Муниципальное общеобразовательное учреждение
«Лицей № 40»
Дополнительные упражнения для подготовки к ЕГЭ
9 – 11 класс
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учитель английского языка
МОУ «Лицей № 40»
Петрозаводск
Подготовка к Единому государственному экзамену по английскому языку широко обсуждается в учительской общественности. Успешная сдача экзамена открывает для наших выпускников большие возможности для поступления в самые престижные ВУЗы России. Думается, что количество факультетов, для поступления на которые требуется сертификат о сдаче ЕГЭ по иностранному языку, будет только увеличиваться. Таким образом, перед нами стоят очень серьезная задача подготовить наших учащихся так, чтобы они смогли набрать высокие баллы и быть конкурентоспособными.
Одной из сложностей этой работы мы видим в том, что очень часто учащиеся принимают решения сдавать экзамен только в середине учебного года в 11 классе. Если вы начали вести спецкурс или факультатив по подготовке к экзамену в 9 или 10 классе, такие учащиеся его не посещали, не готовились самостоятельно. Поэтому мы предлагаем знакомить учащихся с форматом экзамена, спецификой заданий на уроках уже в 9 классе, хотя элементы подобных заданий могут быть использованы и значительно раньше. Если предлагать упражнения в формате экзамена на уроках в рамках изучаемых тем, все ученики осваивают стратегии выполнения заданий, знают специфику экзамена, могут оценить свои силы.
Для успешной подготовки к экзамену требуется несколько составляющих, одной из которых является материал для тренировки. В арсенале учителя и ученика имеется большое количество прекрасных пособий. Но часто учителю хочется включить тренировочные упражнения в изучение наших традиционных устных тем. Мы осуществили попытку подготовить такие упражнения собственными силами, для этого мы брали тексты из различных источников и делали задания для тренировки для успешного выполнения лексико-грамматического раздела экзамена. В данном сборнике представлены подобные задания, в конце находятся ключи. Кроме заданий для тренировки умений и навыков, необходимых для лексико-грамматического блока ЕГЭ, вы найдете и другие задания в рамках устных тем. После выполнения и проверки заданий, рекомендуем традиционные упражнения для работы с текстами. Данные в сборнике тексты вызывают отклик у учащихся, они с удовольствием выполняют разные задания.
Можно по-разному построить работу с данными заданиями, вот лишь несколько вариантов:
§ Фронтальное выполнение заданий с комментариями учителя или учеников.
§ Самостоятельное выполнение заданий в классе с фронтальной проверкой.
§ Самостоятельное выполнение заданий дома с проверкой в классе.
§ Самостоятельная работа на оценку.
§ Выполнение заданий в группах, у каждой группы свое задание. Учитель проверяет или группе дается ключ для проверки. Затем каждая группа выбирает тьютера, который будет работать с другой группой. Продолжение работы в группах с новыми заданиями под руководством или контролем.
§ Выполнение заданий в группах или парах единое для всего класса с последующей проверкой (фронтальной, по ключу или другой).
Задания сборника расположены в тематическом порядке. Каждый учитель может подобрать тексты, исходя из уровня его учеников.
№ | Тема | Стр. |
1 | Australia | 13 |
2 | Books and authors | 6 |
3 | Education. Famous universities | 7 |
4 | Extreme Sports | 13 |
5 | Great Britain | 4 |
6 | Holidays | 15 |
7 | Professions | 10 |
8 | Russia | 10 |
9 | Science and technology | 8 |
10 | Television and advertisement | 14 |
The keys | 17 |
A Nation of Animal Lovers:
Just how much do they love their pets? (Speak Out # 4/ 2003)
#1. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in
the same line.
Do you have a pet? It is no 1 ___ that British people love their pets SECRETLY
to bits and would do anything to make their life 2 ___ . But just ENJOY
how 3 ___ does this love go? The answer is QUITE far. As you walk FURTHER
anywhere in Britain, you are 4 ___ by hundreds of literally smiling GREETING
cat faces, which makes you think that the Cheshire cat in Alice in
Wonderland might not have been a mere 5 ___ of Lewis PRODUCTION
Carroll's 6 ___ . Well, British cats have every reason to smile. IMAGINARY
British pet 7 ___ spend around 3.5 billion pounds a year on pet care OWN
and products. In the last five years, the amount 8 ___ on pet food, toys SPEND
and vet bills has 9 ___ by almost 25%. There are some pet owners RISE
who spend thousands of pounds on 10 ___ care to keep their sick pets MEDICINE
alive. Pets can even have their teeth 11 ___ and special pet contact lenses CLEANING
12 ___ . Recently, it has become legal to use organ transplants to treat PRESCRIPTION
serious pet illnesses, such as kidney 13___. FAIL
#2. Answer the questions to the text (Ex. #1)
1) Do British people love their pets?
2) How much money is spent on pets in Britain every year?
3) What do British people spend money on?
4) What medical service is available for pet owners?
5) What is the same and different in comparison with Russian pet owners?
#3. Read the second part of the article and decide if the statements are true or false.
1) Pets in Britain can watch their own video.
2) Animal abuse and cruelty can never happen in Britain because they are fond of animals.
3) There are special things which can keep pets fit.
4) The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is under the special patronage of Prince Charles.
5) For British people the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is less important than the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
There are a number of pet accessories available to pets and their owners. Special flashing collars for walking at night, water-resistant dog jackets, car ramps for old or overweight dogs — you name it, they have got it! There are also special accessories designed to keep your pet fit, such as treadmills for dogs to exercise indoors or orthopaedic beds for dogs that suffer from a bad back. There is even a special pet hotel in Newcastle upon Tyne that offers cats and dogs an opportunity to exercise in the indoor gym, relax in the jacuzzi or watch videos of their owners on personal TV and video sets.
Unfortunately, in spite of Britain's reputation as pet lovers, animal abuse and cruelty still happen. There are a number of organisations that protect animals in Britain, but the most important is the RSPCA — the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The word 'Royal' indicates that the Society is under special patronage of the pare this to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and you will get a quick taste of how serious the British are about animal welfare.
#4. Read the text and think of the word which best fits the space. Use only one word in each space.
Although all pets 1) ___ entitled to love and devotion 2) ___ their owners, there are some pets that deserve good treatment and care 3) ___ than others. These are assistance dogs. Endal, an assistance dog owned 4) ___ a Gulf-war veteran Allen Parton, who is confined to a wheel-chair after suffering a serious head 5) ___, has even won a number of 6) ____ recognising the dog's achievements 7) ___ helping people. Endal can 8) ___ cashpoint machines, buy bus tickets and 9) ___ the shopping.
Endal is not 10) ___ only dog that deserves a reward. 11) ___ example, Rosie, a search and rescue dog 12) ___ Scotland, once helped find a three-year-old boy who had gone missing. The list could be easily continued.
Well, the British may be 13) ___ about animals, but isn't it nice to know that the animals themselves play an increasingly important 14) ____ in British life?
Mysterious places in Britain. Glamis castle (Speak Out # 3/ 2003)
#1 Read the text. Use the word in given capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
There are many haunted castles in Britain. In fact, 1) ___castles MANY
in Britain 2) ___ to have a ghost or two. However, the BELIEF
beautiful Glamis Castle has a reputation as 3) ___ castle in Scotland HAUNTED
Glamis Castle dates back to the 13th century and it has a 4) ___ WONDER
history. In the beginning the king stayed there during 5) ___. In 1372 Sir John HUNTER
Lyon got this castle from Robert the Second as a reward for his 6) ___ to the SERVE
crown. Since then Glamis castle 7) ___ and lived in by many VISIT
members of the Scottish and British royal families.
Today, the castle is still home to the Lyon family but it’s also open to the 8) ___. PUBLISITY
Glamis is a house of 9) ___ and ghosts. Every night, just before the MYSTERY
clock strikes 4 a. m., there is a loud 10) ____ in one of the towers. Many NOISY
11) ___ woke up and saw a strange figure standing near their beds. There VISITING
is a door in the castle which opens 12) ___ every night, even if it is bolted. There IT
is also a 13) ___ of a woman that appears in one of the windows. FACIAL
#2 Read the parts of the text and put them in the right order to make a story. If you do that you’ll read a ghost story about Glamis castle.
A - So they went on playing and the clock struck twelve. Just then there was a knock at the door and a tall stranger dressed in black entered the room. "Your Doomsday has come," he said and shut the door behind him.
B - Since then nobody has been able to find this room but the friends' ghosts are sometimes heard through the castle walls laughing, swearing and shouting.
C - One stormy night, in the 15th century, the second Lord of Glamis was playing cards with his friends. As it was getting late, one of the Lord's servants came to remind his Lord that it was time to finish.
D - Before long the servants heard horrifying sounds coming from the room. One of them, giving in to curiosity, peeped through the keyhole. A bright beam of light blasted through and blinded the servant in one eye.
E - Lord Glamis got very angry with his servant and shouted that they would continue their game until Doomsday, if they wanted to.
F - A minute later, the stranger, who was the Devil himself, left the room and disappeared, along with the friends' souls lost in a game of cards.
Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime (Speak Out # 3/ 2008)
# 1. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick. If a line has a word which shouldn’t be there, write the word.
1) Agatha Christie was probably may the most successful writer in history. She
2) wrote 78 crime novels, 6 very romantic novels, 150 short stories, and
3) 19 plays. Her books have been translated into 103 languages, and her
4) two the most famous creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, solved
5) hundreds of crimes. One of her plays, The Mousetrap, started being showing in
6) London in November 1952, and it has never been stopped! It is now the longest-running
7) play in history. Agatha Christie became a writer by the accident. She was bored
8) when her first husband was away in the First World War. Agatha was working
9) in a hospital as a nurse. (It is where there that she learned all the information about
10) poisons that she got used in her books.) She decided to write a novel to pass the time. She chose a detective novel because she loved reading them.
# 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best suits each space. Use only one word in each space.
1)___ first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was 2)___ instant success. Like many 3)___ Christie's stories, it has one murder victim and many 4)___ murderers. Emily Inglethorp is a rich old lady. When she 5)___ murdered, all the people 6)___ motives to kill her have alibis. So who did it? The police have 7)___ idea, but the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot finds the murderer. Hercule Poirot became 8)___ of the most popular private detectives 9)___ Sherlock Holmes. He is the 10)___ of 43 Christie's crime stories. This eccentric man with the egg-shaped head and the passion 11)___ order amazes everyone by his powerful intellect and his brilliant solutions to the most complicated 12)___. He is small and round and is always elegantly dressed. As Sherlock Holmes has Watson, in the early stories, Poirot has his 13)___ Captain Hastings. Of 14)____, he is not as intelligent as Poirot grey cells', but he is a loyal friend. Agatha Christie soon became bored 15)___ Poirot, but she had to continue writing stories about him because her readers loved him. So, during the 16)___ World War, she wrote a book 17)___ Curtain, in which Poirot dies. But she didn't publish it 18)___ 1975.
# 3. Read the text. Use the word in given capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
Miss Jane Marple is another Agatha Christie's creation. She is the 1)___ HERO
of 18 of the novelist's later books. Miss Marple is quite old, 2)___ MARRY
and lives in the 3)___ English village of St Mary Mead. One thing which isn't TYPE
typical about the village is the number of 4)___! When there is a murder, MURDER
Miss Marple 5)___. She is not a professional detective, but she has a INVESTIGATION
wonderful power of 6)___. As she says, no one thinks an old woman is OBSERVE
important, so she often hears information that no one tells the police.
Each Agatha Christie's book had a new and ingenious plot.7)___ loved the READ
books, 8)___ because Christie always gave the readers all the information PARTICULAR
they needed to find the 10)___ . But they had to read very carefully to find it. SOLVE
#4. Open the brackets and put the verb in the proper form.
One day Agatha Christie mysteriously 1) (disappear). It happened in 1926, when her husband
2) (want) a divorce so that he could marry another woman. Agatha told her secretary that she
3) (go) for a motor drive, that she 4) (return) home that night, and that she would 'ring up' when she 5) (reach) her destination. The next day the police found her car in a ditch with its lights on. There was no trace of Agatha. The police 6) (become) suspicious. 7) the husband (hide) anything? Did he decide to get rid of his wife? A nation-wide search for the missing writer
8) (start). Newspapers published wild stories about her disappearance - that she had been kidnapped, that she had been murdered, that she 9) (run) away with a secret lover...
Eleven days later the mystery 10) (solve). Agatha Christie was found alive in a health spa in Yorkshire... But to this day, nobody 11) (know) what really happened in December, 1926.
#plete the text using the words in the box. Two words are extra.
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Agatha Christie loved 1)___. When she became 2)___, she could go all over the world. She 3)___ the travels in her writing. Many of her later books have 4)___ titles like Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express. Christie first 5)___ the Orient Express with her
6)___ husband, Max Mallowan. He was an archaeologist, and the 7)___ lived in the desert for several months each year. Agatha took her typewriter with her and wrote the books her readers were waiting for.
Agatha Christie 8)___ in 1976, but her stories are still immensely popular. Many have been adapted for film or television. When someone sits down to watch or read an Agatha Christie, they always have the same 9)___: try to find out who the murderer is before the
10)___ does!
OXBRIDGE (Speak Out # 4/ 2007)
Oxford and Cambridge are the oldest and most prestigious universities in Britain. Known together as 'Oxbridge' (the word was invented by Lewis Carroll, the author of 'Alice in Wonderland' and a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford), they have been chosen as national icons.
# 1 Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.
Of the two universities Oxford is 1… oldest. 2… knows for sure when it 3…founded but teaching was already going on there by the early 12th 4... Life was hard at Oxford at 5…time because there was constant trouble, even fighting, 6…the townspeople and the students. Then one day a student accidentally killed a man of the town. The Mayor arrested three other students 7…were innocent, and by order of King John they were hanged. 8… protest, many students and teachers left Oxford and settled in 9… little town, and so the University of Cambridge 10…born.
Since then there has been constant friendly (and sometimes not-so-friendly) rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge.
# 2 Read the text. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line.
1) _____FACTS AMAZE
In the early centuries, Oxford and Cambridge were the only universities in the
country – if you wanted a university 2) ____, that's where you went. EDUCATE
But in those days student life was very 3)____from what it is now. Students DIFFER
were not 4) ___to play games, to sing or to dance and all the lessons were ALLOW
in Latin!
Until the late 19th century, only 5) ___were allowed to be students at the two MAN
universities.
Both Oxford and Cambridge 6) ___refer to each other as 'the other STUDY
place'. Oxonians sometimes call Cambridge 'a pale 7)___of the real thing'. IMITATE
(Cambridge's colours are light blue). Cantabrigians ( 8)___of Cambridge) refer PERSON
to Oxford as `the dark side' (Oxford's colours are dark blue).
# 3 Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. if a line is correct, put a tick. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word.
LOTS AND LOTS OF COLLEGES
It might seem strange to you but there isn't really no any university at Oxford or 1) __
Cambridge. Oxbridge is made up of independent colleges. The 'University' is 2) __
just an administrative body that organises lectures, arranges exams, gives a degrees, 3) __
etc. Today, there are being 70 colleges at Oxbridge, and each college has its name, its 4) __
coat of arms and its own buildings, including with a chapel, a library, a dining hall and 5) __
rooms for students to have live in. Each college has its own character and its own 6) __
traditions. As well as the college libraries, there are two university libraries. 7) __
They have to the right to have a free copy of every book published in Britain. 8) __
Each Oxbridge college has had its own staff, known as 'Fellows'. The Fellows 9) __
teach the college students either one-to-one or in a very small groups (known as 10) __
'tutorials' in Oxford and 'supervisions' in Cambridge). This system of teaching 11) __
is one of the ways in which where Oxford and Cambridge differ from other universities 12) __
Students also go to lectures that are arranged by the University and are been open to 13) __
all students. The normal length of the degree course is the three years, after which 14) __
the students take the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Some courses, such as medicine 15) __
or languages, may have be one or two years longer. The students may work for other 16) __
will degrees as well. 17) __
SOCIETIES
There are lots and lots of societies at Oxbridge: debating clubs, drama societies, philosophy societies, language clubs, political clubs of all colours, cinema clubs, in fact, for almost every activity under the sun!
DID YOU KNOW?
· Oxbridge has 35,000 students from the UK and all over the world.
· Oxbridge graduates often become powerful and successful members in British society, and many leading people in professions such as the law and politics have traditionally been 'Oxbridge-educated. Of 54 British Prime Ministers, 40 studied at Oxbridge!
Inventions of the 20th century (English # 48/ 1999)
1) Open the brackets and put the verb in the proper grammar form.
CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS
In 1917, when Albert Sadacca was 15, there was a terrible fire in New York City, it (1) (to cause) by a Christmas tree catching fire, for in those days Christmas trees (2) (to light) by placing candles on the branches. Now it just so happened that Albert's family, who (3) (to come) from Spain, had a business selling wicker cages with imitation birds in them that lit up. Albert suggested to his parents that they begin making electric lights for Christmas trees. They had lots of bulbs on hand, and it (4) (be) much safer than using candles. The Sadaccas thought Albert had a good idea, but only one hundred strings of electric Christmas tree lights sold in the first year. After Albert thought of painting the bulbs red, green, and other colors instead of using plain glass, business (5) (pick up) sharply. Albert became the head of a multi-million dollar company.
2) Change the word given in capitals in the right column to form a word that fits in the space in the same line of the text.
TAPE RECORDER
Marvin Camras' (1) _____ are used in modern magnetic tape and INVENTOR
wire recorders, (2) _____ high frequency bias, improved recording INCLUDE
heads, wire and al, (3) _____ sound for motion pictures, multitrack tape MAGNET
machines, stereophonic sound (4)_____ , and video tape recording. PRODUCE
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Marvin Camras received a B. S. in 1940, an M. S.
in 1942, and an Honorary Doctorate in 1978 from the Illinois Institute of
Technology. He had spent most of his (5) _____ life at the IIT Research WORKER
Institute, where he served as senior scientific (6) _____. ADVICE
In the 1930s Camras developed a (7) _____ wire recorder. Before and SUCCESS
during World War II his early wire recorders were (8) _____ by the military USAGE
to train pilots. Battle sounds were recorded and (9) _____ was EQUIP
(10) _____ to amplify it by thousands of watts. The recordings were placed DEVELOP
where the (11) _____ of D-Day was not to take place, giving false information INVADE
to the Germans. The public (12) _____ heard of Camras' work after the war had ended. ONE
3) Think of one word which can best fit the gap. Use only one word in every gap.
POCKET CALCULATOR
For thousands (1) ___ years people have been able to perform simple mathematical functions with the (2) ___ of machines. The slide rule (3) ___ invented in the 17th century, as was a digital calculating machine that could perform only addition. But the invention of the transistor and its use (4) ___ integrated circuits made possible much smaller, faster, and more powerful machines.
In 1971 Texas Instruments introduced the (5) ___ electronic calculator. It was portable but not small (6) ___ to be a pocket calculator. With the continual miniaturization of solid-state electronic components, later calculators were (7) ___ smaller. Some, today, are the size (8) ___ credit cards and can fit inside wallets. Many pocket calculators now come with more advanced features, (9) ___ as the ability to store numbers in memory and the ability to perform exponential and trigonometric functions.
4) Read each line carefully. If there are words which shouldn’t be there, write them down. If the line is correct put a tick.
REMOTE CONTROL
1) The first machines to be operated by remote control were used mainly with
2) for military purposes. Radio-controlled motorboats, which developed by the
3) German navy, were been used to ram enemy ships in WWI. Radio controlled
4) bombs and other remote control weapons were used in WWII. Once the wars
5) were over, United States scientists were experimented to find nonmilitary uses
6) for the remote control. In the late 1940's automatic garage door openers that were invented,
7) and in the 1950's the first TV remote controls were used. The first TV remote control,
8) called "Lazy Bones," was developed in the 1950 by Zenith Electronics Corporation. Lazy
9) Bones used a cable that had ran from the TV set to the viewer. A motor in the TV set operated 10) the tuner through the remote control. Although customers would liked having remote control 11) of their television, they complained that people tripped over the unsightly cable that
12) meandered with across the living room floor. Manufacturers used to only make remote
13) controls that operated one TV set. However, if they are now making universal remote
14) controls that can operate any TV set. Experts predict that someday remote controls will
15) control almost the every device in the home.
5) Change the word given in capitals in the right column to form a word that fits in the space in the same line of the text.
FIRST INTERNATIONAL PASSENGER FLIGHT
Once the airplane was (1) ___ feasible by the Wright brothers in 1903, PROVE
its development was rapid. Other plane (2) ___ went into business for BUILDING
(3)___ . Glenn Curtiss made the first seaplane in 1908. Airplane THEY
building also (4) ___ in Europe, and during World War I planes were used BEGINNING
in reconnaissance (5) ___ before they were armed with weapons. The large FLY
aviation buildup of the war was (6) ___ by the postwar development of FOLLOW
passenger service-flying paying passengers to specific places on a scheduled
basis. Passenger (7) ___ started in Europe in about 1920. In the United SERVE
States airplanes were initially used to carry air mail; passenger service was
not (8) ___ until April 4, 1927, with a flight from Boston to New INTRODUCTION
York City. International service was proposed the same year, when Pan
American Airways was incorporated by a former war pilot named Juan
Terry Trippe. He obtained a contract to fly (9) ___ service between Key REGULARLY
West, Fla., and Havana, Cuba. His first flight was in October 1929 the
airline had (10)___ a 12,000-mile (19,312-kilometer) route. ESTABLISHMENT
Its first transpacific flight with the 'China Clipper' was in 1936.
6) Think of one word which can best fit the gap. Use only one word in every gap.
THE FIRST MAN IN SPACE
Just as (1) ___ Soviet Union beat the United States into space with Sputnik (2) ___ 1957, so it was (3) ___ to send (4) ___ astronaut (5) ___ space in 1961. The Soviet cosmonaut's (6) ___ was Yuri Gagarin, (7) ___ graduated from the Air Force school at Orenburg in 1957. Gagarin went aloft (8) ___ the spaceship Vostok I (9) ___ April 12, 1961, (10) ___ 9:07 AM. He orbited (11) ___ Earth (12) ___ in one hour and 29 minutes, reaching a maximum altitude of 187 miles (301 kilometers). The ship landed the (13) ___ day at 10:55 AM. It was Gagarin's only space (14)___.
TEN CRIMES OF WORK FASHION (www. )
Fair or not, (1) _________ matters in the workplace. APPEAR
When it comes to professional (2)_________, clothes make a difference. PERCEPTIVE
According to a survey by Office Team, an (3) __________staffing firm, ADMINISTRATION
80 percent of (4) _______ say a person's work wardrobe affects his or her WORK
professional image. This means that dressing (5) ___________is a must APPROPRIATE
if you want to be taken seriously at work. But (6) _______ what's acceptable KNOW
attire isn't easy in today's workplace. Business-casual dress codes (7)___ VARIETY
widely between (8)________, and even between PANION
The following items, however, are almost never (9) _______ to wear to work: ACCEPT
1. Poor-fitting clothing 2. Too much perfume or cologne
3. Shorts or too-short skirts 4. Out-of-control hair
5. Dirty, ripped or torn jeans 6. Cleavage
7. Tank tops 8. Noisy jewelry
9. Gym attire (clothes) 10. Extremely high heels
Seven Wonders of Russia (http://english. *****/russia/)
Russia has summed up the results of the national contest devoted to most beautiful places in the country. Seven Wonders of Russia were announced on June 12, during the celebration of Russia’s Day on Moscow’s Red Square. Seven Wonders of Russia include: The Valley of Geysers in the Kamchatka region, Lake Baikal, the complex of palaces in Peterhof, Columns of Erosion in the Komi Republic, Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Statue of Motherland in Volgograd and Mount Elbrus.
The Seven Wonders of Russia contest was organized in the autumn of 2007 by several media outlets of Russia to attract the public attention to the need of recreating and preserving unique historical, cultural and natural objects in Russia.
More than 25 million people took part in the online voting to select the winners. The first stage of the voting ended with the selection of 49 biggest places of interest in the country. Fourteen of them were left on the list after the second stage of the contest.
#1 Think of one word which can best fit the gap. Use only one word in every gap.
The Valley of Geysers is the (1) ___ geyser field in Eurasia and the second largest concentration of geysers in the world. This 6 km long basin with approximately ninety geysers and many hot springs is (2) ___ on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, predominantly on the left bank of the ever-deepening Geysernaya River, into (3) ___ geothermal waters flow from a relatively young strato-volcano, Kikhpinych. It is part of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve, which, in turn, is incorporated into the World Heritage Site "Volcanoes of Kamchatka". The valley is difficult to (4)___, with helicopters providing the (5) ___ feasible means of transport.
#2 Read the text and put the word from the box into the gaps. Two words are extra.
capital population named fountains shore situated campuses |
Peterhof, originally (1) ___ Peterhof, the Dutch for "Peter's Court," is a municipal town within Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg on the southern (2) ___ of the Gulf of Finland. The (3) ___ is 64,791 people. It hosts one of two (4) ___ of Saint Petersburg State University. A series of palaces and gardens, laid out on the orders of Peter the Great, and sometimes called the "Russian Versailles", is also (5) ___ there. The palace-ensemble along with the city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
#3 Read the text use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line.
Lake Baikal is (1) ___ in Southern Siberia in Russia, LOCATION
near the city of Irkutsk. It is also (2) ___ as the "Blue Eye KNOW
of Siberia". It's (3) ___ for holding a volume of water larger FAME
than that of all the North American Great Lakes (4)BINATION
At 1,637 meters (5,371 ft), Lake Baikal is the (5) ___ lake in DEPTH
the world, and the (6) ___ freshwater lake in the world by volume, LARGE
(7) ___ approximately twenty percent of the world's total surface HOLD
fresh water. Lake Baikal was (8___ in an ancient rift valley and FORMATION
therefore is long and crescent - (9)___ with a surface area (31,500 km²) SHAPING
less than half that of Lake Superior or Lake Victoria. Baikal is home
to more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two(10) ___ of which THREE
can be found nowhere else in the world and was (11) ___ a UNESCO DICLORATION
World Heritage Site in 1996. More than 25 million years old, it is the
oldest lake in the world.
#4 Read the text and ask 5 questions to it.
Saint Basil's Cathedral is a multi-tented church on the Red Square in Moscow that also features distinctive onion domes. The cathedral is traditionally perceived as symbolic of the unique position of Russia between Europe and Asia.
The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan IV (also known as Ivan the Terrible) Moscow to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named.
Saint Basil's is located at the southeast end of Red Square, just across from the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. Not particularly large, it consists of nine chapels built on a single foundation. The cathedral's design follows that of contemporary tented churches, notably those of Ascension in Kolomenskoye (1530) and of St John the Baptist's Decapitation in Dyakovo (1547).
The interior of the cathedral is a collection of separate chapels, each filled with beautiful icons, medieval painted walls, and varying artwork on the top inside of the domes. The feeling is intimate and varied, in contrast to Western cathedrals which usually consist of a massive nave with one artistic style.
#5 Read the text and make 5 true or false sentences to it.
Mamayev Kurgan is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai".
The Mamayev Kurgan features a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943). The battle was a decisive Soviet victory over Axis forces on the Eastern front of World War II and arguably the bloodiest battle in human history. At the time of its installation in 1967 the statue of the Mother Motherland formed the largest free-standing sculpture in the world.
#6 Read the text and try to put the numerals into the gaps.
2,000 18,442 18,510 5,621 5,642 |
Mount Elbrus is a mountain located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia, in the northern Iranian plateau. A strato-volcano that has lain dormant for about (1)___ years, it is the highest mountain in the Caucasus. Mt. Elbrus (west summit) stands at (2)___ meters ((3)___ft) and can be considered to be the highest mountain in Europe; it is also the highest point of Russia. The east summit is slightly lower: (4)___ meters ((5)___ft).
Public Holidays in Russia (http://en. wikipedia. org)
# 1 Read the text use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line.
On 23 February, Russia honors those who are (1)___ serving PRESENT
in the Armed Forces and those who have (2)___ in the past. SERVICE
During the era of the Soviet Union, it was (3)___ "Red Army Day" or CALL
the "Day of the Soviet Army and Navy"
It is tribute of respect to all the (4) ___ of Russian soldiers from GENERATE
the ancient times till nowadays to those who defended (5) ___ COURAGE
the fatherland from invaders. On this day all the masculine (6) ___ REPRESENT
from young boys to old men receive (7) ___ and presents and the CONGRATULATE
military men greet each other. (8) ___ have a happy opportunity to say the WOMAN
warmest and (9) ___ words to their lovers and to please them SWEET
with signs of (10) ___ . ATTENTIVE
# 2 Read the text and think of one word which can best fit the gap. Use only one word in every gap.
Spring and Labor Day
In the former Soviet Union, 1 May was International Workers' Day and (1) ___ celebrated (2) ____ huge parades in cities (3) ___ Moscow. (4) ___ the celebrations are low key nowadays, several groups march (5) ___ that day (6) ___ discuss the grievances the workers have.
Victory Day
Every 9 May, Russia (7) ___ the victory (8) ___ Nazi Germany, while remembering those who fell in (9) ___ to achieve it. 9 May was chosen, since in the night from 8th to 9th 1945 the German military surrendered to the Soviet Union and the Allies in Berlin, for people in Russia this (10) ___ on the 9th (due to time zones). A military parade is (11) ___ in Moscow to celebrate the day. This is (12) ___ of the biggest Russian holidays.
# 3 Read the text and put the word from the box into the gaps. Two words are extra
marked National enemies held history led companies preserve invaders end |
Unity Day
November 4. Unity Day, first celebrated in 2005, commemorates the popular uprising (1) ___ by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky which ejected the Polish (2) ___ from Moscow in November of 1612, and more generally the (3) ___ of the Time of Troubles and foreign intervention in Russia. The event was (4) ___ by a public holiday which was (5) ___ in Russia on October 22 (Old style) from 1649 till 1917. Its name alludes to the idea that all the classes of Russian society willingly united to (6) ___ Russian statehood when its demise seemed inevitable, even though there was neither Tsar nor Patriarch to guide them. Most observers view this as an attempted replacement to counter Communist demonstrations on November 7 holiday, which marked the anniversary of the October Revolution. Recently a film 1612 was made to explain to the Russian audiences the (7) ___ behind the new holiday. This National Unity Day is also known as the Consolidation Day, which people in Russia celebrate on November 3 - November 4. Consolidation Day and National Unity Day are the synonyms, as the holiday name may be translated in different ways, so it is a (8) ___ holiday.
EXREME SPORTS
Read the text. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word which fits the space in the same line.
Felix Baumgartner, from Austria, is one of the world’s 1 ___ FAME
BASE 2___. He has jumped from the highest JUMP
buildings and bridges and the 3___ statue of Jesus in HUGELY
Brazil. Last year he jumped out of a plane and 4 ___across the GLIDER
channel in a specially 5 ___suit with wings! DESIGNER
Australia (Speak Out # 5/ 2006, # 4/ 2007)
#1 Form new words using the words given
1--- in 1788, Sydney is FOUND
Australia's 2--- city. Its first LARGE
3--- were British prisoners, SETTLE
women and men, who has 4--- BE
sent to this wild land as a 5--- PUNISH
One of the most 6--- landmarks, FAME
The Sydney Opera House is
7--- there. SITUATION
#2 Read each line. If there is a word which shouldn’t be there, write it down. If the line is correct, put a tick.
) Canberra, which the capital of Australia,
2) is the newest city of all. It was been
3) designed by Walter Burley Griffin, an
4) American architect, in the 1912, and
5) has became the capital in 1927. Unlike
6) other capitals, it’s very most quiet. There
7) are lots of trees and a big lake in the
8) centre. Canberra is an Aboriginal most word,
9) meaning “meeting of place”.
#3 Think of a word which best fits the gap. Put one word in each gap
The Great Barrier Reef 1--- the largest coral 2--- in the world and 3--- only living thing 4--- our planet that 5--- be seen 6--- space! There are 7--- than 1, 500 kinds of fish and of coral in the Great Barrier Reef. No 9--- on land has a greater variety of 10--- life.
#4 Read the words, put them back in the text. There are 2 extra words.
biggest old huge hear then believe long colour under
Uluru is a 1--- rock. It is 348 metres high
and 348 km 2---. But what you can see of
Uluru is a tip of the iceberg. There are another 2,100 metres 3--- the ground. Uluru is 600 million years 4---. During the day its 5--- changes from yellow to gold, red and 6--- purple. The Aborigines 7--- that it is full of spirits that created the world.
Television, advertisement (Speak Out # 4/ 2006)
#1 Read the text. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word which fits the space in the same line.
Television is the most 1) ___ means POWER
for 2) ___ aiming at teens. MTV has over 200 companies, ADVERTISEMENT
from Levi Strauss and Reebok to Apple Computers, 3) ___ PAY
top dollars to advertise on their prime-time programmes. 4)___ to ACCORDANCE
the head of Sales and Marketing for Pepsi-Cola, 'MTV 5)___ at the AIM
segment we want to reach: 6) ___ ' TEENAGE
# 2 Read the text and think of one word which can best fit the gap. Use only one word in every gap.
The New York advertising agency BSB Worldwide recently videotaped the bedrooms 1) ___ teenagers 2)___ 25 countries. Their goal? To find 3)__ what the 'global teenager' is 4)___. The videotapes revealed remarkable similarities: the same jeans, the same trainers, the same posters 5)___ music and sport stars 6)___ the walls.
#3 Read each line carefully. If there are words which shouldn’t be there, write them down. If the line is correct put a tick.
What interests like ad agencies such as BSB Worldwide? Not only 1)____
what you buy, but also what the music you listen to, what movies 2)____
you go to, what you do in your free time. They know more about 3)____
you than you to think. They know how to appeal to your emotions. They 4)____
know all your soft spots. Teenagers, be watch out! Your lifestyle is being 5)___
been studied. Whether you are setting or following trends, marketers 6)___
everywhere are eagerly watching you, be ready to react. And 7)___
preparing to sell you more, more, more. 8)___
TV or not TV? (Speak Out # 3/ 2001)
You are going to read an article about television. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from A-G the one which fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
Of course, not all programmes are good. It’s the main source of information and a cheap form of entertainment for millions of people. But the same can be said about computer games and many films and books. The trick is to learn to control television and use it intelligently. That is why many people prefer to watch documentaries. Violence on TV is another problem that worries people. We stay at home instead of going out.Whether we realize it or not, TV plays a very important part in our lives.1)___. It’s the window on the world which gives us an opportunity to “travel” all over the world, to “meet” different people and learn about their customs and traditions. It has the power to educate and broaden our minds. It helps us to relax after a hard day’s work and escape from reality. There’s always a great variety of programmes on TV: news and sports programmes, talk shows and TV games, documentaries and feature films, concerts and theatre performances…2)___. But many are made in good taste and with great professional skill.
Some people argue that television is a terrible waste of time. It makes us lazier.3)___. We read less. We even talk less. It’s true that some TV addicts spend hours in front of the “box” watching whatever’s on – from second-rate Mexican soap operas to silly commercials.4)___. The ideal is to turn on the TV-set only when ther’s a really interesting programme.
5)___. As George Mikes once said, TV teaches us “how to kill, to rob, to shoot and to poison”.6)___. And if you don’t like a certain programme, why watch it?
THANKSGIVING DAY (Speak out # 6/ 2005)
#1 Read the text and think of the word which best fits the space. Use only one word in each space.
Every year, on the fourth Thursday in November Americans (1) ___ a holiday called Thanksgiving. It is a time when families come from near and far to be (2) ___ for a big dinner and to give thanks (3) ___ all the good things in their lives.
It all (4) __ with the Pilgrims. In 1620, 102 settlers arrived in the New World on a ship
(5) ___ the Mayflower. These brave people were (6) ___ Plymouth, England, and they (7) ___ looking for religious freedom and a better life.
Living in the new country was (8) ___ and many of the Pilgrims died (9) ___ hunger during their first (and unusually cold) winter in the new land. These people weren't farmers or fishermen or hunters, and most of (10) ___ had never fired a gun before in their lives. They weren't
(11) ___ to the climate and often fell ill. And of (12) ___, they missed their friends and relatives from the Old World.
#2 Read the text. Use the word in given capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
It was the Native Americans who saved the 1) ___. They shared SETTLE
corn with 2) ___ and taught them how to hunt, fish and grow corn, THEY
beans and pumpkins. In the autumn of 1621, the harvest 3) ___ so good that BE
the Pilgrims found 4)___ with enough food to put away for the THEY
winter. There was corn and all sorts of vegetables and fruit. There was also
fish to be packed in salt, and meat to be cured over 5)___ fires. SMOKE
The settlers 6) ___ to celebrate the event and thank God for the DESICION
7) ___ of their harvest. They invited their Native American SUCCEED
friends to join them in the 8)___. The festival lasted three CELEBRATE
days and included the 9) ___ foods (such as turkey and TRADITION
pumpkin) that are still 10) ___ on Thanksgiving Day. EAT
#3 For questions 1-10 read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space.
Today, the fourth Thursday 1) ___ November is the biggest travel day in America and more people fly, drive, and 2) ___ trains to be with their families 3) ___ any other day of the year.
4) ___ Thanksgiving Day is on a Thursday, most offices and schools are closed 5) ___ the following day, and Americans have a `four-day weekend.'
A traditional Thanksgiving dinner would have turkey 6) ____ with gravy and cranberry sauce), lots of vegetables, mashed potatoes, and much more. The 7) ___ popular dessert is pumpkin pie with whipped cream on top.
In New York City, a huge Thanksgiving parade 8) ____ place every year, and it is shown all 9) ___ the country. When Thanksgiving ends, the Christmas shopping season in the US
10) ___ begins.
1. A) at B) in C) on D) over
2. A) go B) by C) miss D) take
3. A) than B) at C) on D) from
4. A) but B) despite C) and D) although
5. A) on B) after C) in D) at
6. A) cooked B) served C) boiled D) bought
7. A) least B) more C) most D) less
8. A) take B) takes C) is organized D) happens
9. A) in B) across C) over D) abroad
10. A) traditionally B) suddenly C) gradually D) finally
The keys
A Nation of Animal Lovers:
Just how much do they love their pets? (Speak Out # 4/ 2003)
#1. 1 secret 2 enjoyable 3 far 4 greeted 5 product 6 imagination 7 owners 8 spent 9 risen
10 medical 11 cleaned 12 prescribed 13 failure.
#4. 1) are 2) from 3) more 4) by 5) injury 6) awards 7) in 8) use 9) do 10) the 11) For 12) from
13) crazy 14) role
Mysterious places in Britain. Glamis castle (Speak Out # 3/ 2003)
#1 1) most 2) are believed 3) the most haunted 4) wonderful 5) hunting 6) service
7) has been visited 8) public 9) mysteries 10) noise 11) visitors 12) itself 13) face of a
#2 C, E, A, D, F, B.
Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime (Speak Out # 3/ 2008)
# 1. 1) may 2) very 3)√ 4) the 5) being 6) been 7) the 8) √ 9) where 10) got
# 2. 1) Her 2) an 3) of 4) possible 5) is 6) with 7) no 8) one 9) since 10) hero 11) for
12) crimes 13) assistant 14) course 15) with 16) Second 17) called 18) until
# 3. 1) heroine 2) unmarried 3) typical 4) murders 5) investigates 6) observation 7) observation
8) Readers 9) particularly 10) solution
#4. 1) disappeared 2) wanted 3) was going 4) wouldn't return 5) reached 6) became
7) Was…hiding 8) was started 9) had run 10) was solved 11) knows
#5. 1) travelling 2) rich 3) used 4) exotic 5) took 6) second 7) couple 8) died 9) challenge
10) detective
OXBRIDGE (Speak Out # 4/ 2007)
#1 1) the 2) nobody 3) was 4) century 5) that 6) between 7) who 8) in 9) another (a) 10) was
#2 1) amazing 2) education 3) different 4) allowed 5) men 6) students 7) imitation 8) people
#3 1) no 2) √ 3) a 4) being 5) with 6) have 7) √ 8) to 9) had 10) a 11) √ 12) where 13) been
14) the 15) √ 16) have 17) will
Inventions of the 20th century (English # 48/ 1999)
#1 1) had been caused 2) were lit 3) had come 4) would be 5) picked up
#2 1) inventions 2) including 3) magnetic 4) reproduction 5) working 6) adviser
7) successful 8) used 9) equipment was 10) developed 11) invasion 12) first
#3 1) of 2) help 3) was 4) in 5) first 6) enough 7) much 8) of 9) such
#4 1) with 2) which 3) been 4) √ 5) were 6) that 7) √ 8) the 9) had 10) would 11) √
12) with 13) if 14) √ 15) the
# 5 1) proved 2) builders 3) themselves 4) began 5) flights 6) followed 7) service
8) introduced 9) regular 10) established
# 6 1) the 2) in 3) first 4) an 5) into 6) name 7) who 8) in 9) on 10) at 11) the 12) once
13) same 14) flight.
TEN CRIMES OF WORK FASHION (www. )
1) appearance 2) perception 3) administrative 4) workers 5) appropriately 6) knowing
7) vary 8) companies 9) acceptable
Seven Wonders of Russia (http://english. *****/russia/)
#1 1) only 2) situated 3) which 4) reach 5) only
#2 1) named 2) shore 3) population 4) campuses 5) situated there.
#3 1) located 2) known 3) famous 4) combined 5) deepest 6) largest 7) holding 8) formed
9) shaped 10) thirds 11) declared
#6 1) 2,,,,,442
Public Holidays in Russia (http://en. wikipedia. org)
# 1 1) presently 2) served 3) called 4) generations 5) courageously 6) representatives
7) congratulations 8) women 9) sweetest 10) attention.
# 2 1) was 2) with 3) like 4) Though 5) on 6) to 7) celebrates 8) over 9) order 10) happened
11) held 12) one
# 3 1) led 2) invaders 3) end 4) marked 5) held 6) preserve 7) history 8) national
EXREME SPORTS
1) famous 2) jumpers 3) huge 4) glided 5) designed
Australia (Speak Out # 5/ 2006, # 4/ 2007)
#1 1) founded 2) largest 3) settlers 4) been 5) punishment 6) famous 7) situated
#2 1) which 2) been 3) √ 4) the 5) has 6) most 7) √ 8) most 9) of
#3 1) is 2) reef 3) the 4) on 5) can 6) from 7) more 8) types 9) place 10) sea-life
#4 1) huge 2) long 3) under 4) old 5) colour 6) then 7) believe
Television, advertisement (Speak Out # 4/ 2006)
#1 1) powerful 2) advertisers 3) paying 4) According 5) is aimed 6) teenagers. # 2 1) of 2) in 3) out 4) like 5) of 6) on
#3 1) like 2) the 3) √ 4) to 5) be 6) been 7) be 8) √
TV or not TV? (Speak Out # 3/ 2001)
1) B 2) A 3) G 4) D 5) F 6) C E is extra
THANKSGIVING DAY (Speak out # 6/ 2005)
#1 1) celebrate 2) together 3) for 4) started 5) called 6) from 7) were 8) hard 9) of 10) them
11) used 12) course
#2 1) settlers 2) them 3) was 4) themselves 5) smoky 6) decided 7) success
8) celebrations 9) traditional 10) eaten
#3 1) B 2) D 3) A 4) D 5) A 6) B 7) C 8) B 9) C 10) A
