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

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II GRAMMAR
1. ..... a strange light coming from the sky.
I have just seen
just I have seen
I have seen just
2. Do you remember .....?
when does out train leave
when our train leaves
when our train leave
3. Can you tell me the shortest way to ..... bookstore?
the nest
the nearest
the nearer
4. I ___ come if I had had time.
have
had
would have
did
5. This time tomorrow you ___ sitting in a deck chair on the beach.
are
were
will
will be
6. After the storm ___ finished, many people were found lying in the street.
has
had
were
did
7. Tomorrow we ___ taking the day off.
will
have
were
are
8 That building ......... left unoccupied since 1950.
would be
would being
has been
will be
9 The safe showed no sign of _____.
touching
being touched
having been touched
10 She _____ in cash if she had a credit card.
will not pay
would not pay
would not paid
III Essay Writing
Holidays in our country.

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EXAM CARD XXIX
I Reading
THE RACE FOR THE SKY
The most revolutionary development in 19th-century architecture — the skyscraper — has sometimes been called the American solution. It was not the invention of any single person. It simply evolved in response to changing circumstances. Cities were growing at an alarming rate. Businesses were becoming big businesses that needed ever larger buildings to house their administrative staffs. New inventions — the telephone, the typewriter, the electric light, and, most important, the elevator — contributed to the efficiency of accommodating more people in larger structures.
The most influential of Chicago architects was Louis H. Sullivan. A restless genius who formulated a highly personal and purely American style. He was a pioneer of the modern movement in his profession and established a secure reputation as one of the most creative minds in the history of American architecture.
If a structure must be tall, it should be made to look tall — a principle that was brilliantly realized in Sullivan's Wainwright Building in St. Louis, considered by some to be America's first successful skyscraper.
Although it no longer seems like a skyscraper, Sullivan's Wainwright Building towered its neighbours in 1891. The buildings that followed grew taller but returned to the older historical style. For example, the Woolworth Building is lavishly Gothic. The depressed economy of the 1930s required a more austere style and also halted the race for the tallest building— a title held by the Chrysler Building very briefly until completion of the Empire State Building, which reigned supreme for the next 40 years.
In the 1940s and 1950s tall buildings became common, but they were usually no more than about 60 stories high.
Technology makes mile-high structures possible, but the advantages are questionable.