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

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

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  What is it
  
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  When did you get it
  
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  How often do you use it and say why is it so important to you
  

Head of the department: Mirsanov B.M.

1-year, 2^nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 10
1. Complete the missing parts Q1-Q7 of the passage with suitable answers A, B,C or D.
According to Sigmund Freud, a man’s mission in life is “to work and to love.” In this modern world, an excess of love can be hazardous indeed. But what of work? Can a man literally work Q1________ to death? The Japanese think so; in fact, karoshi, or “death from overwork,” is a recognized diagnosis. A 1998 Q2________ of 526 Japanese men, aged 30 to 69, supported the idea that long working hours could be hazardous to a man’s health. The subjects of the study
Q3________ men who had been hospitalized with a heart attack as well as healthy men of Q4________ ages and occupations. The results were striking: men from both groups who put in more than 11 hours of work on an average day were 2.4 times more likely to have a heart attack than were men who worked “just” seven to nine hours a day. What accounts for the increased risk of heart attack Q5________ Japanese men who work very long hours? The Japanese are notorious workaholics, but working conditions in Japan are actually designed to be predictable and to
minimize stress among employees. In general, Western men do not Q6________ such advantages, so one wonders just how working too Q7.________ affects their health.

Q1.	A) itself	B) himself	C) oneself	D) themselves
Q2.	A) survey	B) report	C) discussion	D) prognosis
Q3.	A) consisted	B) had	C) considered	D) included
Q4.	A) same	B) similar	C) like	D) both
Q5.	A) between	B) in	C) among	D) at
Q6.	A) take	B) join	C) enjoy	D) give
Q7.	A) many	B) hardly	C) a lot	D) hard