COLLEGE ENTRANCE RUSSIAN TEST

PART 9

Directions: Make the choice that best conforms to the sense of the passage.

SAMOLET

Ran'she ya ezdil vsyudu ili na mashine ili na poezde. Redko paroxodom. No odnazhdy ya letel na samolyote i s tex por polyubil etot vid transporta. Vot kak eto bylo.

Ya otdyxal na odnom iz yuzhnyx kurortov. Moj otpusk podxodil k kontsu. Nado bylo zakazyvat' bilet na poezd. Pogoda zhe stoyala velikolepnaya, i ya s neudovol'stviem podumal, chto pochti troe sutok pridetsya exat' v poezde. I vdrug moj priyatel' skazal:

- Zachem tebe tri dnya exat' v poezde? Ty mozhesh' eshchyo dva dnya spokojno otdyxat'! - Kakim obrazom? - sprosil ya. - Ochen' prosto! Mozhno letet' na samolyote. Cherez neskol'ko chasov ty budesh' doma!

Ya podumal i soglasilsya. V spravochnom byuro nam soobshchili, chto samolyoty v nuzhnom nam napravlenii vyletayut ezhednevno utrom i vecherom. My zakazali bilety na utrennij samolyot.

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80. On ran'she ezdil
  (a) paroxodom
  (b) samolyotom 
  (c) avtobusom 
  (d) na avtomobile
  (e) na karuseli
81. On provyol svoj otpusk 
  (a) v gorax
  (b) u morya 
  (c) na yuge 
  (d) v lagere
  (e) v svoyom rodnom gorode
82. Kogda on uexal pogoda byla 
  (a) dozhdlivaya
  (b) prekrasnaya 
  (c) stalo proxladno 
  (d) shyol sneg
  (e) skvernaya
83. Ego drug emu posovetoval 
  (a) ostat'sya na dache tseluyu nedelyu 
  (b) exat' poezdom 
  (c) uexat' cherez tri dnya 
  (d) letet' samolyotom domoj 
  (e) podozhdat' mesyats
84. Samolyoty letyat ot yuga na sever 
  (a) kazhdyj chas
  (b) kazhdye chetyre chasa 
  (c) tol'ko odin raz v den' 
  (d) po utram
  (e) dva raza v den'