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

Write an annotation translation of the text
II Grammar
1. I don’t like this friend of ..... .
yours
your
you
2. I don't know if he ..... to join us, but if he does, it will change my plans.
will make up his mind
will have made up his mind
makes up his mind
has made up his mind
3. Don't wait for him, he won’t come for supper; he ..... late.
will come
will have come
is coming
will be coming
4. I met Christine ..... university.
in
at
on
5. Great Britain consists of ..... parts.
three
a three
the three
have understood
6. I must go now. I promised ... late.
not being
not to be
to not be
7. While I ..... a burglar climbed into the room through the window.
had been sleeping
was sleeping
slept
had slept
8. While we were on holiday, our camera ..... from our hotel room.
was stolen
has been stolen
had been stolen
9. It’s a secret. You ….. tell anyone.
shouldn’t
wouldn’t
needn’t
mustn’t
10. What ..... tomorrow morning?
will you be doing
you will be doing
will be you doing
III Essay Writing
My favourite performance (ballet)
Signature of the examiner_______________
EXAM CARD XV
I Reading
Thomas Elva Edison
Edison once remarked that genius is "one per cent inspiration and ninety nine per cent perspiration". Certainly neither inspiration nor industry were lacking in this prolific inventor, who was granted a total of 1097 patents — an all-time record.
Thomas E. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, in 1847. He had but a few years of formal schooling, but his mother taught him at home, and he early developed an interest in science. He took his first job as a railroad newsboy and "candy butcher", and then became an itinerant telegrapher, an occupation that started him on the road to developing his amazing potentialities for electrical innovation.
His first commercially successful invention was an improved stock ticker, used by speculators in gold and securities. He used the $40000 he got for this — a small fortune for a 23-year-old — to open a factory in Newark, New Jersey. There he made telegraph instruments and stock tickers, and methodically set about turning out further inventions.
In 1876 Edison moved from Newark to Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he established his "invention factory", the first industrial research laboratory. A torrent of discoveries and inventions was soon pouring from his fertile brain. Edison's invention, in 1877, of a "talking machine" that could record, store, and reproduce human speech or music was revolutionary. His only discovery in pure science came in 1883: it was the Edison effect. He patented this discovery in 1884 but did not investigate it further. Other scientists used it to develop the electronics industry, particularly radio and television.