Question

Progress Test. 1) readingRead the legend and answer the question why the river was called the Bic. Long, long ago these places used to be inhabited by giants. Once a giant girl walked about the forest and she saw a man with six bulls ploughing the soil with a wooden plough in a clearing. She took the peasant with the bulls and plough and went home to her mother. "Look, mother. I have found some insects scratching the earth. What could they be ?" "My dear, go and put them back where you have taken them from. Let them go in peace and don't kill them. When you come back I'll tell you." The girl took them back and then went home to her mother. "Now, mother, tell me what kind of insects were those?" "That was a man, who was ploughing the soil with six bulls. In the distant future, men like this one will replace us, and they will be the masters of the earth because we'll die, all of us, and these people will live and own this land." On hearing those words she grieved. "What! Such weak creatures to come instead of us, and we'll vanish? Mother, I'll go and kill him ańd his bulls. "Don't go. You won't find him." The girl did go. She looked for the man but she couldn't find him. He had finished his work and was far away going home through a forest in a valley. The girl was so grieved that a tear fell down, and where it fell currents of water started. The water was whirling down the valley and one of the man's bulls was drowned. In that place where the giant girl's tear fell, a spring appeared and a river began there. It was named the Bic, for that was how the bull was named. Since then, the river has been flowing through for- ests and valleys and has the same name up to now.2) Read the text again and write if it is True or False. Bring your arguments. a) The places used to be inhaþited by dwarfs.b) A man with eight wolves was ploughing the soil. c) The mother told her daughter to kill them.d) The girl went home to her mother.e) The girl found the man. f) The girl was so happy that she was laughing loudly. g) The water was whirling down the valley and one of the man's bulls was drowned.3) Make the correct choice. a) The places used to be inhaþited by :1. insects2. animals3. giants4. dwarfsb) The girl saw:1. a boy 2. a woman3. a man4. a girlc) The mother asked the girl:1. to kill the man2. to feed the bulls3. to let them plough the ground 4. to let them go in peaced) The girl was so grieved that:1. she began to cry2. she took the bulls home3. she couldn't go home4. made the bulls get drownede) The river was named:1. the Nistru 2. the Prut 3. the Reut 4. the Bîc4) Find synonyms in the text of the following words:to live-..... to go-..... the land-..... to start-...... to return-...... 5) Find antonims in the text of the following words:to live-..... to finish-...... to put-....... to be happy-....... 6) GRAMMARRe-read the text and write out the sentences with the Complex Object and Inversion. ​​

Answer 1

Ответ:

2. a) True;

b) False;

c) False;

d) True;

e) False;

f) False;

g) True;

3. a) giants;

b) a man;

c) to let them go in peace;

d) she began to cry

e) the Bîc

4. to live-to exist

to go-to walk

the land-the ground

to start-to begin

to return-to come back

5. to live-to die

to finish-to start

to put-to take away

to be happy-to be sad

6. ___

Answer 2

1. The river was called the Bic because a tear from the giant girl fell and created a spring, which formed the river. The tear fell after she was told that humans would replace the giants as the masters of the land.

2. a) False. The places used to be inhabited by giants, not dwarfs. b) False. The man was ploughing the soil with six bulls, not eight wolves. c) False. The mother told her daughter not to kill the man and the bulls. d) True. After taking the man and bulls back to their original location, the girl went home to her mother. e) False. The girl couldn't find the man; he had already finished his work and gone home. f) False. The girl was grieved, so she was not happy and not laughing. g) True. The girl's tear fell and created a river, and one of the man's bulls was drowned in the water.

3. a) 3. giants b) 3. a man c) 4. to let them go in peace d) 1. she began to cry e) 4. the Bic

4. Synonyms:

   • to live: inhabit, reside
   • to go: walk, travel
   • the land: the earth, the territory
   • to start: to begin, to initiate
   • to return: to go back, to come back

5. Antonyms:

   • to live: to die
   • to finish: to start
   • to put: to take
   • to be happy: to be grieved, to be sad

6. Sentences with Complex Object and Inversion:

   • Once a giant girl walked about the forest and she saw a man with six bulls ploughing the soil.
   • She took the peasant with the bulls and plough and went home to her mother.
   • "Look, mother. I have found some insects scratching the earth. What could they be?" the girl asked.
   • "That was a man, who was ploughing the soil with six bulls," the mother replied.
   • "Now, mother, tell me what kind of insects were those?" the girl asked again.
   • The girl did go and looked for the man, but she couldn't find him.