TASK
2 READING (20 points)
Time:
20 minutes
- Read fragments from stories about famous women.
For answers to questions choose the names designated by letters A-E. “0”
is the example for you. (5 points)
- Florence Nightingale was
impatient with a life without meaningful purpose. By age 24, Florence
rejected a marriage proposal and decided to be a nurse. For several years
Florence pleaded with her parents, with God and suffered a near nervous
breakdown, but never considered disobeying her parents’ wish. At last, in
1851 her parents permitted her to study nursing at an institution in
Germany. Two years later, she was appointed superintendent of the institution.
Her administration was very successful and so were the changes made to the
institution.
- Louisa May Alcott lived
most of her life in Boston and Concord. She worked as a teacher for a
short time. Next, she worked as a housekeeper and finally began writing.
Her first books were written quickly. Then, Alcott volunteered to be a
Civil War nurse, where she caught typhoid and was sent home. But, from
this experience her book Hospital Sketches became famous. Soon, her
stories were chosen for the Atlantic Monthly. Her most popular book
was Little Women. It described her own childhood, as many of her
other books: Aunt Joe’s Scrap Bag, Little Men, Eight Cousins and
others.
- Marie Curie was born
Maria Sklodowska as the fifth and youngest child of Bronislava Boguska, a
pianist, singer and teacher and Wladislaw Sklodowski, a professor of
mathematics and physics. From young she was remarkable for her prodigious
memory and at the age of 16 she won a gold medal on a competition of her
secondary education at Russian lycee. In 1891, she went to Paris. She
worked late hours and virtually lived bread and butter and tea. In 1804
she was placed the second in the license of mathematical sciences. It was
then that she married Pierre Curie, a famous scientist.
- Valentina Tereshkova was
born in Yaroslavl region of the former USSR. Soon after starting work in a
textile mill at the age of 18, Valentina joined an amateur parachuting
club. She was a hard worker. Later, at the age of 24, she applied to
become a cosmonaut. On June 16, 1963 Tereshkova was launched into space
aboard Vostok 6. She became the first woman to travel in space. Her
flight lasted 48 orbits totaling 70 hours 50 minutes in space. She spent
more time in orbit than all the US Mercury astronauts combined. Valentina
received the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union awards for her
historic flight.
- Margaret Thatcher was
born in England in the family of grocer and dressmaker. Her father was
involved in local politics. Early in her life she decided to be a member
of the Parliament. In 1950 Margaret married Denis Thatcher, got her degree
from Oxford and worked there as a research chemist. In 1959 she won a seat
in Parliament. In 1970 to 1974 she served as the Minister of Education and
Science. In 1979 general elections Mrs. Thatcher became the first woman to
be elected Prime Minister of Great Britain. She resigned in 1990. She was
awarded an Order of Merit award by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Who
- was a bright pupil? _C_
- was honored with the title of Hero for her historic deed?
_____
- waited for her parental permission to realise her dream to
become a nurse? ____
- succeeded as a leader and was awarded the order for her
remarkable work for the country? ____
- worked as a nurse at war? ____
- was an outstanding scientist? ____
2. Read the text
and do the tasks below (9points).
A company
in Japan is selling a new drink. Their new drink is a powerful mixture of
powered ginseng root, a fungus from the skin of caterpillars and reptile's
blood. This strange drink, people say, is helping Chinese women athletes to win gold medals at international athletics meetings. The
Japanese firm says that this mixture can do wonderful things for ordinary people too.
Mr. Ma Junwen is the trainer of the Chinese
women's athletics team. He created the recipe for this peculiar cocktail of roots and fungus and blood specially for
the team. His runners train in the mountains of central China. They run 30
or
40
kilometres
every day, so they are all very strong runners. But they all drink Ma's
cocktail every day too ... and they are winning more medals nowadays than they
did before. And Mr. Ma
is trying to market his odd mixture through the company in Japan. People in
Japan know about Ma's runners and they are rushing to buy a bottle of his amazing drink.
So Mr. Ma
is winning, too, not only runners. Before he invented his drink, he was not a
rich man, but now he is making a lot of money from the
drink, and people in Japan love it!
A Write down
whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F).
1. Mr. Ma is
helping Japanese sportswomen.
2. This drink
is a mixture consisting of different ingredients.
3. This
mixture was created for sale.
4. Mr. Ma was
a rich man before.
5.
A
Japanese company is now
selling the drink in China.
B Answer the
following questions.
1. Who is
drinking Ma's mixture nowadays in Japan?
2. Who usually
drinks it in China?
3. How many
medals are Chinese women runners winning nowadays, with the help of Mr. Ma's
drink?
4. Why is Mr.
Ma winning?
3. The
parts of the following text are all mixed up. Put them in the right order (6
points).
(A) He often
told his friends that he could tell anyone's character exactly by his
handwriting. So one lady friend decided to give it a test.
(B) The lady
was surprised. She smiled and explained that this was Balzac's own exercise
book which he used when he was a little boy.
(C) She brought
him a young boy's exercise book. She said she wanted to know what Balzac
thought of the boy's character.
(D) Balzac, the
famous French writer, was a man of great talent. He was very proud of his
ability to tell a person's character by his or her handwriting.
(E) He decided
to tell the truth. The boy's exercise book
showed that it was written by a bad, lazy fellow with no respect
to other people.
(F) She
told him that the boy wasn't her son and asked him
to tell her the truth. Balzac studied the boy's handwriting very
carefully.
TASK 3
USE OF ENGLISH (30 points)
Time:
20 minutes
1. Transform the
words printed with capital letters so that they grammatically and lexically
corresponded to the text. Fill in the gaps with these words. “0” is the example
for you. (6 points)
Shakespeare’s
Globe Theatre
The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction
RECONSTRUCT (0)
of the ____________________
open-air playhouse designed ORIGIN (1)
in 1599, where Shakespeare worked
and for which he wrote
many of his ____________
plays. GREAT (2)
Each year the Globe Theatre
Company rediscovers the energetic
____________ between the audience
and the actor in the unique RELATION (3)
building. The Globe also welcomes
_________________theatre NATIONAL (4)
companies to share the impact
Shakespeare’s plays have had
worldwide. Today, audiences of
this “____________ O” sit in a WOOD (5)
gallery or stand informally as a
grounding in the yard, just as they
would have done _____________400
years ago. NEAR (6)
2. Choose the right variant (9
points)
1. I broke my leg yesterday and I … take part in the
football match.
a) can’t b) couldn’t c) could
2. Mr Garret … have a personal bank account.
a) doesn’t b) don’t c) isn’t
3. … birthday is it next week?
a) Whose b) Whom c) Who
4. Run downstairs. Your sister … for you.
a) waits b) waiting c) is waiting
5. Perhaps they …a new house next year.
a) will buy b) buy c)
shall buy
6. Don’t worry about your letter. I … it yesterday.
a) have sent b) sent c) sended
7. Timothy can play cricket well, …?
a) doesn’t he? b) can he? c) can’t
he?
8. My elder sister is afraid … height.
a) - b) of c) with
9. I don’t want … or help.
a) advices b) an advice c) advice
3. Fill in the gaps
with the pronouns instead of the words in bold. (10 points)
me her
him he it me us them they us them him
Example: Bill and I went to a
concert. Jim met us there.
- I recorded my first album when I was 10, and people
loved ________!
- Mozart composed many songs, but we don’t have all
of __________.
- My parents love rap music. _________ bought the new
Eminem album!
- Madonna is very famous. Everybody knows _________.
- I saw Justin Timberlake in a shop and took a photo
of _______.
- Elvis Presley didn’t only record songs - _______
also made films.
- Jane and I were at a concert and P. Diddy said
hello to_______! It was amazing!
- I was singing on the beach and a pop manager gave
_______ a recording contract.
- My younger brother can sing pretty well and my
parents have decided to send _____ to a music school.
- Ben and Tom met Sara at a café. She asked ______ to
go a J-Lo concert on Saturday night with her and Lucy.
4. Read the text
and open the brackets. (5 points)
The History of Man
How long has man been on the earth?
Let us travel 5,000 years into the past. We are in the days before man 1(learn)
__________________ to write. Recorded history 2(not
begin)__________________ yet. Let us go further into the past to 8,000 years ago. We are in
a world without cities or towns, houses or roads. Yet there are people, about
five million of them, 3(live)__________________ on all five continents. They have cows and horses
and they 4(farm)__________________ the land. To find the first man we must 5(go)_____________
many hundreds of thousands of years into the past. The earliest true human
being, Homo sapiens, appeared in Europe more than
50,000 years ago.
TASK 4
WRITING (20 points)
Time: 20 minutes
Write a short essay
(composition-reasoning) on a theme “Positive and negative aspects of fame”
(120-150 words).
TASK 5
SPEAKING (20 points)
Time: 10 – 12
minutes
1. Dialogue
(10 points)
Put the phrases of the dialogue
into the correct order
A) 1. Yes, sure.
Thank you.
2.
That's exactly what I want.
3.Can I
have a look at this magazine?
4. I think this
article about clothes is interesting.
5. Yes, of
course. I read quickly.
B) 1. Oh, yes,
it is. It tells you how to choose the best clothes for you.
2. See you tomorrow then.
3.Yes,
sure. What would you like to read?
4.Do you
think you will give it back to me tomorrow?
5.You can
also read an article about music.
2. Monologue
(10 points)
Speak on watching TV
Maximum points:
100 points
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