test booklet for daddy-long-legs by jean webster
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This test booklet is an additional book of exercises that are created for the special edition of 'Daddy-Long-Legs' published by Prosveshcheniye for Russian schools.TRANSCRIPT
Test
Booklet For Daddy-Long-Legs by
Jean Webster, edition for
Russian schools
Marshalova Evgenia
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Content TASK 1 ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Exercise 1 ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
Exercise 2 ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
TASK 2 ................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Exercise 3 ....................................................................................................................................................... 5
Exercise 4 ....................................................................................................................................................... 5
TASK 3 ................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Exercise 5 ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
Exercise 6 ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
Exercise 7 ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
TASK 4 ................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Exercise 8 ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Exercise 9 ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
TASK 5 ................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Exercise 10 ..................................................................................................................................................... 8
Exercise 11 ..................................................................................................................................................... 8
TASK 6 .............................................................................................................................................................. 10
Exercise 12 ................................................................................................................................................... 10
TASK 7 .............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Exercise 13 ................................................................................................................................................... 12
Exercise 14 ................................................................................................................................................... 13
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1. Guess what is meant by the following definitions, using Word List 1.
1) to deal with someone or something in a different way from usual on a
particular occasion only
2) intended to help people who are poor or ill, or who need advice and
support
3) something that must be done in order to obey a law or rule
4) to be officially forced to leave a place or organization because of bad
behaviour
5) to try to make someone or something seem silly by making fun of
them in an unkind way
6) an area of land containing all the main buildings of a university
7) secretly rather than publicly
8) to fail to notice or do something
9) a baby that is left in a public place, so that it can be found by someone
who will look after it
10) to invent a story, poem etc.
11) intelligent and usually young and likely to do well at school or in their
careers
12) feeling rather sad
13) feeling sad and alone because you are far from home
14) to get away from a very unpleasant situation/person
15) to make something better/ to become better
2. Fill the following sentences with the word combinations given. PLEASE,
CHANGE THE WORD FORMS IF IT’S NECESSARY!!!
to bring up a
question
to pay
board and
tuition
to feel
sympathy
to take
notice
to wear an
expression
to make a
speech in
smb’s favour
to give a
liberal
allowance
wiry and
tough
to get lost
to pepper
with
to turn one’s
back
1) Police had to rescue 16 people who _____________ in the Cairngorms after they had relied on
smartphone apps to plot their routes.
2) At 78, Clint Eastwood is still ________________ looking, but his posture (осанка) is bad and his
famous whisper sounds, occasionally, like the frailty (хрупкость) of age.
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3) Ed Joyce has __________________ on England in favour of resuming his international career with his
native Ireland.
4) Anybody interested in improving primary education should ________________ of this report which
recommends testing children for the sake of their progress.
5) Some students have to work long hours to ______________________________.
6) Do all parrots _____________________ of disgusted disapproval or is my one broken?
7) Troy ________________________ of disappointment, but nevertheless he understood that if he ever
wanted to be with Cassidy, perhaps it was necessary to let her go first.
8) Jack held the estate (поместье), out of which he, like a dutiful son, __________________________ to
his mother, and she expended a great proportion in dressing her daughters.
9) The reason I __________________ for her was that she brought up her children alone.
10) My girlfriend _________________________ I didn’t know the answer to.
11) Three persons were killed when they were ___________________ bullets by armed men yesterday in
Taguig City.
12) Jim told Penny what a great impression her pictures had made, that he himself had got up and
______________________________________, and that there was a general feeling of regret that she
had not put her name down.
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3. Match the synonyms. Write the letter before the number.
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____
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1. dictatorial
2. confused, puzzled
3. cook
4. pan
5. not to succeed
6. calligraphy
7. satisfactory
8. to investigate
9. to get
10. to continue doing smth.
11. full of calories
12. rude
13. friendly
a) impertinent
b) a hand
c) adequate
d) nourishing
e) to fetch
f) companionable
g) chef
h) to be stuck
i) to fail
j) casserole
k) bossy
l) to look up
m) to stick to smth.
4. Translate the word-combinations into English.
1. добродетельный поступок
2. быть свободным от обстоятельств
3. протекать
4. пожимать плечами
5. догнать, нагнать кого/что-либо
6. передумать
7. меня охватывает страх
8. докучать подробностями
9. покончить с чем-то
10. указывать на что-либо кому-либо
11. чистый лист
12. писать без остановки
13. никак не собраться с мыслями
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5. Describe actions or notions that you see using the words from Task 3.
__________ _________ __________ ____________ __________
__________ _________ __________ ____________ __________
6. Match the synonyms.
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
1. keep smb. busy
2. intact
3. run for
4. be used to smth.
5. do smb. justice
6. ancestors
7. count
8. nondescript
9. immortal
10. appropriate
a) ordinary
b) fathers
c) living forever
d) pay attention
e) suitable
f) undamaged
g) be familiar with smth.
h) occupy smb.
i) be a candidate
j) appeciate
7. Translate the word-combinations below into English.
1. задерживать дыхание ______________________________________________________________
2. владеть ситуацией ________________________________________________________________
3. происходить от кого-либо __________________________________________________________
4. иметь невообразимую страсть к деталям ______________________________________________
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5. простая девушка __________________________________________________________________
6. угождать кому-либо _______________________________________________________________
7. занимать чье-либо внимание, досуг _________________________________________________
8. Match the words and word-combinations with their definitions.
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_____
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_____
_____
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1. humiliating
2. to deserve smth.
3. to wipe
4. hint
5. classics
6. immaculate
7. contest
8. guardian
9. assassinated
10. disappointed
11. to deliver
a) smth. that is very good and has been popular and had a lot of influence
for a long time
b) someone who is legally responsible for another person such as a child
whose parents have died
c) so clean and tidy that there is no dirt
d) it is right that you get it, for example because of the way you have
behaved
e) making you feel very embarrassed and ashamed
f) something that you say to show what you are thinking or feeling,
without saying it directly
g) unhappy because something that you hoped for or expected did not
happen or because someone or something was not as good as you
expected
h) to be killed, especially for political reasons or for payment
i) to take something, especially goods or letters, to a place
j) a competition, especially one in which people's skill in a particular
activity or sport is tested
k) to clean or dry something by moving it over a surface
9. Give English equivalents to following phrases.
1. Жить согласно каким-либо принципам
2. На пороге
3. Исполнять чьи-либо поручения
4. Доставка
5. Задеть чьи-либо чувства
6. Ежемесячный журнал
7. Изучать домоводство
8. Несправедливо обвинять кого-либо
9. Хорошо зарабатывать
10. Убирать беспорядок
11. Выбросить из головы
12. Участник соревнований
13. Плыть на каноэ
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14. Быть очень веселым
15. Время от времени
16. Пропустить вечернюю службу
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10. Guess what is meant by the following definitions, using Word List 5.
1) odd, strange
2) grateful to someone for their help
3) smb. who is very proud and thinks they are very attractive or
special
4) a feature of something that makes it less useful than it could be
5) something that you do for someone or that you give them as a
way of showing your feelings towards them
6) a serious or difficult responsibility that you have to deal with
7) to choose one thing or person from a group
8) to behave in a way that is intended to attract people's attention
and make them admire you or smth. you have
9) take smth. away from smb.or prevent them from having it
10) careful to do things that other people ask or expect you to do
11) to behave towards someone in a particular way
12) the type of family, social position, or culture that someone
comes from
13) to think/start to think that something is normal or natural
because you have experienced it regularly over a period of time
14) in or near the centre of a town or city, especially the business or
shopping areas
15) to start liking someone very much, or loving them
16) a child who behaves badly if he does not get what he wants,
because people have always given him everything they want
11. Find an equivalent phrase in either language.
1. Потакать прихотям
2. Keeping quiet is the same as giving permission.
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3. Льет, как из ведра.
4. To bring people closer together.
5. Как тебе это нравится??
6. To give the government the money for using
public services
7. Насущные глобальные проблемы
8. To achieve what you wanted.
9. Назначать стипендию
10. Tasteless food
11. Попасть в шторм
12. To give back what you has taken
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12. Fill the following sentences with the word combinations given. PLEASE,
CHANGE THE WORD FORMS IF IT’S NECESSARY!!!
to support
oneself
to omit to button up in the best
of taste
to draft a
book
to blush to be a strain
on smb.
steady work
to make
trousseau
miscellaneous
flattering
to be no
laughing matter
to
coincide
to stray from
home
an exemption
from smth.
reward
temptation
a matter
of course
second
thoughts
to have
confidence
in smth.
to make fuss
over
1. "You're beautiful," she said. I must have looked sceptical because she was quick to assure me that
she was sincere. "It's just that I rarely hear _____________________ comments about my looks," I
explained.
2. A woman was talking about the small attendance at church. "It gets so bad," she said, "that when the
minister says `Dearly beloved' it makes me _______________." (It’s a joke, so THINK!)
3. Important details had been _______________ from the article.
4. You're not having _____________________ about getting married, are you?
5. It wasn't easy to find ___________________ in the city.
6. The opening ceremony _________________ with the worst storm of this century, which wasn’t to
become a happy memory.
7. He always believed that the company would ___________________ him for his efforts.
8. Our extra spacious "Deluxe" double rooms are decorated _________________________ and will
surely meet every need: fine spring matrasses, ensuite with bath and shower cubicle, separate
lavatory, hair-drier, parlour, safety deposit box, telephone and television.
9. Multi-published author Jenna Bayley-Burke explained the reality of deadlines and publishing
schedules and showed three methods to ____________________ in less than a month.
10. A wound on your foot is _________________________ when you're a diabetic.
11. It's quite ___________________ me when he's drinking heavily.
12. Traditionally, the embroidery was used to _____________________ for the bride or dowry (дар) to
be taken with her to her husband’s home, and girls learnt to embroider it from their mothers from
childhood.
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13. Brad Pitt ______________________________ by dressing as a giant chicken to promote El Pollo
Loco fast-food restaurants.
14. Spontaneous movement as a response to music seems to happen as_________________________.
15. Very knowledgeable and experienced, she has a frank personality and doesn't
_________________________ small things.
16. There are quite strict guidelines laid down which students must meet before the Department of
Education will grant __________________________ Irish language class.
17. On average, just 40% of people in OECD (Организация экономического сотрудничества и
развития) countries said they ________________________ in their national governments, down
from an average of 45% in 2007.
18. Dogs which have _____________________________ maybe be lost and at risk of injury. Please call
the dog warden (смотритель) on 07624 494475 and give a clear description of where the dogs is or
was last seen and a description of the dog.
19. He ______________________ his coat tightly, then turned to throw a last glance at Bessie.
20. In one experiment, more than twice as many smokers who thought they could resist
________________ lit up a cigarette in a no-smoking test as those who realized they didn't have so
much control.
21. ____________________ cereals and meat products contained the highest nitrite concentrations.
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13. Translate into English:
1. Так как на следующий день у нее был один из самых серьезных экзаменов, ей пришлось не
спать всю ночь.
2. Всю неделю она носила черное, так как оплакивала смерть близкого друга.
3. После стольких лет переписки, у Джэка все равно было подозрение, что Мари не реальный
человек.
4. Несмотря на то, что он неуважительно с ней обходился, она не переставала его любить ни на
мгновение.
5. Родители не поддерживали его нетрадиционные взгляды, и даже немного боялись их, почему
часто его ругали.
6. Судя по его требованиям, он считает, что мы все ему что-то должны.
7. Его точка зрения звучит неубедительно, будто он сам не верит в то, что говорит.
8. Не будь он таким заносчивым, его бизнес бы процветал.
9. Не стоит воспринимать его слова буквально.
10. По большому счету он просто неисправимый лгун.
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14. Fill the following sentences with the word combinations given. PLEASE,
CHANGE THE WORD FORMS IF IT’S NECESSARY!!!
distressing struggling to abolish to be robbed of
to lose one’s mind
frivolous
make-believe
make out
1) Nightmares are especially frightening to a young child who has not learned what's real and
what's__________________.
2) According to the police, the store ______________________ more than 5,000 dollars.
3) He almost ____________________ after hearing such a ____________________ news.
4) From what I can _______________ it's somebody's medical records, or doctor's notes or something.
5) The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to _______________
all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
6) When the good news came the headmistress forgot formality and tapped into her
__________________ side to jump up and kiss the inspector.
7) Teachers can give ____________________ writers a sense of success by helping them overcome
difficulties in learning to write.