Use of English - семестрова контрольна робота

I am going to share a story about a really dangerous experience of __ .      [my, me, mine, I] Two years ago, I went to a beatiful place in the mountains of western Ukraine . The weather was _              [perfected, perfect, perfecting, perfectionst]__ and the possibility of rain seemed extremely remote. In short , I felt very _            [exciting, excited, excite, excitement]__ about my journey because there was not a single cloud in the sky. I took my backpack and started walking up the hill, forgetting about the time. As I reached the highest point of the mountain, I sat down. I felt very ___              [satisfied, satisfy, satisfaction, satisfying]_ . However , the minute I got up, it started to rain _           [violent, violence, violate, violently]__. It was difficult to see where I was going but I trusted my good judgment. It was a scary journey , but I survived it in the end.

Is there life on Mars?

Scientists have speculated about this questions ___       [about, in, for, on] centuries. The interest is probably because Mars is rather close _    [in, on, to, at]__ Earth. Our planets also have many similarities. By the 1800s, astronomers knew that the lenght of a day _        [in, with, around, on] Mars is similar to the lenght of a day Earth. Wells's 1897 book '' The War of the Worlds '' , which describes an invasion _        [by, for, around, to]___ Martians , also fuelled this speculation . Evidenceof water under the surface of Mars has been discovered as well. In March 2004 , NASA concluded that Mars was once a wet planet , capable of sustaining life. In 2005 , a group of scientists __         [without, on, by, from]_ the European Space Agency suggested the possibilityof life on Mars. At the conference where their findings were reported, 75 percent of delegates agreed that life once existed on Mars , and 25 percent believed that there is still life on Mars today.

Supermarkets vs Small Shops.

The British people really love       [your, his, them, their] supermarkets. And there more and more of __            [their, them, themselves, their]_every year. But is this a good hings? Not necessarily. For a start , many small shops _          [can't, couldn't, had, have]__compete on price with superstores like Tesco or Marks & Spencer. And don't have as many products either. As a result, many local businesses have closed. __         [Before, After, In fact, Because], between 1990 and 1996 , 36 % of the UK's small shops shut down. And between 1986 and 1997 the number of supermarkets increased from 457 to 1,102 . Supermarkets have a negative impact on local communities in other ways, too. Money spent in independent shops usually __            [had stayed, stayed, stay, stays]__in the area. However , money spent at supermarkets is often put into the bank accounts of owners, some of whom do not even pay any tax in the UK!

Differences Between the USA and Canada.

Though the USA and Canada are both countries      [on, from, at, in] Notrh America , they are very different in my ways. For example , the countries are of a similar size, yet Canada has more than one hundred miles of coastline, __         [while, in, besides, exept] the USA has adout one - tenth of that. Natural environments in __       [that, this, these, there] countries are different as well. For example, Canada varies between an arctic climate in the north to temperate areas in the south, while the USA is mostly temperate. The USA also has an artict climate in Alaska and a tropical environment in Hawaii. _         [Along, Aside, Apart, Against] with the geography, there are also differences in demography. The U.S. __            [popular, populate, people, population] is approximately nine times that of Canada.