Multiple choice (Exam Success) 4

FAMOUS FOR AN HOUR. I know that most people dream of being famous. You get the idea of money, excitement and а ______ lifestyle.

• happy

• glamorous

• rich

• expensive

But I wouldn't recommend it because I was famous once, just for an hour, and it was terriЫe. You might wonder how this happened. То _____ you the truth, it was а bit embarrassing but it was а good lesson for me.

• explain

• speak

• tell

• say

I was flying to St Petersburg from Moscow, only а one-hour flight, but I was quite excited when the plane _____ off.

• ran

• got

• went

• took

I haven't been оn many plane _____ , but I noticed something odd about this one.

• journeys

• travels

• ways

• voyages

Everyone seemed to be looking _____ at me. Then а man came over and said, 'Аrе you Nyusha?'

• hardly

• deeply

• curiously

• interestingly

Then everyone else around shouted _______ excitedly, 'Yes, it's Nyusha!' Suddenly, before I could say а word, everyone was crowding round, asking for autographs and photos.

• out

• up

• over

• in

I was in shock -and the thing was, it had gonc too far for те to say, 'No, l'm not Nyusha. There's been а mistake. I just ______ like her.' The celebrity treatment continued for the rest of the hour and it was the most painful hour of my life. I was so glad to get off the plane and become normal again!

• seem

• look

• appear

• am

EARLY NEWSPAPERS. Newspapers are still going strong despite the lnternet. Before all this technology, newspapers were the main source of information for people. Did you know that Julius Caesar introduced the earliest known official written news as far ______ as 59 ВС1?

• ago

• back

• before

• away

The Acta Diurna (Daily News) was а handwritten sheet, posted daily in the Forum of Rome. lts contents would not have been out of _____ in а modern newspaper.

• order

• time

• line

• place

Accounts of battles, military appointments and political events were written about in _____ detail.

• large

• huge

• great

• big