Entrance Test for 2nd-Year Students

Welcome to your Entrance Test for 2nd-Year Students

I. Вставьте артикль "the" там, где это необходимо, или "-", если артикля быть не должно:

1. Would you like to go to Kremlin?

2. Everest is the highest mountain in the world.

3. West End is the symbol of wealthy and Luxurious life.

4. Pacific is the largest ocean on our planet.

5. Have you ever been to Bolshoi Theatre?

6. Does Mark speak Spanish?

7. Show me Canary Islands on this map, please.

8. This river flows into Lake Baikal.

9. Although the north of Scotland is called Highlands the mountains aren't high there.

10. I've made up my mind to go to Black Sea next summer.

II. Постройте предложения, поставив слова в нужном порядке:

III. Выберите правильный вариант для подстановки:

St Basil’s cathedral is in fact Moscow’s (1)______ visited tourist attraction.

The famous candy-coloured cathedral (2)______ just outside the Kremlin gates. It marks the geometric centre of the city.

The cathedral was (3)______ between 1554 and 1560 during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

(4)________ is known about the

(5)______ Postnik Yakovlev, but he was clearly a fan of onion domes and sharp spikes.

IV. Заполните пропуски предлогами.

1. The book is the table so you can easily see it.

2. All the CDs are the box.

3. Who are these people the picture? Are they your relatives?

4. Peter is college. He’s still studying.

5. The train goes the tunnel for 10 minutes.

6. Go that room! You’re disturbing me!

7. The picture is the wall above the sofa.

8. The teacher is the blackboard, demonstrating the new material on it.

9. Put the book your bag, please!

10. The police officer turned the corner.

V. Вставьте в текст пропущенные слова из списка:

Machine (1) … is the leading industry in Russia, which is concentrated mostly in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Urals, Volga region, and Western Siberia.

It (2) … all other industries with equipment and machinery. The share of machine building in Russian economy is almost 30%.

Machine building industries have a rather quite complex structure consisting of over 70 (3) … .

The most important are electronics, computers, robotics, instrument building, agricultural and transport machine building, (4) … cars manufacture,

(5) … building, ship building etc.