test weather
.docx1st year, second term, interpreting department
Grammar test on the topic “Weather. Climate”
I. Insert the proper prepositions.
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It was almost time _ spring to come
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Don’t walk _ the sun, it’s harmful _ your health.
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We were caught _ the rain and got wet _ the skin.
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Going to the forest _ such rainy weather is _ _ question.
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I don’t like to be _ _doors _ such bad weather.
II. Insert the right articles.
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What sort of _ weather are we going to have?
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What does _ thermometer say?
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Look, _ sun is trying to penetrate through _ clouds.
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I think we are in for _ spell of wet weather.
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It’s very cold in _ North in _ winter.
III. Render in English.
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Погода стоит чудесная. Начинает таять снег.
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Я очень люблю загорать, хотя и знаю, что это вредно.
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Небо покрыто тёмными тучами. Слышны отдельные раскаты грома.
Надвигается гроза.
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Было 27 градусов мороза.
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Какая сегодня погода? – Хуже, чем вчера: гораздо холоднее и идёт дождь.
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Стоит невыносимая жара. Очень душно.
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Посмотрите, какая красивая радуга!
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Завтра на дорогах будет скользко.
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Какой прогноз погоды на следующую неделю?
10) Где же бабье лето? Дождь льёт как из ведра!
IV. Open the brackets.
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Are you glad that spring (to come)?
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We (to have) a severe winter this year.
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…..n’t the month (to be) awfully hot?
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You (to hear) the weather forecast? – Yes it (to be) rainy and stormy next week.
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Why are you so wet? What you (to do)?
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Look, the weather is marvellous!
The sun (to shine) brightly and the birds (to sing).
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Before we (to go) outside, we (to need) to know the temperature.
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What sort of summer we (to have) last year?
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You (to be) to Volga embankment these last days?
10) When it (to rain) hard, I (to take) an umbrella with me.
V. Insert modal verbs and their equivalents.
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My uncle _ have left for a sanatorium.
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Before my parents returned, I _ to pick flowers.
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My friend _ to take un umbrella with him because it was raining heavily.
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Winter _ be frosty in your region.
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The boy’s mother _ have bought a pair of skates last winter, but she didn’t.
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It _ rain tomorrow or not.
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People _ wear warm clothes in winter.
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Many people _ stand hot weather in summer.
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It is so pleasant to swim! You _ go out of town and bathe and swim in the river on hot summer days.
10) If you dislike the heat, you _ like the cold.
VI. Transform the sentences into reported speech.
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What fine weather we’re having today.
I say, Ann. Let us go for a walk!
2) When I was at my aunt’s we often went to the forest. However, winter is my
favourite season.
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These children have gathered a lot of mushrooms in the forest.
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My sister bought this silk umbrella last week.
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My friends will spend the summer in the country.
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What nice berries you had gathered by the time I met you.
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I believe everybody likes summer for one thing – the days are so sunny, warm and bright and for another – most people have their vacation in summer.
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- Will it rain?
- Have a look at the cloudless sky, and you will at once know it can’t rain.
9) Summer is coming. I am ever so glad of it.
10) I can’t stand the heat. The air is not fresh and there is a lot of dust at that.