1

UNIVERSITA2 CA3 FOSCARI DI VENE4IA

An#$% A" &!'an%

DATA: )* #!+#n% ,--.

III( ann%

DIP. DI STUDI AN5LO-AMERICANI E IBEROAMERICANI SE4IONE DI STUDI AN5LO-AMERICANI

-----------------------------------------------------------------NOME E CO5NOME.

.................................................. 66........................................
NUOVO ORD.

S/&+'/+&a$ E0 &'!1 1

NUM. MATRICOLA

VECCHIO ORD.

EXERCISE ONE. USE THE MOST APPROPRIATE TENSE AND/OR MODAL OR NON-FINITE FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS. (YOU MAY USE ALL KINDS OF MODALS: MUST, HAVE TO, MAY, MIGHT, FOR EXAMPLE.) INSERT THE ADVERBS IN THE MOST NATURAL PLACES. 1. Jan : I (never know) such hot weather. The temperature (not drop) below 30 degrees since we (arrive) here in Jesolo. I it (not be) so hot! we (go) to "enice one da# and (see) the sights! but in this weather all one can do is (lie) on the beach and (eat) ice$creams. It . (get) rather boring.

%. J!": &hen we booked the holida# I warned #ou that it (o ten get) ver# hot in Ital# in June. I #ou remember! I suggested (go) to 'cotland! but #ou said #ou (want! eat) real Italian ice$cream. (nd that)s what we (do) now! so #ou (not complain).

3. Jan : *es! it)s true. +ut I had hoped to do some sight$seeing as well. 'o ar we (see) nothing but this damned beach. 'till! I suppose that i we

2 (go) to 'cotland as #ou suggested! we (do) nothing but complain about the rain.

,. J!": -ot necessaril#. ( riend o mine went last month and he said that he (have) beauti ul weather the whole time. In act! he said that he (de initel# go) again ne.t #ear. /a#be we (0oin) him.

1. Jan : *es! all right! but at the moment we)re here in Jesolo and we (en0o#) ourselves as best we can. &hat do #ou sa# 2 (we go) to "enice tomorrow! no matter how hot it (be)3 I it (get) too hot! we (alwa#s go) or a swim in a canal.

EXERCISE T7O. RE7RITE THE SENTENCES USIN5 THE NE7 BE5INNIN5S. YOUR NE7 SENTENCES MUST BE AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE IN MEANIN5 TO THE OR5INAL SENTENCES. 1. Jack regretted having gone up that hill to etch that darned pail o water. Jack wished %. I)d like to bu# a -okia cell phone! but I don)t have enough mone#. I 3. This is the most boring evening I have ever spent. I can)t remember ,. I would advise #ou to think twice be ore handing in #our resignation. I suggest

1. 4e said he wouldn)t help me to come up with the mone#. 4e re used 5. I wonder wh# she turned down that e.cellent o er. &h# 6. 7n ortunatel#! #ou can)t eat in this classroom. 8ating 9. :ould #ou please open the window! it)s rather stu # in here. &ould #ou mind ;. /ar# moved to 'an <rancisco three #ears ago. /ar# has been living 10. =4ow do I get to the main train station3= the man asked me. The man asked me 11. The >uestion was ver# di icult. 8ven the teacher didn)t know the answer. The >uestion was di icult even the teacher didn)t know the answer. 1%. *ou had better start stud#ing straightawa#. It)s high time 13. =&h# did #ou answer #our ather that wa#3= his mother asked Jimm#. 4is mother asked Jimm# 1,. It)s #our ault? #ou weren)t pa#ing attention. *ou should 11. /ar# is certainl# not m# riend. /ar# is certainl# no riend