Exam card I i reading Charles Darwin (1809—1882)

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II Grammar
1. I ___ come if I had had time.
have
had
would have
did
2. Michael was born ..... 1962.
in
at
on
3. Jack Strom has been a postman all his life; he ..... mail to homes and offices to the people of the town.
is delivering
has delivered
has been delivering
delivers
4. I ..... Mario for some time since he left Milan a few years ago.
haven’t seen
don’t see
didn't see
aren’t seeing
5. This building is very high. Actually it’s ..... building in the town.
more higher
the highest
higher
6. I don’t like Alice. She ..... about difficulties of life all the time.
complains
is complaining
has complained
has been complaining
7. Hardly ..... the place of our destination when it became quite dark.
had we reached
we reached
we were reaching
we had been reaching
8. I taught ..... to play the guitar.
myself
meself
by myself
9. Traffic is a big problem in London which is full of people ..... homes and families can be located quite far away.
who's
whose
its
their
10 A new supermarket is going to ... next year.
build
be built
be building
building
III Essay Writing
Imagine that you are in London. Write what do you want to visit there.
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EXAM CARD XXI
I Reading
PURELY AMERICAN CREATIONS
After the Civil War, as black musicians began to play European instruments previously unavailable to them, Negroes created many minstrel songs and transported the minstrel style to the piano. Negro talent, influenced by minstrel sounds applied to European-style melodies, ultimately produced a new form called ragtime. The term probably derived from the ragged, uneven sound of this syncopated piano music, which mixed Afro-Caribbean dance rhythms with the accents of the quadrille, the polka, the schottische, and the march.
Ragtime faded during World War I but won a new audience in the 1960s and 1970s television shows and in personal appearances.
Jazz became so popular that it became established in the national consciousness. The word "jazz" was so firmly planted in the public mind that the decade of the 1920s was known as the Jazz Age. Louis Armstrong and Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington have become jazz classics.
While jazz, the first distinctively American music to emerge in that country, was winning adherents and acceptance, the ballads, broadsides, jigs, reels, and sacred songs that had come to America with English, Scottish, and Irish settlers were evolving their own American forms. There it remained for a century, virtually unchanged except for slight coloration from contact with black music. Then, like jazz, it was spread beyond its narrow boundaries, first by the phonograph, and then by radio.
Country music has made an important contribution to a new phenomenon called rock'n'roll. White listeners became aware of the excitement and validity this music could generate. The way was opened for another white performer, Elvis Presley, to project the essence of the black music, which became known as rock'n'roll. Presley's performing style stirred so much anger in the adult world that teenagers made him a symbol of their beliefs, and rock'n'roll became a musical expression of rebellion.