MY SEMESTER TEST

 

 

Exercise 1

Fill in the gaps with modal verbs in the positive or negative form and full or bare infinitive

1.      You … (to study) English at least for 5 years (you speak English so fluently).

2.      … they … (to drink) since yesterday?

3.      I … (to be busy) tomorrow and … (not, to show) you the city.

4.      You … (not, to remind) me of my duties – I do remember everything!

5.      Take my word for it; you … (not, to be upset) because of this scoundrel.

6.      You … (to warn) me about the coming examination (but you didn’t it).

7.      I … (to tell) him all the truth but at the very moment I lost my head and said nothing.

 

Exercise 2

Choose the correct variant

1.      I (have to, must, can) get up before dawn tomorrow: my train leaves at 7.

2.      It was also the place where his dreams (can, could, have to) find him, and some of them were very bad.

3.      We (must, to be to, should) meet at 11 o'clock yesterday.

4.      Don’t delay him, he (could, will, must) be off.

5.      I suspected later that I (might, ought to, can) have actually saved lives by killing some of them.

 

Exercise 3

Translate from English into Russian (pay special attention to modal verbs)

1.      And didn't he have to admit, begrudgingly, that in some extra-perverse corner of his brain the idea of having to get out of town before sundown appealed to him?

2.      As more old buildings are demolished I must constantly shift about the city, trying to find places where I resided in life, places where a shred of my soul remains to anchor me.

3.      One of the great San Francisco contingent of cartoonists — Trevor couldn't remember which one — had been passing through town, and Bobby was showing him the sights of 1970 Austin, whatever they may have been.

4.      And what was a ghost but a leftover shred of ego, unable to believe it had been jilted by its own corruptible flesh?

5.      It should have been hard to extend that invitation, being the new kid with no real friends, not knowing whether Steve might just laugh at him and walk away.

Exercise 4

Translate from Russian into English

1.      Вас, должно быть, хорошо воспитали.

2.      Мне предстояло серьезно поговорить с ним, но я так и не решился.

3.      Мы работаем не покладая рук, чтобы вы ни в чем не нуждались.

4.      С какой стати Вы так со мной разговариваете?

5.      Вам придется объяснить мне причину такого возмутительного поведения!

6.      Нам не следовало одалживать ему такую большую сумму денег.

7.      Напрасно ты купил мясо: мы сейчас постимся.

 

Exercise 5

Rewrite the following sentences using synonymous expressions to modal verbs

1.      You shouldn’t leave him without care.

2.      You are a doctor and you ought to have an eye for it!

3.      You don’t look yourself! You must have gone without a food for a few days!

4.      As you will have noticed, he has cut off his beard.

5.      Shall I phone for a taxi for you?

 

Exercise 6

Describe the pictures bellow in 4—5 sentences using modal verbs of probability