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

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II Grammar
1. This time tomorrow you ___ sitting in a deck chair on the beach.
are
were
will
will be
2. He ..... responsible for the accident.
is holding
was holding
was held
3. Everybody ..... by the terrible news yesterday.
shocked
was shocked
is shocking
4. Mr. Green ..... at the University since 1989.
is teaching
has been teaching
has been taught
5. I understand it very well. You ..… explain further.
shouldn’t
wouldn’t
mustn’t
needn’t
6. Leo drives a car well, but Collin does it ..... .
the best
better
as well
7. It wasn't raining when I left my office in the evening, but the ground was wet. It ..... all day.
had been raining
rained
was raining
had rained
8. We have a large garden. Do you know where ..... garden is?
us
our
ours
9. Mariinsky Theater has gathered the most talented actors ..... art is admired all over the world.
who's
whose
its
their
10 We ... by a loud noise during the night.
woke up
are woken up
were woken up
were waking up
III Essay Writing
Describe your impression of the Crimea.

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EXAM CARD XXII
I Reading
A FRESH SPIRIT IN LITERATURE
America's earliest literature flowed from the quill pens of European explorers, and the wonder and promise it told of proved a powerful lure to prospective settlers. The Puritans, whose representatives colonized Massachusetts and whose influence was felt in other Colonies, valued the written word primarily as a tool for religious instruction. Despite limitations they set on writing, the Puritans, as well as other colonists, placed a high value on education and laid an enduring foundation for literature.
By the time of the Revolution such native offerings as Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack" had helped to establish a sense of national identity among the colonists. In the Revolutionary epoch, fiery pamphleteers proved that literature could be highly effective in moving men to action.
In the early and mid-1800s Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and a remarkable group of New Englanders gave voice to a fresh new culture that was no longer intellectually dependent on Europe.
After the Civil War Bret Harte's colourful naturalism and Mark Twain's native humour and delightful story-telling made indelible impressions on US letters. Henry James's novels were internationally recognized at the time the country was becoming a world power. Such post-World War I authors as Earnest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot gained world-wide recognition, as did William Faulkner and John Steinbeck in the 1930s. Eugene O'Neill's searching plays raised American drama to the level of literature and paved the way for the internationally known dramatists Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.
No more vivid record of the sum of a people's experience can be found than in their national literature. America's writers have given the world living documents of all that has gone into the making of the greatest country in history, and the saga is still being written.