Тренировочные задания для 9 и 11 классов по лексике и грамматике - подготовка к ОГЭ, ЕГЭ.

Тренировочные задания для 9 и 11 классов по лексике и грамматике - подготовка к ОГЭ, ЕГЭ.

B4	In the rivers of south-eastern Australia, you can find an animal called a 'platypus'. The platypus is one of the ………… animals in the world.	STRANGE
B5	It ………… only in Australia and belongs to a group of animals called 'monotremes'.	EXIST
B6	When Europeans first saw an example of the animal in the 1700s, they …………  it was a joke.	THINK
B7	They ………… anything like it before and they refused to believe that it was a real animal.	NEVER SEE
B8	A …………  example arrived from Australia, and then more, and the scientists realised that this unusual creature was real.	TWO
B9	Today, the platypus ………… in the waters around south-east Australia.	LIVE
B10	It is not very rare, but some people worry that water pollution could be a problem as the water around Sydney gets ……… .	DIRTY
B11	We still ………… much about this mysterious animal and we have a lot to learn.	NOT KNOW

B4	Do you like tomatoes? Although people generally think of and use the tomato as a vegetable, in fact it …………… one. It's a fruit.	NOT BE
B5	People in Central America …………… tomatoes for many thousands of years.	EAT
B6	However, it was not until the Spanish …………… in Mexico in the early 1500s that tomatoes came to Europe.	ARRIVE
B7	Before that, no one in Europe …………… a tomato!	EVER SEE
B8	When tomatoes …………… appeared in Italy and Britain, many people were scared.	ONE
B9	Tomatoes …………… by many people to be poisonous.	THINK
B10	They refused to eat …………… and grew tomatoes only as plants for decoration.	THEY
B11	Since then, the tomato …………… extremely popular. Can you imagine what food today would be like without it?	BECOME

B4	To learn more about her students, my younger brother's teacher sent home a lengthy questionnaire at the beginning of the school year. There ………………… a lot of questions about this and that.	BE
B5	She asked ………………… about their likes and dislikes and about many other things.	THEY
B6	She asked what they ………………… about their school in twenty years' time.	THINK
B7	I was 6 years ………………… than my brother but some questions seemed very difficult even to me.	OLD
B8	I ………………… answer them offhand.	NOT CAN
B9	The ………………… question, in my opinion, was the one relating to their self-image: 'When you look in a mirror, what do you see?'	BAD
B10	But my ten-year-old brother had no trouble with his answer: 'Myself, and everything behind ………………….'	I

B4	There are many different stories about the beginning of the Olympics. One myth says that Zeus himself started the Games. Athletic games ………………… as an important part of many religious festivals in ancient Greek culture.		HOLD
B5	Olympia was one of the ………………… religious centers in the ancient Greek world.		OLD
B6	The ………………… sight at Olympia was the gold and ivory statue of Zeus.		IMPRESSIVE
B7	The statue was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This explains why Olympia ………………… as the site for the most important athletic competition.		CHOOSE
B8	Some athletes travelled hundreds of miles, from colonies. These colonies were as far away as modern Spain, Egypt, Ukraine and Turkey. Any freeborn Greek (a man or a boy) ………………… take part in the Olympics.		CAN
B9	………………… did not compete, they were also barred from attending the games, under penalty of death. Unmarried girls were allowed to attend.		WOMAN
B10	Unlike the modern Olympics, judges ………………… from all over the world, but were drawn from Elis, the local region which included Olympia.		NOT COME
B4		Albert Schweitzer is known throughout the world for his missionary work in Africa. He was born on January 14, 1875 in Alsace, which was part of Germany and ………………… Part of France after World War I.		LATE
B5		He was a talented person. By the age of thirty, he ………………… as an author, a lecturer, and a musician.		KNOW
B6		It was at this time that he learned of the great need of medical doctors in Africa. He decided to become a doctor of medicine. In 1913, Doctor Schweitzer and his wife ………………… for Africa.		LEAVE
B7		The morning after the Schweitzers arrived, they started to treat their patients in an old farmhouse. However, a new hospital building ………………… with the help and the trust of African people.		BUILD
B8		Their work was interrupted by World War I Only in 1924, Dr. Schweitzer was finally able to return to Lambarene to rebuild the hospital. When Mrs. Schweitzer came back to Africa in 1929, the hospital was much ………………….		LARGE
B9		There was a growing staff of doctors and nurses. In 1953 Dr. Schweitzer ………………… the Nobel Peace Prize.		GIVE
B10		He was grateful, but said, 'No man has the right to pretend that he ………………… enough for the cause of peace or declare himself satisfied.'		WORK

B4	Modern world of sports knows many kinds of gymnastics. One of them, rhythmic gymnastics ………………… out of modern gymnastics and the Swedish system of free exercise in the 19-th century.	GROW
B5	It was called 'aesthetic gymnastics' as the students ………………… express feelings and emotions through body movement. It combined elements of ballet, gymnastics, and theatrical dance.	CAN
B6	Young ………………… exercised to music, moving from simple calisthenics to more energetic activities. A growing number of men are participating in this kind of sport now.	WOMAN
B7	In the 1880s in Switzerland various exercises to music were created. They were designed to give grace of movement, and a much ………………… pose.	GOOD
B8	A degree of difficulty for each movement ………………… by the European Sport Association after the World War I. So all the elements were graded accordingly.	DEVELOP
B9	In 1906 rhythmic gymnastics was introduced to North America, but the sport ………………… much popularity.	NOT GAIN
B10	Ten European countries ………………… part in the first world championship, held in 1973 in Budapest, Hungary. The United States did not begin competing in the biennial world championship until 1973.	TAKE
B4	How long has man been on earth? Let us travel 5,000 years into the past. We are in the days before man learned to write. Recorded history ………………… yet.	NOT BEGIN
B5	Yet there are people, about five million of them, ………………… on all five continents.	LIVE
B6	The ………………… true human being, Homo sapiens, appeared in Europe more than 50,000 years ago.	EARLY

B7	Daedalus was a brilliant architect and inventor of  ancient Greece. He was so brilliant that King Minos of Grete ………………… him as a prisoner.	KEEP
B8	The King ………………… to let him go back to his home in Athens.	NOT WANT
B9	Daedalus lived with his son Icarus in a tower of the palace, and King Minos made him invent weapons of war that would make his army and navy even ………………… than they already were.	POWERFUL
B10	Although Daedalus and Icarus had every comfort, they longed to return home to Athens. Daedalus looked at the sea, and he realised that even if they managed to slip out of the tower and find a little boat, they world not be able to sail far. One of King Minos's ………………… would spot and catch them very soon.	SEAMAN
B4	The evolution of pizza was quite long and many cultures contributed to it. Let ………………… have a glimpse of its history.	WE
B5	………………… of ancient Egypt, Greece and later Rome had recipes similar to modern ones.	WOMAN
B6	The Egyptians had a tradition to celebrate the Pharaoh's birthday with flat loaves ………………… very much like our modern pizza.	LOOK
B7	The word 'pizza' appeared in printing at the end of the 10th century for the ………………… time.	ONE
B8	A remarkable event took place in June 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 ………………… way to make this pizza famous all over the world.	GOOD
B9	Now pizza ………………… with tomatoes. However, when tomatoes appeared in Europe they were grown as an ornamental plant.	COOK
B10	For a long time people ………………… believe that tomatoes were edible.	NOT CAN

B4	It’s amazing what we can remember and what we forget! Six years after the death of Princess Diana, a famous magazine ………………………			REPORT
B5	that every one of the famous people they had asked could remember the exact ………………………			DETAIL
B6	of how they ……………………… heard the news of the princess’s death on August 31, 1997.			ONE
B7	We remember such shocking and dramatic events ……………………… than any others but why do we forget anything?			WELL
B8	The things we most often forget are names (of things as well as people), numbers, dates and things we ……………………….			NOT UNDERSTAND
B9	We also find it hard to remember anything when we ………………………, ill or very tired.			EMBARRASS
B10	However, forgetting is perfectly normal. There is, it seems, a limit to what we can remember. If we could remember everything, all the time, life ……………………… impossible!			BECOME
B11	As we get older, we lose more and more of ………………………,			MEMORY
B12	leaving only the ……………………….			IMPORTANT
B4		After princess Diana ……………………… in 1997, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, called her “the people’s princess”. This was not only because she was very popular, but also because she did many things that ordinary people did. One of these things was to regularly visit her local gym.				DIE
B5		Over the past twenty years, going to a gym ……………………… an important part of many people’s lives.				BECOME
B6		Nowadays, the fitness business ………………………! But for many people fitness is not the main reason for going to a gym. They go because they are unhappy with their appearance.				BOOM
B7		They want to change the way they look by losing weight and making their muscles ………………………. Even the beautiful Diana was not satisfied with her body.				FIRM
B8		There are gym-goers, however, who exercise to improve their fitness. It ……………………… them feel good.				MAKE
B9		They ………………………  that walking miles on a treadmill, or using a rowing machine has many physical benefits.				DISCOVER
B10		They have more energy, their health ……………………… and they feel less stressed.				IMPROVE
B11		Studies have shown that regular exercise also ……………………… many psychological benefits. It improves confidence and self-esteem.				HAVE
B12		People also report that when they are fitter, they can think ……………………….				GOOD
B4		Heart-stopping activities such as mountain biking, snowboarding and skydiving ……………………… as ‘extreme sports’. And they are attracting more and more people.				KNOW
B5		Rock-climbing, for example, ……………………… now by more than half a million Americans. Only 50,000 were doing it in 1989.				ENJOY
B6		One of the ……………………… of all these sports is BASE jumping. First done in 1980, BASE jumping is jumping off tall buildings, towers and bridges, using a parachute.				EXTREME
B7		It ……………………… dangerous, but of course, that’s why BASE jumpers love it. Like other extreme sports, it’s the risk of disaster that makes BASE jumping so exciting.				BE
B8		As one BASE jumper ……………………… it, ‘There aren’t many injuries in BASE jumping; you either live or die’.				PUT
B9		Some experts predict that extreme sports ……………………… the major sports of the 21st century.				BECOME
B10		They may become ……………………… than traditional favourites like soccer and baseball.				POPULAR
B11		One of the ……………………… is that parents start taking their little kids to extreme sports shows.				REASON
B12		And ………………………, also attending them, would like to do these dangerous sports in the near future. What’s more, they are almost sure that they will be able to repeat their ‘deadly’ jump once again, like they always do in a computer game.				TEENAGER
B4		Once upon a time a personal diary was something you kept hidden away. It was where you wrote down your ……………………… thoughts and feelings, knowing that no one else would read it.				PRIVATE
B5		Then along ……………………… the Internet, and now the idea of a private diary seems to be old-fashioned.				COME
B6		……………………… days many teenagers write diaries just for other people to read.				THIS
B7		In the USA along, one in five teenagers ……………………… their own web page.				HAVE
B8		Their sites contain stories, poems and ……………………… with pictures and, of course, diaries. Many teenagers like writing online diaries because they feel free to write anything.				FILL
B9		However, some people ……………………… not sure that online diaries are a good idea.				BE
B10		“Teenagers need to be careful what they write on the website’, says Patricia, a mother of three, who ……………………… her web site. It’s playing with fire.				RUN
B11		You ……………………… who is visiting your web site and whether they will try to find you.				NOT KNOW
B12		And there are always people who find pleasure in finding and spoiling the ……………………… moments of your life described in the diaries’, she adds.				DEAR
B4		Comic books started out as collections of comic strips from newspapers. They ……………………… as ‘funny books’, because the comic stripes were humorous. It wasn’t until the 1930’s that the first adventure stories started to appear. The heroes of these stories were characters like Dick Tracy and the Phantom.				KNOW
B5		But although they ……………………… some cool gadgets, these heroes were still just ordinary people.				HAVE
B6		Then in June 1938 a new comic came out. It had a new kind of hero. His powers were far ……………………… than any normal person’s. His name was Superman, and he wasn’t just a hero; he was a superhero.				GREAT
B7		Since Superman made his debut there ……………………… many comic books superheroes.				BE
B8		Most worked alone but sometimes they ……………………… up with other superheroes.				TEAM
B9		Today the most popular superhero team is the X-……………………….				MAN
B10		Outside the USA comics have developed in different ways. Japanese comics (known as ‘manga’) include many more topics than American comics do. Topics range from giant robots and time travel to cooking, sport, romance and much more. There ……………………… also a huge variety of artistic styles.				BE
B11		Although now manga comics ……………………… to become popular outside Japan, they still aren’t as well known as American comic books.				START
B12		Most people outside Japan wouldn’t know who Captain Hurlock was. But you can bet they ……………………… of Superman.				HEAR
B4		The world of music was stunned by the death of Whitney Houston, when she ……………………… dead in her hotel room on the 11th of February, 2012.				FIND
B5		She had been born to sing. Her mother was a soul and gospel singer, and at the age of eleven Whitney already ……………………… in her local church in Newark.				SING
B6		In the early 1980s, Whitney Houston started working as a fashion model and sang in night-clubs with her mother. When the producer Clive Davis saw her he ……………………… so much that he immediately signed a contract with her.				IMPRESS
B7		The press called her ‘one of the ……………………… new voices in years’.				EXCITING
B8		In 1989, the singer set up The Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, a non-profit organization that still ……………………… money for the needs of children. It takes care of homeless children and children with cancer or AIDS.				RAISE
B9		Whitney Houston’s ……………………… film role was in The Bodyguard which came out in 1992.				ONE
B10		That year she married Bobby Brown, a soul singer who ……………………… for taking drugs. They were married for 14 years, but they had a troubled life.				KNOW
B11		She became ill because of taking drugs with her husband and people began to notice that her voice ……………………… as good as it used to be.				NOT BE
B12		With her death, the music world has lost one of its most legendary stars. For millions of music fans she forever ……………………… for her amazing songs.				REMEMBER
B4		People ……………………… of staying young and living a long, long life. But can it become a reality?				ALWAYS/ DREAM
B5		Experts believe it is possible that people will live long enough to have great-great-great-great-grand……………………….				CHILD
B6		This belief ……………………… on research and on the fact that more and more people are living to be over 100 years old.				BASE
B7		A British scientist Aubrey de Grey ……………………… hat we can stop people getting old.				THINK
B8		In ……………………… opinion, getting old is like a disease. If we can cure this disease, we can stop the ageing process.				HE
B9		The scientist is sure that we ……………………… all the methods				HAVE
B10		needed to stop ageing in ……………………… than 20 years.				LITTLE
B11		Many scientists who study ageing ……………………… de Grey’s ideas seriously.				NOT TAKE
B12		However, they admit that they ……………………… wrong yet. Would you like to live for 1,000 years? Won’t life get boring if you live such a long life?				NOT PROVE
B4		There is no ……………………… place in the UK to see sea life than the Sea Life London Aquarium.			GOOD
B5		It was opened in 1997 and it has the ……………………… collection of sea animals in Europe. There are many exotic, beautiful and even strange creatures, but the leading stars are sharks.			LARGE
B6		To mark the opening of a new display the Aquarium decided to throw a tea party with sharks! They wanted to prove that sharks are actually a lot ……………………… than they look.			FRIENDLY
B7		The team ……………………… very much to throe the party.			EXCITE
B8		‘The fact ……………………… sharks are far more at threat from humans than humans are from sharks’, said Rachel Wicks, one of the partygoers.			BE
B9		The aquarium ………………………			SAY
B10		that more people die from creatures like ………………………, dogs and snakes than sharks.			MOSQUITO
B11		As well as allowing ……………………… of people to discover the wonders of the marine world,			MILLION
B12		the Sea Life London Aquarium ……………………… an important role in helping save our seas for the future.			PLAY
B4		He is probably the ……………………… magician in history.					SUCCESSFUL
B5		He started practicing magic when he was 10. At the age of 12, he ……………………… the youngest member of the Society of American Magicians.					BECOME
B6		At the age of 19 he played the leading role in the musical The Magic Man. That’s when David Kotkin ……………………… his strange name – ‘David Copperfield’ – from the famous novel by Charles Dickens.					CHOOSE
B7		David has won 11 Guinness World Records and 21 Emmy Awards for his TV series. In 2011, he ……………………… ‘King of magic’ by the Society of American Magicians.					NAME
B8		Copperfield’s ……………………… illusions include walking through the Great Wall of China, levitating over the Grand Canyon and making the Statue of Liberty disappear.					POPULAR
B9		He says that the inspiration for new ………………………					ILLUSION
B10		comes to ……………………… in dreams.					HE
B11		‘Creating a new illusion is like writing a song, sometimes the lyrics come ……………………… and sometimes it’s the music’.					ONE
B12		He still ……………………… to make the moon disappear and straighten the leaning tower of Pisa.					HOPE
B4			Some people believe that ghosts are people who ……………………… between the living world and the world of the dead.					TRAP
B5			This is because they ……………………… something wrong when they were alive, or they must deliver a message to someone living, or something tragic happened to that person.					DO
B6			When the same ghost …………………… repeatedly in the same house, it is said that the house is haunted.					SEE
B7			Hauntings can continue for years and even ……………………….					CENTURY
B8			There are haunted houses all over the world, but the British say that the UK is the ……………………… country in the world.					HAUNTED
B9			Some people say that they ……………………… animal ghosts – cats, dogs horses and even birds.					SEE
B10			One of the ……………………… animal ghosts is a black cat					FAMOUS
B11			that often ……………………… near the Revolution Museum in Moscow.					APPEAR
B12			……………………… a month at midnight it walks along Tverskaya Street.					TWO
B4			Among the e-mails waiting for me at work one morning was one from a member of my staff. It was sent from his personal e-mail address and there was only his home phone number. Thinking something was wrong, I immediately called……………………….					HE
B5			A sleepy female voice answered and told me he was at work and ……………………… home late in the evening.					COME
B6			The ……………………… moment was when I remembered that I had recently asked staff members to give me their home numbers. I went right down to the employee’s office to apologize for my call.					BAD
B7			………………………, however, he thanked me. I had awakened his daughter, who had an exam that morning but had forgotten to set her alarm. Thanks to my call, she hadn’t missed the exam.					LATE

B8	In English-speaking countries they celebrate Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. In Russia we celebrate the International Women’s Day. Though it ……………………… ‘International’, it is observed only in Russia and some CIS countries.	CALL
B9	Boys and ……………………… bring flowers and small presents to girls and women they work or study with.	MAN
B10	It ……………………… a tradition for husbands to do all house work on that day. There are many jokes about it being the only day of the year when they do this.	BECOME

B4	Do you know what holography is? It is a technique ……………………… on lasers, which enable 3-D (three-dimensional) images to be made.	BASE
B5	In 1962, Soviet physicist Yuri Denisyuk ……………………… up with the first reflection hologram also known as the “Denisyuk hologram”.	COME
B6	Now the technology ……………………… in most holographic displays and it was the first to allow multi-color image reproduction in holograms.	USE

B7	Johnny noticed a change in his mother’s appearance. “Mommy, some of your hairs ……………………… grey. Why?” the curious child asked.	TURN
B8	The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child: “It is because of you, dear. Every bad action of ……………………… shows on my hair.	YOU
B9	It ……………………… one my hairs grey!”	TURN
B10	The child replied innocently: “Now I know why my grandmother has only grey hair on her head.” Most children are ……………………… than adults think.	SMART

B4	Once I was travelling in Italy. It was a lovely day. I wandered along the street until I came upon some parasol-shaded tables which seemed to ……………………… very nice. I settled and opened my book.	I
B5	It was taking a long time for the waiter to arrive, but I was in no hurry. I was sure that the waiter ……………………… soon.	COME
B6	But finally, becoming impatient, I turned to signal for service and saw the neon sign. That was the……………………… moment ... I discovered that I was sitting outside a store selling garden furniture.	BAD

B7	The Great Wall of China runs for 6,700 kilometers from east to west of China. It is one of the ……………………… wonders of the world.	GREAT
B8	The Great Wall ……………………… in order to protect the country form different aggressors.	BUILD
B9	The construction of the Wall ……………………… in the 6th century BC and lasted until the 16th century AD.	BEGIN
B10	Since then, the Great Wall of China ……………………… a Symbol of wisdom and bravery of the Chinese people and a monument to Chinese nation for many hundreds of years.	BECOME

B4	My elder brother likes all kinds of music. He prefers jazz but also listens to pop music and sometimes goes to classical music concerts. But when driving ……………………… in his car, he insists on listening to heavy-metal music.	I
B5	For a long time I ……………………… understand why he was doing  it.	NOT CAN
B6	He knew very well that for me it was the ……………………… kind of music.	BAD
B7	One day I decided to ask him why he always chose this type while driving. “Well, sister,” he reluctantly replied, “to be frank, it’s mainly so you can’t sing along.” He added that he ……………………… to anything else if only I promised not to sing along.	LISTEN

B8	St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. On March 17 there is a great celebration with the major parade in Dublin and smaller parades all over Ireland. In New York the ……………………… St. Patrick’s Day celebration took place in 1762.	ONE
B9	On March 15, 1992 St. Patrick’s Day ……………………… in Moscow. Thousands of delighted Muscovites gathered at Novy Arbat to watch the parade of marching bands, Cossack horsemen and floats of Russian and Irish companies.	CELEBRATE
B10	Since then, St. Patrick’s Day parades ……………………… in Moscow every year.	HOLD

B4	For years my husband, Tom, and I had complained bitterly about the lack of sidewalks in our village. We didn’t have enough exercise but we ……………………… jog because there were no sidewalks.	NOT CAN
B5	Tom had often told ………………………, «If only we had sidewalks, we would jog or walk daily and become models of fitness».	I
B6	So we were thrilled when a community sidewalk project was announced, and watched eagerly as paving neared completion. Then the ……………………… thing happened: wishful thinking and reality collided.	BAD
B7	«Well, dear,» Tom said. «What’ll we use as an excuse for not walking now?» I said I ……………………… of some excuse.	THINK

B8	In the USA, Memorial Day is the last Monday in May. Memorial Day ……………………… a national holiday in 1971.	DECLARE
B9	But the tradition of honoring those who died in defense of ……………………… country goes back to the Civil War. The tradition to hold memorial services, visit the cemeteries, decorate the graves with flowers and wreaths originated in Waterloo, New York, in 1866.	THEY
B10	Since then, the tradition ………………………. Nowadays, on Memorial Day Americans honor not only soldiers who perished in wars but those loved ones who have died.	CHANGE