Ответы: Ответы к тесту 11

Тест XI

I. Образуйте правильную неличную форму глагола.

NOBEL, NIGHTINGALE et al − VERY CLOSE, THOUGH NEVER MEETING

Unlike Colt 1) (keep) his professional secrets at all costs, Immanuel Nobel was a great deal more open about his mining techniques, when 2) (ask) by Russians to make mines for them. By the time the Crimean war started, in 1853, Colonel Ogarev and Mr. Nobel’s “Charted Mechanical and Pig Iron Foundry” was busy 3) (lay) mines everywhere around Russia for 12 years.
One place they had shown up in this way was the harbor at Sevastopol. So the Allied Fleet 4) (support) the troops in the Crimea was forced to anchor around the corner at Balaklava, only to be 5) (destroy) by the hurricane of November 13. 70-ton cargo of medical supplies went down to the bottom, 6) (leave) the British troops to suffer a terrible winter of pneumonia, starvation and dysentery.
One week earlier an extraordinary woman 7) (name) Florence Nightingale had arrived in the Crimea. She and 38 other nurses 8) (accompany) her spent that dire winter only 9) (discover) how bad the British medical services really were. Thanks to her 100-page report filled with 10) (horrify) detail, the Crimean war marked a turning point in military medicine.
Amazingly, Nightingale’s obsession with statistics had started with her keen interest in botany. And while 11) (do) some botanical classification work she came across a statistical law 12) (lead) to her life-long friendship with its discoverer. It was Quetelet’s law about flowering lilacs.

II. Выберите правильный ответ.

13. Now the situation is very different, with companies such as Hewlett-Packard
and Dell ____ on the information technology market on equal terms.
(A) to be performed (C) performed
(B) performing (D) perform

14. Half the world consists of people who have something to say but can’t and the other half who have nothing to say and _____ .
(A) keep to talk (C) keep up talking
(B) keep on to talk (D) keep on talking

15. Dinosaurs are classified as reptiles, although some appear ____ warm-blooded.
(A) being (C) to be
(B) as being (D) to have been

16. In order to capture the market for the PC operating system IBM management ____ all the key aspects of the thriving business.
(A) had his staff to control (C) got his staff control
(B) made his staff to control (D) had his staff control

17. IBM relied on income ____ from its core business – mainframe systems for corporate customers.
(A) having generated (C) generating
(B) to generate (D) having been generated

18. At some point IBM was failing ____ with the new breed of innovative software companies and hardware producers who could make computers much more cheaply.
(A) in competing (C) competing
(B) to competing (D) to compete

19. In 1987 a Canadian astronomer, Ian Shelton, spotted a supernova ____ at some photographs of the stars.
(A) to look (C) having looked
(B) while being looked (D) while looking

20. The ancient Greeks were the first _____ the stars scientifically.
(A) to study (C) having studied
(B) who used to study (D) studying

21. Stars are hot bodies that give out light of their own, whereas planets shine only ____ light.
(A) to reflect (C) reflecting
(B) reflected (D) by reflecting

22. Classics are books that nobody likes reading, but everybody pretends ______ .
(A) having read (C) reading
(B) to have read (D) being read to

23. He was not ____ to understand all the implications.
(A) so informed (C) informed enough
(B) informed sufficiently (D) too informed so as

24. Limestone powder is added to animal food for them ______ good strong bones.
(A) forming (C) having formed
(B) being formed (D) to form

25. The surface of the cactus is coated by a waxy layer that prevents water ____ from the plant.
(A) against evaporating (C) from evaporating
(B) to evaporate (D) evaporating

26. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, others willing to let ____ it.
(A) they do (C) them to do
(B) them doing (D) them do

III. Определите, какой из двух предложенных вариантов (A или B) является правильным.

27. (A) Increasing from 2.5 billion in 1950, the late 1970s saw the world’s population reach 4.25 billion.
(B) Increasing from 2.5 billion in 1950, the population of the world reached 4.25 billion in the late 1970s.

28. (A) Hoping to save taxpayers’ money, biologists are experimenting with a weed-eating fish that can clean canals.
(B) Hoping to save taxpayers’ money, a weed-eating fish that can clean canals is being studied by biologists.

29. (A) Borrowing from nature’s designs, new oil tankers designed by biomedical engineers will be stable and fuel-efficient.
(B) Borrowing from nature’s designs, engineers are designing stable and fuel-efficient oil tankers.

30. (A) After passing through a pleasant first stage, most foreign visitors find the second stage of cultural adaptation difficult and depressing.
(B) After passing through a pleasant first stage, the second stage of cultural adaptation is difficult and depressive for most foreign visitors.

31. (A) Challenging established hypotheses about the origin of modern man, the discovery of very old Ethiopian fossils have led to new questions.
(B) Challenging established hypotheses about the origin of modern man, new questions were asked by archeologists based on the discovery of very old fossils in Ethiopia.

32. (A) When applying for a parking sticker, the campus police require students to have proper identification.
(B) When applying for a parking sticker, students must show campus police proper identification.

33. (A) While carrying out the experiment, the results were striking.
(B) While carrying out the experiment, they obtained striking results.


IV. Определите, есть ли в строке лишнее слово, нарушающее смысл, и выпишите его.

THE FIRST DOCTOR PEER

34. Before Joseph Lister (1827-1912) started his work
35. people who surviving surgical operations often died of
36. having infected wounds. Then Lister, at Glasgow Infirmary,
37. started for using carbolic acid to kill germs,
38. thus drastically having cutting down infection.
39. It is considered to have be a major landmark in surgery and Lister was
40. eventually made a peer - the first British doctor to be so ennobled.