Контрольная работа по английскому
языку для 10 класса. 1
полугодие. УМК Rainbow English.
Task 1.
Read the texts and match them with the titles. There is one title you don't
have to use
a) It Is
Becoming One of the Necessities All Over the World
b) Travelling
As a Hobby
c) Winning
People's Hearts on Both Sides of the Atlantic
d) Not to Be
Worse Than Those Around You
e) Life and
Music
f) The Nation
Turned into Pupils
g) They Want
to See It with Their Own Eyes
1. Money can
buy happiness - but only if you are richer than your neighbours. Sociologists
found that it was not quite true to say that being wealthy «will not make a
person happy, according to today's research. But it depends on a person’s
ability not to live worse than his or her neighbour. Researchers in the US
are sure that most of people are in a non-stop wealth race with their
neighbours.
2. A lot of young Britons
go travelling thanks to the films they watch or books they read. A research has
shown that as many as 45 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds say that fiction
greatly influences their choice of holiday places. For instance, New
Zealand has had a big rise in tourism from the UK since the first of the Lord
of the Rings trilogy. It is clear that more and more young people wish
to visit the parts of the world which have been made famous by writers and film
directors.
3. James Blunt
has been nominated the best male singer and songwriter. His way to success
hasn't been easy. He was born into a military family, became a pilot at the age
of 16 and joined the army. Finally he found himself in a studio in Los Angeles, where he recorded his multimillion selling album "Back to Bedlam".
James draws his personal lyrics from his life, making them touching and honest.
4. Jem, the
best female singer, is from Wales, Great Britain, but became a success in the US
before her home country. Her debut album went straight to the top of the
charts, her name appeared in lots of newspapers. She seems to be a sweet and
easy-going girl but at the same time she is very strong and fairly ambitious.
With both the US and the UK at her feet, she is going to be a megastar.
5. You can be
a Japanese manager on business in Brazil, a Mexican computer scientist at a
conference in India, or a Norwegian tourist in an Italian street market, there
is one thing you are likely to have in common — you are probably speaking
English.
"There's
never before been a language that's been spoken by more people as a second than
a first language." says English-language expert David Crystal, author
of English as a Global Language.
6. Britain
has a growing English language Teaching industry. They say that by 2020 it will
be the UK's biggest export, giving the income of 20 billion pounds a year.
One of the
fastest growing markets is China. Though Chinese is the world's top language as
it has the largest number of native speakers, the Chinese themselves want to
learn English. Li Yang, an ex-newsreader even developed a new method of
leaching it. The language is taught in big stadiums to classes of thousand.
Task 2. Complete
each sentence below using passive voice
1. There are many
different stories about the beginning of the Olympics. One myth says
that Zeus himself started the Games. Athletic games (hold) as
an important part of many religious festivals in ancient Greek culture.
- The statue
was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This explains why Olympia
(choose) as the site for the most important athletic competition.
- The morning
after the Schweitzers arrived, they started to treat their patients in an
old farmhouse. However, a new hospital building (build) with
the help and the trust of the African people.
- A degree of
difficulty for each movement (develop) by the European Sport
Association after the World War I. So all the elements were graded
accordingly.
- Now pizza (cook)
with tomatoes. However, when tomatoes appeared in Europe they were grown
as an ornamental plant.
- Since then,
St. Patrick’s Day parades (hold) in Moscow every year.
- Russian
pancakes – blini – are very important in the celebration of Maslenitsa.
Blini (eat) with jam, sour cream, and of course, lots of butter.
- Russia has a varied
climate. Almost all of Russia (situate) in the North Temperature
Zone.
- One of his
highly popular tales was ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Since 1945
his books (publish) in almost 50 languages.
Task 3. Complete the
sentences using the derivatives of the words in brackets.
- Every year
more than eleven million tourists visit Britain. Most( visit) come
in the summer months when they can expect good weather.
- Tourists (usual)
spend a few days in London, then go on to other well-known cities.
- The word
‘pizza’ appeared in printing at the end of the 10th century for
the (one) time.
- A remarkable
event took place in 1889. The Italian queen Margarita was staying in her
summer palace in Naples. It was her birthday and the owner of a very
popular pizzeria cooked a special kind of pizza for her. He named it
‘Margarita’. It was the (good) way to make this pizza famous all
over the world.
- Dahl became
well-known in 1940s with works for both (child) and adults.
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