Проверочная работа по английскому языку для учащихся 11 класса.
методическая разработка по английскому языку (11 класс) по теме

Check your grammar and vocabulary. For the 11th grade.

Exercise 1. Match the verbs with the definitions.

Exercise 2.  Fill in the gaps with the appropriate form of the verbs from the table above.

1. A hammock__________between the trees.
2. We slipped and        ______, losing our balance on the ice.
3. If we are to sell our products overseas, how are we going to________them?
4. It took an hourto_______my stuff onto the van when we moved house.
5. The heavy logs        _______across the ground by elephants.
6. A truck which broke down on the motorway had to_______away by the police.
7. One of the battleships______and two were badly damaged in last night’s fighting.

Exercise 3. TV CREW IN FILM MYSTERY

A TV film crew making a documentary about ghosts recently had their own spooky experience. After filming in the final location — an old castle — the team were mystified when they realised that video footage filmed in one of the rooms in (1)____castle was completely blank. The team, from (2) ____BBC, was working at Eastwell Castle, known to have some incident occurred. They wanted to film at resident ghost.TV crew moved through (7) ____        different parts of the castle and on the next day the team filmed in the haunted room. Gemma Morrissey, the producer of the documentary, recalls what happened. “We had done all (8) ____other parts of the castle to set the scene for the story, before moving on to the supposedly haunted room. There, (9) ____things went smoothly too, so we finished and left. It was

only later that we noticed (10) ____problem. All the film of the other parts of the castle was fine, but all the haunted room tape was blank.”

Jon Wilson, (11) ____documentary cameraman added, “We thought there was some kind of technical problem, so we got (12) ____brand new tape and went back to film the haunted room again. When we checked (13)____tape in the editing suite, it was still blank. I’ve never seen anything like it before!”Eastwell Castle’s resident ghost obviously doesn’t want to be a TV star. He is said to be (14) ____boy who lived there in the 17th century. During a typhoid (брюшной тиф) outbreak, his mother died. He survived the epidemic, but died of a broken heart exactly a year after his mother’s death. Ms Morrissey says she is still sceptical about (15) ____ghost stories, but can’t explain the strange phenomenon of the shy spook.

Exercise 4. Read the text below. Use the word given in the box to form a word that fits the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

WHY ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET

The (0) saying goes that “elephants never forget” — and now (1)____have proved that it’s true.

They studied (2)_____elephants and found out that the grannies of the herd can remember which elephants are (3)_____and which are hostile (недружелюбные). They remained (4)_____elephants they knew. Then all the elephants feel safer and (5)_____and the herd is able to have more (6)____But when a group came that the grannies didn’t know, they would put their trunks in the air. The problem is it’s the (7)____female elephants who look out for friends and foes (враги). But (8)____tend to kill the older animals because they want their larger tusks. (9)___, this study will put more pressure on (10)____to stop hunters, and the older members of the herd can keep looking out for everyone else.

Exercise 6. 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.

A GIFT OF SPEECH

There are several theories on when people began to (0) communicate through speech. (1)___scientists believe the ability to speak arose with the creativity and self-awareness needed to create stone technology over two million years (2)____.In order to convey tool-making technology, a form of spoken language (3)____        needed.Others believe speech began appearing 40,000 years ago. It is possible (4)____Homoneanderthalensis, or Neanderthal Man, discussed(5)____meaning of cave art and other

artefacts through words (6)____their families.If this ancient race was able to speak, it would mean that speech evolved earlier (7)____evidence suggests. The stocky(коренастый) and muscular Neanderthals,the survivors of many Ice Ages, (8)____inhabited Europe for 200,000 years.Settling the question of the Neanderthal’s ability to speak (9)____important because it would provide (10)____least one reason for eхplaining, why modern humans, or Нотоsapiens, came to dominate Earth and the Neanderthal populate' to decline (исчезать) and eventually became extinct.A communication skill (11)___speech and organisational abilities and diversity could have modern humans (12)____advantage over speechless rivals(конкурент) — the Neanderthals who the same area of Europe.A completely different theory proposes that(13) ____modern humans dispersed (разъезжались) Europe, in some areas they replaced the Neanderthals and in others mixed with them. After theorising on how these ancient ancestors pronounced (14)___words, an important question remains a mystery: (15)____did our ancient ancestors actually say?