Контрольная работа за год для 11 класса по УМК Enjoy English 11
материал для подготовки к егэ (гиа) по английскому языку (11 класс) по теме

Контрольная  работа по английскому языку за год

11А

Task 1

Read the text and match the passages (1-6) with the headings (A-G). There is one heading you do not need.

A   It’s strange to see it there

B   Cultures are integrating one into another

C   Successful experiment

D   No need to compete

E   They got used to unusual food

F   Be open-minded

G   Creative cuisine

1. What makes the world interesting is its diversity. However, when we travel or move to another country, it often takes us some time to get used to people’s lifestyle and their daily routines. This may be very challenging, especially if the population practice a religion which is different from the one in which we were raised, or their traditions may seem strange or even silly to us. When you travel, be ready to accept and respect other people’s lifestyle, food and cultural peculiarities. After all, the main reason for travelling is to experience something new and exotic, isn’t it?
2. However, the process of globalization is gradually dissolving the borders and cultural integration is progressing. One can enjoy dishes from various cuisines without leaving their town, buy fruit, vegetables and flowers that have never been typical for the region, and even acquire skills necessary for new activities non-typical for the country. Probably, it’s time to break stereotypes that only a Chinese chef can cook Chinese food, or that the only way to see how classical Italian furniture is manufactured is to go to Italy or that one needs to go to France to try the most famous dishes of French cuisine.
3. To get the last point illustrated, let’s refer to one of the most expensive and typically French product – black truffles. Truffle is a kind of mushroom that grows underground and is quite rare even in France. French people were sure that the truffles would grow nowhere else, but this product of elite cuisine has been harvesting very successfully in … Australia!
4. The first Australian truffles were cultivated in Tasmania about a decade ago. They developed so well in the island’s cool climate and rich soils that 55 truffle farms have since been established  in Tasmania, New South Wales and Victoria. The experiment proved to be quite successful in the south of Sydney too, where conditions closely resemble those in Europe’s truffle growing areas.
5. Like in France, it’s not easy to find the precious plants underground. Specially trained dogs sniff the soil under the trees and search for “black diamonds”. Australian farmers say that their dogs can smell a truffle 15 cm under the ground from about 35 metres away. According to the farmers, the new business has been successful and they hope for further development. Australian elite restaurants offer dishes with truffles on their menu and Australian chefs have even surpassed their French colleagues in creativity – among their recent innovations is truffle champagne and truffle ice cream.
6. Though Australians have already exported their truffles to Europe, they don’t consider French truffle farmers as their competitors. “And it’s not because our truffles are not as good as French ones,” a young Australian farmer Paul Read claims, “They meet the highest standards. I would say that they are sometimes even better than French ones, because we experiment a lot more. But our harvesting seasons don’t overlap. The truffle season in Europe, in France to be exact, lasts from December to February, while in Australia we gather them from June to September, during our Australian winter.”

Task 2

Fill in the gaps with the correct words. Change the form of the words as necessary.

Hobby or obsession?

My elder brother is a diver. When he took up diving, I felt happy for him because he’d never ____(1) for anything but watching TV. He used to _____(2) on the sofa in front of the TV set and spend hours, days and weeks there. It deprived him of the real world and his communication skills were getting  _______(3). He definitely ______(4) communicating via texting to any face-to-face______(5) . When people came to our house, he always managed to find an ________(6) to escape conversations.

His new hobby – diving – meant physical activity and meeting new people and that’s why we did everything to ________(7) him. All ________ (8) equipment was bought, a diving certificate was granted and my brother left for Voronezh on his first diving expedition. There have been lots of other expeditions since then, he has dived in any waters inside the country and abroad and has been _______ (9) different titles and certificates, _______ (10) in the world of “sea wolves”. Everything seems to be splendid but this hobby _______ (11) his whole life and doesn’t leave any room for anything else. He is sincere in setting diving as the first _______ (12) and doesn’t care for anything else, myself included. Is this normal?

Task 3

Use the words in the appropriate form.

Life story

He was born in a little town in a family that could hardly ______(1 call) a sporty one. The parents and four kids _____(2 live) in a tiny flat and that was probably one of the reasons that_____(3 make) Yuri choose his hobby. While most of his classmates were watching TV, practicing music or making model aircraft, the kid _____(4 kick) a ball in the yard whatever the weather ______(5 be) like.

Once a professional coach, who  _______(6 arrive) at the town for a qualifying round, spotted him when he ______ (7 play) in an amateur football game. He found the boy promising and Yuri ______ (8 invite) to join a junior club in Moscow. In fact, he was a bit too old for professional sport, as most of his teammates _______ (9 train) since the age of five or six, and not many people believed he _______ (10 gain) any profound success. But he did. In several years Yuri ______ (11 become) on of the most popular professional footballers. “I ______ (12 never/see) a person so dedicated to football, a person who could get over pain and fatigue and who ________ (13 manage) to cover the distance from a yard football player to one of the best professional footballers in Europe so quickly,” says one of his fans, and the others definitely share the opinion.