Контрольная работа по английскому языку

Вариант 1

Раздел 1. Чтение

Задание 1

Установите соответствие рубрик А-Н отрывкам 1-7, взятым из различных книг и журналов. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании одна рубрика лишняя.

А AN EARLY CINEMA	F IN SEARCH OF STARDOM
B BOX OFFICE HITS	G AN IMPORTANT PRIZE
C THE ORIGIN OF A PHRASE	H A GREAT DIRECTOR
D THE PRICE OF FAME
E THE BEGINNING OF FAME

A feature film usually lasts for between 90 and 210 minutes. The term comes from the days when people who went to the cinema would watch a series of short films, such as news items, cartoons and documentaries, before the main film. The short films led up to what was known as the ‘featured presentation'. The Academy Awards, more commonly known as the Oscars, is the most famous film awards ceremony in the world, and is watched by mil lions of people every year. The awards are given to people who have achieved excellence in many aspects of film making, such as acting, direct ing and screenwriting. Winning an Oscar is a sign that you have made it in the film business. Actors and actresses who appeared in early silent films did not have their names publicized as they are today, and they were certainly not treated as stars. However, as the public became more interested in the performers who they saw on the big screen, movie producers began publicizing the names of their leading actors and actresses, and movie stars were born. Steven Allan Spielberg has been named as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry, and has won three Academy Awards. He has been directing movies for almost four decades, and has made many suc cessful films. Some of his most impressive work has dealt with difficult issues, such as slavery, war, and terrorism. Gone With the Wind has sold more tickets than any other film in history since its release in 1939 and is still the most watched movie of all-time in the UK. The Sound of Music was the first film to make more money than Gone With the Wind, but the film which is considered to be the father of the blockbuster movie was Jaws, which made over $100,000,000 in ticket sales when it was released in the end of the 1920s, each of the five major studios in Hollywood employed thousands of actors, screenwriters, direc tors, musicians, camera operators, editors, and set and costume designers. Thousands of people travelled to Los Angeles to seek fame and fortune in the film industry. Most wanted to appear on the big screen and see their name in lights. Edison's Vitascope Theater opened to the public on Monday, 19th October 1896. It was in a basement in Main Street, Buffalo, and was one of the first permanent motion-picture exhibitions. There was enough seating space for about 90 people and tickets cost three cents. The films which flickered on the screen were usually of travel scenes.

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Раздел 2. Грамматика и лексика

Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами В4- В10, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы В4—В10.

	Things That Go Bump in the Kitchen The room where I was sleeping was near the back of the flat. There
B4	was a short hallway to the kitchen, which B4_______ onto the rear	OPEN
	stairway by which I came and went. Not long before I moved in, there
B5	B5____________ a burglary in the flat downstairs and, during the first	BE
	few weeks of my stay, I lay there, listening carefully to noises in the night.
At last, my watchfulness was rewarded. In the middle of the night I heard the
	door from the stairway to the kitchen open and close. I moved fast and stood in
B6	the middle of the room, B6_____________ the door between me and the kitchen,	FACE
	ready to make my escape through the other rooms, down the front stairway,
B7	and out onto the street. Why I hesitated, I do not know. As I B7____________	STAND
	there, there was silence from the kitchen. Seconds, maybe minutes, into that
	silence came a crash that froze me to the spot. I could not have run even if my
	life depended on it. Then, the door to the hallway began to open very slowly.
	In walked a cat.
B8	I must have yelled something B8_________ during the first moments of terror,	EARLY
	because the cat was soon followed by the neighbour, who explained that the
	cat had been keeping her and her husband awake, so she had put it in the
	kitchen of what she had believed to be a vacant flat. She apologized.
В	B9___________ I not been paralysed with fear, I might have hugged B10	HAVE
В10	_________ .	SHE

Задание 3

You have 20 minutes to do this task. You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Bill who writes

I don’t think it will be a problem for me to choose a good job in the future as I’m really interested in foreign languages, cultures and countries and I hope I’ll work as a translator or teacher of foreign languages some day. Have you already decided on your career? What job are you going to choose? Why? I’ve lived in the USA my whole life but I’d really love to travel to other countries…

Write a letter to Bill.

In your letter

- answer his questions

- ask 3 questions about his plans for travelling.

Write 100-140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.