Variant-1 Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence

13. Choose the correct answer.
Nodir says to me, “You are smart.”
A) Nodir tells me that he is smart.
B) Nodir tells me that he was smart.
C) Nodir tells me that I am smart.
D) Nodir tells me that I shall be smart.
14. Choose the correct answer.
You need to take an ... exam to get into university.
A) education
B) operation
C) entrance
D) influence
15. Choose the correct answer.
What kind of books ... you interested in?
A) are
B) do
C) have
D) did
16. Choose the correct answer.
I’ll answer his letter at once if he ... to me,
A) writes
B) will write
C) write
D) would write
17. Choose the correct answer.
The boy who got full marks ... the exam was
suspected ... cheating.
A) on/for
B) in/of
C) about/at
D) from/by
18. Choose the correct answer.
The children are allowed ... in the river.
A) swam
B) to swim
C) swim
D) swimming
19. Choose the correct answer.
... Mary last month?
A) Did you see
B) Have you seen
C) Were you seeing
D) How many times have you seen
20. Choose the correct answer.
We ... much better if we had received your
instructions before our performance.
A) would have performed
B) will perform
C) performed
D) had performed
21. Choose the correct answer.
When Sitora was her …, she left her city.
A) the twentieth
B) twentieth
C) a twenty
D) twenties
22. Choose the correct answer.
This chair is .... It is not soft.
A) hardly
B) hardest
C) hard
D) the harder


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Lately, some people have been concerned that the explosion in text messaging among young people
is having a negative effect on their literacy skills. However, a recent study at the department of communication and science at City University in
London compared the spelling and punctuation of 11 and 12-year-old texters and non-texters, finding no
significant differences between the two groups. It is important when texting to be fast and concise. This is to save on time and space. A non-texter who is unfamiliar with texting will feel lost when they see abbreviations, acronyms and emoticons. For texters, this ’language’ is easy to read and easy to write. The debate about effects of texting started a few years ago.
Teachers began noticing examples of the harmful texting language in their students’ exam papers. One case, a 13- year-old Scottish girl who wrote an
entire description of her summer holidays in text language, became famous. Her teacher sent sample of the essay to a national newspaper and readers sent hundreds of letters giving their opinion.