ЕГЭ 100 вариантов Test 3 Грамматика

Do you like tomatoes? Although people generally think of and use the tomato as a vegetable, in fact it __________ one. It's a fruit. (NOT BE)

• is not

• is

• was

• will be

People in Central America __________ tomatoes for many thousands of years. (EAT)

• HAVE BEEN EATING

• EAT

• ATE

• HAD BEEN EATING

However, it was not until the Spanish __________ in Mexico in the early 1500s that tomatoes came to Europe. (ARRIVE)

• ARRIVAL

• HAD ARRIVED

• ARRIVED

• ARRIVING

Before that, no one in Europe __________ a tomato! (EVER SEE)

• EVER SEE

• HAD EVER SEEN

• HAS EVER SEEN

• WILL EVER SEE

When tomatoes __________ appeared in Italy and Britain, many people were scared. (ONE)

• ONE

• FIRST

• FIRSTLY

• AT FIRST

Tomatoes __________ by many people to be poisonous. (THINK)

• were thought

• are thinking

• is thought

• is thinking

Before the __________ of the hot air balloon, no human had ever successfully flown above the ground. (INVENT)

Two __________ brothers, Josef and Etienne Montgolfier, were responsible for designing the world's first hot air balloon. (FRANCE)

The first successful __________ was in 1783, and the Montgolfier brothers immediately became __________ throughout the world. (FLY/FAME)

The design of hot air balloons is based on the __________ law that hot air rises. (SCIENCE)