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5. Mother’s Friendship Day became Mother’s Day in ………. Question 2. Read the passage and answer the questions. (2.5 pts)There are at least 2,000 different languages in the world. Of all these languages English is the most widely used. It is used by business people, airline pilots and sea captains all over the world. It is also the first languageof sport and science. So it is very important to learn English.Chinese is also an important language because it has the greatest number of speakers. There are not only over one billion people living in China today, but also many Chinese people living outside China. Chinese is widelyspoken in many parts of Asia and Africa. Russian is spoken in both Europe and Asia. French is widely understood in Europe and in parts of Canada, Africa and Asia.From more than 2,000 languages the United Nation has chosen six of them for business. They are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. How many languages are there in the world?………. Why is English the most widely used?………Which language has the greatest number of speakers? Where is French spoken?How many languages are chosen to be used by the UN?Question 3. Fill in the blanks with the right verb forms. (2.5 pts) On 4 October 1957 the first satellite, Sputnik, (1) ……….. (launch). Since then, thousands of spacecrafts (2) …………. (send) into space. Every few weeks new satellites (3) ………… (put) into orbit. Unfortunately, space (4) ………….. (pollute) by debris from these space flights. More than 70,000 objects have been left in space. Parts of rockets (5) ……… (leave). Old satellites (6) ………….. (abandon). Other items, includinga glove or a camera, (7) …………. (lose) by astronauts. The situation up there is becoming dangerous. An astronaut (8) ……… (kill) if he or she (9) ……….. (hit) by a piece of rubbish. It would cost billions of dollars to collect all the debris, but if nothing (10) ……….. (do) the situation will only get worse.Question 4. Write a paragraph about the problem of pollution, using the following suggestions. (2.5 pts)pollution / become / biggest problems / facing world / today. main cause of pollution / waste / no longer needed. waste / many things / such as / used newspaper / dirty water / smoke. some waste / dangerous / it contains poisons. problem of pollution / worrying people and governments / today.Start the passage like this:Pollution has become .………………..Test VIQuestion 1. Listen and fill in the missing words. You will hear the passage twice. (2,5 pts)Well, I like living in Glasgow, mainly (1)_________ I live right in the centre. If I want to go to the (2) ___________ , I can leave my house about fifteen minutes (3) ___________the show starts, and walk there . I can do the same with a cinema. On Sundays, I can go to the park with my friends or visit a (4) ________ or artgallery. Or I can go to the countryside with my (5)_________ and brother.Question 2. Read the dialogue and answer the questions. (2.5 pts)Nam: But I heard that life in the countryside was very boring. Do you have much to do in your free time in the village? Lan: Well, in fact, life was very boring in the village ten or twenty years ago. But it’s getting much better now. There have been a lot of changes.Nam: Oh, that’s interesting. Tell me about the changes.Lan: Twenty years ago, there didn’t use to be electricity in the village, so people used to go to bed very early, as soon as the sun set. But now they can watch TV or listen to the radio in the evening. Nam: That’s good for them.Lan: Also, a Cultural House has been built. So young people can go there to meet each other. They can sing and dance there, too.Nam: Oh, I see. Life in the countryside nowadays is really different from what it used to be.