particularly cattle,
continued to Q4________ most of Fort Worth’s income. In the early 20th century the city built stockyards and became the primary slaughtering, packing, and shipping point for livestock in the state. During World War I, the United States Army founded Camp Bowie as a training site in Fort Worth and converted three Q5________ air fields into aviation training centers. With the discovery in the 1910s of oil in several of the counties to the west, Fort Worth became a manufacturing center for oil-field equipment and headquarters for a number of petroleum companies. After a disastrous flood in 1909, the city began a number of projects to control the Trinity River which often overflowed the Q6________, and to secure a water supply for the city. These projects Q7________ in the creation of Lake Worth.

Q1.	A) set	B) found	C) established	D) brought up
Q2.	A) called	B) titled	C) named	D) commemorated
Q3.	A) went	B) became	C) came	D) turned up
Q4.	A) supply	B) provide	C) give	D) present
Q5.	A) near	B) close	C) next	D) nearby
Q6.	A) shores	B) banks	C) earth	D) lands
Q7.	A) led	B) finished	C) were over	D) resulted