1 Read the text. Answer the questions.
1 How many airline pilots in Britain are men?
2 Was the author a
nurse before she
became a pilot?
3 How many hours
do you fly when
you are training to
fly passenger
planes?
4 Why is it difficult to fly over Europe?
5 What is it important
for pilots to do when
there is a problem?
6 Who flies the
plane, the captain
or the first officer?
7 Why do passenger planes have two pilots?
8 Read the text again.
Choose the correct
answers: a, b or c.
1 The writer of the article is a
a man. b woman. c child.
2 Passengers
visit the pilots
on a flight
nowadays.
a never b sometimes c often
3 Training to be a pilot is
a less than a year. b one year.
c more than one year.
4 Qualified pilots are checked
a regularly. b occasionally. c every six years.
5 The airspace over Europe is
a exciting. b quiet. c busy.
6 The captain sits the first officer.
a in front of b on the left of c behind
1. The workers .are .. on the oil rig now.
2. Last month they .were .. at the refinery.
3. In a week they ..will be . on the tanker.
4. My father .is.. a roustabout.
5. He .was.. a driller twelve years ago.
6. I .will be.. an engineer when I graduate from the university.
7. My sister ..will. not .be.. at work tomorrow.
8. She ..will be. on a holiday tomorrow.
9. ..Will. you ..be. at the oil rig tomorrow?
10. ..Was. your father at work yesterday?
11. My sister .was.. on the sick leave last week.
12. She ..is. not on the sick leave now.
13. Yesterday we .were. at the refinery.
14. Where .is.. your colleague now? — He ..is. on a business trip.
15. Where ..were. you yesterday? — I .was. on a business trip.
16. When I come home tomorrow, all my family ..will be. at home.
17. .Is your brother on the road tanker now? — Yes, he ..is..
18. ..Will. you ..be. at the oil rig tomorrow?
19. When my grandpa .was.. young, he ...was a seismologist.
20. My friend .is.. a driver now.
21. He .will be.. a roustabout on this oil rig next month.
22. Where .are.. your documents now? — They .are.. in my case.
Объяснение:
1)Let's go to the theater tonight, okay? -Sorry, I'm very busy. I am doing my homework. I’ve been writing an essay for an hour and a half, and have done only half. “When you finish, will you call me?”
2) I’m going to the dining room! -If you wait for me for 10 minutes, I’ll go too, because I also really want to eat, but I’ve been translating S.Moem’s story for an hour. Never translated anything like it. I think I’ll finish in 5 minutes.
3) My friend is keen on football. But lately their team has been unlucky. Yesterday he took part in a football match. Their team lost because the day before their captain felt ill.
4) In his country, it rarely snows. The last time it snowed was 10 years ago. So weird that he never skied. I will invite him to come to Russia to celebrate the New Year. However, I do not know when we will have snow.
5) Yesterday I headed to the restaurant after I had spent two hours in the library. As soon as I sat at the table, my friends Tom and Donald came to me. You haven’t met them yet. One is a popular designer and the other is a Japanese teacher..