2. Из четырех вариантов (а), (в), (с), (d) выберите единственно правильный:

A. WILLIAM THACKERAY

1 his parents sent William Thackeray was born in 1811 in Calcutta.

him to England where he 2 his early training at the famous Charter

House School. Then he went to Cambridge, but _ _3 to take his degree.

He 4 an artist.

5 As he had some

travelling.

When he 6

literature as

he went to the Continent and spent some time

to England he was compelled to turn his attention to

He wrote many humorous tales and sketches and some

other works of satirical character. He was also a clever writer of magazine

articles.

Soon 8 , Vanity Fair, began to appear in a monthly magazine. Then

came another novel, and in 1851 he became a public lecturer. For his lectures

he chose The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century. These lectures were

very popular in London. 9 Thackeray 10 these lectures in

Scotland and America.

Thackeray wrote some other novels and became very popular and famous

11 . This distinguished novelist died suddenly 12 1863.

1.

2.

(A) At seven

(B) At the age of seven

(A) receives

(B) received

(C) When he had seven years

(D) When he was seven years

(C) had received

(D) was receiving '

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

(A) did not wait to take

(B) expected no taking

(A) made up one's mind

to become

(B) made up his mind to

become

(A) destiny

(B) fate

(A) returned

(B) was returned

(A) means of support

(B) a mean of support

(A) the first he's novel

(B) his first novel

(A) After

(B) After then

(A) listened to

(B) explained

(A) at the world

(B) through world

(A) at the end of

(B) in the end of

(C) did not wait taking

(D) hadn't expected to take

(C) made up his mind becoming

(D) made up mind to become

(C) fortune

(D) rich

(C) had returned

(D) was returning

(C) a means of a support

(D) a means of support

(C) his the first novel

(D) the first of his novel

(C) After that time

(D) Afterwards

(C) delivered

(D) put down

(C) throughout the world

(D) in world

(C) on the end of

(D) end of

B. THE FOX AND THE GOAT

One hot summer day a fox was very thirsty. He was 1 some water

to drink. At last he ran up to an old well. The water was out of his reach. When

he was trying to get the water he 2 into the well. The water was not

deep, and he began to drink at once. When he had drunk enough, he tried to

get 3 . But the sides of the well were high, and he 4 not

5 the top.

After the fox .6 there for a long time he heard a noise. That was a

goat who came to the well. The goat saw the fox and asked, "What 7

down there?" "Oh, I 8_

here." The goat was 10_

the water. It's fresh. Come down

_ to listen to the fox, and jumped down. After

the goat had got into the well, the fox climbed up the goat's back and got out of

the well. Then he turned round and went away.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

(A) looking after

(B) looking for

(A) fell

(B) had fallen

(A) from

(B) out of

(A) might

(B) could

(A) get

(B) approach to

(A) was being

(B) has been

(A) you are doing

(B) do you do

(A) drink

(B) drank

(A) so

(B)enough

(A) silly enough

(B) enough silly

(C) looking at

(D) looking into

(C) failed

(D) was falling

(C)off

(D) out

(C) should

(D) ought

(C) reach

(D) come up

(C)is

(D) had been

(C) did you do

(D) are you doing

(C) am drinking

(D) am drunk

(C) such

(D) much

(C) silly very much

(D) so silly