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

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3. Cue card. Describe someone in your family you really admire.
You should say:

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   what relation this person is to you
  
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   what are your first memories of this person
  
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   how often you see this person
  

and explain why you really admire this person.

Head of the department: Mirsanov B.M.

1-year, 2^nd semester 2020-2021 academic year, English Exam Card # 14
1. Complete the missing parts Q1-Q7 of the passage with suitable answers A, B,C or D.
When students and teachers of American literature are asked to Q1________ the most important novels of the Q2________ 19th century, they typically mention works like Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But Q3________ the influence and success of these notable books, they represent only a small portion of the reading material enjoyed by people of that era. The best-selling fiction of the time was published in cheap
paperback editions called “dime novels,” and, unquestionably, the most popular dime novels were Westerns. In 1858, Erastus Beadle, a New York publisher of songbooks and handbooks, Q4______ the house of Beadle and Adams, which quickly dominated the growing dime novel industry. Q5___ paperbacks had begun to appear in the 1840s, initially focusing on urban themes and settings. But
Beadle and the editor of his series, Orville J. Victor, favored Westerns and helped to open a Q6________ new market for such fiction. Beadle sold his books through the American News Company, a newspaper and magazine distributor, thus making dime novels Q7________ in many other outlets besides bookstores.

Q1.	A) say	B) call	C) tell	D) name
Q2.	A) late	B) last	C) latest	D) least
Q3.	A) through	B) in spite	C) despite	D) because
Q4.	A) found	B) established	C) built	D) did
Q5.	A) Inexpensive	B) Unexpensive	C) Expensiveless	D) Imexpensive
Q6.	A) wide	B) long	C) blast	D) vast
Q7.	A) obtainable	B) available	C) achievable	D) excessive

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3. Cue card. Describe a beautiful place you once visited

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  when you went to this place
  
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  where it was
  
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  whom you went with
  
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  and say why you liked it so much.