Grammar test - №1
USE OF ENGLISH
Task 1
For Questions 1-15, read the text below and decide which answer, A, B, C or D best fits each space.
Example: (0) A paid B gained C bought D funded
Clever Hans
Hans the horse was (0) C in 1900 by Wilhelm von Osteen, a retired German schoolmaster, who was convinced that animals (1) …….. an intelligence equal to that of humans. Von Osteen taught the horse to (2) …….. the numbers one to nine. In a short time, the horse could add, subtract, multiply, divide, (3) …….. the time and keep track of the calendar. Von Osteen would ask Hans, ‘If the eighth day of the month (4) …….. on a Tuesday, what is the date of the following Friday?’ Hans would answer by tapping his (5) …….. . Questions could be spoken or written on a blackboard. “Clever Hans’ became enormously popular. Many scientists, (6) …….. , had doubts about Hans’ abilities, and a psychologist called Pfungst was asked to examine the case. In one test, Pfungst (7) …….. the questioner write the question on the blackboard and then immediately leave the room. Unable to see the questioner or any other human, Clever Hans was unable to answer the question. It became clear that the horse was (8) …….. clues by watching people in the room. As the horse’s taps (9) …….. the (10) …….. answer, the questioner’s body language and expression became more tense. When Hans made the final, ‘correct’ tap, the questioner automatically became more (11) …….. .
Hans would notice this sudden change and would stop tapping. Von Osteen (12) …….. to believe Pfungst’s findings, and continued to show Hans around Germany, attracting large and enthusiastic crowds, but never (13) …….. for (14) ……... Although Pfungst had proved that Hans was not using intelligence to work out the answers, the episode demonstrated how (15) …….. animals can be to human body language.
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Task 2
For Questions 16-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space.
Example: 0 __photography__
HOW A HOBBY CAN MAKE YOU ANGRY
Recently I decided to take up (0) (PHOTOGRAPH) as a hobby. I have always taken snapshots, but I have never been very (16) (SKILL). My snaps were either a complete (17) (FAIL) for technical reasons, or were just not very (18) (IMAGINE). First I decided that to be (19) (SUCCESS), I would have to buy new equipment. Just then I had an (20) (EXPECT) piece of good luck. A friend who works in a camera shop said she could sell me a (21) (VALUE) camera. A customer had left it at the shop to be repaired, but there had been a (22) (UNDERSTAND), and it was actually for sale.
I thought this was a rather (23) (BELIEF) explanation and so I asked her some more questions. It turned out that she had had a(n) (24) (AGREE) with the customer and he had thrown the camera at her in anger because she had disliked his photos!
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Task 3
For Questions 25-33, match the words on the left with their collocations on the right.
18. browse 19. be connected
20. enter
21. access
22. compose
23. attach
24. go
25. visit
26. select
A a file
B online
C to the Internet
D a chat room
E the web
F a website
G an option
H the web address
I a message
