I’LL GO ON HOLIDAY ... ( AS SOON AS / HOW / UNTIL / AS ) I CAN.C....

20. I’ll go on holiday ... ( as soon as / how / until / as ) I can.C. READING: I. Put the sentences in logical order to build a dialogue:A. Oh, I see. And I have a question for you. Do you know when the color television was invented?B. It was invented by Peter Carl Goldmark.C. He was American.D. Your color television looks very nice. Is it new?E. What’s his nationality?F. I know this question. In 1950, wasn’t it?G. Yes. My father has just bought it.H. I’m sorry. I don’t know.I. You’re right. And who invented it? II. Complete the passage below by filling in each blank with the correct form of the word in the brackets:The families in our streets are slowly being driven mad by the (1)(refuse) ... of theinhabitants of No. 13 to have any form of communication with them. The trouble started over what is known as noise(2)(pollute) ... Every evening, the (3)(think) ... neighbors usedto turn up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the (4)(neighbor) ...was able tohear anything else. Not knowing what (5)(act) ... to take, local residents held a meetingto see if anyone had any (6)(suggest) ... as to how to deal with the problem. Adecision was (7)(make) ... to send a number of people to talk to the family in No. 13and ask them (8)(polite) ... to turn their music down after six in the evening.Unfortunately, the visit did not turn out to be (9)(success) ..., as the inhabitants of No. 13refused to talk to them. So on the (10)(advise) ... of local police, the matter is now in the handsof the court III. Read the passage and answer with true ( T ) / false ( F ) / not given ( N ): There are about 3000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are the most important ones. Two-thirdsof the world’s population speaks those languages. More than 400 million people speak English as their mothertongue. Another 400 million speak it as a second language. No one knows how many people speak it as a foreignlanguage. Chinese is the language with more speakers than English, but it is only the language for more than onebillion Chinese people. English is the official language on one-fifth of the land area in the world. It is spoken in NorthAmerica, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In South Africa and India it is one of the official languages. Inmany countries, the textbooks in universities are written in English. More than three-fourths of the world’s mail iscomposed in English. More than three-fifths of the radio stations broadcast programs in English. More than half ofthe scientific and research journals are in English. English is the language of international communication.