Writing (10 points) Task 2. Present Simple vs. Past Simple. Complete the sentences.

1. She (go) to Australia in 1994 and she liked it very much.

2. My father usually (like) his steak well-done.

3. The dog (eat) its toy last night.

4. The policeman (talk) to the burglar yesterday.

5. (you /have) a test last week?

6. I often see her mother but she never (speak) to me.

7. The gentleman ___ (speak) to his servant 2 hours ago.

8. The kangaroo always (carry) its baby.

9. My friend (talk) a lot every day.

10. The man (drive) to the supermarket last weekend.

Reading (5 points)

Task 2. Read the text and answer the questions

Kazakhstan flora and fauna facts

Northern Kazakhstan is fertile chernozem forest-steppe; to the south - steppe, behind them semi-deserts and sandy deserts with saxaul thickets. On slopes of mountains are located the coniferous woods.

The plateau Usturt of Kazakhstan, located between Caspian and Aral seas, is a slightly hilly deserted plain, faintly covered by a wormwood; only in widely widespread hollows are black saxauls. Unique beauty of a landscape give steep benches - chinks. Western chink is especially picturesque, which height achieves 340 meters; the breakages, destroyed by a wind, accept him whimsical form.

Only in Kazakhstan live such rare animals as Transcaspian urial, long-needle hedgehog and some wild cats: caracal and desert cat. Here is a lot of slim goitred gazelles, deserted birds - black-tailed sand grouse, Pallas sand grouse, wheatear and larks.

The slopes of Northern Tien Shan are covered with fur-tree woods, and Western Tien Shan - with the low bushes and meadows; the gorges have apple- and nut-trees with woods, the tops are covered with eternal snows and glaciers.

1.Where is plateau Usturt is located?

2.What height does Western chink achieve?

3.Name rare animals which live in Kazakhstan?

4.What is Western Tien Shan covered with?

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