Last week, we had a party at ______1________ house. Many people came, and there were lots of cars parked outside. At the end of the party, only three people were left: myself, Eric, and Cathy. However, there were four cars. One of them was a Volkswagen. I didn't remember seeing it before, so I asked whose it was.Eric said it wasn't ______2______ car. ______3_______ is a Chevrolet pickup. When I asked Cathy if it was _____4______, she said no - ____5___ car is a Ford Explorer. I knew it wasn't _______6______ car, of course. Finally, I called the police, and they came and examined it. They said it belonged to a family on the next street. Someone stole it from ______7______ street and left it on ______8______.

Last week, we had a party at ______1________ house. Many people came, and there were lots of cars parked outside. At the end of the party, only three people were left: myself, Eric, and Cathy. However, there were four cars. One of them was a Volkswagen. I didn't remember seeing it before, so I asked whose it was.Eric said it wasn't ______2______ car. ______3_______ is a Chevrolet pickup. When I asked Cathy if it was _____4______, she said no - ____5___ car is a Ford Explorer. I knew it wasn't _______6______ car, of course. Finally, I called the police, and they came and examined it. They said it belonged to a family on the next street. Someone stole it from ______7______ street and left it on ______8______.

There are many strange superstitions in the world. The most common one is related to

black cats, (1) ______are the source of hundreds of unlucky superstitions. It’s a sign of bad luck (2) ______they walk in front of you or you step on their tails. They even bring bad luck into a house if they sneeze inside! This superstition dates (3) ______to the Middle Ages when they became associated with witches and evil spirits.

Another common superstition is about walking under a ladder. A more (4) ______ explanation can be traced back to ancient Egypt. The early Egyptians believed that the shape of the Pyramids had a special power. It was considered very bad luck to break the “power” of this shape and that’s exactly what walking under a ladder would do!

In addition, in Roman times, people (5 ) ______ the habit of looking at themselves in pools of water. Some believed that these reflections were in fact “glimpses of the soul”. Any disruption to the water in the pool would bring bad luck to the person looking in it. This superstition lives on with the fear of bad luck from breaking a mirror.

1. A. which `B. who C. when D. where

2. A. although B. because C. if D. unless

3. A. on B. in C. back D. for

4. A. mystery B. mysterious C. mysteriously D. mysteries

5. A. had B. took C. raised D. became

III.  Turn the following questions into the passive.

1.       Is Tim cleaning the house? ............................................................................................................................

2.       Who built the Pyramids?............................................................................................................................

3.       Who smashed the kitchen window? ............................................................................................................................

4.       When did the wind blow down the tree? ............................................................................................................................

5.       Who has to sign these papers? ............................................................................................................................

6.       Who is going to welcome the guests? ............................................................................................................................

16. Science can penetrate many of nature’s ______________. (mystery)

      17. My watch had ______________ disappeared. (mystery)

      18. I’m doing ______________ , biology and chemistry. (physics)

      19. Faraday was known to be an outstanding ______________. (physics)

      20. She listens to classical music for ______________. (relax)

      21. It was so ______________ to be among old friends. (relax)

      22. There’ll be time to ______________ when you’ve finished your work. (relax)

III. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them

      It seems that the mystery of why the Pyramids were built may have solved. Until quite recently people got used to think that they were just tombs for pharaohs. Instead, the connection with astronomy seems much more important. Egyptologists have often asked them how long it spent to build them and why people built them in first place. Experts came up with a suggestion that the Egyptians may have believed in the River Nile was the earthly equivalent of the Milky Way. Many agree that the sizes of the three Giza Pyramids are in promotion to the three stars of Orion. Nothing, then, was by the chance. Rather, the souls of dead pharaohs were deliberately being project through shafts to reach at their goal of the Orion constellation.

Identify 10 errors and correct them.

I have a briefcase full of papers which describes cases Sherloch Holmes has investigated.Some are failures since there were some final explanations for the mysteries in question.A problem without a solution may interest the specialist,but will offer little to the general reader.Among these unfinished stories is that of the yatch Alicia,Which one morning sailed into the mist and disappeared forever,the vessel along the crew were never seen again.Then there was the case of the well-known journalist Luigi Persano,Who found completely mad with a jar in front of him.A jar cotained a remarkable worm,unknown by science up to that point.Apart from these mysterious cases to which various influence people would rather not see on print and those which might affect the reputation of Homes himself,for whom I have more respectness than for any man alive.