1) Read the text. Mark the following statements true ( T ) or false ( F ).

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always
hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.
They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the
stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then
start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there
for quite a while. That is why there is the rhyme, «Peas porridge hot, peas
porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old».

1. The text tells us about Englishmen’s cooking traditions of the past.
2. From the text we know how to cook peas porridge.
3. In the old days people preferred to eat vegetables cooked slowly in liquid
in a closed dish in the fire.
4. It was quite usual for people to eat a stew cooked a day before.


2) For each item (1—4) choose the correct variant (A, B, C or D).

1. The searchers at last picked ... a signal from the crashed yacht.
A) out;
B) up;
C) in.
2. I shall just print this ... and put it in the post.
A) off;
B) into;
C) out.
3. Brian keyed ... his personal code.
A) in;
B) to;
C) on.
4. If someone hacks ... a computer system, they break into the system,
especially in order to get secret information.
A) into;
B) onto;
C) to.