Контрольная работа 11 класс тема Кинематограф"

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I.      Read the text.

MAKING MOVIES

1. When the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere showed their first film in a Paris cafe in 1895, the audience was amazed to see images that moved. Soon cinemas began to open in cities across Europe and North America. A new industry was born: movie-making.

2. Hollywood in the USA quickly became the capital of movie-making. The first studio opened there in 1912 and others soon followed. Land and labour were cheap at that time, and there was plenty of Californian sunshine to provide natural light for filming outside. While Europe was at war (World War One lasted from 1914 to 1918), Hollywood made hundreds of movies. This was the time of ‘silent movies’. Many cinemas had pianos, and pianists played music to accompany the films. The dialogue appeared in writing every thirty seconds or so.

3. The era of ‘silent movies’ finished in 1927, when the film The Jazz Singer was released. In this film, the actor spoke and sang. Audiences loved the new ‘talking pictures’. The 1930s became the golden age of Hollywood, and more people visited the cinema than ever before. The 1930s was a time of economic depression, and audiences everywhere wanted a chance to forget their problems for a few hours and enter a magic world of song, dance, romance and adventure.

4. In the 1940s, a new challenge appeared: television. Cinema audience numbers fell by almost fifty percent as people stayed at home to watch their new television. People began to think the movie industry would die. But teenagers soon came back to the cinema. It was a place they could go without their parents! Today, a many – if not most – cinema audiences are under the age of 25.

5. Hollywood still dominates movie-making. The Hollywood studios have enough money to pay for big stars and special effects. Some recent movies cost more than $300 million. However some of the most successful films of all time have been much cheaper. Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, which first appeared in 1937, is still popular today, seventy years later. Parents remember how much they love watching Disney movies when they were young; then they go and buy a Disney video for their children. Across the world such movies have become a part of our culture.

6. For better or for the worse, in the 20th century Hollywood became, the cultural capital of the modern world. But it was never an exclusively American capital. Like past cultural centers – Florence, Paris, Vienna – Hollywood has functioned as an international community, built by immigrant entrepreneurs and drawing on the talents of actors, directors, writers, cinematographers, editors, and costume and set designers from all over the world. The first American movie star, after all, was Charlie Chaplin, whose comic skills were honed in British music halls.

a) Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-G for each part (1-6) of

the text. There is one extra heading which you don’t need to use.

1. An important part in a teenager’s world
2. The era of the “talkies”
3.  Moving images
4.  The first American movie star
5.  The New Industry in the New World
6.  Success does not always depend on money
7.  Hollywood – an international community

b) Are these statements true (T) or false (F) according to the text?

1. The first movies were shown in cafes instead of cinemas. ____

2. The mild climate helped Hollywood to become the capital of the movie

industry. ____

3. The cinema was very popular in the 1930 because people had a lot of

money. ____

4. Parents often encourage their children to enjoy Walt Disney films. ____

5. Hollywood is an international cultural center rather than an exclusively

American one. ____

II.Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, обозначенных номерами 1-7 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.

Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию B3–B9.

It was Christmas. Alex wanted to buy a new computer game as a present for himself. He   1   go   to the supermarket. There were lots of adults,  2   child    and teenagers everywhere and it was not easy to find the department where computer games  3  see  .He asked a group of teenagers but they     4   not know where the department was. When Alex was walking through a large hall with shelves of books, he saw a colourful  Fine Art book. He remembered that his mother was fond of painting. “The book will be the      5    good   Christmas present for Mum ever, ”Alex thought . At home he said to his mum: “I    6  just buy    something for you. I’m sure you   7   like  it.”

III. Заполните пропуски соответствующим предлогом.

1.   I’d love to be able to visit every country _____ the world.2. “Where are they?” “They are _______ the doctor’s”. 3.   “Is there a bank near here?”   “Yes, there’s one _____ the end of this road.”4.  Tim is away at the moment. He’s ______ holiday. 5.   You’ve got a dirty mark ____ your cheek. Have a look _____ the mirror. 6.    We went _____ a party ______ Linda’s house on Saturday.7.   Bombay is _____ the west coast of India. 8.   Look at the leaves ______ the tree. They’re a beautiful colour.

IV.Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

1. When my grandfather was ... young man, he studied ... physics. 2. Do you speak ... Spanish? 3. My uncle is ... great specialist in ... biology. 4. ... Japanese is more difficult than ... French. 5. We listened to ... very interesting lecture on ... English literature yesterday. 6. Yesterday at ... lesson of ... geography ... teacher told us ... very interesting things about ... famous travellers. 7. My father speaks ... English and ... French, but he does not speak ... German. 8. We had ... lesson of ... mathematics yesterday. We wrote ... test-paper in ... mathematics. ... teacher said: "I shall correct... test-papers in ... evening. Tomorrow you will know ... results".