Reading Comprehension
Time: 45 minutes
1.1Прочитайте вопросы 1 – 6. Установите, в каких текстах A – G можно найти ответы на эти вопросы. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждый текст только один раз. В задании один текст лишний.
In which place сan visitors
1. / buy souvenirs? / 4. / see a very old building?2. / lie in the sun? / 5. / eat Irish food?
3. / do water sports? / 6. / see a friendly sea animal?
-A- From Dalkey, a pretty village in beautiful surroundings, one can take a trip on a boat out to Dalkey Island, where climbing the ruined watch tower will provide stunning views of Killiney Bay. The coastal waters are perfect for swimming, and there is a long, clean white sandy beach called Killiney Bay which is great for sunbathing. / -B- Bray is 20 km from Dublin city and used to be a holiday resort for people from Dublin and Britain. It’s popular for its mile long sea walk, but its best days have passed.
A few kilometres south of Bray will bring you into some of the nicest countryside in Ireland, including the impressive Powerscourt Waterfall.
-C- The attractive Gaelic speaking Aran Islands are a perfect place for a few days holiday. This is the original donkey-and-cart landscape, so beloved of the postcard industry. The famous woolen white Aran sweaters come from here. The largest of the three islands, Inishmore, boasts one of the only buildings in Western Europe, which dates from 500 BC. / -D- Dingle Peninsula is a Gaelic speaking area known for the beauty of the Atlantic landscape. The most famous resident is not human at all, but a dolphin called Fungi. The dolphin has lived in Dingle harbour for the past seven years, offering friendship to all who swim near him, particularly children.
-E- Kilkenny is a large busy market town and the most attractive in the midlands. It is much loved by tourists. The narrow winding streets with small shops give an old-world atmosphere to the place. The Kilkenny Shop is one of many which has a wide range of goods that tourists usually buy: Irish-made clothes and crafts. / -F- Enniskerry is a pretty little village and only a bus ride from Dublin. It offers access to the Wicklow Mountains where you'll find good home-cooked food in Poppies, a famous restaurant. Smoked salmon, Irish farmhouse cheeses, handmade chocolates are always served here.
-G- Cork is Ireland's largest county. It is best loved for the coastal fishing villages which come alive in the summer months. One of them is Cobh which was the main emigration port during the Great Famine of the 1840s. Plenty of sailing, windsurfing and boat trips are available around the harbour. Another is set in a thickly wooded valley. It is commemorated in poems for richness of the vegetation, influenced by the warm Gulf Stream current.
2.1 Прочитайте утверждения 1 – 6 и следующие за ними тексты. Установите соответствие между утверждениями и содержанием текстов. Запишите в таблицу цифру 1, если утверждение верное, цифру 0, если утверждение неверное.
1. New Orleans is a typical American city.2. Jackson Square offers different kinds of entertainment.
3. Visitors to the City Park can play sports there. / As an American city New Orleans is unusual. It’s a city whose business is above all pleasure. It was founded around 1718 by the French. The French Quarter was the original city of New Orleans. The beautiful homes of the Quarter – with their courtyards and patios, their high ceilings and large windows – were designed for comfort in a hot climate. Jackson Square is the heart of the Quarter. The square is alive with artists, mimes and musicians. The Louisiana State Museum is in four different buildings, three of which are in Jackson Square. Mardi Grass is the city’s most famous festival. There are many parades, and even spectators are dressed in colourful costumes. The City Park is one of the five largest city parks in the USA, bigger than New York City’s Central Park. It boasts a botanical garden, golf courses, tennis courts, 800-year old trees and a miniature train. New Orleans is a city where jazz and the blues really got started. You’ll find many jazz clubs in New Orleans, for example, in the French Quarter. When you get hungry, you can treat yourself to local specialties, like alligator soup and crawfish pie.
4. The main places of interest in Portland are situated in different parts of the city.
5. Portlandia is the country’s largest copper statue.
6. Informal lectures on animals are given to animal lovers at the Washington Park Zoo. / There is plenty to see in Portland, Oregon. All the major sights are grouped downtown. Portland’s downtown area is centered on the mall, which is closed to all traffic except city buses. Here you can see the unusual Portland Building, a post-modern collage of pink, blue and yellow concrete and tile. Fans of this building find it very original. Near the Portland Building there is Portlandia, the nation’s largest copper sculpture after the Statue of Liberty. From April until Christmas the Saturday Market takes place in downtown Portland. The area is filled with street musicians, artists and crafts people. Less than two miles west of downtown is Washington Park. The Washington Park Zoo is Portland’s pet. The zoo also features a number of interesting “animal talks” at various times on weekends and has a pet-the-animals children’s zoo. The city is famous for the Rose Festival in June. It attracts crowds of visitors. The Rose Queen is crowned with sapphires, zircons and rubies.
3.1 Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 1 – 6 частями предложений A – G. Одна из частей в списке А – G – лишняя. Перенесите ответы в таблицу.
Do you speak English?
When I arrived in England I thought I knew English. After I’d been here an hour I realized that I did not understand one word. In the first week I picked up a tolerable working knowledge of the language and the next seven years convinced me gradually but thoroughly that I 1 ______, let alone perfectly. This is sad. My only consolation being that nobody speaks English perfectly.
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are 2 ______. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand 3 ______.
If you live here long enough you will find out to your greatest amazement that the adjective nice is not the only adjective the language possesses, in spite of the fact that 4 ______. You can say that the weather is nice, a restaurant is nice, Mr. Soandso is nice, Mrs. Soandso’s clothes are nice, you had a nice time, 5 ______.
Then you have to decide on your accent. The easiest way to give the impression of having a good accent or no foreign accent at all is to hold an unlit pipe in your mouth, to mutter between your teeth and finish all your sentences with the question: “isn’t it?” People will not understand much, but they are accustomed to that and they will get a 6 ______.
A. whatever it costs
B. most excellent impression
C. you have never heard of before, and nobody else either
D. in the first three years you do not need to learn or use any other adjectives
E. would never know it really well
F. far from being the whole vocabulary of the language
G. and all this will be correct
Use of English
Time: 45 minutes
Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами В4-В10 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы В4-В10.
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A DISCOVERY IN THE STUDY OF OLD LANGUAGES
B4 Linguists have produced a new way of______
languages. LINK
B5 They say it allows them to reconstruct a network of the
languages ______on islands near New Guinea. SPEAK
B6 The new method is designed for languages so old that little
trace of their common vocabulary______today. REMAIN
B7 It makes connections between languages through
grammatical features, which do not change______
as words. QUICK
B8 With the new method, historians may______
look back a lot further in time than they could before. ABLE
B9 Before now, it was thought that you______
not find connections between languages going further back than
5,000 to 7,000 years ago. CAN
B10 The authors of the new method say the relationships they
can construct may go back 10,000 years and they may be even ______than that. OLD
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Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами В11-В16 так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы В11-В16.
THE BRITISH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
В11 Air quality in London has improved since the
______of the congestion charge, which
makes people pay to take their cars into central London. INTRODUCE
B12 After decades of being driven away by pollution, ______such as otters which used to be
endangered species are returning to British rivers. CREATE
B13' The British are realising that their day-to-day
______have an impact on the environment. CHOOSE
B14 And they are realising that these things directly
their families' health,' says recycling
campaigner Georgina Bloomfield from the organisation
Friends of the Earth. EFFECT
B15 So more and more British people are washing
out jam jars and putting them in recycling bins or writing
to local ______about the environment. POLITICS
B16 It seems that most British people want to make a
- and that's exactly what they're doing. DIFFERENT
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Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами А22-А28. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям А22-А28, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING BORED
As a parent, I have a problem I could never have imagined - how to make a space in the week for my children to be properly bored. It sounds rather cruel, this desire to inflict boredom on my own flesh and blood, but in my A22 _____it is as essential to their development as teaching them to ride a bike or to swim. A bored child is a horrible thing, whether slumped miserably at the kitchen table or moaning around the house. It's no wonder we like to A23 _____ them
entertained, and what a wealth of entertainment we now have at our fingertips. Modern children are so thoroughly amused that a generation may be maturing that has never been bored and, A24_____a consequence, has no imagination.
This may seem a strange claim. Surely the Internet A25 _____ is the source of so much inspiration for young minds that our kids must be the most creatively stimulated in history. Don't recent advances in film special A26 _____mean they can experience the most fantastic scenes, and haven't museums become serious fun?
A27 ____, there is an obvious difference between consuming other people's imaginative ideas and creating your own. The former is easy, but for the latter you need to develop an active mind, and that means switching off all the stimuli, which in turn means, unfortunately for parents, A28 _____ with boredom. Developing an imagination is like learning the violin: you suffer through it and everyone around you suffers too. An active mind, though, is a marvellous thing.
А22 1) point 2) view 3)idea 4) attitude
A23 1) let 2) remain 3) continue 4) keep
A24 l)as 2) with 3)by 4) for
A25 l)just 2) only 3) quite 4) alone
A26 1) actions 2) events 3) effects 4) sights
A27 1) Despite 2) Although 3) However 4) Whereas
A28 1) dealing 2) managing 3) treating 4) handling
Writing
Participant’s ID number
Write a postcard to your friend who lives in England about the place where you spent your summer holidays. Ask him 3 questions about it.
You should write 60-80 words.
Time: 45 minutes
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YOU CAN USE THE OPPOSITE SIDE
Speaking
Карточка участника
(Dialogue; Time: 3 - 5 minutes)
Make up and act out a dialogue on the topic « Choosing a career». Suggest your friend to choose one of the jobs.
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