Name
_____________ Form ______
Test (USA I)
I Underline the suitable variant:
1. There is too little/few sugar
in my coffee.
2. We've got little/few sandwiches left over from the party.
3. There is too little/few time left.
4. I’ve got little/few bananas. I can bake a banana
pie.
5. A milkman/milkmen brings milk to us every morning.
6. Postman/postmen bring letters and telegrams.
7. There are many fisherman/fishermen in this city.
8. Christopher Columbus wanted to become a seaman/seamen when he
was a boy.
9. The Greens have lived here since/for 11 years.
10. The boy has had a teddy bear for/since a month.
11. It has been cold
in Moscow since/for morning.
12. He left the town in 1998 and I haven’t seen him since/for.
II Fill the suitable prepositions in the gaps:
through,
of -3, in-3, from-2, out, on, for
1. I am fond ___
listening to stories about great discoveries.
2. Heidi was never
interested ____ city life.
3. Suddenly he
appeared ____ the dark.
4. Bill prepared everything
____ the game.
5. The discoverer’s
life was full ____ danger.
6. He has been very
ill but the doctor says he is ____ of danger now.
7. We often make
furniture ____ wood.
8. All the people in
the world want to live ____ peace and friendship.
9. Children usually depend
____ the parents for food and clothes.
10. The American colonists
wanted to have independence _____ England.
11. I haven’t read the
magazine, I’ve just looked it ___________.
12. Hats protected the
cowboys’ faces and eyes ______ the hot sun.
III Say is it true or false:
1. Christopher Columbus
discovered America in 1495.
2. In 1492 the King
and the Queen of Spain gave him money to go to Italy.
3. On the 21st
of September in 1620 a group of people left England for the New World.
4. English colonists
came to the New World on board the “Novemberflower”.
5. In America people
celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the last Monday in November.
6. They prepare
traditional American food: potatoes, pumpkin and duck.
7. Native Americans lived
in small earth houses and ate only grass, nuts and fruits .
8. Another famous
tradition was smoking the pipe of peace.
9. At the beginning
of the 17th century the first colonies appeared in America. In 1733
there were 23 colonies in America.
10. Bill Clinton
became the first President of the USA.
11. A tailor Levi
Strauss lived in San Francisco in the middle of the 19th century.
12. Cowboys usually
wore hats, boots and skirts.
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