Content of the Unified State Exam: Use of English

Parts:

1. Word formation (grammar)
2. Word formation (grammar and vocabulary)
3. Gapped text (grammar and vocabulary)

Total points: 18

Time: 40 mins

Exam advice

Use of English Part 3

• Read the text quickly to get the gist.
• Read again and choose the best answer for each gap.
• Pay attention to the words before and after each gap.
• Remember that the task tests both lexis and grammar.
• Read the completed text to make sure it makes sense.

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct option

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру1, 2, 3или4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

You probably remember the last time you were ill: a sore throat, a bad cough, (30)[ ] to eat as much as normal, and maybe you could not even go to school. Your symptoms, however, probably ended after a few days, leaving you feeling completely fine. You can thank your immune system for your recovery, since it fired up quickly and got rid (31)[ ] the elements in your body that caused you to become ill. With chronic diseases, on the other hand, people are ill for a much longer time–sometimes even their whole lives.

Luckily, there are ways to put (32)[ ] the immune campfire and reduce chronic inflammation. Although there are pills that may help, exercise is a much cheaper and more fun way of keeping the immune system in (33)[ ]. (34)[ ], people who exercise have better-balanced, and thus less over-active, immune systems compared with people who never exercise. In addition, studies in which participants complete an exercise program have found that these participants have better-balanced immune systems after the program.

But how does exercise do this? It is still uncertain, since there is still a lot we do not know about the human body, but part of the healthy effect of exercise may come from substances that are produced by the body each time you exercise. When you exercise, your body does not only kick a ball or run around the track–your liver, kidneys, muscles, and brain also produce a lot of these healthy (35)[ ]. There is one important thing to know about these substances: they might (36)[ ] the over-activity of the immune system, somewhat like fire-fighters that put out the glowing campfires in people with chronic inflammation.

30. 1. incompetence      2) disability      3) inefficiency      4) inability

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31. 1. out      2) of      3) in      4) up

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32. 1. out      2) into      3) off      4) over

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33. 1. check      2) order      3) condition      4) store

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34. 1. However      2) Although      3) Indeed      4) Despite

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35. 1. materials      2) items      3) objects      4) substances

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36. 1. increase      2) reduce      3) stop      4) include

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The maximum score is 7 points for 7 correct answers.

For each correct answer, 7 point is given.

The score for the task:[ ] out of 7.

30. The correct answer is 4 as the meaning is "lack of ability".

31. The correct answer is 2 as as other words don't collocate with "of".

32. The correct answer is 1 as it has the meaning "extinguish something that is burning".

33. The correct answer is 1 as only this word makes sense in this context.

34. The correct answer is 3 as only this linking device makes sense in this context and has the meaning "to emphasize a statement or response confirming something already suggested".

35. The correct answer is 4 as only this word makes sense in this context.

36. The correct answer is 2 as only this verb makes sense in this context.