Modals
Verbals
Active or Passive?
Insert the word
100
Paste the correct modal verb of deduction:
The groundwater _____ be replenishing quickly in this drought-stricken region; the wells are running dry.
can't
100
Make the sentence with the participle clause:
When the water freezes, it expands by about one tenth its volume.
(When) freezing water expands by about one tenth its volume.
100
To obtain water from an unconfined aquifer, a water table well must (to drill) below the water table and into the unconfined aquifer.
be drilled
100
Canada is the country with the longest ... which is 56,453 miles long. 
coastline
200
Paste the correct form of infinitive :
Given the soil saturation, the area must _______ (to experience) surface runoff right now.
be experiencing
200
Make the correct form of the verb in brackets:
This simple general pattern is modified by a number of other factors (include) (unexplain) or random variations in the global atmospheric circulation.
including; unexplained
200
Glaciers and ice sheets both (to affect) and (to affect) by changes in Earth's climate.
affect; are affected
200
The Bay of Fundy on the Atlantic cost of North America witnesses the difference of 53 feet and 6 inches ..., highest anywhere in the world.
tides
300
Translate the following sentence into Russian:
The aquifer can't have been depleted before the recent rainfall, as the measurements showed stable levels prior to the storm.
Водоносный горизонт не мог быть истощен до недавних осадков, поскольку измерения показали стабильный уровень до шторма.
300
Name the verbals in italics
The resulting land degradation contributes to the severity of long-term drought by reducing the amount of rainfall absorbed and slowly released by vegetation and soils.
Participle 1; gerund; participle 2; participle 2
300
This year some indications (to find) of the southward flow to about lat. 23 N, but no clear evidence for a boundary current flow (to be) available between there and the equator.
have been found; has been/is
300
Every day a couple of hundred earthquakes occur ... the Earth. Fortunately, most of them in the ..., especially in the regions such as the unstable seabed near Indonesia, where continents, which are floating on magma, rub against ... other.
on; oceans; each
400
Choose the correct translation of the sentence: "Принимая во внимание исторические данные, наводнение, вероятно, не было вызвано обычными осадками; должно быть, внесло вклад и другое явление."
1. Considering the historical data, the flood can't have been caused by a normal rainfall event; something else must contribute.
2. Considering the historical data, the flood couldn't have been caused by a normal rainfall event; something else must have contributed.
3. Considering the historical data, the flood couldn't have caused a normal rainfall event; something else must have contributed.
4. Considering the historical data, the flood could have been caused by a normal rainfall event; something else must have contributed.
2
400
Choose the correct options to translate the following sentence into English: "Повышая кислотность поверхностных вод, кислотные дожди могут убивать рыбу и другие пресноводные организмы"
1. By increasing the acidity of surface waters acid rain can kill fish and other fresh water life.
2. Increased acidity of surface waters can kill fish and other fresh water life.
3. Increasing the acidity of surface waters acid rain can kill fish and other fresh water life.
4. Having increased the acidity of surface waters acid rain can kill fish and other fresh water life.
5. To increase the acidity of surface waters acid rain can kill fish and other fresh water life.
1; 3
400
Make the correct consequence of inserted verbs:
An intensive study across long periods (...) that deep ocean temperatures (...) at levels scientists (...) significant, though not as rapidly as climate change (...) land temperatures.
1. deem
2. shows
3. has affected
4. are rising
2-4-1-3
400
Do you know the name of the longest mountain range on the Earth? Let me give you some hints, the Andes mountain range is 7,000 miles long, the Himalayas are 2,500 miles and the Rockies are 3,000 miles long, but the ... which winds round the globe is more than 45,000 miles long.
Mid-Ocean Ridge
500
Make the following sentence to reflect the past (a regret):
Aquifer analysis should be based on as many methods available, that are applicable to the test data
Aquifer analysis SHOULD HAVE BEEN BASED on as many methods available, that are applicable to the test data
500
Make the correct form of participles if the translation is "так как образовался"
Ice was sighted floating at sea (to form) either upon the salt water itself or upon the land.
having been formed
500
Make the sentenсe passive:
In 2021, new research indicated that soon the ocean might not absorb carbon dioxide or on the contrary emit it.
In 2021, in the new research it was indicated that soon carbon dioxide might not be absorbed by the ocean or on the contrary be emitted by it.
500
Benjamin Franklin was the first to conduct the scientific study of the ... . In 1769-1770, together with his cousin Timothy Folger, who happened to be a whaler and the captain of a Nantucket merchant ship published its first map.
the Gulf Stream