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Задание №1 (установление соответствия)

Here is some information about national parks of the USA.

Match the information (1-5) with the titles (A – G). Two titles are extra.

1. Going to this place once meant danger and even death. It's the hottest place in the United States and summer temperatures there can reach 54 degrees C! Today, it is a national park and thousands of people drive there (in air-conditioned comfort, of course) to enjoy the beauty of this strange land.

There are lots of ghost towns in this place. In the 1800s people streamed here looking for gold and silver. The terrible heat combined with hard work made people leave the towns. Today, you can visit these eerie ghost towns and look inside old houses, prisons and banks to see how people lived back then.

2. The Redwood National Park in California is home to the oldest trees in the world. One of them, called General Sherman, is more than 3,000 years old. It's about 84m tall.

The Saguaro National Park in Arizona is the only place in the United States where you can find the magnificent saguaro cactus. It's one of the slowest-growing plants -it takes seventy-five years before it even grows its first branch!

3. The Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is famous for its 'cliff dwellings'. The Anasazi Indians, who lived there over a thousand years ago, built many houses, both underground and on the tops of the cliffs. For some unknown reason, the Anasazi Indians disappeared suddenly and mysteriously in 1300 AD.

4. In the Capitol Reef National Park in Utah you'll see lots of beautiful cliffs. Many of them are covered with petroglyphs (rock carvings) and pictographs (rock paintings). They were made by the Fremont Indians, who -just like the Anasazi - mysteriously disappeared in 1300 AD.

5. It is one of the true natural wonders of the world. It makes up most of the Grand Canyon National Parkand millions of tourists visit it every year.

The Grand Canyon is over 320 km long and up to 6 km deep. The top and the bottom of the canyon have very different weather and vegetation. In fact, going from the top to the bottom is somewhat like going from Canada to Mexico.

There are signs that people lived in the Grand Canyon 4,000 years ago

A. The Hottest Рlace in the World.

B. Mystery People.

C. Isn’t It Great?

D. The Biggest Trees.

E. Death Valley.

F. Rock Art.

G. Fantastic Plants.

Чтение  Задание №2 (множественный выбор) – тестовое задание, при выполнении которого необходимо выбрать ответ из нескольких предлагаемых вариантов. При этом, как правило, лишь один из предложенных вариантов правильный. (Остальные – отвлекающие варианты.)

You are going to read a magazine article about Florence Nightingale. Forquestion 1 -5, choose the correct answer A, B or C. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale’s parents were rich English land owners. Florence was born in Florence, Italy on 12 May 1820. Her parents named her after the city where she was born. Victorian women didn’t usually go to school but Florence’s father believed that women should get an education so he taught Florence and her older sister at home. they learned Italian, Latin, Greek, history and maths.

As Florence grew up, she became interested in social problems. When she was twelve years old, she decided she wanted to do something useful with her life. She enjoyed visiting sick people in her neighbourhood.

Florence was extraordinary because most Victorian middle-class women didn’t have careers but Florence wanted to become a nurse. Her parents didn’t want her to become a nurse because nurses were usually working-class women. In fact, they didn’t want Florence to work at all, they wanted her to get married. However, her parents’ disapproval didn’t stop Florence doing what she wanted.

Florence went to Germany to learn about nursing. At that time nurses learned through experience, not through training. Florence looked after sick people, gave medicine out and helped during operations. She was very happy and she explained why: “we learned to think of our work, not ourselves.”

In 1854, Britain entered the Crimean war. Florence and a team of 38 nurses went to the Crimea to help the wounded soldiers. The military hospitals were dirty and badly organized. Florence made the hospitals clean and safe. The number of deaths in hospitals went down from 40% to 2%. Florence was kind and gentle with the soldiers. When she walked around the hospital at night she carried a lamp and that’s how she got the nickname “the Lady with the Lamp.”

After the war people from all over the world asked for her advice on designing hospitals. Florence thought nurses should learn through both experience and training. In 1860, she opened her training school for nurses. Today the Nightingale nurses still care for the sick and the poor.

1. What have you learnt about Florence’s parents?

A                     They were Italian citizens.

B                     They gave education to their children.

C                     They learned Italian, Latin, Greek, history and maths.

2. How was Florence different from most other women of her time?

A                     She wanted to be in work.

B                     Her parents didn’t allow her to work.

C                     She wanted to do something useful in her life.

3. How did Florence begin her career?

A                     She studied to be a nurse in Germany.

B                     She was working with her parents.

C                     She learned the nursing skills when she cared for the sick.

4. She gave medicine out in lines 15-16 means

A                     She brought medicine to a number of people.

B                     She took medicine out of the hospital.

C                     She made medicine for the sick.

5. How did Florence change hospitals?

A                     The number of patients went down.

B                     She set higher standards for hospitals.

               C                     She put lamps everywhere in hospitals.

Задание № 3

Прочитай письмо и выбери правильный ответ

Dear Mom and Dad,

This is my fifth day at summer camp. Life in the great outdoors isn't exactly what I expected, but I'm not starving . . . yet . . . so don't worry about me.

I guess I should tell you about what I do every day. First, everyone has to get up at 5:30 A.M. They have this silly old rooster named Harry who loves to wake us up. Next, we have to make our beds and tidy up the cabin before our camp counselor, Jeff, comes to inspect the place.

Then, we have breakfast around 6:30 A.M. After that, we have some free time, so I've been going down to the nearby stream to fish for a couple of hours. But yesterday, the only thing I caught was an old shoe and a tree branch. Great catch, Huh? Then when I was trying to swat a mosquito buzzing around my head, I slipped and fell in the stream and lost my fishing pole. That ended my fishing career.

Well, in the afternoon, there are different activities we can choose from like archery, horseback riding, and hiking. I thought archery would be the sport for me until I shot an arrow through Jeff's pant leg. As you can imagine, I haven't been invited back since.

In the evening, everyone is assigned a different chore to get dinner ready. Yesterday, I was in charge of cooking the hotdogs, but I accidently dropped them in the fire, so we had to settle for beans instead. The other kids are always razzing me about it.

At night, we sit around a campfire in front of the cabin, sing songs, and tell ghost stories. That's usually fun, but one night while trying to find more sticks for the fire, I got all turned around and got lost. After about an hour of wandering aimlessly in the forest, I finally found my way back, but no one seemed to have realized what had happened, thinking that I just had gone to bed. A bear or wolf could have eaten me and no one would have known it. I was so beat I just crashed . . . out like a light.

Well, today is another day and tomorrow I go home . . . and not a bit too soon. I've learned that camping is just not for me.

Love,

Brad

Задания:

1. What does Brad have to do before he eats breakfast?

A. clean his sleeping quarters

B. go down to the stream to get some water

C. feed the rooster and the other animals

2. What happened to Brad when he went fishing?

A. A tree branch fell on him.

B. He lost his fishing pole.

C. He slipped and lost one of his shoes.

3. What did he eat for dinner?

A. steak

B. hotdogs

C. beans

4. What was Brad doing when he got lost in the forest?

A. He was running away from a bear.

B. He was searching for wood.

C. He was wondering around looking for the cabin.

5.How did Brad like summer camp?

A. He had a great time.

B. It was okay.

C. He didn't have fun.

Лексико - грамматические  тесты (фразовые глаголы)

В задании на выбор лексической единицы обязательно проверяется знание фразовых глаголов.

Задание №4   _        

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using an appropriate form of the words in the box. There is one extra verb.

get on well with            get around to    get off              get on

get out get ready          get to               get together      get up

1. The next morning he rose early.

The next morning he ________ early.

2. She spends a lot of time preparing for the party.

She spends a lot of time ___________ for the party.

3. They don’t interact in a friendly way with each other.

They don’t ________________________ each other.

4. She couldn’t find time to start her homework until eight o’clock..

She couldn’t _______ doing homework until eight o’clock.

5. When can we have a party and dance?

When can we _______________ for a dance?

6. The door locked and I couldn’t leave the room.

The door locked and I couldn’t __________ of the room.

7. The talk stopped when they reached that point.

The talk stopped when they __________ that point.

8. Excuse me, I have to leave the bus at the next stop.

Excuse me, I have to ________________ at the next stop.

Задание №5

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, данные справа после номеров (1- 9) так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы (1-9).

Night Watch is a (1) ________ attempt to make a Hollywood-like blockbuster. To film something like Matrix. As for the visuals, they have (2) ________ succeeded. I’m (3) _______ impressed __________with visuals, storyline and (4) _____________. Overall, the movie is dark and (5) __________. It is based on three (6) _________ books, which means it has a fine script and idea to offer, but it also means that the movie has to explain the (7) _________problems behind the book here and there, which sometimes makes it a bit slower than an average (8) _______ blockbuster. The movie is not dumb, and it is not (9)________, though it is not a non-stop action either. If you like to see good visuals in movies, and have nothing against stories about people that have (10) _________ powers, witches, vampires and so on, I'd recommend you to see this movie, there's no reason for you not to like it!        

(1) RUSSIA        

(2) ABSOLUTE

(3) REAL

(4) ACT

(5) REAL

(6) FAME

(7) philosophy

(8) AMERICA

(9) BORE

            (10) NATURE

Задание №6

Modified Cloze (модифицированный клоуз-тест) - задание, предполагающее восстановление пропущенных элементов текста.

What is life of a teenager like in England? For questions 1-10 , read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Teenagers (0) in England do much the same (1) ___ kids in America or other European countries (2) ___. They (3) ______ chatting to and texting friends on their mobiles, hanging (4) ____ with their mates, listening (5) ___ the latest music on their MP3 players, shopping for the latest fashions or just (6) _______ movies on the television or (7) ____ the cinema.

In my (8) _____ time I swim, go to town, text my mates, go (9) ____ the internet and play on my Playstation! I like music. (10) ____ Britain, most youths prefer punk, garage, house, rock, pop and R&B*.