Variant 1 You could have come first and won the race if you … faster

18. The train drivers are on strike. Very … people came to work.
A) few B) a few C) little D) many
19. He never thought what might come out of it, … ?
A) didn`t he B) does he C) hasn`t he D) did he
20. While I was in Paris, some of the best food I found … not at the well-known eating places, but in small out-of-the-way cafes.
A) was B) were C) are D) being


When I was 21, I came to live in London. I shared a camp basement flat with a beautiful ex art student from Brighton. Her name was Sam. She had long brown hair and a slim figure that I was madly jealous of. She ate three chocolate bars for breakfast every morning. I used to be in bad looking at her eating and getting dressed, wondering how she could possibly consume so much sugar without losing her teeth, her figure or her complexion. She`d put on her makeup in under a minute, throw on whatever clothes happened to be lying around the room, and rush off to work looking like a model on the cover of a fashion magazine. Like me, she was just an art teacher in a secondary school.
21. The writer of the passage wished …
A) she had Sam`s job B) she was called Sam C) she was an art student D) she looked like Sam
22. In the mornings Sam used to …
A) take a long time to put on her makeup. B) be around before going to work.
C) get ready for work very quickly. D) choose her clothes very quickly.
23. What does the word COMPLEXION mean in the text?
A) appearance B) situation C) hairstyle D) behaviour
Lake Ontario is the smallest and the most eastern of the five Great Lakes. Although the lake is navigable for large ships all year round, it is less travelled than the other Great Lakes. The lake is about one hundred ninety-three miles wide and covers an area of seven thousand five hundred square miles. The shore of the lake is approximately four hundred eighty miles around. Two-thirds of the lake waters lie below sea level and because Lake Ontario is very deep, it does not freeze in the winter except near the shore where the water is shallow. A constant current carries the water from west to east at the rate of about one-third of a mile per hour. Because of the capacity of large bodies of water to keep heat, the lake has a moderating effect on the climate of the areas that surround it. For example, while the eastern shore of the lake never has a really hot day, on its southern shore fruit trees grow. The lake empties into the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence River, while the Niagara River and the Wetland Canal connect it to Lake Erie in the southwest.