I.Choose the correct words.
1.A serious and emotional play, written for the theatre, television or radio.
A) novel; B) drama; C) mystery.
2.A story about a crime or a strange event that is difficult to explain.
A) legend; B) biography; C) mystery.
3.A story about the event, that takes place in future or in space.
A) mystery; B) suspense story; C) science fiction story.
4.A story which makes you feel worried, because you don’t know what is going to happen next.
A) mystery; B) suspense story; C) science fiction story.
5.A story of a person’s life written by another person.
A) comedy; B) myth; C) biography.
II. Fill in the proper words:
Cosy, solve, famous, hide, intelligent, imagination, explore, glance
1.Miss Marple can … the hardest of mysteries.
2.Hercule Poirot is a … detective.
3.Jules Verne had a great … .
4.At first … she was an ordinary lady, but she wasn’t.
5.Ann is the most … student in our class.
6.We spent a … evening chatting together in the living room.
7.What’s that noise? Let’s … behind some bushes.
8.They decided to … the area around the camp.
III. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple.
1. Miss Marple ________ (catch) many criminals.
2. What ______the professor and Alex _______(find)?
3. My family ________(not, leave) the countryside in 2000
4. Dr. Frankenstein _ ______(meet) Captain Walton on the ice.
5.Sherlock Holmes_________________(be) a famous detective.
6.Agatha Christie____________(create) the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.
7. ___________Hercule Poirot ______(live) in Belgium?
IV. Choose the correct item:
1.The children played in the garden until / then it got dark.
2. Lyn got a job after / until she finished school.
3. First she made dinner, then / when she watched TV.
4. The mouse ran away until / as soon as it saw the cat.
V. Continue the sentence.
When I was six I used to……….. but I didn`t use to……………………. /
VI. Choose the correct response.