Household chores. Food.

Listen to the text and circle the correct answer.

1. What is the main idea of the story?   [A, B, C, D]

   a) Women like to work about the house.

   b) There may be a mechanical housemaid within 10 years.

   c) Machines cannot cook.

   d) An English professor wants a machine to do the housework for him.

2. The machine will not...   [A, B, C, D]

   a) teach other machines.

   b) cost $2,000.

   c) make the beds.

   d) prepare vegetables.

3. What is true about the mechanical housemaid?   [A, B, C, D]

   a) It would have one leg.

   b) It would have mechanical arms.

   c) It would not be able to lay the table.

   d) It would be able to cook.

4. The professor doesn’t want to teach the machine to cook because...   [A, B, C, D]

   a) housewives do it better.

   b) housewives like cooking.

   c) the machine then will cost too much.

   d) the food won’t taste good.

Choose the correct word.

1. I didn’t buy           [anything, something, nothing] in this shop.

2. Don’t worry !            [Anything, Nothing, Everything] is fine.

3. There isn’t          [nobody, somebody, anybody] in the office now.

4. I’d like to go           [anywhere, somewhere, nowhere] during the holidays.

Complete the sentences.

1. To make tea we need a        and a        .

2. We usually     sausages in a frying pan.

3. When my dad wants to wash clothes, he             the washing machine.

4. She uses a                to warm up her dinner.