ИТОГОВАЯ
КОНТРОЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ 9 КЛАСС
1. READING
AND WRITING
LANGUAGES OF THE
WORLD
Nobody knows
what the first language was. But scientists feel sure that nobody speaks it
today because all languages change and keep on changing as long as people use
them. One language may change in different ways in different places and grow
into several languages.
If we could
meet the people who spoke English five hundred years ago, we probably couldn′t
understand much what they said.
English itself
is a mixture of several languages. Scientists believe that these languages and
many others all grew out of the same language which they call Indo-European.
Nobody speaks it now. But some of its descendants are Latin, German, English,
French, Greek, Russian and many of the different languages spoken in India.
Britain and
America were once described as nations divided by a common language. Just what
is difference between the English spoken in Britain and America?
The first
English settlers to reach America arrived in Virginia in 1607 and in
Massachusetts in 1620. They all spoke English of the early seventeenth century
– the language of Shakespeare and Milton. Most of them came originally from the
south and south-east of England. Although some of them had spent some years of
exile in Holland they spoke with the accents of the southern part of their home
country. To a large extent they kept that form of speech, but they soon learned
to give old words new uses. They also took words from the local Indian
languages for plants and animals that were new to them.
Until the
Declaration of Independence in 1776 over two-thirds of the settlers in what
later became the U.S. came from England. After that date many other people came
to make a new life for themselves in the New World. These included Irish,
French, Germans, Dutch, Italians, Slavs, and Scandinavians. All these people
gave new words to the language of North America. The Negroes who had been taken
from Africa as slaves to work on the rice and cotton plantations added words
and structures from their own native languages. Some people today think that
the very American expression O.K. comes from a similar expression which was
brought to America by the Negroes.
All these
people contributed in various ways to the language which was to become American
English. Most civilizations and cultures – in their writings, traditions, folk
stories – have traces of the old language.
Примечания к тексту
1. feel sure that
…
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полностью
уверены, что…
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2. keep on changing
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продолжают
изменяться
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3. just what
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так что же
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4. in what later became the
U.S.
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которые позднее
вошли в состав США
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Задания к тексту
I.
Соедините подходящие по смыслу части
предложений.
1. Scientists feel sure that …
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a.spoke English of the 17th
century.
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2. One language
may change …
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b. nobody speaks the first
language now.
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3. The first
settlers …
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c. in different ways in
different places.
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4. There are …
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d. have some traces of the
old language.
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5. Most
civilizations and cultures …
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e. some of descendants of
Indo-European in use now.
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II.
Прочитайте следующие утверждения и
определите, являются ли они согласно тексту верными (Т), неверными (F) или не обсуждаются вообще (N):
1.
English as well as many other languages grew out of the same language.
2.
If you met the people who spoke English five hundred years ago, undoubtedly you
could understand what they said.
3.
Britain and America were once described as nations divided by a common
language.
4.
The Egyptian king Psammetichos decided to learn which of the world′s languages
was the oldest.
III.
Расположите следующие предложения в таком
порядке, чтобы получилось краткое изложение текста.
1. Scientists believe that
English as well as some other languages all grew out of the same language.
2. American English, for
example, differ in various ways from the English language spoken in Britain.
3. But all languages kept
on changing as long as people used them.
4. It may be explained by
the fact that a number of nations contributed to the language which was to
become American English.
5.It is called
Indo-European.
2. LISTENING
You will hear two friends talking. Listen and mark
statements 1-5 True, False or Not stated.
1. Anna’s
mother is celebrating her birthday this Saturdays.
A TRUE B
FALSE C NOT STATED
2. Anna
hasn’t decided what she wants to buy her mother.
A TRUE B
FALSE C NOT STATED
3. Sam is
playing hockey later today.
A TRUE B
FALSE C NOT STATED
4. Sam gave
his mother an expensive birthday present last year.
A TRUE B
FALSE C NOT STATED
5. Sam is
going to make a video for his mother’s next birthday
A TRUE B
FALSE C NOT STATED
ОТВЕТЫ
1.READING AND WRITING
I.1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-e, 5-d; II. 1-T, 2- F, 3-T, 4-N; III.1,
5, 3, 2, 4.
2.LISTENING
1
C 2 A 3 B 4 B 5 C
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