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Part 2. Train Your Competence

PRACTICE TEST
(27 points)

Task 1. Use inverted word order in the following sentences. (20 points)


you be will
1. ... ... ... home for supper?

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be yours
2. ... ... a happy life!

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their circumstances not had altered
3. ... ... ... ... , they would be spending their holiday in Cyprus instead of renting a cottage in South Wales.

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was though snow-white her hair
4. ... ... ... ... , her face was plump, pink-complexioned and almost without a wrinkle.

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danger should come
5. ... ... ... , we shall be prepared to meet it.

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you me to mock were
6. ... ... ... ... I will hit you.

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my mother said
7. “I don’t suppose you have had much to eat all day,” ... ... .

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she had sat down hardly
8. ... ... ... ... when a very stout gentleman flopped into the chair opposite hers.

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he had not only omitted
9. Suddenly he gritted his teeth in angry exasperation. ... ... ... ... to leave his card; he had forgotten to tell them who he was.

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we had no sooner put down
10. ... ... ... ... our glasses than the waiter refilled them.

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he had hardly entered
11. ... ... ... ... the room when he switched on the TV set.

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his voice was so intense
12. ... ... ... ... (his voice, was, so, intense) that Emily was alarmed.

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I watch did many a time
13. ... ... ... ... him at work.

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we did discover only after buying the cottage
14. ... ... ... ... that it was infested with mice.

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was a long thin white scar
15. Across the back of his thick neck, just visible above his collar, ... ... .

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a plateau of the town rose
16. Above the river ... ... .

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the odour of stale eau-de-Cologne strong talcum powder and the sharp smell of antiseptics was
17. Everywhere mingled with the smell of the cooking ... ..., ... ... ... .

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a heavy snowball came down
18. ... ... ... .

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the girl went off
19. ... ... ... , her nose in the air.

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Task 2. Use inversion in the following sentences. (7 points)


the secretary will so
1. The boss will be at the office tomorrow, and ... ... ... .

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she was tired though
2. ... ... ... ... , Emma unpacked her suitcase and put her clothes neatly away in the closet.

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you to have a sense of decency were
3. ... ... ... ... , you wouldn’t dream of going.

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we do neither
4. “I don’t want to make a fuss.” – “... ... ... .”

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no sooner touched had his head
5. ... ... ... ... the pillow than he was as good as asleep.

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Peter comes here
6. ... ... ... .

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