Modul test 2

The plane is going to ________ in half an hour. Hurry up!

Why are you_______? Is anybody sleeping?

The entire village was destroyed when the _______erupted.

I can’t _______ that box on the top shelf. Can you get it for me, please?

Bryan looks really_______ ? What’s wrong?

They can’t afford the _______ of spending two weeks by the sea.

Don’t tell anybody. This is a(n) _________ !

We should take him to the hospital immediately. He is _______ .

The roof of our house ________ during the earthquake and everything was destroyed.

He doesn’t have the ________to lift such a heavy box. He’s too young.

Have you got any ________ words that I can explain?

Jane’s performance was really ________. She’s a great actress.

The art gallery was full of very expensive _______.

David is extremely_________ with kids. He will become a great father some day.

I am sending you this e-mail in _________ to your request.

The stadium was full of ________ last night. It was a great match and our

team won! We had a good time.

There was only one ________ of that horrible plane crash this morning.

I don’t know how you manage to look so ______ every time you give a

presentation. I wish I could be like that!

As Melanie was driving, she _____ music.

My wife recently gave birth to twins, so now we need a ______car.

That’s the café _______ we are supposed to meet Nora.

The solution to this problem is ______ than you may think.

Steward was getting ready to go to bed when he ______someone shouting.

Your English is getting better and ________.

The boy________ is walking down the street is my brother, Adam.

When I _______Matthew at the party yesterday, he didn’t speak to me.

In my opinion, Prague is ______city in Europe.

Ann _______her first car in 1987.

People refer to Agatha Christie as ‘The Queen of Crime’ because she (1) _______(write) many crime novels, short stories and plays. While Agatha Christie (2) _____(serve) as a nurse during World War I, she (3)______ (learn) a lot about poison.

Later, she (4) ______(use) this knowledge in

her stories. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, (5)______ (come out) in 1920. One of the characters in that book was the detective Hercule Poirot. This character (6)_______ (appear) in another 25 novels.

In 1930, while Agatha Christie (7) (travel) in the Middle East, she ______(8) (meet) Sir Max Mallowan. They _________(9) (get) married that same year.

She (10)__________ (go) on a lot of trips with her husband in the Middle East. These trips _______(11) (give) Christie ideas for some of her famous books.

In 1952, she (12) ______(write)The Mousetrap. This(13)_______ (be) one of the most popular plays ever and it (14) _______(receive) The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1955.

That’s Sally Brown. Her seven brothers and sisters

all live abroad.

The leather jacket was very expensive. I didn’t buy it.

That new actor is very talented. I saw his new film

last week.

Mike works at a restaurant. Famous people often

eat there.

Tina was talking on the phone with Angie. She’s

her best friend.

READING

These animals are more than just man’s best friend. Sometimes they are even used during

times of war. (1) ________Today, dogs are commonly used in search and rescue missions. This is

particularly the case during disasters when the dogs help to find missing people. There are a

couple of ways that dogs can find missing people, but they all involve the dog’s sense of smell.

Some dogs are trained to ‘airscent’. They raise their heads to the air and try to locate a person

by the smell carried in the air. These dogs are trained to sniff out a general human scent, not a

specific person. They are also used by the military and police as ‘bomb sniffing’ dogs, because

they can smell certain chemicals used in explosives.

Another type of search method is ‘trailing’ or ‘tracking’. (2) ________In these cases, the dogs

are usually searching for someone specific and have an item that belonged to the person they

are looking for so they can know what the person’s specific scent smells like. Some dogs can be

used for specific types of searches. For example, some dogs are trained to find people under

water or snow, or people who are. Some animals are even trained to give a response to their

handler when they find a person. (3) ___________They also have different reactions when they find the

scent of the person, but not the person themselves. The dog and the handler need to have a

good relationship so that the handler can understand these cues from the dog.

These birds have a very long history as tools of communication. Several ancient civilisations

used pigeons to carry messages, such as the Persians, Greeks and Romans. (4) ______Pigeons

were an effective way to communicate information in modern times, too. Before inventions like

the telegraph and phone, pigeons would carry time sensitive information like financial and stock

news. In fact, stock information travelled from London all the way to Paris by way of the carrier

pigeon! In the 1800s, the Pigeon Post was created to carry small pieces of mail and news long

distances. The official mail system meant that each pigeon was registered by their government,

just like a postal worker is today. The pigeon post even had its own stamps!

Pigeons weren’t just famous letter carriers. (5) ___________Homing pigeons were widely used for

carrying secret messages from one unit to another, across very long distances. The pigeons were

able to travel from country to country and relay the messages with no trouble. The pigeons carried

their messages in many dangerous places with extreme weather conditions, like deserts, the

frozen arctic and jungles and many pigeons were injured while carrying through their messages.

However, this didn’t stop them from getting home and completing the mission successfully. For

this reason, many pigeons received medals for their service. One of the medals, the The Dicken

Medal, was created specifically for animals which perform heroic acts during wartime.