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Choose the appropriate proverb.

Last Tuesday it was my friend’s birthday. She had invited me to her birthday party but I couldn’t go to her place as I had to take my exam. I came home very late. Next day I met my friend at the Institute and congratulated her. She was glad and said: ...“

Complete the conversation with a proverb.

Steve: It’s risky to take an exam without reading the whole book.

Jeremy: But it’s my last chance. ... ;

Choose the best answer.

Mother: What a ... boy you are! If you were good, my hair wouldn’t turn grey so early.

Son: Then why is granny’s head so grey?You never did what you were told to, did you? ..., doesn’t it?

Read the following situation and choose the appropriate proverb.

Nick often walked bareheaded in cold weather. He didn’t put on his hat when it rained and snowed. He ignored his mother’s warnings. Now he has got a bad headache. He has taken a lot of medicine but still feels bad. He would give worlds to be healthy again.

Read the following situation and choose the appropriate proverb.

Mr. Stark was rather rich. He had a lot of friends and relatives. He often arranged parties and his guests enjoyed themselves playing golf and gambling. He never spared his money and was always ready to help his friends in need. But, once, playing cards he lost all his fortune. Now, he was alone and needed money but nobody helped him. He should have remembered the proverb 

Complete the sentence.

You have a very good reputation and you must try to live ....

Choose the best proverb.

Bob is a clever boy. He reads a lot and knows much. He is a good sportsman too.His hobby is tennis. Bob is active in everything. He never idles and does his best to get as much knowledge as he can while he is young. He follows the proverb: “...”

Choose the best proverb to complete the sentence.

Louis Armstrong was forced start to work at the age of eleven in order to help his mother.

Choose the appropriate proverb.

Don’t be so impatient! Work hard and you will learn the language well. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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Bill is so depressed now. His only son has recently been arrested. All his friends already know about is as ...

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If you want to enter a Higher Educational Establishment you should work very hard and acquire profound knowledge. It is rather difficult but you shouldn’t forget the proverb:

Choose the appropriate proverb to complete the passage.

Last year I worked very hard at my math and English. I spent all my time reading books and preparing for my entrance exams. My motto was: ...

Choose the appropriate proverb to complete the passage.

I’ve got a friend. She’s a nice girl but she’s a chatter-box. I ask her to give up this habit but she can’t help it. Still I like her very much as she is very kind. I follow the proverb: “...”

Choose the proverb which best gives the meaning of the given one.

A person who doesn’t keep to some stable occupation and permanent place of residence.

Choose the best suitable proverb to the situation below.

The oldman is no longer able to work in his garden; still he doesn’t sell it to his neighbours, who offer him large sums of money; and the fruit-trees, once so beautiful, have run wild.

Complete the sentence.

He never panics in a crisis. He’s as ...

Complete the sentence.

He answered her question ....

Choose the suitable moral to the text.

Once a wolf saw a goat on a top of a hill and said, “Come down here, miss Goat! The grass here is greener and longer”.“Thank you”, answered the goat, “the grass down there may be much better. But, if I come down, you will get a good meal. So, I prefer to stay here where you can’t reach. At least I am quite safe”.

Choose the suitable moral to the text.

A fisherman had been fishing for a long time but without luck. At last he tugged at his net and saw a small fish caught in it. “Please let me go”, begged the fish, “I will grow bigger in a few days and then you can catch me again”.The fisherman said, “Now that I have caught you, I won’t let you go. If I leave you, I may never see you again”.

Choose the appropriate proverb to the passage.

Anton Rubinstein was asked by a friend of his: “Why do you play the piano every day? But you are already an exceptional pianist and you don’t have to do it every day”. “If I don’t practise it one day, I’ll notice it myself, if I don’t practise it two days, my pupils will notice it. If I don’t practise it three days, the audience will notice it”.

Choose the appropriate proverb.

We have got two neighbours. One of them is a clever and polite man. He is an educated, cultural man. The other is rather selfish and stupid. He thinks he can buy everything as he is rich enough. He is a narrow-minded person. We don’t like him. We think “...”

Choose the appropriate proverb.

I often do my homework in the evening. Sometimes I’m sleepy and don’t understand what I read. Then my mother tells me to go to bed and do the rest of my homework in the morning. She says: ...

Complete the conversation with a proverb.

A.: What kind of person is our director.

B.: Can’t make out. Neither kind nor strict. ...

Complete the conversation with a proverb.

A.: You say this green dress doesn’t me and I look dull in it. What about blue one?

B.: Oh, it’s quite different. You might always wear it, you look lively in it. ...

A.: You see, and my mother hates it.

Which of the given proverbs will be a suitable answer to the question?

Your friend has been suffering from a bad toothache for a long time as he is afraid to go to the dentist. How would you urge him to overcome his fear?

Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.

Which of the given proverbs will be a suitable answer to the question? What would you say to a grumbling groupmate who is finding fault with everything around?

Which of the given proverbs will be a suitable answer to the question?

What will the travellers say when they come safe to the end of their journey, having gone through many dangerous adventures?

Complete the sentence.

-Mark insisted ... me again.

Choose the proverb best suiting the contents of the text.

At a history lesson the teacher asked his class when Rome had been built. Nobody new when. One smart boy raised hand and when asked he gave his variant of the answer. The boy didn’t know history, at all, but he was the only pupil in his class to know the proverb ....

Can you guess his answer?

Choose the best answer to complete the text.

Aristotle, the great philosopher, summed up the four chief qualities of money about 2000 years ago. It must be lasting and easy to recognize, to divide and to carry about. In other words, it must be durable, distinct, divisible and portable, when we think of money today we picture it either as round flat pieces of metal which we call coins, or as printed paper notes. But there are still parts of the world today where coins and notes aren’t used. They will buy nothing, and a traveller might starve, that is die of hunger, if he had none of the special local money to exchange for food. Nowadays we think of money as ....