Rewrite: Keeping the environment clean is very important.

II. Read the text. Then answer the questions (1.0 point)

In Scotland, the biggest celebration of the year is ‘Hogmanay’. Hogmanay is the Scottish word for New Year’s Eve. On 31st December in Edinburgh, there is an enormous firework display at the castle, and they play live music in the park. Thousands of people gather in the streets, cafes and bars. Then, at 12 o’clock, church bells ring all over the city.

After midnight, people go ‘first footing’. This is a Scottish custom that dates back hundreds of years. First footing is visiting your neighbours after midnight on New Year’s Eve. The visitors must step into the house with their right foot first, to bring good luck. Traditionally the visitors bring three gifts: a piece of coal, a piece of ‘shortbread’ (Scottish biscuit) and a little whisky. The gifts symbolize warmth, food and happiness. If the first person who visits your home after midnight is a man with dark hair, that is particularly lucky!

1. What does the word “Hogmanay” mean?
2. Where do they play live music on New Year’s Eve?
3. When do people go ‘first footing’?
4. What do the gifts symbolise?
5. What kind of first visitor is especially lucky?

E. WRITING

I. Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the given sentence (1 point)

41. Thomas had already left his home before we arrived. A. After we arrived, Thomas had already left his home.

B. By the time Thomas left his home, we had arrived.

C. After Thomas had already left his home, we arrived.

D. Thomas already left his home after we arrived.

42. She showed her ticket to the airline agent.

1. Her ticket showed to the airline agent.
2. Her ticket was shown to the airline agent.
3. Her ticket is shown to the airline agent.
4. Her ticket is showed to the airline agent.

43. The computer was expensive; however, we bought it.

1. Although the computer was expensive, but we bought it.
2. Despite the expensive computer, we bought it.

C. Despite the computer was expensive, we bought it.

D. However the computer was expensive, we bought it.

44. “My sister painted this picture last week,” Mary said to me.

1. Mary told me that her sister painted this picture last week.
2. Mary said to me that her sister had painted this picture the previous week.
3. Mary said to me that my sister painted this picture last week.
4. Mary told me that her sister had painted that picture the week before.

45. Take exercise regularly and you’ll be fit and healthy.

1. If you take exercise regularly, you will be fit and healthy.
2. If you are fit and healthy, you will take exercise regulary.
3. If you don’t take exercise regularly, you’ll be fit and healthy.
4. If you took exercise regulary, you would be fit and healthy.