Тренировочныелексико-грамматические упражнения

Task №1. Read the text. Fill in the gaps with the proper grammar and lexical form.

Some people think the Milky Way is a long line of ______, but it isn't. Our galaxy is a huge disk

of stars millions of light-years across, and the solar ______ is somewhere near the outside edge

of the disk. When you look in______ A, at 90° to the disk, you don't see many stars. But when

you look in direction B, you see lots more stars because you are looking into the main body of

the galaxy, and because the galaxy is a disk you see a stripe of stars.And then I______ about

how for a long time

______ were puzzled by the fact that the sky is dark at night, even though there are billions of

stars in the ______ and there must be stars in every direction you look, so that the sky should

be full of starlight because there is very little in the way to stop the light from______ earth.

Then they worked out that the universe ______, that the stars were all rushing away from one

another after the Big Bang, and the further the stars were away from us the______ they were

moving, some of them ______ as fast as the speed of light, which was why

______ light never reached

______.

I like ______ fact. It is something you can work out in your own mind just by

______ at the sky above your head at night and thinking

______ having to ask anyone.

1)

star

2)

systematic

3)

direct

4)

think

5)

science

6)

universal

7)

reach

8)

expand

9)

fast

10) near

11) they

12) we

13) these

14) look

15) with

Answers (Task№1)

Task№2. Read the text. Choose the proper word for each gap from the table below.

Siobhan read the first page and said that it was different. She __1__ this word into inverted commas by

making the wiggly __2__ sign with her first and second__3__. She said that it was usually people

who were killed in murder mystery novels. I said that __4__ dogs were killed in The Hound of the

Baskervilles, the hound itself and James Mortimer's spaniel, but Siobhan said they weren't the __5__ of

the murder, Sir Charles Baskerville was. She said that this was because readers cared more __6__ people

than dogs, so if a person was killed in a book, readers would want to carry on__7__.

I said that I wanted to write about something real and I knew people who had died but I did not know __8__

people who had been killed, except Mr. Paulson, Edward's father from school, and that was a gliding

accident, not murder, and I didn't really know him. I __9__ said that I cared about dogs because they were

faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting __10__ some people.

Answers (Task№2)

1)a

2)b

3)c

4)c

5)b

6)a

7)a

8)a

9)b

10)c

1.

stars

4.

thought

7.

reaching

10. nearly

13. this

2.

system

5.

scientists

8.

was expanding

11. their

14. looking

3.

direction

6.

universe

9.

faster

12. us

15. without

1

A) put

b) puted

c) putted

2

a) road

b) quotation

c) counter

3

a) toes

b) thumbs

c) fingers

4

a) too

b) second

c) two

5

a) criminals

b) victims

c) corpse

6

a) about

b) at

c)in

7

a) reading

b) to read

c) to reading

8

a) some

b) any

c) no

9

a) too

b) also

c) either

1

0

a) then

b)that

c) than