Задание

Задание 1

Установите соответствие тем А—Н текстам 1 — 7. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании одна тема лишняя.

E.  HELPFUL MACHINE

F.  DIFFERENT TOYS

G.  UNUSUAL CAR

H.  NOBLE GIFT

Things boys play with are not like objects girls play with. Boys often have more freedom to run about and they get guns, train sets, toy trucks and toy cars. Electronic games are very popular among young boys. Toys for girls are much quieter and more passive. Young girls often get things like dolls, dresses, and pictures to colour.

“Teddies” are an important part of British culture. Most people in Britain have a teddy bear when they are young, and most people are very fond of their special bear, even when they are 30 or 40 years old! Many famous people like film stars or pop stars or politicians collect “teddies”. These people have donated their old friends to the teddy bear museum which is in Stratford-on-Avon in England. Many tourists go to this place, because it is the birthplace of Shakespeare, but they often love the teddy bear museum more.

Computer games are a multimillion dollar industry, but people who really enjoy games are not satisfied with playing against the computer. They want to play against real people and most computer games allow you to do that just by joining up with other players on the Internet. Regular players say that this is where their true enjoyment of games can be found. With some games up to 60 people can take part. It's a good way to meet people and it gives you something to talk about.

4. The big American company General Motors has developed a vehicle that uses the power of the sun instead of petrol. The vehicle is called Sunraycer which means "ray of the sun"+"racer". Sunraycer has just taken part in a race against 25 solar-powered vehicles. Sunraycer covered the great distance in 45 hours at a speed of 41 miles an hour at temperatures as high as 48°C. It is certainly the car of the future.

puters are a great technological invention of the 20th century. Their advantages are numerous yet much can be said against them. The main disadvantage of computers is that looking at a screen for long periods of time is bad for the eyes, and sitting on a chair for hours is not healthy. Also, people who use computers have a tendency to become anti-social and stay at home. The strongest argument against the use of computers is that the more jobs which are done by computers, the less are done by people.

Thirty years ago few people realized that computers were about to become part of our everyday lives. This short period of time has seen great changes in business, education and public administration. Jobs which took weeks to do in past, are now carried out in minutes. Schoolchildren have become as familiar with hardware and software as their parents were with pencils and exercise books and they don’t worry about mistakes having a computer.

Generous granddad Martin Rossiter, from Macclesfield, has built a treehouse for his grandchildren - costing £35,000! The top-of-the-range two-storey treehouse features a series of rope walkways between the sycamores, oaks and pine trees in Martin’s garden and took builders five days to make. He plans to add running water, electricity and bunk beds to make it perfect play-den. Martin has 12 grandchildren - aged from 2 to 12 - but the rest of his family believe he secretly made the house for himself!

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Задание 2.

This museum tells visitors about the history of

A.  architecture E. team

B.  theatre F. place

C.  sport G. ancient times

D.  army

1.  At this museum you'll discover the exciting story of the British soldier in peace and war. It'll show you how soldiers loved, worked and fought from Tudor times to the present day. Videos, models and unusual personal things bring the soldier's story vividly to life.

2.  This open-air museum with more than 20 buildings covers seven centuries. It is set in 6 hectares of landscaped countryside. Visitors can go inside all the buildings, ancient and modem, getting the idea of how they were designed and constructed.

3.  When the Manchester United Museum and Trophy Room opened in 1986 it was Britain's first purpose built football museum. It covers the history of the famous club since its beginning in 1878 right up to the present day in pictures. The Museum's video theatre shows some films about the famous club and the matches in which they fought.

4.  The Midland Motor Museum, the only of its kind in Europe, houses over 90 exciting racing cars. Newspapers carry news about achievements of the legends of motor sports. Photographs and prints tell visitors of teams and drivers who took part in Paris-Dakar, Formula I and other competitions.

5.  The Yorkshire Museum has a story to tell, a historical drama that went through the centuries. On show are some of the unusual exhibits from Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking periods. Visitors will see part of Yorkshire Roman city wall which runs through the Museum Garden.

6.  The Ironbridge Museum tells the story of a remarkable area where two hundred years ago the world's first iron bridge symbolised the birth of a new age. Today the area looks different. Riverside pubs, antique shops, reconstructed cottages make it very attractive for tourists.

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Задание 3.

Прочитайте утверждения 1 — 6 и следующие за ними тексты. Установите соответствие между утверждениями и содержанием текстов. Запишите в таблицу под номером, соответствующим номеру утверждения, цифру 1, если утверждение верное, цифру 0, если утверждение неверное, знак X, если вы затрудняетесь ответить.__________________________________

The county town of West Sussex and its only city, Chichester is an attractive market town, which began life as a Roman settlement, and the Roman street plan is still evident in its symmetrical layout. The city has built itself up as one of southern England’s cultural centres, hosting the Chichester Festival in early July with a fairly interesting programme of plays, though the studio theatre is a bit more adventurous. The track for racing horses at Goodwood Park, north of the city, hosts one of England’s most fashionable racing events at the same time. The Gothic cathedral is the main tourist attraction in the city, but two miles west of the town are the restored Roman ruins of Fishboume, one of the most visited, largest and best-preserved Roman palaces in the country. An audio-visual programme gives a fuller picture of the palace as it was in Roman times.

Covering about 144 square miles the New Forest is one of southern England’s main rural playgrounds. About eight million visitors come here every year to enjoy a breath of fresh air, often after spending hours in traffic jams. The name of the New Forest is misleading, for much of this region’s woodland was cleared long before the Normans came. Some wooded areas still remain and they are around Lyndhurst, “the capital” of the New Forest. To get the best of the region, you need to walk or ride through it, avoiding the places cars can reach. There are 150 miles of car-free gravel roads, making cycling a good idea. The region has ten campsites run by the Forestry Commission, all of them closed between October and Easter. In Lyndhurst you can pick up numerous walking books and natural history guides.

Задание 4

On first impression, Leicester is a modern city, but an attentive visitor will easily find traces of its Roman and medieval past. Since the late seventeenth century, Leicester has been a centre of the hosiery trade and it was this industry that attracted hundreds of Asian immigrants to settle here in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, about one third of Leicester’s population is Asian. They put on a massive and internationally famous Diwali, Festival of Light, in October or November, when 6 thousand lamps are hung along the Belgrave Road and about 20, 000 people come to watch the switch-on. The city’s Afro-Caribbean community celebrates its culture in a whirl of colour and music on the first weekend in August. It is the country’s second biggest street festival after the Notting Hill Carnival in London.

The county town of Dorset, Dorchester still functions as the main agricultural centre for the region, and if you come here on a Wednesday when the market takes place you’ll find it busier than usual. For the local tourist authorities this is essentially Thomas Hardy’s town. He was born in Dorchester and spent much of his life here. His statue now stands on High West Street. The town appears in his novels as Casterbridge, and the countryside all around is vividly depicted, especially the picturesque forest of Cranbome Chase. Dorchester has an attractive central part of mostly seventeenth-century and Georgian buildings, though the town’s origins go back to the Romans. The Roman walls were replaced in the eighteenth century by tree-lined avenues called “Walks”, but some traces of the Roman period have survived. At the back of the County Hall excavations have uncovered a fine Roman villa with a well-preserved mosaic floor.

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Задание 5.

Read the text and finish the sentences below.

The Pilgrims

The Pilgrims were puritans, that is to say, people of England who objected to the form of religious feelings shown to God and religious services used in the Church of England. King James punished all who refused to follow laws and traditions of the Church of England and to give money to support it. These peo­ple had to leave their country and go to Holland trying to find religious freedom there. But they were not allowed to own land in Holland and, besides, they did not want their children to grow up and become Dutch-speaking people. They wanted to remain English; so, they soon returned to England with the idea of leaving for America. There, where the lands were still wild, they hoped to build homes for themselves and start a new life based on their own ideals of religious and civil rights. Pilgrim Fa­thers decided to form a colony that should be governed by just equal laws, established by common agreement.

With the idea of a new England in America some of the strongest English people crossed the broad Atlantic on the lit­tle ship known as ‘The Mayflower’. These people were independent and God-fearing. Some of them were also learned. The departure of the Pilgrims from England marks a period in history.

Towards the end of November in 1620, this company of about a hundred persons, will Captain Miles Standish as their leader, landed on Cape Cod, not far from where Boston is now.

A short time after landing, they found a suitable place to live and, about Christmas, began to cut trees and build houses. Winter came on, and they were not prepared for difficult times. Many of them got ill and about half of them died. But those who survived did not give up; they were not easily discouraged by the difficulties.

In the spring and summer following that hard winter, their crops grew, and the colony became rich. They made friends with the Indians and were not afraid of them. At last, they felt sure that they had found the land that they had hoped to find so long. In the autumn, they decided to have a great holiday and to unite in giving thanks to god for everything they had received. They also invited the Indians, and all sat down to­gether to celebrate the first Thanksgiving Day in America.

1.  This text is about

A strong people from America who formed a colony not far from the place where Boston is now.

В strong and determined people from England who did not share religious views of the Church of England and left for America to form there a new colony based on their own religious beliefs.

С supporters of the Church of England who went to America to start their religion there.

D a lot of English people who called themselves Pilgrims and who decided to leave for America because there was a lot of land there to cultivate and to grow crops.

2.  Pilgrims are

A people from Holland who first came to England and then to America to find a better life there.

В a group of English puritans who sailed to America to escape from the religious beliefs of the Church of Eng­land and to make a new kind of society based on their religious ideals and beliefs.

С a group of Americans who shared the religious beliefs of the Church of England and started a colony to show their religious feelings to God.

D European people who did not want for some reason to stay in Europe any longer:

3.  The Pilgrims decided to leave for America with the idea in

their minds

A to form a colony there which they wanted to base on equal religious and civil laws established by common consent.

В to find some suitable settlements where they could live far away from the Church of England.

С to travel about America and to learn much about it because many of them were educated people.

D to share their knowledge of agriculture with the American Indians.

4. They crossed the Atlantic

A in many boats that were badly equipped and many of them sank on their way to America.

В on a big ocean liner that was very quick and comfortable.

С on a ferry-boat on which they also brought horses, tracks and a lot of other things.

D in a little sailing vessel, called ‘The Mayflower’, which landed on Cape Cod at the end of November 1620.

5. Some time after landing

A they grew crops and got very rich.

В they decided to return to England because winter came and they were not prepared for its difficulties.

С they found a place where they began to build houses and though that winter was severe and many of them died, those who had survived, grew crops next autumn, a year later, and became rich.

D they opened schools and hospitals in the Indian settlements.

Задание 6.

Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

A Remarkable Book

Once, while I 1)_______________ (walk) in a park of London, I

2)_____________(see) an old strange-looking man. He 3)______(sit) on a bench 4) ____________(hold) a closed book in his hands. I 5) _____(sit) down on the bench and 6) ________(look) at the book.

I 7)_______ (see) that the book 8)___ (be) of great interest. It 9) (be) a very old copy of early Byron’s works. I 10) (look) at the old man in surprise and

11)  ________ (understand) that he 12) _______________(know) I

13)_____(sit) on the bench because of him and the book he 14) _________ (hold) in his hands. I 15) ________(smile). ‘It is

the last I 16) __________ (have),’ he said and 17)___ _____(stretch) it out to me. I 18) ________(take) it with the words: ‘I 19) ____ (be) a lover of old books.’ I 20)_______________ (open) this small book and 21) ____________(look) at the date. ‘Oh,’ I said.

‘It 22) ____________(be) a remarkable book.’ ‘Yes,’ he 23) _______________(sigh). ‘I 24) ________________(have to) 25) (sell) it 26)_________ (buy) the necessities of life. I 27)____ (have) a hard life and this book always 28) (be) a comfort to me.’

I 29) __________(nod) and 30) ____________(think) that I never

31) ____________(see) such a remarkable book.

Задание 7.

Put the scrambled paragraphs in the right order.

A I decided to call the police. On tiptoes I went downstairs and dialed 999. The police answered and I explained what had happened. They promised to come at once.

B I closed the door after him and went upstairs. My daugh­ter was sitting on my bed, trembling. ‘He didn’t believe, did he?’ she asked. ‘No. But I’m sure we’ve frightened the man. He won’t come again.’

С One night I was alone at home with my little daughter Pat. My husband had gone on a business trip. Pat woke me up in the middle of the night: ‘Mummy, there’s a man outside the house. He was watching me through the window.’

D Soon a police car pulled up in front of the house. I opened the door and let in a young police officer. After listening to my story he went out. Five minutes later he returned ‘It’s all right,’ he said, ‘the man was only walking his dog and it ran into your garden.’

E I went quickly into my daughter’s room and looked out the window. I could see the dark figure of a man in our garden. Who was he and what was he up to? Why was he looking at our window? Was he going to break in?

F ‘And why was he looking at our window?’ I asked the officer. ‘Probably out of curiosity,’ he said. ‘There’s nothing we can do, Madam. It isn’t a crime to walk a dog at night.’

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Albert Einstein, a Nobel Prize Winner in Physics

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm,

Germany. His interest in science_____________ when he was BEGIN

only five years old.

His father gave him a magnetic compass. Looking at it, the

young Albert wanted to know why the needle__________ . MOVE

In 1902, after graduating from the university, Einstein took a job

in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. In 1909, at the age of

thirty, Einstein____________ his job at the Patent Office and LEAVE

began his lifelong career in the academic world.

His genius was recognized, and in 1921 he ________________ the Nobel Prize in physics.___________________________________ GIVE

In 1933, when Adolf Hitler came into power, Einstein and his ______________

wife moved to the USA. TWO

He ____________ a professor at Princeton University where BECOME

he remained until his death in 1955.

Shortly before his death he wrote and signed the Russell-

Einstein Manifesto,________________ the people of the WARN

world about the danger of nuclear catastrophe. Albert Einstein is remembered as the scientist in the world. His theories have changed science forever.

It is generally thought that Albert Einstein is the greatest

theoretical physicist who ever_____________ . LIVE

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Meeting a Stranger

1)  I was coming home at about three o’clock on a black winter night, when suddenly I saw two people. The ______________was a short man who ONE

____________________________________along the street, WALK

3) and the_______________________ was a little girl TWO

who as fast as she *****N

Well, the two crashed into each other and the child

5) _______________________ down. FALL

But the man calmly walked on and left the

6) ______________ child on the ground. CRY

7) I ran after the man and brought ____________________ HE

back. There was already a small crowd around the child.

8) The man was perfectly cool, but he gave me a very

cruel look, which________________ me feel sick. MAKE

The child’s family then arrived, and also the doctor.

I  had taken a violent dislike to the short man. So had the child’s family - that was only natural.

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The King’s New Dress

Many years ago, there was a King who spent all his time and money on dressing up. He loved riding round in his

__________________ garments so that everybody could see him. EXPENSE

His wardrobes contained clothes of_______________ ___ DIFFER

patterns and designs.

One day two__________________ men appeared at the palace HONEST

and said they could make beautiful clothes which had magical properties.

Only clever people would be able to see them - but they would be

__________________ to anyone who was stupid or not good at VISIBLE

their job.

The King thought this was an excellent opportunity to find out who was wise and who was foolish in his_______________________________ KING

The two men were given gold and silver thread and two

__________________ weaving machines and they started to work.

After several weeks the King decided to send an old and honest

minister, who was________________ clever and good at his

job, to visit the two men. Can you guess what he saw?

Tourism in Britain

Every year more than eleven million tourists visit Britain. In

fact, tourism is an industry, employing IMPORTANCE

thousands of people.

Most___________ come in the summer months when they VISIT

can expect good weather.

Tourists____________ spend a few days in London, then go USUAL

on to other well-known cities.

Perhaps the least visited places in England are old

________________towns. INDUSTRY

But many people think that the nineteenth-century cities show

the of Britain. REAL

The____________ of the past is to be still seen in their old GREAT

streets.

The cheap, concrete buildings of the 1960s look old and dirty,

B18 but for the ____________ tourists these cities are full of life ADVENTURE

and colour.

Задание 11

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами А21 - А28. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям А21 - А28, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа.

'It's Only Me'

After her husband had gone to work, Mrs Richards sent her children to school and went upstairs to her bedroom. She was too excited to do any A21)___________ that morning, because in the evening she would be going to a fancy dress party with her husband. She intended to dress up as a ghost and she had A22) ____________her costume the night before. Now she was A23) ________ to try it on. Though the costume consisted only of a sheet, it was very effective. Mrs Richards put it A24)_____________, looked in the mirror, smiled and went downstairs. She wanted to find out whether it would be A25)_________________ to wear.

Just as Mrs Richards was entering the dining-room, there was a A26_________ on the front door. She knew that it must be the baker. She had told him to come straight in if ever she failed to open the door and to leave the bread on the kitchen table. Not wanting to A27 the poor man, Mrs Richards quickly hid in the small store-room under the stairs. She heard the front door open and heavy footsteps in the hall. Suddenly the doоr of the store-room was opened and a man entered. Mrs Richards realized that it must be the man from the Electricity Board who had come to read the meter. She tried to A28____________the situation, saying 'It's only me', but it was too late. The man let out a cry and jumped back several paces. When Mrs Richards walked towards him, he ran away, slamming the door behind him.

A21	1)	homework	2) household	3)	housework	4)	housewife
A22	1)	did	2) made	3)	built	4)	created
A23	1)	nervous	2) restless	3)	ill at ease	4)	impatient
A24	1)	up	2) on	3)	over	4)	down
A25	1)	attractive	2) exciting	3)	comfortable	4)	cozy
A26	1)	knock	2) kick	3)	hit	4)	crash
A27	1)	fear	2) worry	3)	disturb	4)	frighten
A28	1)	describe	2) explain	3)	interpret	4)	clear

Задание 12

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. Fill in the space with an appropriate word.

I

Our meal was soon over. I tried to go to sleep at once

1________ John, 2_________ was a poor sleeper, got 3_________

of the car after a few minutes and went 4______________ walk up

the hill. Soon he came running back. From the top of the hill

he had seen, in the valley 5___________ , the lights of the town

we were looking 6__________ .

1.  then, but, however, though

2.  who, which, whose, what

3.  out, in, from, below

4.  on, along, for, in

5.  on top, in front, behind, below

6.  after, in, for, at

II

Dawn was just breaking 1____ they climbed 2_________

their boat and pushed off from the bank. A

carried them downstream, and there was no 3____________ . They

took it in 4___________ to keep the boat in the center of the

river. Three hours later they entered the forest as they in­tended to spend the next 5 days there.

1.  when, where, why, what

2.  out of, into, from, inside

3.  difficulty, work, hardship, need

4.  order, chance, turns, time

5.  few, little, a few, a little

III

1_________ Bill entered the gate of Mrs Dunley’s house,

he was surprised not to 2_____________ her in the garden. She

usually spent most afternoons there 3_____________ the weather

was fine. Bill went straight round to the back of the house, thinking that she might be in the kitchen. The door was locked and the curtains were 4_____ ________.

1.  When, Before, However, Meanwhile

2.  look for, find, come, write

3.  despite, in spite of, after, if

4.  closed, drawn, opened, cleaned

IV

Shortly after the war, my brother and I were invited

1_________ a few days’ holiday with an uncle 2____________ had

just returned 3___________ abroad. He had rented a cottage

4 __________the country, 5______ he rarely spent much time

there. We understood the reason 6______________ this after our

arrival: the cottage had no comfortable furniture in it.

1.  to do, to enjoy, to spend, to waste.

2.  which, whose, whom, who

3.  from, after, before, out of

4.  outside, in, inside, to

5.  in fact, while, and, but

6.  for, of, on, in

V

When the train 1_______ the seaside town 2__________ I

was going to spend my holidays, I went into the corridor

3 __________my legs. I stayed there 4 ___________a short while,

breathing in the fresh air and exchanging 5_______________ words

with one of the passengers, whom I had met earlier 6____________

the station platform.

1.  came, approached, left, arrived

2.  to move, to turn, to stretch, to exercise

3.  for, in, out, of

4.  few, little, a little, a few

5.  in, on, out of, inside