Task 2: Choose the best answers to complete the passage.

William Shakespeare was the (31) _____ writer in the English language. He was born in 1564 in Stratford- upon- Avon. At the age of eighteen he married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years (32) _____ than himself. A few years later he moved to London, where  he worked as an actor and a playwright. Shakespeare wrote thirty seven plays and 154 sonnets (a kind of poem). His most famous  plays are the four great tragedies - Othelo, Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear. Shakespeare died in Stratford on  23 April 1616, but his plays are still very popular today. They have been translated into different languages, and many of them have been (33) _____ into films, both in English and other languages. Shakespeare's plays are about the great issues of life - love, hatred, jealousy, power, ambition, (34) _____ and so on. So, his plays are just (35)___________ today as they were in the sixteenth century.

31. A. great

B. greater 

C. greatest            

D. old (NB)

32. A. old                

B. older

C. later        

D. elder (NB)

33. A. did

B. done

C. made       

D. had (TH)

34. A. death

B. died

C. die          

D. dead (VD)

35. A. different

B.  relevant

C. same      

D. modern (TH)

Task 1. Underline the mistakes in the following sentences. (1pt)