Test in Reading
Задания А7 - А14
Прочитайте текст. Определите,
какие из приведённых утверждений А7 — А14 соответствуют содержанию текста (1 — True), какие не
соответствуют (2 — False) и о чём в
тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного,
ни отрицательного ответа (3 — Not stated).
Walter Disney was born on the 5th of December,
1901, in Chicago. At that time Chicago was a very dangerous place to live in, and the
family moved to the country where they bought a small farm.
Living on the farm was the happiest time
in Walt's life and it greatly influenced his interests. He loved animals and
could spend hours watching their habits. He even brought up a piglet. His name
was Skinny and he followed Walt wherever he went.
At that time he started drawing. His
parents often bought him albums for drawing and colour pencils. But one of
Disney's first pictures was made in coal on a white wall of their recently
painted house when his parents were away.
When Walt was 10 years old, the Disneys
moved to Kansas City. Walt and his brother Roy helped their father in his new
business. They had to get up at half past three in the morning to deliver
morning newspapers and not to be late for school. Soon nineteen-year-old Roy
got tired of it and decided to live and work on hisuncle's farm. So Walt had to
deliver the newspapers himself. On Saturday mornings he took classes at the
Kansas City Art Institute.
Walt wanted to become an artist, but
after the USA joined World War I in April 1917, he volunteered as a Red Cross
ambulance driver in France. He was seventeen when he returned home and got a
job in an art studio in Kansas City. Later Disney made animated commercials at
the Kansas City Advertising Company. He was so successful that he decided to
found his own cartoon company.
With the help, of a few young animators
Disney made several six-minute films showing famous fairy-tales Cinderella, Little
Red Riding-Hood and some others. The twenty-year-old president of
the new company thought these films would be a success and he would make a
fortune. But the cartoons were not profitable, and soon Walt went bankrupt.
And still Disney was not going to give
up. He decided to try his luck in Hollywood, and in 1923, with forty dollars in
his pockets, Walt went to Los Angeles. That year Walt and his brother Roy
founded their own cartoon company in Hollywood and made a series of cartoons
called A lice in Cartoon- land. These cartoons combined a
'live' Alice with cartoon characters.
As they didn't have enough money to pay
the assistants, Walt had to do everything — he was a playwright, a director, an
animator.
Alice
in Cartoonland
was very successful and Walt decided to move on. He invented a hero for his new
series — a rabbit. Everybody liked Rabbit Oswald and Disney went to New York to
make new plans. But a small line in the contract with Walt's New York
distributor ruined everything. It turned out that the owner of Oswald was the
distributor and he did not let Walter make any more cartoons with Oswald!
Disney was thinking about a new hero
that would be better than Rabbit Oswald. When Walt was a boy he had a mouse
called Mortimer, and Walt used to give him pieces of cheese. 'A mouse as a new
cartoon hero seems a good idea', thought Disney. This is how Mickey Mouse was
born.
(Speak Out)
A7 Disney's family moved to the country because
Chicago wasn't a safe place to live in.
1) True 2)
False 3) Not stated
A8 Living
on the farm Walt spent much time reading books about animals.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
А9 When Walt
drew a picture with coal on the wall, his parents got angry with him.
l)True 2)
False 3) Not stated
A10 Walt had to get up very early
in the morning to help his uncle on the farm.
l)True 2)
False 3) Not stated
All World War I did
not touch upon Walt Disney's life.
l)True 2)
False 3) Not stated
A12 Disney's first
cartoons didn't make him a fortune.
l)True 2)
False 3) Not stated
A13 At the
beginning of his career Disney could afford to hire neither a playwright nor
any
other assistants.
l)True 2)
False 3) Not stated
A14 When Walt was
prohibited to make another cartoons with Rabbit Oswald, he decided to leave
New-York.
l)True 2)
False 3) Not stated
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