GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
2. Choose the correct answer A, B or C.
1. Don’t be late. The film at 8 p.m.
A is startingB will startC starts
2. Mr. Adams speaks than anyone I know.
A slowerB more slowlyC the most slowly
3. This school in the 1960s.
A was builtB builtC had built
4. I use you phone, please?
A ShouldB MustC May
5. Do you like the salad? It’s made fresh vegetables from our garden.
A byB ofC with
6. George abroad before, so he was very excited about his trip to Spain.
A had never travelledB was never travelling C had never been travelling
7. The hotel was nearly buried in snow when a(n) hit the small skiing resort.
A tornadoB floodC avalanche
8. Harry’s much better at tennis than me; I can never him.
A winB beatC gain
9. My mum says she’ll never forget my dad for the first time.
A to meetB she metC meeting
10. Mark said that he a great time in London the previous summer.
A had hadB would haveC has had
1.
The Russian Federation - Russia is the official name of our country/homeland.
2. There are 21 republics in the Russian Federation (Adygea, Altai, Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Karelia, Komi, Mari El, Mordovia, Sakha (Yakutia), North Ossetia-Alania, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Tuva (Tyva), Khakassia, Chechnya, Chuvashia)
3. Boris Yeltsin was the first Russian President.
4. The constitution is the highest law of Russia.
5. Vladimir Putin is the Russian President at the moment.
The Prime Minister is Dmitry Medvedev.
6. Russia stopped being a monarchy and became a republic in 1917.
7. Moscow is the capital of Russia. It's the biggest city of Russia.
8. St.Petersburg, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Sochi, Kazan, Omsk, Tomsk.
9. Yes, it is. Russia is the largest country in the world.
10. The Altai mountains are situated in Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together. The Caucasus mountains are situated in the south-west of Russia, next to the Black Sea.
11. The Lena is in the north-eastern part of Siberia. The Ob is situated in Western Siberia. There are many rivers in Russia. Their names are the Yenisei, The Volga, the Kama, the Amur, etc.
12. The country is washed by the Pacific and Artic oceans and by the Baltic, the Black and the Azov seas.
13. Lake Baikal is the world's deepest, purest, most ancient and most capacious freshwater lake. Lake Baikal alone contains over one fifth of the world's volume of fresh water.
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