Республиканская олимпиада по английскому языку
II этап (районный, городской),
GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY TEST
FORM 10
I. Choose the best option (А, В, С or D) to fill in each gap.
Under the City Streets
While skyscraper offices and elegant apartment blocks remain the face of most major cities, these cities also have a mass of secret tunnels and hidden pipes below ground which keep everything working. This other world exists, forgotten or neglected by all but a tiny (1)___ of engineers and historians.
For example, there are more than 150 kilometres of rivers under the streets of London.
Most have been covered over and, sadly, all that (2) is their names. Perhaps the greatest (3)______ to the city is the River Fleet, a (4)______great river which previously had beautiful houses on its (5)____. It now goes underground in the north of the city and (6)______ into the River Thames by Blackfriar’s Bridge.
The London Underground has 1,000 kilometres of underground railway track winding under the capital and more than 100 stations below street level. Along some underground railway lines, commuters can sometimes catch a (7) ______ glimpse of the platforms of more than 40 closed stations which have been left under the city. (8) ______ some are used as Film sets, most (9) forgotten. Some have had their entrances on the street turned into restaurants and shops, but most entrances have been (10)_____ down.
1 | A number | В amount | С total | D few |
2 | A stays | В stops | С remains | D keeps |
3 | A miss | В absence | С waste | D loss |
4 | A once | В past | С then | D prior |
5 | A borders | В coasts | С banks | D rims |
6 | A gets | В flows | С leaks | D lets |
7 | A rapid | В brief | С fast | D sharp |
8 | A Despite | В Unless | С Although | D Since |
9 | A lie | В last | С live | D lay |
10 | A pulled | В broken | С brought | D cut |