Ukrainian meals.
People in Ukraine like to eat good and tasty food cooked of fresh products. Fast food is not very popular in Ukraine as Ukrainian women prefer to cook at home. And many of them are real masters at cooking.
Since old time Ukrainian national cooking has been famous for great variety of tasty and healthy dishes. Ukrainian women always collected recipes of cooking different dishes. This tradition is kept nowadays as well.
The most popular dish in Ukraine which every Ukrainian lady can cook is borshch. It has up to 20 components. There is a proverb that says: “Each hostess has her borshch” as there is a lot of variants to cook it. Soups are very popular in Ukraine. And you can find a lot of them in Ukrainian cuisine. The most popular of them are yushka, sherba (fish soup), chicken broth, noodle soup, pea soup, mushroom soup and milk soup. All of them are very tasty.
Ukrainians cook meat in different ways. You will be able to try cutlets, boiled meat, meat dumplings, fried and roasted meat here. People usually have meat as the second course or as a main course. As a garnish or as a side dish they usually have fried, boiled or mashed potatoes, vegetables cooked in different ways or salads. There are a lot of dishes cooked from flour. In Ukraine you can try varenyks, pancakes, halushkas and different kinds of pies.
Among traditional drinks you will find kvas, uzvar, stewed fruit, juice, sour milk. Sure, tea, coffee and cocoa are also very popular here nowadays.
Traditionally Ukrainian alcoholic drinks are not very strong. They are good wines, honey drinks and beer. Stronger drinks, like horilka, traditionally had herbs and were used in small doses to warm the body but not to make the person drunk.
Ukrainian cuisine has variety of recepies. And it is worth trying!
I.Choose false or true
II. Choose the correct variant of Passive Voice
1) They have picked the pears before the storm.
а) The pears have been picked before the storm.
b) The pears have picked before the storm.
c) The pears were have picked before the storm.
2) Last year plastic rubbish killed around one million sea birds.
а) Last year around one million sea birds are killed by plastic rubbish.
b) Last year around one million sea birds were kill by plastic rubbish.
c) Last year around one million sea birds were killed by plastic rubbish.
3) Lots of tourists visit this attraction.
а) This attraction is visited by lots of tourists.
b) This attraction was visited by lots of tourists.
c) This attraction will be visited by lots of tourists.
4) Animal experts train the dolphins.
а) The dolphins are training by animal experts.
b) The dolphins train by animal experts.
c) The dolphins are trained by animal experts.
5) Global warming will cause lots of floods.
а) Lots of floods will caused by global warming.
b) Lots of floods are caused by global warming.
c) Lots of floods will be caused by global warming.
6) They don’t paint the beach huts every year.
а) The beach huts don't painted every year.
b) The beach huts aren't painted every year.
c) The beach huts weren't painted every year
III Read the text below. For each empty space (1-12) choose the correct answer (А, В, C or D).
Sam lives in a little village. He is in his last year at school. After school Sam (1) __________________ to become a manager. So, this week, he (2)_______________________ a practical course in a bank. There (3) __________________ a bank in a nearby town, but Sam (4) __________________ to take a bus to get there. The bus (5) __________________ at 6.00 in the morning and (6) __________________ at 8.00 in the evening. Sam (7) __________________ to spend so much time in town before and after work, waiting for the bus. Therefore, this week he (8) __________________ with his aunt who (9) __________________ in town. Sam usually (10) __________________ jeans and T-shirts, but while he (11) __________________ for the bank now, he (12)__ a suit and a tie.
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leave |
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leaves |
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returns |
return |
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are returning |
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not like |
doesn’t like |
don’t like |
not likes |
8 |
stays |
stay |
staying |
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9 |
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live |
lives |
living |
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wear |
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wearing |
wears |
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IV Read the text below. For each empty space (1-12) choose the correct answer (А, В, C or D)
Recently scientists (1) __________________ more about life on planet Earth and now they (2) __________________ better where to look for life in outer space.
For a long time, scientists (3) __________________ that life (4) __________________ on sunlight for energy. Then, in 1978, a submarine (5) __________________ to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Although there (6) __________________ no sunlight, they (7) __________________ tube worms, clams and crabs, and other life forms.
Since then scientists (8) __________________ at the life on earth in other difficult environments — dry, cold and hot - and (9) __________________ that water is the key. Wherever there (10) __________________ water, life (11) __________________ exist. So scientists (12) __________________ to search for water in the solar system.
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В |
C |
D |
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found out |
has found out |
find out |
have found out |
2 |
knew |
have known |
know |
known |
3 |
believe |
believed |
believes |
have believed |
4 |
depended |
depend |
depends |
have depended |
5 |
dive |
have dived |
has dived |
dived |
6 |
were |
was |
has been |
have been |
7 |
have found |
finds |
found |
has found |
8 |
have looked |
looked |
looks |
has looked |
9 |
found |
have found |
has found |
finds |
10 |
was |
has been |
is |
be |
11 |
could |
will be able |
was able |
can |
12 |
began |
has begun |
have begun |
begin |