Progress Test.
1) reading
Read 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. insects
2. animals
3. giants
4. dwarfs
b) The girl saw:
1. a boy
2. a woman
3. a man
4. a girl
c) The mother asked the girl:
1. to kill the man
2. to feed the bulls
3. to let them plough the ground 4. to let them go in peace
d) The girl was so grieved that:
1. she began to cry
2. she took the bulls home
3. she couldn't go home
4. made the bulls get drowned
e) The river was named:
1. the Nistru
2. the Prut
3. the Reut
4. the Bîc
4) 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) GRAMMAR
Re-read the text and write out the sentences with the Complex Object and Inversion.
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
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