Task 1. Match the idioms with their definitions and write the letter near the idiom . There is one extra definition.
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PART 1. READING
TASK 1. Read this story about a credible UFO sighting - and then put the pieces of the story into the correct order.
A. Other people who prefer to believe in a scientific explanation have suggested that electrical forces in the atmosphere caused this and other incidents.
B. Suddenly, a strange light seemed to be on top of the car, sucking it up off the road before dropping it down again.
C. Meanwhile, a local lorry driver following the same route as Mrs. Knowles confirmed that he has also seen the strange light in the distance.
D. In a state of shock, they drove to the nearest town and reported the incident to the police.
E. Thinking that the woman must have been so tired that she was dreaming, the police gave her a cup of tea hoping to calm her down.
F. Finally, the police agreed to inspect the car and when they did, they saw the dust, smelt the smell and also noticed some small dents in the roof of the car.
G. Feeling terrified and out of control, the family noticed a black powder seeping inside their car and smelt a horrible stench.
H. This story was quickly taken up by some people as proof of the presence of aliens on earth.
I. When she saw a light flashing on the road ahead, she slowed down thinking that it was a traffic signal
J. Mrs. Knowles and her three sons were driving from Perth to Adelaide in the early hours one morning in 1988.
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TASK 2. Read the text and look at the questions that follow it. In this reading comprehension, the questions are multiple choice.
Three-year-old Teddy Lasry was napping yesterday in his cowboy outfit yesterday at his family's Fifth Ave. apartment when he shot up in bed screaming. A 3-foot-long black-and-white snake was coiled around his left arm and had just bitten his pinky.
"The baby-sitter freaked out," said Teddy's father, David Lasry, who, along with his wife, Evelyn, was at work when the reptile showed up about 4 p.m.
The horrified nanny called 911 and the building's doorman. The doorman and two cable TV workers helped pry the snake off the boy's arm and stow it in a garbage bag, Lasry said.
Police rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where his parents said he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous.
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It wasn't. Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where cops took the critter, determined it was a non-venomous California king snake.
But how did it end up in Teddy's bed?
A little sleuthing determined that the serpent had escaped two weeks ago from its cage in the apartment of a doctor whose family lives four floors below the Lasrys. The apologetic owner said his son's pet snake likely traveled up the radiator pipes and into his neighbor's apartment.
"It's a very docile, very harmless snake," he said. "It's handled by our family all the time."
Lasry, 42, a fine arts publisher, said he believed the pet was simply hungry after two weeks of cruising. Teddy's mother, Evelyn Lasry, 37, said her son seems to have gotten over his fright by thinking of himself as a hero cowboy as he rode in the back of the police cruiser to the hospital.
"I told Teddy he's a pretty snake, a nice pet snake who got out of his cage," Evelyn Lasry said. "But he asked, 'Why did he bite my finger, Mamma?' And I said, 'Because he saw that you are a big boy, Teddy, in your cowboy outfit and he got scared.'"
What did the babysitter do?
A. She ran out of the apartment.
B. She took the snake off Teddy's arm.
C. She called for help.
D. She called the television company.
What do we learn about the snake?
A. It was poisonous.
B. It had escaped from a zoo.
C. It was about a meter long.
D. It had escaped earlier in the afternoon.
Which of these statements is true?
A. Teddy was awake when the snake arrived.
B. Teddy's father was working and his mother was at home.
C. Teddy needed a heart machine to stay alive for two hours.
D. The snake is used to being touched.
What does Teddy think now of the snake attack?
A. He was attacked because the snake was scared of him.
B. He was attacked because he was asleep.
C. He was attacked because the snake was hungry.
D. He was attacked because his parents weren't at home.
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Task 1. Match the idioms with their definitions and write the letter near the idiom . There is one extra definition.
| 1. You can't teach an old dog new tricks . | a) Don't presume anything until it is certain |
| 2. Crocodile tears | b) Someone in a bad mood. |
| 3. Bear with a sore paw | c) False tears to give impression of sadness. |
| 4. Have a whale of a time | d) Someone who is too accustomed to old habits won't want to change. |
| 5. To rat on somebody | e) Husband who is nagged at by his wife. |
| 6. Couch potato | f) Extremely tired. |
| 7. Don't count your chickens before they hatch | g) Have an exciting, interesting time. Enjoy oneself enormously. |
| 8. Hen pecked | h) One big problem in an otherwise faultless plan. |
| 9. Dog tired | i) Be angry, resentful about a certain issue. |
| 10. A fly in the ointment | j) Tell a person in authority about the bad behaviour of another person. |
| - | k) A lazy person |
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