самостоятельная работа 6 класс к учебнику Spotlight 6
тест (английский язык, 6 класс) по теме

Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852)

Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol is great Russian novelist, dramatist, best-known for his novel «Dead Souls».

Gogol was born in the Ukrainian village. His father Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky _______(write) poetry in Ukrainian and Russian. He ________(die) when Gogol ______(be) 15 years old.

 In 1820 Gogol ________ (go) to a school of higher art in Nizhyn and _____________(remain)1there until 1828. It ________(be) there that he ________(begin) writing. He ____________(be\not) popular among2 his schoolmates, who _______(call) him their "mysterious dwarf3", but with two or three of them he __________(form) lasting4 friendships.  

In 1828, on leaving school, Gogol ________(come) to St Petersburg.  Between 1832 and 1836 Gogol _________(work)with great energy. From 1836 to 1848 Gogol ________(live) abroad, travelling through Germany and Switzerland. Gogol _________(spend) the winter of 1836–1837 in Paris. He eventually _____________(settle)5 in Rome.

 For much of the twelve years from 1836 Gogol _________(be) in Italy. He ____________(study) art, __________(read) Italian literature and __________(develop)6 a passion for opera. In 1841 the first part of Dead Souls ________(be) ready, and Gogol ________ (take) it to Russia to supervise7 its printing. It ___________(appear)8 in Moscow in 1842 under the title «The Adventures of Chichikov».

On the night of 24 February 1852, he __________(burn) some of his manuscripts, which contained most of the second part of Dead Souls. He ____________(explain) this as a mistake, a practical joke played on him by the Devil. Soon thereafter he __________(take)to his bed9, ________________(refuse)10 all food, and __________(die) in great pain nine days later.

Gogol's grave is at the Novodevichy Cemetery. Gogol was buried11 at the Danilov Monastery. In 1931 Moscow authorities ___________(deide) to demolish12 the monastery and to transfer his remains13 to the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Useful vocabulary:

to remain [rɪ'meɪn] – оставаться, пребывать

among [ə'mʌŋ] – между, среди

dwarf [dwɔːf] – гном

lasting ['lɑːstɪŋ] – длительный, постоянный

settle ['setl] – поселиться, обосноваться

develop [dɪ'veləp] – развивать, совершенствовать

supervise ['s(j)uːpəvaɪz] –наблюдать

appear [ə'pɪə] – появляться

to take to one's bed — слечь в постель

refuse         [rɪ'fjuːz] – отказаться

bury ['berɪ] – хоронить

demolish [dɪ'mɔlɪʃ] – разрушить, уничтожить, сносить

remains [rɪ'meɪnz] - останки

I вариант

1. What time is it?

2. Preposition of place

...... Monday

.......night

......morning

......Wednesday

.......1995

......8th September

......afternoon

......weekend

......evening

.......spring

.......December

 II вариант

1. What time is it?

2. Preposition of place

.......Tuesday

.......evening

.......weekend

.......night

.......1872

.......15th May

.......morning

......Sunday

.......afternoon

.......winter

.......June