Пьеса. Часть 1

Complete the sentence: I took the … down to the Village so I could walk all the way up Fifth Avenue to the Zoo

• river
• house
• subway
• forest

Choose the correct Russian equivalent of the following: take out

• приближаться
• охранять
• избегать
• удалять, вырывать

Jerry is in his

• early forties
• late twenties
• late forties
• late thirties

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: преследовать с целью нападения

• move in on
• keep off
• take away
• come for

Complete the sentence: I have learned that … kindness … cruelty by themselves, independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves

• neither; nor
• nor; neither
• nor; nor
• neither; neither

Find an odd word: ugly, mean, stupid, handsome

• ugly
• stupid
• mean
• handsome

Complete the sentence: Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance ….

• corrective
• correctly
• correct
• correctable

Choose the correct Russian equivalent of the following: dismiss

• кивать
• прервать
• вздыхать, стонать
• определять

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following word: barleycorn

• the person who controls all things
• a cruel person
• grain
• very bad; harmful

Complete the sentence: The action takes place

• a Sunday afternoon in winter
• late in the evening in winter
• on a Sunday afternoon in summer
• late in the evening in summer

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following phrase: check bleeding

• be on the look-out for any signs of external bleeding
• to move slowly along close to the ground
• to shoot a gun
• to chase wild animals (or people) in order to catch or kill them

Find the synonym for the following word: turn

• to shoot a gun
• trip
• a mark on the ground made by a foot or shoe
• to move slowly along close to the ground

Complete the sentence: … dress and manner would suggest a man younger

• Peter’s
• the waiter’s
• Jerry’s
• the servant’s

The synonym of resume is

• explain
• continue
• start
• finish

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following word: Freud

• American writer
• an effeminate Negro
• a founder of psychoanalysis
• French poet

Choose the correct Russian equivalent of the following: offend

• обижать
• доставлять удовольствие
• вздыхать, стонать
• преуспеть

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following phrase: Readers’ Digest

• a person who works in a library
• a library
• a popular English magazine
• a person who works in someone else’s house

Complete the sentence: «THE ZOO STORY» is written by …

• an American writer
• an Irish writer
• an Australian writer
• an English writer

Complete the sentence: I tried to explain it … as I went along

• you
• for you
• to you
• with you

Find an odd word: misanthropic, ugly, mean, lightsome

• mean
• ugly
• lightsome
• misanthropic

Complete the sentence: He is … fat … gaunt

• nor; nor
• nor; neither
• neither; nor
• neither; neither

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following phrase: That particular vaudeville act is playing the closed circuit now

• something (a problem or a crime) is being investigated by the police or detectives now
• a large area or part of a country, e.g. Britain is divided into many counties
• that couple of music-hall actors does not travel any more
• a living animal or person

Complete the sentence: If a policeman … his quota he … you in as a nut

• did fill; would take
• did fill; take
• fill; would take
• felt; will take

Choose the correct Russian equivalent of the following: determine

• определять
• вздыхать, стонать
• нюхать
• рвать

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: продолжать что-то делать

• come after
• go on
• move in on
• go for

Complete the sentence: … wears tweeds, smokes a pipe and has horn-rimmed glasses

• Jerry
• Peter
• the waiter
• the servant

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following word: that’s the way the cookie crumbles

• that’s lavatory
• that’s the way things turn out
• that’s the way to make cookies
• person used as test-case in medical or sociological experiments and research

Complete the sentence: you don’t quite know … to make of me, eh?

• that
• —
• what
• this

Complete the sentence: I … talk about these things

• had rather
• wouldn’t rather
• not hadn’t rather
• would rather not

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: грабитель

• a come-after man
• a go-for man
• a take-away man
• a hold-up man

Choose the correct Russian equivalent of the following: succeed

• преуспеть
• вздыхать, стонать
• рвать
• нюхать

Choose the correct Russian equivalent of the following: gratify

• вздыхать, стонать
• преуспеть
• доставлять удовольствие
• обижать

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following word: buddy

• brother, pal
• a mark on the ground made by a foot or shoe
• to shoot a gun
• to stop being angry with someone about something

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following word: beaverboard

• a large area or part of a country
• a mark on the ground made by a foot or shoe
• an insect with large white or coloured wings
• type of chipwood board used for making partitions

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following phrase: bow-wow

• ink
• a small building made of stone or wood, with one room
• a kind of dog used for chasing, catching and sometimes killing wild animals
• dog

Choose the correct Russian equivalent of the following: hold-up

• убирать
• избегать
• приближаться
• грабить

Choose the correct Russian equivalent of the following: sniff

• рвать
• доставлять удовольствие
• обижать
• нюхать

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: набрасываться на кого-либо

• take away
• go for
• keep off
• go on

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: листва

• weariness
• rave
• foliage
• yell

Complete the sentence: … is neither handsome nor homely

• Jerry
• the waiter
• Peter
• the servant

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following word: Baudelaire

• Austrian neurologist
• French poet
• an effeminate Negro
• American writer

Find the right definition that corresponds to the following phrase: he wasn’t half-assed

• he was very large or strong
• he was far from being stupid
• he was a frightening, terrible; causing horror man
• he was nice

Complete the sentence: It’s one of those things a person ….

• has to do
• has do
• have to do
• have do

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: плакать

• confuse
• weep
• annoy
• yell

Complete the sentence: If you … move on, I .. .get a policeman here and make you go

• will not; will
• won’t; shall
• will not; shall
• don’t; shall

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: грабить

• come after
• move in on
• hold-up
• keep off

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: парализовать

• transfix
• yell
• annoy
• confuse

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: пронзительно кричать

• annoy
• yell
• gain
• confuse

The antonym of resume is

• continue
• finish
• go on
• start

Choose the correct English equivalent of the following: швырять

• annoy
• yell
• weep
• toss