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

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3. Cue card. Describe the traffic jam in your city.

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  how it happens
  
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  what is the situation
  
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  what problems people face due to this.
  

and what could be done to control this traffic jam.

Head of the department: Mirsanov B.M.

1-year, 2^nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 17
1. Complete the missing parts Q1-Q7 of the passage with suitable answers A, B,C or D.
To the north of Scotland Q1________ the Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands. The Shetland Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, constitutes the Shetland Island Area, northeast of the Orkney Islands. The archipelago 2________ of about 100 rugged islands and islets, of which only 19 are inhabited. Mainland is the largest of the group. Lerwick, on Mainland, is the administrative centre and the largest town. The chief industry is fishing, and the islanders also Q3________ cattle and sheep and cultivate crops for their own use. Q4________ exports are the
famous Shetland ponies and the wool, knitwear, and hosiery that is manufactured by the women. In the 8th and 9th centuries the Shetland Islands were invaded by the Vikings, who Q5________ them until 1472, when they were added to the domains of the kings of Scotland. In November 1939 the islands were the target of the first German air raids on Britain in World War II. Q6________ of industry and high unemployment caused the islands’ population to decline after 1871. The Orkney Islands, a group of 90 islands and islets, constitutes the Orkney Island Area, separated from the northern coast of the Scottish mainland by the Pentland Firth. The administrative centre and largest town is Kirkwall, on Pomona, the largest of the islands. The islands are generally low-lying and treeless, and just 30 are inhabited. Q7________ are fertile, and agriculture, the chief economic
activity, is productive. Many of the islands have brochs (Pictish stone towers) and other relics of prehistoric habitation.

Q1.	A) lie	B) laid	C) lay	D) lied
Q2.	A) comprises	B) includes	C) consists	D) involves
Q3.	A) raise	B) rise	C) arise	D) arose
Q4.	A) Principle	B) Base	C) Little	D) Principal
Q5.	A) pointed	B) ruled	C) killed	D) took
Q6.	A) Least	B) Provision	C) Lack	D) Production
Q7.	A) Soils	B) Fields	C) Lawns	D) Grounds