SPOTLIGHT 7 I. Fill in the word.
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1. What can we do to the problem of unemployment?
2. Where did you the money? I can’t find it.
3. Let’s use a to find our way home.
4. Let’s the city before it gets dark.
5. I love my flat. It’s nice and .
6. Stop your eyes.
7. I was by her beauty.
II. Translate the words (phrases) from English into Russian.
1. a magnifying glass
2. incredible adventures
3. a faithful companion
4. to strike a match
5. a powerful gust of wind
6. to solve the mysterious case
7. a great imagination
8. a nephew
9. an American ambassador
10. to overcome great obstacles

III. Choose the correct item.

1. Larry got a job after / until he finishes school.
2. First he had dinner, then/ when he listened to the radio.
3. When/After I was younger, I used to write stories.
4. Suddenly/As soon as the rain stops, let’s go for a walk.
5. We played in the park until/then it got dark.

IV. Write negative and interrogative sentences.

1. Sherlock Holmes smoked a pipe.
(-)
(?)
2. Hercule Poirot caught a lot of criminals.
(-)
(?)

V. What did/didn’t Emma use to do when she was seven? Write sentences.

1. play hide-and-seek (√)
2. watch cartoons (√)
3. read comics (x)
4. drive a car (x)

VI. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple.

1. Agatha Christie … (write) over thirty novels.
2. After they heard the noise, the men … (hide) behind some trees.
3. … (you /feel) that gust of wind?
4. Hercule Poirot … (be) a Belgian detective.
5. He … (stop) talking when I entered the room.
6. I … (lose) my wallet on the bus.
7. … Brian (win) the competition? – No, he … .
8. The professor and Axel … (find) a mysterious message.

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