Books and Readers (Test)

I want to buy a book as a birthday present for my younger brother, and I'm in a difficulty what ____.

And ____ reading does he like?

It's rather hard to say. He reads ____: adventures and travel books, fairy-tales and fantasy, science fiction and historical novels.

The last thing I saw him reading was a ____ story.

____, I find detective stories stupid. I can't read any of them more than half way through.

I can't ____ that. Some detective stories are very clever.

Take books ___ Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, for instance.

Well, maybe you ____. Anyway, I wouldn't advise you to buy a detective story for your brother.

Buy him a good historical novel. It's _____ reading.

Transform the sentences into the Passive Voice:

A young writer wrote this detective story.

Here is a good novel of Walter Scott. Buy it for ___.

Transform the sentences into the Passive Voice:

My son draws nice pictures.

This article ___ last week, if I'm not mistaken

The lessons ___ by all of us every day.

My friends ____ this place in the city centre very much.

What books by Conan Doyle ____ into Ukrainian?

Who ____ the animals?

This city ____ by many tourists.

Who ____ bad marks in your class?

Our house ____ of wood.

Our holiday _____ next week.

Pupils _____ the textbooks by the teacher.

The poem was so beautiful that it ____ by everybody.

The series is ____________ in half-serious

language, combining dark moments with humorous ones, a style favoured by

a number of popular children’s authors.

The story is told in the form of an episodic quest: most _________ introduce

a specific creature of Tolkien’s Wilderland.

A person who writes a book is a ____ .

A book about another person's life is a ___ .

A book about words of a language with the information about their meaning, pronunciation is a ____ .