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

14. All members of cat family are … adopted for grasping and tearing.

A) highest B) higher C) high D) highly

15. The meeting was over. And all the parents left … school.

A) a B) the C) – D) an

16. Tomorrow I`ll have to be at the office a bit earlier … through some documents.

A) to look B) looked C) to be looking D) looking

17. “Where did you learn English?” she asked me.

She asked me where … English.

A) you had learned B) did I learn C) I had learned D) I learned

18. The island rich … minerals and other natural resources.

A) to B) in C) for D) on

19. When I need to remember … something important, I tie a knot in my handkerchief.

A) to do B) does C) did D) doing

20. There is nothing I like better than a good book, but I … much reading for pleasure lately. Most of the reading I do is related to my work.

A) am not doing B) didn`t do C) haven`t done D) wasn`t doing

Parents too weak-willed, indulgent or exhausted to insist that their children turn off the television can take hope from a new gadget introduced in the United States. TV Allowance is an electronic disciplinarian that permits each member of the family a specific amount of viewing time and turns off the set when it runs out. The machine was invented by an amateur scientist from Florida who said that his family life was being destroyed by battles with his children over the amount of time they spent in front of the box. The principle is simple: every member of the family is allotted an individual code which must be punched into the machine to turn the television on; each minute watched deducts a minute from that person’s viewing allocation. The inventor, Randal Levenson, said that the machine teaches the young self-discipline and discrimination and, moreover, installs the essentials of capitalism since children can save their viewing time, barter it with each other or team up to maximize their resources.