Тестове завдання до підготовки до ЗНО ( до тексту "Big Red London Buses")

                       Тестове завдання для підготовки до ЗНО

                                                                                   Учитель англійської мови

                                                                                    Іонова Елла Іванівна

                                                                                    НВК №11, м.Бахмут

Read the text below. For questions (1-12) choose the correct answer (A,B,C,D)

                         Big Red London Buses 

What is the best-known symbol of London? Big Ben? The statue of Eros in Picadilly Circus? Or could it be 1)…    much more ordinary than that? Could it be the big red London double-decker bus?
    It certainly could. Big red buses 2)…               - and even found - all over the world, and people recognise them as symbols of London. Visitors climb into London buses to go and see the Niagara Falls. London buses can be seen driving 3)…       Europe to advertise big department stores, or British events . They don't need to have the words "London Transport" on the side of them: they are instantly recognised by millions of people!    
     It was almost 100 years ago, on October 25th 1911, the London General Omnibus Company 4)…     their last horse-drawn omnibus through the streets of the capital. Since then the big red motor bus 5)…      London's "king of the road".
    Today, every day, thousands of Londoners use the big red buses to move - often slowly - around town; and lots of tourists know that a one-day London bus pass, valid on all regular bus routes, offers a wonderful way to see  6)….   capital city.    
    The idea of the "double decker" is 7)…     much older than the motor bus; it is simply a 8)…..      of the system that was used for public transport 9)…     the age of horse-drawn vehicles, when some of the passengers sat inside, and the rest travelled on the roof. Too bad if it10)…       !
    The earliest horse-drawn double-deckers in London had steps at the back, so that people could climb up onto the roof. The main difference with today's buses was that in those days, there was no protection for the people travelling on top: if it rained, they could pull a sort of oil-cloth cover out of the back of the 11)…      in front of them, and pull it over them; but they still got wet.
    Today the only open-topped buses are the special tourist buses.     It wasn't until the 1930's that all new buses came 12)…         with roofs over the upper deck! Increasingly powerful engines meant that buses could be bigger and heavier; like trams, they could then have roofs.

1-C 2-A 3-В 4-В 5-D 6-C 7-A 8-A 9-D 10-B 11-D 12-A