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А .С . ЮРИН
АНГЛИИСКИИ ЯЗЫК
СБОРНИК ОЛИМПИАДНЫХ ЗАДАНИЙ
ШКОЛЬНЫЙ, МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫЙ,
РЕГИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАПЫ
КНИГА
АЛЯ ПОБЕДИТЕЛЕЙ И ПРИЗЁРОВ
ЛЕГИОН
Учебные пособия издательства «Легион» допущены к использованию в
образовательном процессе приказом Минобрнауки России № 729 от 14.12.2009
А. С. Юрин
АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК
СБОРНИК ОЛИМПИАДНЫХ
ЗАДАНИЙ
Школьный, муниципальный и
региональный этапы
Книга для победителей и призёров
9-11 классы
Учебно-методическое пособие
ЛЕГИОН
Ростов-на-Дону
2014
ББК 81.2Англ
Ю72
Рецензент:
Бодоньи МЛ., кандидат педагогических наук, доцент Пятигорского
государственного лингвистического университета.
Юрин А. С.
Ю72 Английский язык. 9-11 классы. Сборник олимпиадных
заданий: школьный, муниципальный и региональный этапы.
Книга для победителей и призёров: учебно-методическое
пособие / А. С. Юрин. — Ростов н/Д : Легион, 2014. — 160 с. —
(Готовимся к олимпиаде).
ISBN 978-5-9966-0569-9
Издание адресовано учащимся 9 -1 1-х классов и предназначено
для подготовки к олимпиадам по английскому языку различных
этапов — школьного, муниципального, регионального. Пособие даёт
представление о тематике олимпиад, их структуре, форме входящих
в них заданий.
Сборник включает методические рекомендации для подготовки
к олимпиадам, теоретический материал по словобразованию и
грамматике и алгоритмы выполнения заданий, предлагаемых
на олимпиаде. Также в пособии приводятся четыре варианта
олимпиадных работ (школьный и муниципальный этапы) и критерии
их оценки.
Пособие предназначено любознательным школьникам,
интересующимся английским языком, творческим учителям, готовым
использовать предлагаемый материал на своих уроках, методистам,
организаторам школьных олимпиад.
ББК81.2Англ
Словообразование........................................................................... 12
Рекомендации по выполнению заданий на словообразование .. 12
1]рамматика...................................................................................... 27
Задания на употребление правильных грамматических форм. .. 27
Задания на употребление правильных форм слова
(грамматика и словообразование)................ .............................. 33
Упражнения на поиск и исправление ошибок в тексте .............37
Упражнения на подстановку слов......................... ..................... 47
Упражнения на выбор пропущенного слова в тексте................ 52
Упражнения на подстановку предлогов.......................................55
Задания на множественный выбор............................................. 70
Ttests......... .....................................................................................78
TEST 1 .........................................................................................78
TEST2 ................ ............................................................. 91
TEST 3 .................... ........................................ ........................ 103
TEST 4 .......................................................................................119
j 4 j____________ Английский язык. Сборник олимпиадных заданий. 9-11 классы |
КЛЮЧИ К ЗАДАНИЯМ....................................................................155
TEST 1 ............................................................................................... 155
TEST 2 ............................................................................................... 156
TEST 3 ............................................................................................... 157
TEST 4 ..................................................................................... ......... 158
Всероссийская олимпиада
по английскому языку
Первая Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому
языку прошла в Смоленске в 1998 году. Олимпиады проводились
во Владимире (1999), Нижнем Новгороде (2000, 2007, 2008), Орле
(2001), Рязани (2003), Элисте (2006), Смоленске (2009), Великом
Новгороде (2010), Пятигорске (2005, 2011), Иркутске (2012) и
Санкт-Петербурге (2013), а финал 2014 года — в Великом Новгороде
(21—27 апреля).
Всероссийская олимпиада школьников проводится в четыре
этапа. Задания олимпиады составляются на основе примерных
основных общеобразовательных программ основного общего и
среднего (полного) общего образования. Победители и призёры
заключительного этапа олимпиады имеют льготы при поступлении
в вузы Российской Федерации.
Задания олимпиады проверяют как рецептивные навыки
(чтение, аудирование), так и продуктивные навыки (письменная и
устная речь). Отдельно проверяется знание лексики, грамматики и
социокультурная компетенция учащихся.
Оценивание устной части олимпиады проводится двумя членами
жюри, один из которых во время ответа даёт задания участникам,
а второй, находясь вне поля их зрения, делает пометки по ходу
ответа. В последнее время для собеседования приглашаются по
два участника одновременно. Всё собеседование записывается
на магнитофон для последующего обсуждения итогового балла в
широком составе жюри.
Олимпиада проводится на основании Приказа Министерства
образования и науки Российской Федерации (Минобрнауки
России) от 18 ноября 2013 г. № 1252 г. Москва «Об утверждении
Порядка проведения всероссийской олимпиады школьников».
Ниже приведены выдержки из данного Приказа.
Английский язык. Сборник олимпиадных заданий. 9-11 классы
Порядок проведения
Всероссийской олимпиады школьников
I. Общие положения
1. Олимпиада проводится в целях выявления и развития у
обучающихся творческих способностей и интереса к научной (научно-
исследовательской) деятельности, пропаганды научных знаний, отбора
лиц, проявивших выдающиеся способности, в составы сборных команд
Российской Федерации для участия в международных олимпиадах по
общеобразовательным предметам.
2. Олимпиада включает школьный, муниципальный, региональный
и заключительный этапы.
3. Организаторами олимпиады являются:
• школьного и муниципального этапов — орган местного
самоуправления, осуществляющий управление в сфере образования;
• регионального этапа —орган государственной власти субъекта
Российской Федерации, осуществляющий государственное
управление в сфере образования;
• заключительного этапа —Министерство образования и науки
Российской Федерации (далее - Минобрнауки России).
4. Организаторы олимпиады вправе привлекать к проведению
олимпиады образовательные и научные организации, учебно
методические объединения, государственные корпорации
и общественные организации в порядке, установленном
законодательством Российской Федерации.
5. Индивидуальные результаты участников каждого этапа
олимпиады заносятся в рейтинговую таблицу результатов участников
соответствующего этапа олимпиады по общеобразовательному
предмету, представляющую собой ранжированный список участников,
расположенных по мере убывания набранных ими баллов (далее —
рейтинг). Участники с равным количеством баллов располагаются в
алфавитном порядке.
6. Олимпиада проводится на территории Российской Федерации.
7. Рабочим языком проведения олимпиады является русский язык.
проведения олимпиады
Exercise 1
Fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 3
Fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 4
Fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 5
Fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 6
Fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 7
Fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 8
Fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 9
Fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 10
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
In submitting Captain Carter's strange________ 1 (script) to you
in book form, I believe that a few words____________ 2 (relate) to
this_____________ 3 (remark)___________ 4 (person) will be of
interest.
My first_________ 5 (collect) of Captain Carter is of the few months
he spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to the________
6 (open) of the civil war. I was then a child of but five years, yet I well
remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced,________ _ 7 (athlet) man whom
I called Uncle Jack.
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the
children with the same hearty good______ 8 (fellow) he displayed toward
those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged;
or he would sit for an hour at a time_________ 9 (entartain) my old
grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.
"aprincess of mars "
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
prior I['praid] прежний, бывший; предшествующий
indulge [iriddd$] потворствовать, потакать; баловать, не отказывать себе
read [tredj (trod; trod, trodden) идти, ступать, шагать
Exercise 11
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
According to traditional lore,______ 1 (philosophy) investigation
of the problems o f______ 2 (exist), knowledge,_______ 3 (reason)
and values began with the Ancient Greeks.______ 4 (special) important
were Plato and Aristotle of fourth century BC Athens. Although Plato was
interested in logic, it was his pupil Aristotle who developed the earliest
______ 5 (logic) theory, called the syllogism.
Aristotle’ssyllogistic logical theory remained largely______ 6 (change)
for over two thousand years, until the middle of the nineteenth century. A
few______ 7 (philosophy), such as Rend Descartes and Immanuel Kant,
thought that Aristotelian logic was in some sense complete or finished!
Other philosophers, like Gottfried Leibniz, tried_____ 8 (valiant) to
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introduce new ideas into logic, but these efforts led t o _______ 9 (fail),
mainly because they failed to discover the central idea of quantificational
variables and quantifiers.
lore [lo:] практические или профессиональные знания в какой-либо области
valiant ['vcehdnt] храбрый, отважный, доблестный
quantificational logic логика предикатов
variable ['уеэпэЫ] изменчивый, изменяющийся, непостоянный
Exercise 12
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
H is _____ __1 (horse), especially after hounds, was a marvel and
delight even in that country of magnificent horsemen. I have often heard
my father caution him against his wild________ 2 (reckless), but he would
only laugh, and say that the tumble that killed him would be from the back
of a horse yet _________3 (foal).
When the war broke out he left us, nor did I see him again for some
fifteen or sixteen years. When he returned it was without warning, and I was
much surprised to note that he had not aged apparently a moment, nor had
he changed in any other_______ 4 (ward) way. He was, when others were
with him, the same _________ 5 (genius), happy fellow we had known of
old, but when he thought himself alone I have seen him sit for hours gazing
off into space, his face set in a look of wistful longing a n d ______ 6
(hope) misery; and at night he would sit thus looking up into the heavens, at
what I did not know until I read his manuscript years________ 7 (ward).
He told us that he had been prospecting and mining in Arizona part of
the time since the war; and that he had been very successful was evidenced
by th e ______ _8 (limit) amount of money with which he was supplied. As
to the details of his life during these years he was very reticent, in fact he
would not talk of them at all.
"a princess of mars "
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
hound [haund}-охотничья собака; гончая; борзая
reckless ['rekhs] необдуманный, безрассудный; опрометчивый, беспечный
tumble ['tAmbl] tumble down / off падать; падение
foal [fdul] 1. жеребёнок; ослёнок; гл. жеребиться
wistful ['wistf(d)l ], [-ful] 1) тоскующий; томящийся, горящий желанием Syn:
longing 2) задумчивый
prospect 1. [’prospekt] изыскание, разведка; исследовать; делать изыскания
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Exercise 13
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
He remained with us for about a year and then went to New York, where
he purchased a little place on the Hudson, where I visited him once a year
on the_____ _ 1 (occasionally) of my trips to the New York market—my
father and I owning and operating a string of general stores throughout
Virginia at that time. Captain Carter had a small but beautiful cottage,
situated on a bluff_____ 2 (look) the river, and during one of my last
visits, in the winter of 1885,1observed he was much occupied in writing, I
presume now, upon this manuscript.
He told me at this time that if______ 3 (any) should happen to him he
wished me to take charge of his estate, and he gave me a key to a ______ 4
(compart) in the safe which stood in his study, telling me I would find his
will there and some personal______ 5 (instruct) which he had me pledge
myself to carry out with absolute fidelity.
After I had retired for the night I have seen him from my window
standing in th e______ 6 (moon) on the brink of the bluff overlooking
the Hudson with his arms stretched out to the heavens as though in appeal.
I thought at the time that he was praying,_______ 7 (though) I never
understood that he was in the strict sense of the term a ______ 8 (religion)
man.
bluff [bUJ] 1 1. 1) почти вертикальный, крутой; отвесная скала, крутой обрыв,
утёс; отвесный берег
presume [prizjw.m] 1) предполагать, полагать; допускать 2) отважиться,
осмелиться
compart [кэт 'pa:t]; делить на части; перегораживать
pledge [pledf] 1• 1) а) залог; заклад; давать торжественное обещание; заверять,
обещать, клясться
fidelity [ fi'dehti, fi'deliti] верность; правильность, точность
appeal[э'рЫ] 1.1) призыв, обращение, воззвание (к кому-л.)
Exercise 14
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
During the Crusades of the 11th Century, the Knights of St. John
received______ 1 (instruct) in_______ 2 (aid) treatment from Arab and
Greek doctors. The Knights of St. John then acted as the first emergency
workers, treating soldiers on both sides of the war of the 3 (field)
and bringing in the wounded to ______ 4 (near) tents for______ 5 (far)
treatment . The concept of ambulance______ 6 (serve) started in Europe
with the Knights of St. John, at the same time it had also become common
practice for small rewards to be paid to soldiers who carried the wounded
bodies of other soldiers in for medical_______ 7 (treat).
The Suigeon-in-Chief of the French Grand Army, "Baron Dominiquie
Larrey" created the first official army medical corp. in 1792. Trained
attendants with______ 8 (equip) moved out from the field hospitals to
give first-aid to the wounded on the battlefield and/or carried them back by
stretcher,______ 9 (carts) and wagons to the field hospitals.
Motorized ambulance vehicles have been in use since the beginning
of the 20th century. In the 1950s the United States pioneered helicopter-
ambulances during the Korean War. In 1968, St Vincent's Hospital in New
York City started the first mobile_______ 10 (coronaria) care unit.
Ambulance History By Mary Beilis
wound [wu.nd] I. 1) рана; ранение; woundedраненый
attendant [a'tendant] 1.1) обслуживающее лицо, служитель
stretcher ['strefa] 1) распялка; растягивающее приспособление 2) преувеличение,
натяжка 3) носилки
coronaria венечная артерия сердца, коронарная артерия сердца
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
MARGARET KNIGHT
INVENTION OF THE PAPER BAG MACHINE
For many women inventors in years past, the invention process was
_____ 1 (two) as difficult because, in addition to th e______ 2 (hard)
of inventing, they also faced the skepticism of a world that didn’t believe
women could create something of_____ 3 (valuable). Fortunately, over the
years, that perception has been blown out of the water by women inventors
like Maigaret E. Knight, who were willing to fight for the accolades and
recognition-they 4 (question) deserved.
Bom in Maine in 1838 and raised by a widowed mother, Maigaret Knight
showed a proclivity toward inventing from a very young age - a ______ 5
(character) of many of the world's famous inventors. After observing an
accident at a textile mill at the age of 12, Maigaret went to work producing
Английский язык. Сборник олимпиадных заданий. 9-11 классы
Exercise 16
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
Exercise 17
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word form.
_______ 1 (connect) the USB cable_______2 (proper) may cause
serious damage to the device or USB power_______ 3 (adapt).
Any damage caused by______ 4 (use) is not covered by the______ 5
(warrant).
Plug the USB power adapter into a power outlet. If the device receives
a n ______ 6 (stability) power supply while 7 (chaige), the
touch screen may not function. If this happens,_______ 8 (plug) the
USB cable from the device.
The device may heat up while chaining. This is normal and should not
affect your device’s______ 9 (span) or_______ 10 (perform).
damage ['deemid;] вред, повреждение; дефект, поломка; убыток, ущерб, урон
device [di’vais] устройство, приспособление; механизм; аппарат, машина, прибор
warrant [ ’ж>ф)ш] предписание; приказ; гарантировать, обеспечивать
outlet ['outlet] выход, проход; штепсельная розетка
charge [fa.dj] заряжать (оружие; аккумулятор)
plug [pUg] пробка, затычка; вставить, воткнуть вилку в розетку
span [spcen] промежуток времени; период времени
Грамматика
Задания на употребление
правильных грамматических форм
Рекомендации:
Внимательно прочитайте весь текст/предложение, определите
по обстоятельствам времени или по имеющимся глагольным фор
мам, в каком времени написан текст/предложение.
Подумайте, какую форму глагола имел в виду автор: личную, ин
финитив, герундий или причастие.
Посмотрите, нужна ли Вам форма активного или пассивного
залога.
Определите, относится ли действие, выраженное глаголом,
к настоящему, прошедшему или будущему, описывает ли оно то, что
случилось до других событий.
После этого поставьте нужную для этого предложения форму гла
гола.
Произнесите про себя предложение и убедитесь, что оно не режет
Вам слух.
Завершив выполнение задания, убедитесь, что Вы:
• образовали формы от данных на полях опорных слов;
• образовали форму, которая выполняет нужную роль
в предложении, не нарушает общего смысла и подходит по контексту;
• не допустили орфографических ошибок.
Английский язык. Сборник олимпиадных заданий. 9-11 классы
Exercise 1
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
THE COCK AND THE NIGHTINGALE
A nightingale sat on a farm-yard gate. He_____ 1 (see) many hens
and cocks in the farm-yard. Suddenly he saw a cock who walked proudly
among the hens as though the whole farm-yard belonged to him.
A little later the nightingale began______ 2 (sing), and all the birds
except the cock gathered round and listened attentively.
They______ 3 (be) glad to hear such beautiful music. The cock was
angry, because nobody 4 (pay) attention to him. So he began______
5 (crow) loudly, and after each crow he flapped his wings.
A small bird who______ 6 (happen) to be near asked the nightingale:
“What’s the matter with the cock?”
“Oh,” answered the nightingale, “this cock______ 7 (try) to sing, but
nobody applauds him, so he has_______ 8 (clap) his own hands!”
Exercise 2
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
The storm _____ 1 (go) on for six days. We were so far from the right
course that no one on board_____ 2 (know) where we were. Our courage
______ 3 (sink). The m asts______ 4 (cut) down. The boat sprang
several leaks a n d _____ 5 (begin) to fill with water. My four sons, Fritz,
Ernest, Jack and young Francis,______ 6 (cling) to me in fright. My wife,
Elizabeth, wiped the tears from her cheeks. We all _____ 7 (fall) to our
knees and began to pray.
At this moment a cry of, “Land! Land!” _____ 8 (hear) through the
roaring of the waves. Instantly, the ship______ 9 (strike) against the rock.
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Exercise 3
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
THE OBSERVING EYE
An old man, while_____ 1 (travel) alone in the desert, met two riders,
who were very sad. “_____ 2 you (lose) a camel?” he said,“Indeed we
have.”
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“Was he not blind of his right eye, and lame of his left hind leg?”
______ 3 (continue) the old man. “Yes, yes, he was.”
“He had no front teeth, either?"
“Oh, that is him!”
“And he______ 4 (carry) honey on one side and wheat on the other?”
“That is our camel. Bring him here, and we______ 5 (pay) you.”
“Not so fast, my friends,” said the old man. “I never_____ 6 (see) your
camel.”
“It’s a lie!” cried the riders. “You know all about him! You have stolen
our camel!” They_____ 7 (seize) the old man and brought him to the
court.
The old man said that he wanted to speak to the judge.
“I have lived long,” he said, “and I always______ 8 (use) my eyes.
While travelling in the desert, I______ 9 (see) the track of a camel. ‘This is
the track of a stray camel, thought I, as there______ 10 (be) no marks of
human footsteps on the same path.
“Besides the camel was blind of one eye, as he ate the grass on one
side of the path only. And he must be lame of one leg. This I_____
11 (understand) from the faint mark of one of his hind feet on the sand.
‘He must have no front teeth either,’ thought I, ‘because there______
12 (be) a small tuft of grass in the middle of each bite.’
“And the ants on one side of the path, and the flies on the other______
13 (tell) me about the load of the camel.
“So these two men______ 14 (be) wrong when they say that I have
stolen their camel. I know how to look and see things, that is all.”
The judge_______ 15 (satisfy) and set the old man free.
Exercise 4
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
The planks and beams of the ship_____ 1 (separate) with horrible
crashes. We thought of the life boats and feared they m ust_____ 2 (sink)
under the foaming water.
We 3 (prepare) a small meal. The boys ate, but Elizabeth
and I had little appetite. The children 4 (go) to bed and, exhausted,
soon______ 5 (snore) soundly. Elizabeth and I sat up, afraid and anxious.
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We passed this awful night and welcomed with joy the first gleam of
light in the morning. The winds____ в (die) down, the sky had become
peaceful, and hope throbbed in my chest.
But how would we get to land? Ernest wanted to build a raft.
“That 7 (be) a good idea, ” I answered, “if we had the materials to
make one. But come, my boys, look around the ship and see what you can
find that might help us.”
"Swiss Family Robinson "by Johann Wyss
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
“He______ 1 (walk) here,” Albert, his great nephew, told me. “When
he got to the gate, he made me stop the car and said he_______ 2 (want)
to walk.”
“And mind you, I ________ 3 (not be) out of my bed for two years.
They carried me down and________ 4 (put) me in the car. I thought I
_________ 5 (not walk) again, but when I _________ 6 (see) those elm-
trees, I felt I _______ 7 (can) walk. I walked down that drive fifty-two
years ago when I went away and now I 3 (walk) back again. ”
“Silly, I call it,” said Mrs. Meadows.
“It________ 9 (do) me good. I feel better and stronger than I have felt
for ten years. I _______ 10 (see) you out yet, Emily!”
“Don’t be too sure, ” she answered.
I suppose no one_______ 11 (call) Mrs. Meadows by her first name
for a generation. It gave me a little shock, as though the old man were
taking a liberty with her. She_______ 12 (look) at him with a shrewd
smile in her eyes and he,______ 13 (talk) to her, grinned with his toothless
gums. It was strange______ 14 (look) at them, these two old people who
____ 15 (see) one another for half a century, and_______ 16 (think)
that all that long time ago h e _______ 17 (love) her and she had loved
another. I wondered if they______ 18 (remember) what they had felt
then and what they had said to one another. I wondered if it_______ 19
(seem) to him strange now that because of that old woman he______ 20
(leave) the home of his fathers, and lived an exile’s life.
"Home"
by Somerset Maugham
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Exercise 6
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
If you had seen little J o _____ 1 (stand) at the street corner in the
rain, you hardly_______ 2 (admire) him. It was apparently an ordinary
autumn rainstorm, but the water which_______ 3 (fall) upon Jo (who
was hardly old enough to be either just or unjust, and so perhaps_____ 4
(not come) under the law of impartial distribution) appeared to have some
property peculiar to itself: one 5 (say) it was dark and adhesive —
sticky. But that_____ 6 (can) hardly be so, even in Blackburg, where
things certainly did occur that were a good deal out of the common.
For example, ten or twelve years before, a shower of small frogs_____ 7
(fall), as is credibly attested by a contemporaneous chronicle, the record
______ 8 (conclude) with a somewhat obscure statement to the effect that
the chronicler____ 9 (consider) it good growing-weather for Frenchmen.
Exercise 7
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
“Jane, I_____ (go) 1 mad —that is it. ” He spoke thickly and hurriedly.
“You should______ (tell) 2 me; you must________ (observe) 3 my
symptoms before they became so pronounced that I have observed them
myself. I thought I _____ (pass) 4 Deemer’s store; it _ _ _ _ _ (open)
5 and lit up —that is what I thought; of course it____ (be) 6 never open
now. Silas Deemer stood at his desk behind the counter. My God, Jane,
I saw him as distinctly as I see you._______ (Remember) 7 that you
__________ (say) 8 you wanted some maple sirup, I went in and_______
(buy) 9 some —that is all —I bought two quarts of maple sirup from Silas
Deemer, who ______ (be) 10 dead and underground, but nevertheless
_______ (draw) 11 that sirup from a .cask and handed it to me in a jug.
"AJug of Syrup"by Ambrose Bierce
Exercise 8
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
I taught a little country school near Brownville, which, as everyone
knows who 1 (have)_______ the good luck to live there, is the capital
of a considerable expanse of the finest scenery in California. The town is
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Exercise 9
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms.
The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths
_____ 1 (sleep) now for half a million years. Yet in a little while, thought
Reinhold, the island_______ 2 (bathe) with fires fiercer than any that
had attended its birth. He glanced towards th e ________ 3 (launch)
site, and his gaze climbed the pyramid of scaffolding that still surrounded
the Columbus. Two hundred feet above the ground, the ship’s prow
_________ 4 (catch) the last rays of the descending sun. This was one of
the last nights it would ever know: soon it________ 5 (float) in the eternal
sunshine of space.
It was quiet here beneath the palms, high up on the rocky spine of
the island. The only sound from the Project was the occasional________ 6
(yammer) of an air compressor or the faint shout of a workman. Reinhold
had grown fond of these clustered palms; almost every evening he______ 7
(come) here to survey his little empire. I t______ 8 (sadden) him to think
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Exercise 2
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks
with the necessary forms of the words.
The Shoshone Indians under their great and wise chief, Washakie,
cooperated_____ 1 (enthusiasm) with the US cavalry in the wars against
the Sioux, a much more______ 2 (power) tribe, who______ 3 (be)
their sworn enemies. Today some of the Indians, especially those of mixed
blood, run cattle on the rich_______ 4 (reserve) which they______ 5
(receive). Tlieir ancient culture is______ 6 (proper) to the modem scene
and, particularly those with purely Native American blood and family
background______ 7 (have) a hard time adjusting to a situation which
has so totally changed. These people were nomads, warriors and hunters.
Except for hunting, these pursuits______ 8 (frown) upon by our society
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Exercise 6
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks
with the necessary forms of the words.
The history of the United States Postal Service is an_____ 1 (go) story
of enormous depth and breadth, rooted in a single, great principle: that
every person in the United States —no matter who, no matter where —has
the right to equal access to secure, efficient, and_____ 2 (afford) mail
service. For more than 231 years, the Postal Service______ 3 (deliver)
on that promise,______ 4 (transform) itself to better serve its customers.
For centuries, our universal mail system______ 5 (strong) the bonds
o f ______ 6 (friend), family, and community. Our system______ 7
(courage) civil discourse, disseminated information, and bolstered the
national economy — both as the hub of a vital industry and as a trusted
courier of the nation’s and world’s _____ 8 (busy).
The Postal Service has seized upon and immediately investigated new
______ 9 (technique) to see if it would improve service —mail distribution
cases in the 18th century; steamboats, trains, and______ 10 (mobile) in
the 19th century; and planes, letter sorting machines, and automation in
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the 20th century. Today, computerized equipment helps sort and distribute
hundreds of millions of pieces of mail each day.
Exerc ise 7
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks
with the necessary forms of the words.
Exercise 2
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct
and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be
there, write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 4
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn't be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 5
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 6
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 7
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 8
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
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correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 10
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 11
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
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correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn't be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 14
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn't be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
1. Doing a Great Wall of China Tour is a must
2. for first-time visitors to Beijing. Most all
3. of the travellers are puzzled in which section
4. ofthe wall they should visit? Opposite to the wrong
5. conception that the Wall is running in an unbroken
6. line across north China, the Great Wall of the
7. China doesn’t form a present continuous line —
8. the Waif is in bits, same as the Wall around
9. Beijing. The Great Wall was being built in
10. different times and dynasties. All these bits
11. and pieces overlap in time and around place.
12, So, which section ought to go to ifyon plan a Great
13. Wall Tour?
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Exercise 15
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
Exercise 16
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are
correct and some have a word that mustn’t be there. Put (+) if the line is
correct in space on the right. If a line has a word that should not be there,
write the word in the space on the right.
could slip on the salty glaze that covers its shore. It is like nowhere else on
earth.
Su______ ed 4 by the Jordan River, plus other smaller streams and
springs, the Dead Sea has no exit point and is located in Israel and Jordan.
It is near the famous are_______ al 5 sites of Masada and Qumran.
Exercise 3
Complete the missing words in the text.
OCTOPUS
The Common Octopus eats many types of sh_____ sh 1, and they
are particularly fond of crabs. They usually leave the re____ ns 2 of their
meals lying around close to their hiding place, and these ‘middens’ give a
good idea of exactly what the in_______ al 3 has eaten lately. All octopus
are opportunistic hunters, and there are occasional surprises (watch
this video of a shark-octopus en______ er 4!).
The Common Octopus can be caught by bottom trawls, or by using
special unbaited ‘octopus pots’ (which the animal presumably uses as a
hiding place). More than 20,000 tonnes are caught each year, and there is
concern that this might eventually begin to r_______ ce 5 their numbers.
Exercise 4
Complete the missing words in the text.
There was a light br_____ e 1just enough to whisper through the leaves.
Furtig lay belly down on the broad 1 b 2 of the tree, hunter-fashion,
but his claws were still in his belt loop, not strapped on. No sn____ f 3 of
that breeze brought any useful sc t 4 to his expanded nostrils. He
had climbed the tree not for a base from which to make a good capture-
leap, but to see what lay beyond. However, now he knew that he must climb
higher still. The leaves were too thick a sc___ n 5 here.
Breed to Come by Andre Norton.
Exercise 5
Read the text. Fill each gap with a suitable word.
I had gone not more than a q er 1 of the way when, finding an
interest in the antics of a family of lizards which dwelt thereabout and
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seemed full of re_____ an 2 joy for their immunity from the ills incident
to life at the Brownville House, I sat upon a fallen tree to ob ve 3
them. As I leaned wearily a_____ st 4 . a branch of the gnarled old trunk
the twilight deepened in the somber woods and the faint new moon began
casting visible sh____ ws 5 and gilding the leaves of the trees with a tender
but ghostly light.
"An Adventure at Brownville " by Ambrose Bierce
Exercise 6
Complete the missing words in the text.
W_______ r 1 you own just a few Phalaenopsis hyrids as «house
plants» or are r_____ у 2 to begin the w_____ ul 3 hobby of orchids, we
have all the information you need to keep your orchids he____ у 4 so that
they will b______ m 5 bigger.and better next year!
Exercise 7
Complete the missing words in the text.
Take your beef out of the fridge 30 minutes before it g_____ s 1 into
the oven. Preheat your oven to 240°C/475°F/ gas 9. There’s no need to peel
the ve_____ les 2 .— just give them a wash and r lv 3 chop them.
Break the garlic bulb into cloves, leaving them unpeeled.
Pile all the veg, garlic and herbs into the mi le 4 of a laige roasting
tray and drizzle with olive oil. Drizzle the beefwith olive oil and s_____ on
5 well with salt and pepper, rubbing it all over the meat. Place the beef on
top of the vegetables.
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Exercise 8
Complete the missing words in the text.
There are several reasons why the PDF file f____ at 1 is so popular
for exchanging all sorts of documents including pre________ ns 2., CAD
drawings, invoices and even legal forms.
PDF files are generally more с_____ t 3 (smaller in size) than the
source document and they preserve the original formatting.
Unlike Word and other popular document formats, the content of a
PDF file cannot be m_____ d 4 easily. You can also prevent other users
from printing or copying text from PDF documents.
You can open a PDF file on any computer or mobile device with free
software like Adobe Acrobat Reader. Google Chrome can r___ d 5.PDFs
without requiring plugins and it can create PDFs.
Exercise 9
Complete the missing words in the text.
What is a CV?
Curriculum Vitae: an outline of a person's educational and professional
hi___ у 1, usually prepared for job applications (L, lit.: the course of one's
life). Another name for a CV is a r______ 6 2.
A CV is the most fl_____ le 3 and convenient way to make applications.
It conveys your p_____ al 4 . details in the way that presents you in the best
possible light. A CV is a marketing document in which you are marketing
something: yourself! You need to "sell" your skills, abilities, qualifications
and experience to e s 5. It can be used to make multiple applications
to employers in a specific career area. For this reason, many large graduate
recruiters will not accept CVs and instead use their own application form.
Exercise 10
Complete the missing words in the text.
Exercise 2
Read the text. Fill each gap with a suitable word:
around all glass about feel tightly spread
scared nasty anxiously
Higher and higher rushed the Great Glass Elevator until soon they
could see the countries and oceans of the Earth_____ 1 out below them
like a map. It was______ 2 very beautiful, but when you are standing on a
______3 floor looking down, it gives you a _______4 feeling. Even Charlie
was beginning t o ______5 frightened now. He hung o n _______6 to
Grandpa Joe’s hand and looked up_______7 into the old man’s face. ‘I’m
_______8, Grandpa,’ he said.
Grandpa Joe put an arm_________9 Charlie’s shoulders and held him
close. ‘So am I, Charlie,’ he said.
‘Mr Wonka! ’ Charlie shouted. ‘Don’t you think this is_______10 high
enough?’
"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" by Dahl Roald
board at all, not even an astronaut. The reason for this was that no one
had really believed such an enormous thing would ever get off the ground
without blowing up.
" Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”by Dahl Roald
Exercise 4
Read the text. Fill each gap with a suitable word:
laughed extent obey will bring generally from young
awaited shrewd famous
As she turned t o _____1 he called after her, ‘Tell them I’m going
t o ______2 a young man with me — such a nice_____3 man, and an
excellent dancer. All the girls______4 like him.’ Then h e ______5 and
closed the door.
Her father______6 kept his doings secret_______7 everybody, but
she had a pretty______8 suspicion of what he had been planning, and so,
to a certain_______9, was able to prepare the guests for what was coming.
Anticipation ran high, and the arrival of the 10 mechanist was
eagerly_______11.
" The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome
Exercise 5
Read the text. Fill each gap with a suitable word:
next fewer chat bosom naturally one criticizing
absorbed dropped notice
During the afternoon of the______1 day some three or four of Olga’s
___ 2 friends, who had also been present at the b a ll,______3 in to
have a _______4 about it. They_______5 fell to discussing the men, and
to _______ _6 their dancing. Old Geibel was in the room, but he appeared
to be________7 in his newspaper, and the girls took n o______8 of him.
‘There seem to be_____9 men who can dance at every ball you go to,’
said_______10 of the girls.
Read the text. Fill each gap with a suitable word:
gone thoughtful prone workshop himself then
through bearing enjoying couple
After the girls were______1, he went into his______2, where Olga
heard him walking up and down, and every now and______3 chuckling
to ______4; and that night he talked to her a good deal about dancing and
dancing men, asked what dances were most popular what steps were gone
_____ _5, with many other questions________6 on the subject.
Then for a ______ 7 of weeks he kept much to his factory, and was very
8 and busy, though _______ 9 at unexpected moments to
break into a quiet low laugh, as if 10 a joke that nobody else knew of.
Exercise 7
Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar forms:
twisted conceived remarked inclined pleasure again
Lieutenant impression appeared back askance
The old gentleman_____ 1 one of the buttons at th e ______ 2 of his
coat, and immediately Fritz opened his mouth, and in thin tones that
_______3 to proceed from the back of his head,_______4 suddenly,
‘May I have the______5?’ and then shut his mouth______6 with a snap.
«That_____ 7 Fritz had made a strong 8 on the company was
undoubted, yet none of the girls seemed______ 9 to dance with him. They
looked______ 10 at his waxen face, with its staring eyes and fixed smile, and
shuddered. At last old Geibel came to the girl who had_____ 11 the idea.
chance of characteristic of
cheque for clever at
choice between connected with
comparison between conscious of
contrast with content with
control over crazy about
cost of crowded with
credit for curious about
characteristic of dissatisfied with
danger of doubtful about
out of date delighted at/about
debate about / on derived from
decision about / on different from
dedication to disappointed with
demand for eager for
desire for eligible for
difficulty in/with enthusiastic about
doubt about excellent in/at
effect on excited about
exception to experienced in
excerpt from exposed to
experience of/in envious of
fall in of faithful to
fondness for familiar with
in general famous for
grudge against fed up with
habit of free of/from
hold on frightened of
on holiday friendly with
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in a hurry fond of
increase/decrease in, of furious about
information about furnished with
interest in full of
involvement with generous with/about
knowledge of guilty of/about
lack of gentle with
link with good at
on loan grateful to
for lunch happy about
method of hopeful of/about
medicine for identical with/to
memory of immune to
to my mind impressed with
notice of inferior to
in my opinion indifferent to
order for innocent of
out of order interested in
on the phone involved with
possibility of incapable of
preference for jealous of
price of kind to
at a good price keen on
problem of late for
protection from limited to
quarrel With lucky at
reaction to nervous of/about
recipe for notorious for
reference to opposed to
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suitable for
sure of/about
superior to
surprised at
suspicious of
sympathetic with
terrible at
terrified of
tired of
thankful to/for
thrilled with
troubled with
typical of
unaware of
upset about
used to
wrong with/about
worried about
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Exercise 1
Complete the sentences with the correct preposition or particle.
1. Please excuse me_______ 1 being rude. I won’t do it again
2. Do you expect good work_____2 Kate? Sometimes she is so careless.
3. She is a promising writer. How do you feel_____3 her new book?
4. My cousin g o t______ 4 his quinsy very quickly. Tomorrow he’s
coming to school.
5 .1 wonder how she managed to get_______5 college, she has always
been a bit stupid, to put it mildly.
6. Good bye! My best regards______6 your parents.
7. Just look at him! What’s he hinting_______7?
8 .1 heard somebody knocking______8 the door.
9. Peter lagged________ _9 again. Shall we carry some of his things?
10. Deer live_______10 grass.
Exercise 2
Complete the sentences with the correct preposition or particle.
1. Butter is made________ 1 milk.
2. The house is made_______2 wood.
3. You may write_______3 a pencil.
4. We moved_______4 a new flat two years ago.
5. Mr. Finch objected_____5 your plan and I think he was right.
6 .1 have always preferred tea________6 coffee.
7. The chairman reported_______7 home affairs.
8. Have you heard the latest news? He is going to run______8 President.
9. Hurry up! We are running_______9 of time.
10. You won’t deceive me! I see you ___________ 10
Exercise 3
Complete the sentences with the correct preposition or particle.
1. I’m awfully sorry I took you______1 a porter.
2. Though she is very stubborn he talked her______2 buying a vacuum
cleaner. He is the best shop assistant.
3. You will have to wait. The committee are looking_______3 the
matter.
4 .1think I could borrow some money_________4 my granny!
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Exercise 6
Complete the sentences with the correct preposition or particle.
1. At last I’m ______ 1 with this work! Now I may have a little rest.
2. Don’t worry, I’ll back you_______ 2 at the meeting.
3. The woman you are asking for checked_____3 in the morning.
4. — Listen students. Who wants to attend extra classes in Maths? — I
do. Count me______4.
5 .1 can’t figure______5 how it all happened and why.
6. It’s too late. I must be_________6 now.
7. There is little contact_______7 the partners. That’s why their
business is falling_________8.
8. It was already late when the train pulled ________ 9 so we had to take
a taxi to get home.
9. A bill_______ 10 electricity came three days ago and it is still unpaid.
Exercise 7
Complete the sentences with the correct preposition or particle.
1. He thinks the cause________1 our problems is a low temperature.
He is sure we must heat the liquid.
2. Put_______ 2 your cigarette sir. You mustn’t.smoke in here.
3. The concert was called_______ 3 because the actor got ill.
4 .1waited for him in the morning but he showed_____4 at noon.
5 .1 don’t think your attitude_______5 your sister is very good.
6. There was a very interesting film yesterday so I sat______6 too late.
7. Sorry, I took your bag_______7 mistake.
8. We are going to the caf6. Will you come_______8?
9. The director went__________9 a short business trip to London.
10. Your essay isn’t good. You must do it________10.
Exercise 8
Complete the sentences with the correct preposition or particle.
1. Her bright red dress stood_______1 on the white and blue garments
of her companions.
2. We usually eat_________2 when it is warm and the weather is nice.
3. They say Alexander the Great knew all his soldiers________3 name.
4. The boy suspected his classmate_______4 cheating at the maths
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“I’m listening, ” said the latter, grimly surveying the board as he stretched
11 his hand. “Check.”
“I should hardly think that he’d come tonight,” said his father, with his
hand poised______12 the board.
“Mate,” replied the son.
"The Monkey’s Paw"
by W.W. Jacobs
3.1 . this box for days and haven’t even tried to open it.
A was carrying С am carrying
В carried D have been carrying
4 . I’ll see you as soon as I back.
A will have come С came
В will come Dcome
5. You______Daze yesterday. She is still out of town.
A couldn’t see С couldn’t have seen
В cannot see D cannot have seen
6. Did your husband really let your son_____ there?
A went В goes С go Dtogo
7. Everyone was surprised_______the news.
A about В at С because Dof
8. Sam is known_ . causing problems for everybody.
A of В for С at D with
9. Would you mind_________ the window?
A my open С me open
В my opening D my to open
10. Your problems are similar______ours.
A like В on С to Dwith
11. My papers aren’t on the table. But I remember _ them there.
A put С having put
В putting D to put
12.1 could never be bored______football.
A with Bat Con D about
13. Heathrow and Gatwick are the two airports___ London.
A about В of С for D next to
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Listening Comprehension
Task 1. Listen to the instructions: “ Giving Directions” and put the titles in
order you will hear them (there is one extra title):
A. Outline the entire route.
B. Give them a drop dead point.
C. Specify distance.
D. Have them repeat the directions to you.
E. Indicate turns.
F. Simplify the directions.
G. Think of the simplest route.
H. Say which side of the street their destination is on.
I. Warn them about any confusing parts of the route.
Task 2. Listen to the instructions again and write in description of which
step you can hear the following phrases:
1. Shortcuts may be faster_______
2. There are several different ways to tell them:________
3. poor navigation skills__________
4. Give a few extra details.________
5. This works better in a city than in the country.______
6. or a road they need to turn onto is small or hidden,________
7. the route you laid out for them._________
8. Detailed directions are useless________
9. Try to sound naturally________
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Reading Comprehension
Task 1. You are going to read an article. Five sentences have been removed
from it. Choose from sentences A-F the one that fits each gap.
There’s one extra sentence which you don't need.
A. whilst they themselves lived a free and merry life on the tolls they
exacted
B. the keeping of the peace and the maintenance of justice had been
left largely to private and family enterprise
C. these bold stories was probably based on a desire to give Robin a
pedigree as old as Romul’s
D. the older chivalry was slowly breaking up, and a new, wealthy burgher
and trading community
E. though as yet the king had to depend in large measure upon the
co-operation of his barons
F. soon acquired heroic reputation and was credited with every daring
deed
ROBINHOOD
ENGLAND during the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries
was slowly taught the value of firm administrative government. In Saxon
England,_________ 1 and to local and trading communities. In Norman
England, the royal authority was asserted throughout the kingdom,
_______ 2 and the help of the burghers to supply the lack of a standing
army and an adequate police. Under the Plantagenets,_______ 3 was
rapidly gaining influence in the land; whilst the clergy, corrupted by excess
of wealth and power, had strained, almost to breaking, the controlling force
of religion was therefore natural that in these latter days a class of men
should arise to avail themselves of the unique opportunities of the time —
men who, loving liberty and hating oppression, took the law into their own
hands and executed a rough and ready justice between the rich and the poor
which embodied the best traditions of knight-errantry, _______4 from
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their wealthy victims. Such a man may well have been the original Robin
Hood, a man who, when once he had captured the popular imagination,
_______5 and every magnanimous action in two centuries of‘freebooting.’
Task 2. Find words and phrases in the text which mean the same as the
following
t . a means of support; livelihood_______________
2. to insist upon (rights, claims, etc.)______________
3. the collective body of men and women ordained as religious ministers,
esp of the Christian Church_______________
4. to be of use, advantage, profit, or assistance (to)______________
5. to give a tangible, bodily, or concrete form to (an abstract concept)
6. robbing_________________
7. a citizen of a town or city, typically a member of the wealthy
bourgeoisie___________
Task 3.The paragraphs in the text are mixed. Restore the text and put the
letters in the correct order.
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I smiled and shook my head. “I can quite understand your thinking
so.” I said. “Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper
to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout three continents, you :
are brought in contact with all that is strange and bizarre. But here” — I
picked up the morning paper from the ground — “let us put it to a practical
test. Here is the first heading upon which I come. ‘A husband’s cruelty to
his wife.’ There is half a column of print, but I know without reading it
that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is. of course, the other woman,
the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady.
The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.”
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“And yet I am not convinced of it, ” I answered. “The cases which come
to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and vulgar enough. We
have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the
result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.”
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He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in the centre
of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his homely ways and simple
life that I could not help commenting upon it.
“Ah,” said he, “I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. It is a
little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my assistance in the
case of the Irene Adler papers.”
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“My dear fellow.” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the
fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything
which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the
things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly
out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove
the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange
coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of
events, working through generation, and leading to the most outre results,
it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions
most stale and unprofitable. ”
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“A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a realistic
effect, ” remarked Holmes. “This is wanting in the police report, where more
stress is laid, perhaps, upon the platitudes of the magistrate than upon the
details, which to an observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter.
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.”
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“And the ring?” I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which
sparkled upon his finger.
“It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in
which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it even
to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of my little
problems.”
“And h^ye you any on hand just now?” I asked with interest.
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“Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument,” said
Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. “This is the Dundas
separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged in clearing up some small
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points in connection with it. The husband was a teetotaler, there was no
other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into
the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling
them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to occur to
the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor,
and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.”
"A Case o f Identity"
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Use of English
Time: 45 minutes
Task 1. For questions 1— 10 fill in the gaps with the correct words. Use
only one word for each gap.
I’m here to talk to you about changing your life. A lot of people I
talk to treat their life like it’s some sort of sentient machine that moves
continuously, independently, (1) _______its own pace. They feel like cogs
in that machine, watching passively as it takes its course. They don’t (2)
________ just how much control they actually have over their lives.
What I need you to do is look at your life as (3) _ _ _ _ _ it is a movie
and you are the director. This is your movie. You choose the actors and
the scenes. There can be as many plot twists (4) _______you want and, if
David Lynch is (5)______proof, your movie doesn’t have to make sense
at all. It can be as wild or as calm as you want, and it is never ever too late to
turn the film (6)_______its head, scream “CUT,” and start from scratch.
So your life’s in a rut. Maybe you do the same thing every day and
the (7 ) _______is slowly driving you crazy. Maybe you’re (8)_______ a
point where you just want peace and quiet, but (9)________you have
is instability and stress. Very often, I hear people tell me they just need a
good vacation. The problem with that lies in the fact that you are taking a
vacation from your life. You do not want to be in a position where you are
trying to get (10)_______from your life. If you’ve begun to feel like this,
it’s time to think about introducing real change.
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Task 2. For questions 11— 15 think of one word only which can be used
appropriately in all three sentences. Here is an example:
MAKE
A) How'much money did you___________ last year?
B) At the moment he’s got to ____________a great effort to pay o ff his
debt.
C) W hat____________is his car? — I guess it's Nissan.
11.
A) The girl_______her eyes down modestly.
B) It was the last______of the dice for the old party of the aristocracy.
C) His countenance assumed a deeper______of dejection.
12.
A) The troops retreated through enemy______
B) Then from the_______menu on the bottom of the window, click
"Show speaker notes".
C) It’s extremely important that you take_______to prevent your site
from infecting others.
13.
A) I returned hungry, weary and_______.
B) I let my hair________naturally.
C) During the____season, we had four hours of water every fourth day.
14.
A) A cat may______at a king
B) Themes allow you to customize the______and feel of your Google
Mail account.
C) So take a long, hard______at your contribution to the company.
15.
A) The girls______their hair short.
B) Her shock began to ______off.
C) My patience is beginning to ______thin.
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Task 3. Read the text. Use the word given in brackets to form a word that
fits in the space on the same line.
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange_______16 (script) to you in
book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable______17
(person) will be of interest.
My first_______18 (collect) of Captain Carter is of the few months he
spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the civil
war. I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the
tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack.
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the
children with the same______19 (heart) good_______ 20 (fellow) he
displayed toward those______21 (time) in which the men and women of
his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining
my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the
world. We all loved him, and our slaves______22 (fair) worshipped the
ground he trod.
He was a splendid specimen o f _____23 (man), standing a good
two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the
carriage of the trained fighting man. His features were regular and clear
cut, his hair black and closely cropped, while his eyes were of a steel gray,
reflecting a strong and loyal character, filled with fire and initiative. His
manners were perfect, and h is_______24 (court) was that of a typical
southern_______25 (man) of the highest type.
"aprincess of mars"
By Edgar Шее Burroughs
Task 4. Read the text. Complete the missing words in this text.
OCTOPUS
The Common Octopus eats many types of sh_______sh 26, and they
are particularly fond of crabs. They usually leave the r e _____ns 27 of
their meals lying around close to their hiding place, and these ‘middens’
give a goodjdea of exactly what the i n _______al 28 has eaten lately.
All octopus are opportunistic hunters, and there are occasional surprises
(watch the video of a shark-octopus en _______er 29!).
The Common Octopus can be caught by bottom trawls, or by using
special unbaited ‘octopus pots’ (which the animal pr ______ ly 30 uses as
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a hiding place). More than 20,000 tonnes are caught each year, and there is
concern that this might eventually begin to reduce their numbers.
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Writing
Write an essay under the title “ Watching Sport or Doing It”.
You should write 250— 300 words.
Time: 45 minutes
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Tapescript:
There are two basic ways to give directions, the “route perspective”
characterized by landmarks, and the “survey perspective” characterized by
references to cardinal directions (north, south, west, east). The system you
use depends on where you are and who you’re giving directions to. Most of
the time it’s best to use a combination. The most important thing is to be
brief and clear!
First think of the easiest way. Shortcuts may be faster, but they can also
be more complicated! If the person is lost or has poor navigation skills to
begin with, give them directions with minimal turns.
Second tell how far along a particular road does the person need to go?
There are several different ways to tell them:
How many blocks or streets they’ll pass. This works better in a city
than in the country. How many traffic lights they’ll pass. This is good, but
you must be right about the number! For example: “You are going to pass
three traffic lights before the turn.”, or: “Go 3 miles on Holypoke Road”
Third. Name a landmark that tells them that they’ve gone too far and
have missed their turn. For example: “If you see the library, you have gone
too far.”
Fburth. Give a few extra details. Otherwise, tell them to make a
left or right. Give them a street name and one landmark (a traffic light,
a particular store). If the person you’re giving directions to is good with
cardinal directions (north, south, west, east) and/or the city you’re in is
laid out like a grid (with all the streets perpendicular, running east-west or
north-south) indicate the direction, too. For example: “Turn a left at the
traffic light onto Foster, heading east.”
Fifth. Try to sound naturally, don’t be too bookish or too colloquial. For
example: “Turn left onto Baker Street” instead of “At Baker Street, turn
left.”
Sixth. If a lane ends or is right turn only, or a road they need to turn
onto is small or hidden, you might want to mention that. If there’s a turn
that you know people tend to miss, tell them how they’ll know they’ve
gone too far. For example: “The lane is going to теще before the turn, and
Baker street will become Forest Street. But you will want to keep travelling
down it once it becomes Forest Street.”
Seventh. Remember to be concise. Detailed directions are useless if you
give so many details that the person driving gets confused. For example:
“Make a left on Baker street, then a right at the second light, and go straight
all the way down that road until you get to the highway, it should be about
three miles. Stay on the highway for three minutes and then get off on exit
7. We are the third house on the left. If you see the library, you have gone
too far.”
Eighth. Whether or not they’ve written them down, make sure they
heard you correctly and understand the route you laid out for them. For
example: “So you said left on Baker street, then a right at the second light,
and go straight all the way down that road until you get to the highway. Get
off on exit 7. And it’s the third house on the left. If I pass the library, I went
too far.”
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Speaking
Student 1
Task 1.
(Monologue; Time: 1,5— 2 minutes)
In a minute you will have to speak on hobbies. What do you think a
hobby is. Do you think it can help you in your life? What hobbies are the
most popular in your country/among your friends?
Task 2.
(Dialogue; Time: 3— 5 minutes)
Discuss with your partner whether you can call playing computer
games a hobby or not. You think that they are hobbies. Give arguments
and examples in support of your opinion. You may or may not come to
an agreement with your partner. Remember it is a discussion and not a
monologue.
Task 1.
(Dialogue; Time: 3— 5 minutes)
Discuss with your partner whether you can call playing computer
games a hobby or not. You think that they are not hobbies. Give arguments
and examples in support of your opinion. You may or may not come to
an agreement with your partner. Remember it is a discussion and not a
monologue.
Task 2.
(Monologue; Time: 1,5— 2 minutes)
In a minute you will have to speak on hobbies. What do you think a
hobby is? Why do people take up hobbies? How hobbies can help people in
their life?
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TEST 2
Listening Comprehension
Task 1. Listen to the story about modern gadgets and fill in the blanks:
1. Modem gadgets have made us__________________ to machines.
2. but also made them more comfortable and_____________.
3. No cooking without LPG cylinder or_________________ .
4. If electricity fails,_______________________ to a standstill
5. are operated with it be it AC, TV, computer, a telephone,
Reading Comprehension
Time: 45 minutes
PARTI
Task 1. You are going to read an article. Five sentences have been removed
from it. Choose from sentences A-G the one that fits each gap.
There’s one extra sentence which you don’t need
A. it became a natural centre for the road system and roads from all the
great towns
B. The foresight of its founders gave London several advantages.
C. There were important trading posts strung out along it and such
places as at Egham, and Brentford.
D. a highway for seaborne raiders into the heart of the land or a defensive
border in a war zone
E. that it was practicable to build a bridge
F. without being dependent on the vagaries of the wind
G. The bank had also been fortified with sharp stakes fixed along it
H. for long periods the boundary between tribes
THE ORIGIN OF LONDON’S SUCCESS
The fame and fortune of London is based quite simply on its position
along the Thames. 1 _______. Firstly, it offered an ideal route into the
heart of Britain for sea borne trade. Here boats could shelter from storm,
and can take advantage of the tides to float up and down the Thames
2________. The cost of transporting goods by boat before the 19th
Century was considerably cheaper than by land and so the extra miles of
sea transport were valuable.
Secondly, the City was the furthest downstream 3 __________. On the
North Bank there was high ground and although the South Bank was prone
to flood, there were two eyots (islands) of sand and gravel for the approach
road to the first London Bridge across a generally marshy area.
Thirdly, the two hills on the north bank, Comhill and Ludgate offered
an ideal site for a City as it was south facing, well supplied with water, had
good supplies of local building materials, and was above the flood plan.
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following
1. make or become united__________
2. a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favourable or superior
position_________
3. make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide
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Task 3. The paragraphs in the text are mixed. Restore the text and put the
letters in the correct order.
smaller your shelter is, the better it will insulate you. Shelters in low, dense
shrubbery is often home to many insects.
A fourth type of shelter is the bog-bed; if your environment is perpetually
damp or mushy, use branches laid and criss-crossed on top of one another
to create a solid and dry foundation for a lean-to or open bed pad. Raise
above ground level as much as possible.
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It’s also very important to find water in the first days. Signs accompanying
dehydration are dry tongue, burning throat and dark-brown urine, at
first instances. Water can set the line between life and death. Remember
you can only survive for maximum of 3 days without water.
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Set a trap if you can’t go out to hunt. Arrange a few sticks in somewhat
half a tee pee. Use 2 more sticks to hold up the “tee pee”, similar to your
shelter. Place an item of your choice you think an animal will come after. If
you’re lucky, the animal will be trapped. Use pitfall traps for larger prey. Set
as many traps as you can.
Go after fish first if you go hunting.
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Carve a knife for hunting. Get an ordinary block of wood and hit with
a blunt rock repeatedly until the wood sharpens. Sharpen like any other
knife, but in this case, use the rock as your sharpener. You could also take a
rock and break off some of the edges and then use another rock and some
water like a wetstone and sharpen. In an ideal situation, obsidian stone
(black, translucent lava rock) would be used for its infamous sharpness.
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Use of English
Time: 45 minutes
Task 1. For questions 1— 10 fill in the gaps with the correct words. Use
only one word for each gap. The first sentence is given for you as
an example.
In the early 20th century, women relished in the liberation provided
by Coco Chanel’s relaxed designs, which allowed for movement that had
previously been restricted by corsets and over-the-top embellishments.
In the 1930s, Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn scandalized
polite society 1________wearing trousers in public, which gave women
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A) The jeans _ _ _ _ _ ill on her.
B) Please don’t ask me to ______on any more committees this year.
C) The storehouses ______ back from the main street.
12.
A ) from within made geysers erupt - that is how the oceans
were bom.
B) The game did not _ _ _ _ _ up until the second half.
C) The oppressive____made us change our plans for summer holidays.
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A) A word spoken is recalling
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Task 4. Read the text. Complete the missing words in this text.
There was a light b r ______e 26 just enough to whisper through
the leaves. Furtig lay belly down on the broad 1______b 27 of the tree,
hunter-fashion, but his claws were still in his belt loop, not strapped on.
No sn______f 28 of that breeze brought any useful scent to his expanded
no______Is 29. He had climbed the tree not for a base from which to make
a good capture-leap, but to see what lay beyond. However, now he knew
that he must climb higher still. The leaves were too thick a sc _______n
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"Breed to Come"
Andre Norton
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A website chooses the Wonders of the World and asks you to write an
essay about 2 wonders of Russia. You should write an essay and give
your reasons why the things you choose are real wonders.
You should write 250— 300 words.
Time: 45 minutes
YOU CAN USE THE OPPOSITE SIDE
Tapescript:
Modem gadgets have made us complete slaves to machines. There is
no work which cannot be done without the assistance of machines and
there is not a single area of human activity where machines don’t have to
be used. No one can deny the fact that gadgets have not only simplified
our lives but also made them more comfortable and luxurious. But on the
contrary man’s dependence on them has increased so much that we just
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cannot do without them at all. If cabs go off the road we cannot reach
our destinations. No cooking without LPG cylinder or cooking flame.
No, we can’t do even simple calculations, what to talk of washing without
washing machine or electricity. If electricity fails, life for each one of
us comes to a standstill as all gadgets are operated with it be it AC, TV,
computer, a telephone, or any other modem appliance. Perhaps there were
times when every work was done with hands be it grinding or travelling
far off places. People were tough who could walk for miles and work
ceaselessly. In modem times we can’t ascend the stairs without feeling a
burden over our stamina. Modem gadgets have completely transformed
the human life and health to a great extent. It is a fact that machines
have become like servants without which life comes to a standstill.
Thus we can say that our dependence on modem gadgets has made
us complete slaves to machines and that we have lost our spirit to work
and vitality, vigor and stamina and therefore no more good health and
cheerfulness and endurance prevails. This dependence on machines has
transformed the very human psychology. We no longer have the capacity
to hard work or bear pains or suffer inconveniences. This all has resulted
in increased irritation, tensions, worries and anger. Consequently, human
nature is now short-sighted in human values and aspects. Thus ‘slavery’
has made us pleasure-seeking ‘animals’ who care only for animal comforts.
Speaking
Student 1
Task 1.
(Monologue; Time: 1,5— 2 minutes)
In a minute you will talk about holidays. Talk about active holidays.
Why do people go to the mountains, boating or do any other activities?
What would you prefer? Why?
Task 2.
(Dialogue; Time: 3— 5 minutes)
Discuss with your partner what the best way of spending holidays is. You
think the best way is going to museum. Why? Quided tours are the best way
to spend a week or two. Why? Give arguments and examples in support of
your opinion. You may or may not come to an agreement with your partner.
Remember it is a discussion and not a monologue.
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Student 2
Task 1.
(Dialogue; Time: 3— 5 minutes)
Discuss with your partner what the best way of spending holidays is.
You think the best way is doing sports —skiing, hiking or mountaineering.
Why? Does such way of life help you to relax. Why? Give arguments
and examples in support of your opinion. You may or may not come to
an agreement with your partner. Remember it is a discussion and not a
monologue.
Task 2.
(Monologue; Time: 1,5— 2 minutes)
In a minute you will talk about holidays. Give your reasons for quided
tours. Why would people prefer to go sightseei, visiting different cities and
places of interest. What would you prefer? Why?
TEST 3
Listening Comprehension
Task 1. Listen to the Lecture on Note Taking and fill in the blanks:
NOTE TAKING. Why take notes in class?
1. Organized notes w ill___________ 1 of important ideas in the
lecture.
2. A __________2 you to learn and remember later.
3. The lecture may contain information___________3. This will be
your only_________4 it.
4. Lecture is where you learn what your__________5, and he makes
up the exams.
5. 6 are usually given in the lecture.
6. The ___________7 of the lecture will become clear ________ 8.
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Reading Comprehension
Time: 45 minutes
PART 1
Task 1. Fountains
Read through the text fairly quickly and then choose suitable headings
from the list below (0—9) for each section. There is one extra heading
which you do not need.
0. The fountain which provided the town with water
1. The fountain shows a giant creature
2. You should observe the whole fountain
3. You can only see a copy of this fountain in the square
4. Such fountains were popular in the 16th century
5. The fountain that was rebuilt
6. A fountain dedicated to an animal
7. A nice place makes the fountain look better
8. The fountain introduced a new era in art
9. The fountain people could bathe in hot weather
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Task 2. Find words and phrases in the text, which mean the same as the
following
9. very elaborate and impressive with a lot of money spent on it
Around the turn of the century, there was great interest in the possibility
of flight. Most of this centred on gliders. But, the Wright brothers began to
explore the possibility of mechanised flight with heavier than air aircraft.
They concentrated on a building a more powerful, but light engine and
worked on an innovative design for controlling the plane once airborne.
They used funds from the bicycle shop to start testing at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina a rural place where it was more windy which helped give
planes lift off. They made extensive tests and also recorded a range of data
about possible flights.
On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers made the first historic
airplane flight, where Orville piloted the plane (called ‘the Flyer’) with
Wilbur running at the wing tip.
The first flight, by Orville, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, at a speed
of only 6.8 miles per hour over the ground, was recorded in a famous
photograph. The next two flights covered approximately 175 feet (53 m)
and 200 feet (61 m), by Wilbur and Orville respectively. Their altitude was
about 10 feet (3.0 m) above the ground. The following is Orville Wright’s
account of the final flight of the day:
“Wilbur started the fourth and last flight at just about 12 o’clock. The
first few hundred feet were up and down, as before, but by the time three
hundred ft had been covered, the machine was under much better control.
The course for the next four or five hundred feet had but little undulation.
However, when out about eight hundred feet the machine began pitching
again, and, in one of its darts downward, struck the ground. The distance
over the ground was measured to be 852 feet; the time of the flight was
59 seconds. The frame supporting the front rudder was badly broken, but
the main part of the machine was not injured at all. We estimated that the
machine could be put in condition for flight again in about a day or two.”
Over the next few years, they continued to develop their aircraft.
However, they were conscious of needing to gain successful patents to
make their aircraft commercially viable. They became reluctant to reveal
too much about their flights and disliked reporters taking photos of their
designs. Their secret approach and competing claims by other aircraft
designers meant that for many years their inventions and flights were met
with either indifference or scepticism. However, in 1908, Wilbur began
public demonstrations in Le Mans, France. His ability to effortlessly make
turns and manoeuvre the aircraft caused a sea change in public opinion,
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Use of English
Time: 60 minutes
Task 1. Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word
form.
I have a friend who is afraid of spiders. This isn’t very____ _ 1 (usual);
a lot of people are afraid of spiders. I don’t _______2 (real) like spiders
much myself. I don’t mind them if you see them ________3 (side), in
the garden, as long as they’re not too big. But if one comes in the house,
especially if it’s one of those really big spiders with_______ 4 (fur) legs and
little red eyes, then I go “yeeucch” and I try to get rid of it. Usually I’ll use
a brush to get rid of the spider, but if I feel brave then I’ll put a glass over
the top of it, slide a piece of paper under the glass and then take it outside.
This is quite normal, I think. But my friend isn’t afraid of spiders in
any normal way. She isn’t just afraid of spiders, she is totally, completely
and utterly terrified of them. When my friend sees a spider she doesn’t just
go “uurgghh!” or run away, or ask someone else to get rid of the horrible
________5 (creep) crawly. No: she screams as loud as she possibly can.
She screams so loud that her neighbours worry about her, and think about
calling the police. When she sees a spider, she shivers all over, and sometimes
she freezes________6 (complete) —she can’t move at all because she is so
terrified. Sometimes she even faints.
But my friend had a surprise for me when we met for coffee last week.
“Guess what?” she asked me.
“What?” I said.
“I’ve got a new pet!”
“Great,” I said. “What is it? A dog? A cat?”
“No”
“A budgie?”
“No”
“A rabbit?”
“No”
“What then?”
“I’ve got a pet spider. ”
“I don’t believe you!”
“It’s true! I decided that it was time I did something about my phobia
so I went to visit a doctor, a special doctor. A psychiatrist. This psychiatrist
specialised in phobias —helping people who had _ _ _ _ _ 7 (rational) fears
to get better, and live normally. He told me I suffered from ‘arachnophobia’.”
“It’s an irrational fear of spiders,” he said. “About one in fifty people
suffer from a severe form of arachnophobia. It’s not very________8
(common).”
“Thanks” said my friend. “ But that doesn’t help me much... ”
“There are lots o f_________9 (differ) ways we can try to cure your
phobia,” said the - 10 (psychiatry). “First, there is traditional
analysis.”
“A Serious Case ”By Chris Rose
26. Nick didn't come to see the film with us because he___it before.
A saw В had seen С has seen D was seen
A marry С be married
В have married D have been married
Task 3. Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary grammar
forms.
And at noon the student opened his window and looked out. “How
wonderful!” he cried. “Here is a red rose! I ______36 (see) any rose like
this in all my life. It is so beautiful that I _______37 (be) sure it has a long
Latin name,” and h e ______38 (bend) down and picked it with joy in his
heart.
Then he put on his hat, and ran to the Professor’s house with the rose in
his hand.
The daughter of the Professor_______39 (sit) in the doorway and her
little dog was lying at her feet.
“You said you_______40 (dance) with me if I _______41 (bring) you
a red rose,” cried the student. “Here is the reddest rose in all the world.
You_______42 (wear) it tonight next to your heart, and when we dance
together it_______43 (tell) you how I love you.”
But the girl answered.
“I am afraid it_______44 (not go) with my dress, and besides, another
m an_______45 (send) me some real jewels, and everybody knows that
jewels cost far more than flowers. ”
"the nightingale and the rose"
by O. Wilde
Task 4. For questions 41—55, read the text and look carefully at each line.
Some of the lines are correct and some have a word that mustn’t
be there. Put (+) if the line is correct in space on the right. If a line
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has a word that should not be there, write th6 word in the space on
the right. Transfer your answers to your answer-sheet.
Wilting
This is the end of a letter that a friend of yours has written you. What
are your friend's problems?
...and now actually I ’m thinking of starting some sport. I have been so
busy with my school work, preparingfor exams spending hours sitting at the
table that my favourite jeans are a bit tight on me. Do you go in for sport?
What sport would you recommend? What do you think of taking a diet?
Hope you are doing well! Write soon.
Best wishes,
Jessica
Write a letter to Jessica advising her what to do. Don’t forget the rules
of letter writing.
You should write 120—150 words in an appropriate style.
______________________ Time: 45 minutes_______________
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Lecture Note Taking
NOTE TAKING.
Why take notes in class?
1. Organized notes will help you identify the core of important ideas in
the lecture.
2. A permanent record will help you to learn and remember later.
3. The lecture may contain information not available anywhere else.
This will be your only chance to learn it.
4. Lecture is where you learn what your instructor thinks is important,
and he makes up the exams.
5. Class assignments are usually given in the lecture.
6. The underlying organization and purpose of the lecture will become
clear through note taking.
TAKING NOTES IN CLASS: A BRIEF SUMMARY
1. BEFORE THE LECTURE BEGINS:
Make some preparation for the lecture so that you will be more likely to
predict the organization of the lecture.
CHECK THE COURSE OUTLINE to see if the lecturer has listed the
topic or key ideas in the upcoming lecture. If so, convert this information
into questions to be answered in the lecture.
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Speaking
Student 1
Task 1.
(Monologue; Time: 1,5—2 minutes)
In a minute you will talk about four temperaments (four fundamental
personality types): sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. Give
a short characteristic of each type. Say whether there is the possibility of
mixtures of the types. Say what type of person you are.
Task 2.
(Dialogue; Time: 3—5 minutes)
Discuss with your partner learning styles: visual, aural, reading/writing,
kinesthetic. What do you think typical features of each type are? Consult
with your partner and think what advice you would give to your common
friend who is a kinesthetic learner. He has problems with taking in
the information and completing a study package. You may or may not
come to an agreement with youf partner. Remember it is a discussion and
not a monologue.
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Student 2
Task 1.
(dialogue; Time: 3—5 minutes)
Discuss with your partner learning styles: visual, aural, reading/writing,
kinesthetic. What do you think typical features of each type are? Consult
with your partner and think what advice you would give to your common
friend who is a kinesthetic learner. He has problems with taking in
the information and completing a study package. You may or may not
come to an agreement with your partner. Remember it is a discussion and
not a monologue.
Task 2.
(Monologue; Time: 1,5—2 minutes)
In a minute you will talk about four temperaments (four fundamental
personality types): sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. Give
a short characteristic of each type. Say whether there is the possibility of
mixtures of the types. Say what type of person you are.
TEST 4
Listening Comprehension
Task 1. Listen to the text. Write whether the statements are true (T),
false (F) or not mentioned (NM) in the text:
1. The best way to explore life on the road is to do it legally.
2. The thought of getting your driver’s^license can be a little bit of fun.
3. Pick up the driver who will guide you in the state.
4. Every state has different traffic rules.
5. Ask somebody quiz you after eatfh chapter.
6. Don’t move on to the next chapter unless you can answer no less than
8 of 10 questions.
7. If you read the book three times in three weeks you will remember
80% of it.
8. Some states make allowances for taking accredited driving courses
only through school.
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18. Stopping, starting, signaling, backing up, parking and others are
called______________ .
19. The examiner will pay attention how you___________________ .
20. If you want to know the rules and be fine_______________ .
Reading Comprehension
Time: 45 minutes
PART 1
Task 1. Read through the text fairly quickly and then choose suitable
headings from the list below (A — I) for each section. There is one
extra heading which you do not need.
BOBCAT
A. Bobcat nutritive habits
B. Bobcat description
C. Bobcat conservation
D. Nocturnal life
E. Bobcat biology
F. Bobcat range
G. General information
Bobcat threats
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I. Bobcat habitat
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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Carnivora
Family Felidae
Genus Lynx
Also known as bay lynx, red lynx.
French: Chat Sauvage, Lynx Roux.
Spanish: Lince, Lince Rojo.
Size: Head-body length: 65—105 cm
Shoulder height: 45—58 cm
Tail length: 9—11 cm
Weight: 5.8-13.3 kg
2____________
Owing its common name to its short ‘bobbed’ tail, the bobcat (Lynx
rufus) has the widest distribution of any native cat in North America.
Like other lynxes, it has long legs relative to its body size, a small head
and a ruff of fur that extends from the ears to the jowls. The ears are
large, but the black tufts at the tips are less conspicuous than those of its
congeners, and may be absent entirely. The coat is short, soft and dense,
and is generally various shades of buff brown, although some may have a
rufous tint, and marked with dark streaks and spots. The undersides are
lighter in colour with black spots, and the short tail has a black tip on the
upper side but is white underneath. Males are typically larger than females,
and there is also significant geographic variation in size, with bobcats in the
north tending to be larger than those in the south. Twelve subspecies of the
bobcat are currently recognised.
3________________
Although the bobcat is generally most active around sunset and sunrise,
in some parts of its range it is more nocturnal, while in other areas it is
commonly seen during the daytime, particular over winter, when prey is
more scarce. An exclusive carnivore, the bobcat’s diet is dominated by
rabbits and hares, but it will also take a wide variety of other prey, ranging in
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size from mice to deer. It is capable of taking prey with a weight at ten
times its own body weight. Being a patient hunter, it either sits and waits in
ambush along game trails and at burrow entrances, or will patrol its range
stealthily, all the time looking and listening for prey, which is captured with
a short burst of speed.
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Like most other cats, the bobcat has a primarily solitary lifestyle,
with individuals generally avoiding each other except during the breeding
season. Home territories are widely variable depending on the habitat, and
range from 6 to 325 square kilometres. Males and females both maintain
their territories by scent-marking, using faeces, urine, scrapes and anal
secretions. Male home ranges generally overlap with those of other males
as well as females.
Normally, a mature female bobcat will produce a single litter each year,
with a peak breeding season between February and April. The gestation
period lasts around 63 days, with the average litter size being around three
kittens, but up to as many as six. At three to five months old, the young
begin to travel with the mother, and typically remain dependant until
around seven months of age, but eventually disperse outside of the natal
range. Females are ready to breed when just a year old, while males do not
mate until their second year.
5 /
The bobcat has a wide distribution stretching from British Columbia,
east through southern Canada to Nova Scotia, and south through most of
the United States to central Mexico. Its range is increasing northward with
forest clearance. Although it once occurred throughout the contiguous
United States, it was extirpated from the intensively cultivated midwest
and the heavily populated east coast. Populations in these areas now seem
to be increasing, and the bobcat is reported as living in every state except
Delaware.
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It inhabits an extremely wide variety of habitats, including boreal and
coniferous forests, scrubland, swamps, deserts and mountains. However,
the bobcat tends to prefer areas with dense cover, or uneven broken terrain,
providing both concealment and relief from inclement weather.
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7 __________ ___
Despite being the most traded felid in the international skin trade,
thanks to good management, trade is not currently thought to threaten the
survival of the bobcat. Instead the greatest perceived threat to this species is
habitat loss. In addition there is some concern over the threat of increased
competition with expanding coyote populations in parts of the bobcat’s
range as well as the localised persecution of the bobcat as a pest on domestic
livestock.
8 __________________
Since 1975, the bobcat has been listed on Appendix II of CITES, which
prohibits trade in this species without a permit. Efforts have also been made
to reintroduce the bobcat to parts of its original historical range, including
New Jersey and Cumberland Island, Georgia.
Task 2. Find words and phrases in the text, which mean the same as the
following:
9. done, occurring, or active at night________________________
10. extend over so as to cover partly___________________
11. a hole or tunnel dug by a small animal as a dwelling
.
12 become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or
understand________________
13. relating to or characteristic of the climatic zone south of the Arctic,
especially the cold temperate region dominated by taiga and forests
of birch, poplar, and conifers____________
14. distribute or spread over a wide area____________
15. a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below
kingdom, equivalent to the division in botany__________
16. the lower part of a person’s or,animal’s cheek, especially when it is
fleshy or drooping___________
17. a thing or person of the same kind or category as another (animal or
plant of the same genus as another)____________
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Task 3. You are going to read an article. Nine sentences have been
removed from it. Choose from sentences A-J the one that fits
each gap. There’s one extra sentence which you don’t need.
A. invented the telephone continues to be debated
B. came of a family associated with the teaching of elocution:
C. could transmit its music to a distance by means of electricity
D. published more than one treatise on the subject at Washington
Ei was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, from which
he graduated at the age of thirteen
F. is said to have turned his attention to the science of acoustics,
G. came of a family of famous circus actors, working in different cities:
H. endeavoured to produce a telephone which would not only send
musical notes
I. declined the post in favour of his son
J. explains his ingenious method of instructing deaf mutes,
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. H e______18 his grandfather in
London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, Mr. Alexander Melville Bell,
in Edinburgh, were all professed elocutionists.
The latter has published a variety of works on the subject, several ofwhich
are well known, especially his treatise on Visible Speech, which appeared in
Edinburgh in 1868. In this he_______19 by means of their eyesight, how
to articulate words, and also how to read what other persons are saying by
the motions of their lips. Graham Bell, his distinguished son,_______20.
At the age of sixteen he secured a position as a pupil-teacher of elocution
and music in Weston House Academy, at Elgin in Morayshire. The next
year he spent at the University of Edinburgh. From 1866 to 1867 he was
an instructor at Somersetshire College at Bath, England. While still in
Scotland he______21 with a view to ameliorate the deafness of his mother.
In 1870 he moved with his family to Canada where they settled at
Brantford, Ontario. Before he left Scotland, Alexander Graham Bell
had turned his attention to telephony, and in Canada he continued
an interest" in communication machines. He designed a piano which
22. In 1873 he accompanied his father to Montreal, Qu
where he was employed in teaching the system of visible speech. The elder
Bell was invited to introduce the system into a large day-school for mutes at
Boston, but he_______23, who soon became famous in the United States
for his success in this important work. Alexander Graham Bell_______24,
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and it is mainly through his efforts that thousands of deaf mutes in America
are now able to speak almost, if not quite, as well as persons who are able
to hear.
At Boston he continued his researches in the same field, and______25,
but articulate speech. With financing from his American father-in-law,
on March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office granted him Patent Number
174,465 covering “the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or
other sounds telegraphically... by causing electrical undulations, similar in
form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other
sound.”, the telephone. (It should be noted that the question of who
______26. It is clear that several people were researching similar devices.
However, supporters of Bell claim that his was the first fully working
design. After obtaining the patent for the telephone, Bell continued his
experiments in communication, which culminated in the invention of the
photophone-transmission of sound on a beam of light — a precursor of
today’s optical fiber systems.
Use of English
Time: 60 m inutes
Task 1. Open the brackets to fill in the blanks with the necessary word .
form.
If you want to make someone special feel like_____1 (royal), why not
treat him or her to breakfast in bed? There’s something______2 (special)
______3 (luxury) about waking up to a tray of delicious food and drinks to
_______4 (easy) you into the day. No need to climb out from under the
covers; just tuck a napkin in your________5 (night) and feast away.
It does take a little planning to pull off breakfast in bed,______ 6
(how). You have to check that the person you’re pampering doesn’t have
______7 (any) to be in the morning and that the menu suits his or her
tastes. For instance, if someone’s watching his waist, don’t haul in a tray
laden with high-calorie sticky buns and bacon.
Speaking of breakfast trays, don’t attempt an in-bed m eal______8
(with) one. Sturdy trays ensure against scalding coffee spills,_______9
(fortunate) egg yolk_______ 10 (drip) and toast crumbs littering the
_______11 (bed) —and the person dining in it. A versatile tray also allows
you to add a special touch to the occasion.
Task 2. Choose the correct variant to fill in the blanks
has a word that should not be there, write the word in the space on
the right. Transfer your answers to your answer-sheet.
0. "Short Stories" includes eleven vivid short stories +
written between
1. the nineteenth century and the present day. Due up
to their
2. powerful impact, these stories suggest many
possibilities for
3. creative activities in upper-intermediate and advanced level
4. classrooms and can therefore be used to stimulate
reading and
5. fluency of skills, as well as to explore literary aspects of
6. English. "Short Stories” features: “ memorable stories by
7. a wide variety of authors from a very different
backgrounds,
8. including in Leonora Carrington, Alisdair Gray and
Peter Carey;
9. “creative activities both before and after reading and in
10. between parts of the longer stories; “ a ‘Creative
Development’
11. section at the end of each unit to extend the themes
and the to
12. reader’s involvement with the story; “ notes on the
authors
13. and stories, and notes for the teacher on using the
material;
14. “an Audio CD with recordings of all the stories as well
15. as extra material for listening audition activities.
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Writing
A STORY
Here is the beginning of the story. Complete the story.
Do you like fishng? I personally don’t. You ask me why. I’ll tell you the
story. I was quite young. Actually I was a pupil of the first form. I went to
my grandparents to the country. My grandpa told that the next day we’ll
get up at 5 a. m. So we did. Rather my grandpa did. A s for me I got up
_but I didn, t wake up. That was the beginning...
Write 220—250 words.
Time: 60 minutes
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HOW TO PASS YOUR DRIVING TEST
There comes a time in everyone’s life where they feel the need to get out
and explore life on the road; of course, it’s best done legally, so you are going
to need your papers. The thought of getting your driver’s license can be a little
bit intimidating, but with a few simple guidelines, you’ll be well on the road to
success!
Pick up the driver’s guide for your state. Every state has them, and that’s
where you’ll find everything that will be on both the written and the actual
driving test.
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You’ll learn the basic rules of the road, when to pull over for
emergency vehicles (always a favorite on driving exams), speed limits in various
zones (another favorite), how to handle accidents, and more.
Read it chapter by chapter, make notes if that helps you remember, and
have somebody quiz you after each chapter. If you can answer 80% of the
questions, move on to the next chapter.
At the end of the booklet, ask to be quizzed on the whole manual. Any
chapters you don’t do well on, revisit. Ifyou go through the book three times in
three weeks, your chances of passing —even acing —your test are very high.
Practice driving. Most states have regulations regarding how much
experience you have behind the wheel. Some states make allowances for taking
accredited driving courses, either through school or professional instruction.
Some states also make allowances for top students. While it won’t directly
help you pass your driving test, being a good student will often make it easier to
meet the requirements.
Student drivers must have a licensed driver with them at all times. In some
states, having a license is all your passenger needs. In some states there are age
restrictions, or restrictions based on how long the person has been licensed.
You will learn these rules and restrictions in the driver’s manual that you’re
going to study.
Practice driving on the test routes. Find out in advance where you will be
taking the practical test (the actual driving part). While it may be illegal in your
state (read the manual), unless you’re following specific routes, there should be
no problem driving in the general neighborhood.
That’s not generally necessary, unless you are such an inexperienced driver
that you need an advantage. If that’s the case, you’re better off not rushing into
getting a license.
Practicing all the basic maneuvers —stopping, starting, signaling, backing
up, parking, obeying the speed limit and all traffic control signs and signals are
all good things to practice.
One of the biggest things the examiner will look for is whether or not
you have full command of your vehicle. If you are intimidated by the car,
make jerky starts and stops, and generally show a lack of confidence in your
driving, that will count against you.
If you speed, run a light or a stop sign, or make other egregious errors, you
can pretty much count on retaking the test.
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Speaking
Student 1
Task 1.
(Monologue; Time: 1,5—2 minutes)
In a minute you will talk about classical music. Why do people listen
to this music. What famous composers and musicians do you know? What
role does this music play in your life?
Task 2.
(Dialogue; Time: 3—5 minutes)
Discuss with your partner the role of music in the modern world. You
think that classical music is not very popular nowadays. Why? You think
pop music has the future. Why? Give arguments and examples in support of
your opinion. You may or may not come to an agreement with your partner.
Remember it is a discussion and not a monologue.
__________________________Student 2__________________________
Task 1.
(Dialogue; Time: 3—5 minutes)
Discuss with your partner the role of music in the modem world. You
think that though pop music is very popular nowadays there are still a lot
of people who enjoy classical music. Why? Classical music will survive and
people will listen to it. Why? Give arguments and examples in support of
your opinion. You may or may not come to an agreement with your partner.
Remember it is a discussion and not a monologue.
Task 2.
(Monologue; Time: 1,5—2 minutes)
In a minute you will talk about pop music. Why do people listen to this
kind of music? What famous composers and musicians do you know? What
role does this music play in your life?
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Словообразование
Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
1. unusual 1. overlooking 1. surveyor 1. racial
2. discovering 2. expanse 2. visible 2. extinction
3. inventions 3. landscape 3. length 3. overlooking
4. entirely 4. naturally 4. horsemeil 4. shadow
5. functionality 5. suggestion 5. gleaming 5. relationship
6. distant 6. cannoneers 6. utterly
7. iteration 7. folded 7. disquiet
8. accentuate 8. procession 8. whimpering
9. loneliness 9. defending
Exercise 17
1. Connecting
2. improperly
3. adapter
4. misuse
5. warranty
6. unstable
7. charging
8. unplug
9. lifespan
10. performance
Грамматика
Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
1. saw 1. had been going 1. travelling 1. separated
2. to sing 2. knew 2. Have you lost 2. must have sunk
3. were 3. was sinking 3. continued 3. prepared
4. paid 4. had been cut 4. carried 4. went
5. to crow 5. began 5. shall/will/’llpay 5. were snoring
6. happened 6. clung 6. have never seen 6. had died
7. is trying 7. fell 7. seized 7. would be
8. to clap 8. was heard 8. have always used
9. struck 9. saw
10. were
11. understood
12. is
13. told
14. are
15. was satisfied
16. overruled