a) You want to invite someone you have just met to go to the theatre with you.
1) May I go to the theatre?
2) Would you like to come to the theatre?
3) Do you think you should go to the theatre?
b) You are recommending a new restaurant to a friend.
1) You really must try the new Italian restaurant in Green Street.
2) You had better try the new Italian restaurant in Green Street.
3) You would try the new Italian restaurant in Green Street.
c) Your boss suggests that you work overtime on Saturday, but you don't want to.
1) You must be joking!
2) It's nice of you to ask, but I refuse.
3) Sorry, but I have something already arranged.
d) You want to ask the waiter to bring you another drink.
1) I'd like another beer, please.
2) Excuse me, but do you think I could take another beer?
3) You can bring me a beer if you like.
e) You want someone to move out of your way.
1) Look out!
2) Excuse me!
3) Pardon!
f) You greet a friend you haven't seen for a few weeks.
1) Hello Pauline, how do you do?
2) Hello Pauline, what's going on?
3) Hello Pauline, how are you?
g) You are sitting on a bus and want the person in front of you to shut the window.
1) Could you shut the window, please?
2) May I shut the window, please?
3) Do you want to shut the window, please?
h) You want to know how to get to the station, and you ask a stranger.
1) Tell me, where is the station?
2) Do you mind telling me where the station is?
3) Could you tell me the way to the station, please?
i) You want some advice from a friend.
1) What do you think I should do?
2) Tell me what I must do.
3) What could you do if you were me?
j) You ask your boss for permission to leave work early.
1) Do you mind leaving early?
2) Is it all right if I go now?
3) I'm off now, bye!
Выберите правильный вариант A, B, C или D.
The Lost Property Office
Recently I read a magazine article about the things (1).....people lose when they travel on the London Underground. I (2).....believe it at first. (3).....you are a violinist, and when you (4).....off at your station, you leave your violin (5)..... the train. It seems strange that nobody says, '(6).....me, but I think you have forgotten something.' I suppose the violinist (7).....have been thinking of something else, and there might (8).....have been any other (9).....on the train. Still, why didn't the violinist go (10).....the lost property office? All the lost property on the underground system (11).....to be sent to this office, so if you lose anything you (12).....easily get it back. In this case, the violinist must have (13).....very absent minded. Perhaps he or she didn't (14).....to play the violin ever again after this journey. Or perhaps they were just too embarrassed (15)..... go to the office.
| 1) A) who 2) A) wasn't 3) A) If 4) A) get 5) A) at 6) A) Help 7) A) who 8) A) not 9) A) pedestrians 10) A) in 11) A) should 12) A) can 13) A) been 14) A) know 15) A) and | B) whose B) haven't B) suppose B) go B) for B) It's B) might b) then b) customers B) at B) must b) can't B) or B) like B) to | C) that C) shouldn't C) Why C) fall C) on C) Excuse C) should C) often C) audience C) to C) needs C) don't C) had C) have C) must | D) a D) couldn't D) Sometimes D) are D) by D) Correct D) to D) so D) passengers D) for D) has D) are D) because D) used D) so |
UNIT 23. ИСЧИСЛЯЕМЫЕ И НЕИСЧИСЛЯЕМЫЕ СУЩЕСТВИТЕЛЬНЫЕ.СЛОЖНОСТИ ИХ УПОТРЕБЛЕНИЯ ВО МНОЖЕСТВЕННОМ ЧИСЛЕ
УПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ
Понятие
Countable: Singular (ед.ч.) Plural (мн.ч.)
(исчисляемое) a shoe (some) shoes
Uncountable: Singular No Plural
(неисчисляемое) advice, some advice
Смена значения
Некоторые слова имеют разные значения в исчисляемой и неисчисляемой формах.
Исчисляемые: an iron (утюг)
a wood (небольшой лесной участок)
a paper (газета)
Неисчисляемые: some iron (железо)
some wood (древесина)
some paper (бумага)
Существует похожее различие между:
Материал: coffee Товар: a coffee (= a cup of coffee)
Типы неисчисляемых
Некоторые неисчисляемые существительные могут употребляться в качестве исчисляемых для описания 'вида' в техническом смысле.
Неисчисляемое: fruit Технически вид: a fruit
Еда и порции
Неисчисляемые: chicken (мясо курицы) some chicken (порция курицы)
Исчисляемые: a chicken (одна курица)
5. Другие примеры со сменой значения:
| business (дело) gossip (сплетня) hair (волосы) help (помощь) toast (тост – жареный хлеб) work (работа) | a business (компания) a gossip (сплетник) a hair (волосок) a help (помощник) a toast (тост в застолье) a work (произведение искусства/техники) |
