Progress
Test Form 5
Variant
2
I. Listening. QUESTIONS
21-25
You will hear some
tourist information about a town called Langley.
Listen and complete
questions 21 – 25.
You will hear information
twice.
Langley
Tourists
stop here for: 00 3 hours
Town Hall Look
at the: 21 _______________
Cost of ticket: 22
_______________ pence
Langley Park Café
is rear (позади): 23
_______________
Tour of town Meet
guide in: 24 _______________ Street
Leave Langley at: 25
_______________ p.m.
II Reading. THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS
Some people read books for pleasure
(удовольствие),
others look through them to get the useful information they need for their work
or studies. Some books are rather boring but others are very funny. There is
one book which is full of interesting information, funny and useful at the same
time. That is the Guinness Book of Records.
It has information about the world’s
tallest, shortest, loudest, heaviest, richest, and greatest. It demonstrates
people’s records in nearly every field: from sports to politics, from hobbies
to business world.
Here are some examples. The tallest
woman in the world is an American woman, Sandy Allen. She is 231.7
centimetres tall. Walter Hudson is the fattest man in the world. He is 500
kilograms. The man with the longest The Guinness Book of Records moustache (усы) in the world is Kama Ram
Bheel of India. His moustache is 238
centimetres long. In 1900, an Austrian gentleman travelled from Vienna
to Paris in the strange way – he walked on his hands! It took him 55 days with
a rhythm of 10 hours a day.
Thousands of people from all
countries try to get into the Guinness Book of Records. It all started in 1951.
Sir Hugh Beaver worked in the Guinness company. (The Guinness, by the way, is a
type of beer.) One day he took his gun and went to the forest. But he didn’t
kill any bird that day, he missed a golden plover (a kind of a bird). He thought
that it was the fastest bird in England but his friends didn’t think so. But
they didn’t have any book to find information about the golden plover and to
answer the question: “What is the fastest bird in England?” As a result the
Guinness Book of Records was born.
Very quickly the book became a
best-seller, everybody wanted to buy it and the bookshops got a lot of money
for it. Today there are 77 million of the Guinness Books of Records. People
have translated it into 32 languages. All over the world people seem to want to
read about other people who are faster, fatter or just madder (безумнее) than they are.
Choose the right sentence (according to
the text).
1. a) All
books are very funny.
b) The
Guinness Book of Records demonstrates people’s records only in sport.
c) The
Guinness Book of Records has information about the world’s tallest, shortest,
loudest, heaviest, richest, and greatest.
d) The
tallest woman in the world is an African woman, Sandy Allen. She is more than
three metres tall.
2. a)
Walter Hudson is fatter than Sandy Allen.
b)
Walter Hudson is the man with the longest moustache in the world. He is from
the town of Kama Ram Bheel in India.
c) The
longest hair in the world is 238 metres long.
d) The
longest moustache in the world is longer than three metres.
3. a) In
1900, some Australian gentlemen travelled from Vienna to Paris in the strange
way – they walked on their hands!
b) In
1900, an Austrian man could walk on his hands more than 6 hours every day.
c) It
took an English gentleman 55 hours to get to Paris on foot.
d) It
took an Austrian gentleman 10 hours to get from Vienna to Paris on foot.
4. a) Only English people can read The Guinness Book of Records.
b) People
read the Guinness Book of Records for 1951 years.
c) The
first Guinness Book of Records was written in Russian.
d) The
Guinness Book of Records started in England in 1951.
5. a) Sir Hugh Beaver worked in the Guinness company. They made
coloured pencils.
b) There
were no trees in England at the time of Sir Hugh Beaver.
c) A
golden plover is a very fast bird that lives in England.
d) Sir
Hugh Beaver learned that a golden plover is the fastest bird from the Guinness
Book of Records.
6. a) Sir
Hugh Beaver didn’t have any friends.
b) It
all started in 1951 and very soon the Guinness Book of Records became very
popular.
c) Today
only 77 people in the world have got the Guinness Book of Records.
d) There
are 32 languages in the world.
III Grammar Test.
1. Ann ___ London
last уеar.
a) has been to b) was
not in c) was to d) has been in
2. Have they _____ Trafalgar
Square?
a) just saw b) ever
seen c) already see d) already seen
3. — What were the people
like?
— _____
a) They liked ice-cream.
b) The looked like their parents.
c) They were very
friendly. d) They were at home.
4. I have got some
friends in London, but I ___ stayed ___ them.
a) never, at b) have
just, at c) didn't, with d) have never, with
5. He ___ speaks ___ a
quiet voice ___ me.
a) never, in, to b)
ever, in, with c) just, with, with d)soon, to, to
6. We ___ to wash up.
Father ___ it
a) mustn't, did b)
doesn't have, have done c) don't have, has done d) must, has done
7. He ___ today.
a) feels badly b) feel
good c) feels bad d) felt fine
8. Look! What a strange
train ___ our small railway station!
a) arrived in b) has
already arrived in c) is arriving at d) arrives in
9. Harry ___ a plane ___ London
and arrived there at 3.
a) caught; for b) has
caught, for c) caught, in d) catch, to
10. I'm sorry. That's my
stop. I ___ the bus.
a) don't have to get on b)
have to get off c) mustn't get out of d) has to get into
IV Progress Quiz
1. a)
Walt Disney created a lot of short and long cartoons.
b) Walt Disney was
from Great Britain
c) When Walt Disney
was little his family left North America for South
America.
d) Walt Disney’s wife
was the first one who had an idea about Mickey Mouse.
2. a)
Walt Disney created his main character, the mouse and gave it the name – Mickey
Mouse.
b) The audience have
seen Mickey Mouse on the screen since 1928.
c) Walt Disney and
Mickey Mouse became great friends and often travelled together.
d) All Walt Disney’s
characters are very clever and quiet.
3. a)
One day an idea came to Walt Disney’s wife. She decided to create a theme park
– Disneyland.
b) The first
Disneyland was built in Russia.
c) Walt Disney’s
stories have got a happy end.
d) You can’t sit down
anywhere in Disneyland, you have to walk all day long.
4. a)
There no documentaries in English cinemas.
b) There are no intervals
between programmes in some English cinemas.
c) You can see only
cartoons at the “Odeon”.
d) Cinema tickets are
very cheap in Great Britain.
5. a)
A hobby is something you like to do at school.
b) Sometimes people
specialize in collecting stamps of one subject. It means that their collections
are special.
c) Collecting things
is not the only hobby people have.
d) Boys’ and girls’
hobbies are very different.
6. a)
Seas are bigger than oceans, but they are smaller than lakes.
b) Oceans are bigger
than seas and lakes.
c) Lakes are colder
than oceans.
d) Swimming pools are
much bigger than seas.
7. a)
English school is not formal. All pupils sit on the floor.
b) Primary pupils
have no animals in the classrooms. They leave them at home.
c) English school
never begins on Sunday.
d) Saturday and
Sunday are the longest school days in Great
Britain.
8. a)
All traditional English houses have only one bathroom.
b) Bedrooms are
usually on the first floor in a traditional English house.
c) The biggest room
in a traditional English house is usually the sitting-room.
d) The sitting-room
is in the bathroom.
9. a)
There are 1,000 bridges over the Thames now.
b) There were many
bridges over the Thames in Roman times.
c) The Romans came to
England in the nineteenth century.
d) Londinium was the
old name of London.
10. a)
A voyage is a journey by horse.
b) Many big ships
arrived at the railway station.
c) A journey is a
long trip.
d) When there is no
wind you can’t travel by plane.
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