Ответы: Ответы к тесту 4

Тест IV

I.Образуйте правильную неличную форму глагола.


A TOWERING ENGINEERING GENIUS

Alexander Gustave Eiffel was an 1) (engineer) innovator and a major contributor to the 19th century technology. His 2) (amaze) engineering achievement, the Tower overshadowed appreciation of his other 3) (pioneer) work in structural design, aeronautics, telecommunication and meteorology. People seem 4) (think) it was his only work. Yet, the other things 5) (know) include some of the longest-span bridges ever 6) (build) until that time, the internal 7) (brace) of the statue of Liberty, as well as research in many branches of science that is considered 8) (create) the state of the art in the early 20th century. Eiffel was described by his chronicler as “a genius 9) (conceive) his structures as a complete rather than in two mental phases, one 10) (concern) form and the other 11) (concern) with matter”. He was said 12) (think) in materials.


II. Выберите правильный ответ.

ANOTHER GENIUS

In 1925 Count Victor Lusting informed some businessmen that the Eiffel tower was going (13) ______ because it appeared (14) _____ unsafe. (15) ____ to be an official, he asked them to bid for the (16) _____ scrap metal. He suggested to one of them (Mr. Poisson) that his offer was more likely (17) ________ favorable consideration if he, Lusting, were given a “present”. Lusting had chosen Mr. Poisson on purpose as (18)_____ the greediest and most dishonest of them all. Lusting (19) ______ to have left France as soon as he got the bribe. Understandingly, Poisson was too (20) ______ to do anything to get his money back.

13. A) to demolish B) to be demolished C) demolished
14.A) to be B) being C) been
15. A) Having been pretended B) Pretended C) Having pretended
16. A) resulted B) resulting C) being resulted
17. A) to have received B) to receive C) to be received
18. A) being B) to be C) having been
19. A) reported B) was reported C) having been reported
20. A) embarrassing B) having embarrassed C) embarrassed


III. Определите, в какой из подчеркнутый частей предложения содержится ошибка.

21. Because many species of plants and animals in Hawaii are reported to be threaten
A B
with extinction within a short period of time, scientists are trying desperately to rescue
C
them.
22. Dinosaur National Monument in Utah is notable for the ancient remains of many

animals left partly unexcavating for the visitors to see how their fossilization occured.
A B C
23. Food tends to pick up microbes during processing, to package, transportation,
A B C
storage, or preparation.

24. Beginning her life in North America as an immigrant whose English language
A
skills were limited, Eva Hoffman went on becoming one of the greatest American
B C
writers of the XXth century.

25. The more a robot can be programmed regarding its domain of activity, the better
A B
it can perform that activity without frequent human intervention or be reprogrammed.
C
26. The gypsy moth originally introduced into the north-eastern part of the
A
United States by a French scientist supposed to be used for development of a new strain
B C
of silk.

27. Chemists at Oxford University claim to already find an easier and cheaper
A
way to reduce the amounts of carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.
B C
28. Seals in the White sea and the Barents sea were found to be dying of cancer.
A
Autopsies conducted at the Northern Polar Institute in Archangel suggested pollution as
B
the cause. This is worrying, with seals having been at the top of the food chain with a lot
C
of radioactive fish below them.

29. It’s easy to feel sad about the world, with a billion people still being poor, the earth’s
A
population doubled, the environment being damaged.
B C
30. The depletion of the ozone layer over the earth’s poles is reported

to have been increasing, with the areas of depletion known as “holes” in the ozone
A B
layer, or referring to as “ozone holes”.
C

IV. Выберите правильный ответ.

• An ink pen (31) _____ at regular intervals over a paper chart was a hint (32)____ Jocelyn Bell Burnell to make an astonishing discovery about the universe. Nobody yelled “eurica”. At the time she was a 24-year-old Ph.D. student at Cambridge, (33)_____ a routine monitoring job. However, this resulted in her rapid (34) _____ an international reputation for her discovery of the pulsar, a new type of star.

31. (A) having run (B) to run (C) running
32. (A) leading (B) led (C) having led
33. (A) done (B) doing (C) having done
34. (A) acquire (B) acquiring (C) having acquired

• The general theory of relativity predicts that for any given mass, there is a critical radius known as the Schwazschild radius, (35) _____ after the pioneering work of Karl Schwarzschild in 1916. Once (36) _____ within the confines of its Schwarzschild’s radius, space-time is curved so tightly that it is cut off from the gravity outside (37)____ a black hole.

35. (A) naming (B) named (C) being named
36. (A) squeezing (B) squeezed (C) been squeezed
37. (A) for becoming (B) having become (C) to become

• The country with the most Nobel prizes per head – Britain – is notoriously slow at (38)______ them. Unlike Britain, Japan, to this day, stands as a living proof of brilliant technological inventiveness (39) ______ in a country (40) _____ for its lackluster tradition of basic science.

38. (A) commercializing (B) to commercialize (C) having commercialized
39. (A) to exist (B) existing (C) having existed
40. (A) knowing (B) known (C) to be known