Exercise 1.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 506.

TEST 2

Match the names of Russian Nobel Prizewinners to their descriptions.

a) Boris Pasternak

b) Ivan Bunin

c) Alexander Solzhenitsyn

d) Nikolay Semyonov

e) Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov.

1. A Russian writer wrote “The Gentleman from San Francisco”, which won him a Nobel Prize in 1933.

2. In 1964, two Russian physicists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Charles Touwns from the USA.

3. Many of his works are autobiographical, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

4. He made a great contribution to the study of chemical chain reactions, and in 1956 he became the first Russian to gain the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

5. A Russian poet and novelist is also known for his translations of Shakespeare's tragedies; in 1957 he wrote the novel “Doctor Zhivago”, which was followed by a Nobel Prize.

Exercise 2.Put the verb into the correct form.

1. Please be quiet. I ………………………..(work)

2. Look! Kim ………………………………..(cook).

3. You …………………………………….(make) a lot of noise.

4. What……………………………………..(Keith/try) to build?

5. I……………………………………….(not/cook) again tonight.

6. What ………………..(Keith/do) ?

7. He is still ill but he ……… (get) better.

8. What are you doing tomorrow evening? I………(go) to the cinema.

9. ‘Hello. Can I speak to Ann, please?' ‘She ……….(take) a shower at the moment'.

10. ‘Where are you, George?' ‘In the kitchen. I………………(cook) a meal.'

11. His English………………(get) better.

12. Helen…………………….(work) hard these days.