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

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3. Cue card. Describe an environmental problem or event. You should say:

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  What is it
  
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  Where is it happening
  
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  What problems does it cause
  

Head of the department: Mirsanov B.M.

1-year, 2^nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 6
1. Complete the missing parts Q1-Q7 of the passage with suitable answers A, B,C or D.
Two hundred years ago, a fleet of 11 ships Q1________ sail from England under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip. It took them eight months to complete the three legs of their voyage: first to Rio de Janeiro; then to the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, where fresh provisions and livestock were taken on Q2________; then at last, driven by the western gales of the southern ocean, to their Q3________. On January 18, 1788, the flagship of the so-called First Fleet
Q4________ anchor off the coast of New South Wales. Eight days later, Phillip selected the site of settlement, Sydney (then called Port Jackson), and hoisted the British flag. His charges came Q5________, stretching cramped limbs and blinking in the harsh sunlight. There were barely wives and children, and more than 700 male and female convicts. For 1,000 people altogether — a score
of military officers, some 200 soldiers, fewer than 50 this was no ordinary community; it was a penal colony located halfway round the globe as a place of exile for the unwanted outcasts and casualties of the parent country. Thus, in 1788, the colony of New South Wales was established. In 1803, a new penal colony was begun just Q6________ the southeast corner of the mainland which is now called Tasmania. Maritime exploration soon mapped the southwest Pacific, and whaling,
sealing, and trading enterprises quickly followed. Matthew Flinders sailed round the entire continent in 1803, and it was he who suggested the name Australia, from the Latin terra australis, Q7________ “south land.”

Q1.	A) took	B) set	C) sat	D) put
Q2.	A) ship	B) boat	C) board	D) abroad
Q3.	A) way	B) destination	C) spot	D) finish
Q4.	A) dropped	B) put	C) set	D) lay
Q5.	A) on shore	B) the coast	C) ashore	D) the earth
Q6.	A) from	B) off	C) close	D) nearly
Q7.	A) translating	B) discovering	C) meaning	D) inventing