Variant 1 You could have come first and won the race if you … faster

7. This wine doesn`t taste as … as my usual one.

A) well B) good C) better D) best

8. Her son five years old. She has a … son.

A) five years older B) five year olds C) five years old D) five-year-old

9. They had lived in Rome for some years and fell in love when they … in Rome.

A) had been working B) was working C) were working D) worked

10. Many roads and railroads in the USA were built in the 1880s … industrial cities needed a network to link them with sources of supply.

A) in spite of B) because C) despite D) because of