Independent work variant Read the text and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words

Independent work 1
Variant 1
1.Read the text and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words
The _______ (1) proverb _____ (2): every cook praises his own broth. One can not say English cookery ________ (3) __________ (4), but there is not a lot of variety _________ (5) it in comparison with European cuisine. The English ________(6) very particular _________ (7) their meals. The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.
Breakfast time is ________ (8) seven and nine a.m. A traditional English breakfast is a very _______(9) meal. It consists _______(10) juice, porridge, a rasher or two of bacon and eggs, toast, butter, jam or marmalade, tea or coffee. Marmalade is made from oranges and jam is made from other fruit. Many people like _______(11) with porridge ________(12) milk or cream and sugar, but no good Scotsman ever puts sugar on it, because __________(13) is the home of porridge. For a change you can _______(14) sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, cold ham or perhaps fish.
_______ (15) nowadays in spite of the fact that the English strictly keep to their meals many people just have cereal with milk and sugar or toast with jam or honey.
The _______ (16) substantial meals of the day are lunch and dinner. Lunch is usually taken at ________(17) o'clock. For many people lunch is a _______ (18) meal. Office workers usually go to a cafe at this time. They take fish, poultry or cold meat (beef, mutton, veal and ham), boiled or fried potatoes and all sorts of salad. They may have a mutton chop or steak and chips, followed _______(19) biscuits and a cup of coffee. Some people like a glass of light beer with lunch. Pubs also ______ (20) good, cheap food. School children can have a hot meal at school. Some of them just bring a snack from home.

1.a. Russian b. English c. Indian d. American

2.a. tell b. says c. speaks d. tells
3.a. to be b. am c. are d. is
4.a. good b. nice c. bad d. worse
5.a. on b. at c. between d. in
6.a. are b. was c. am d. is
7.a. in b. about c. under d. above
8.a. centre b. middle c. between d. among
9.a. small b. big c. high d. different
10. a. on b. in c. at d. of
11.a. to begin b. begins c. beginning d. is beginning
12.a. between b. with c. in d. and
13.a. England b. Wells c. Scotland d. France
14.a. has b. had c. have had d. have
15.a. but b. above c. and d. in
16.a. three b. two c. one d. four
17.a. three b. two c. four d. one
1 8.a. long b. quick c. interesting d. difficult
19.a. by b. on c. of d. off
20. a. serves b. served c. serve d. serving