Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)
ВЗ
Прочитайте тексты и установите
соответствие между заголовками 1 — 8 и текстами А — G. Запишите свои
ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок.
1.
An unusual kind of transport 5. Natural
disasters
2.
The road above water 6. Striving for the sky
3.
Now this place is quite safe 7. An incredible
growth
4.
The best place to visit with children . 8. A precious find
Welcome to San Francisco
A.
San Francisco was born as a result of the Gold Rush.
In 1848 a man named
James Wilson Marshall suddenly saw something bright and yellow in a river not
far from his house. Looking more carefully he discovered small pieces of gold.
Word of this discovery got around, and a few months later, the whole world knew
about the hidden gold of California. Very soon thousands of people — 'forty-niners',
as they were called — were on the way to California.
B.
Those forty-niners who went to California by ships
passed through San Francisco. Many of them returned to San Francisco with or
without gold. By the end of 1849, San Francisco was unrecognizable. Before
the Gold Rush it was a settlement of 200 people. By the summer of 1849, there were 5,000, and by 1850 the number had
risen to 25,000. Eight years
later it was a city of 50,000!
C.
In 1906, there was a terrible earthquake in San
Francisco. It destroyed about 5,000 buildings immediately. Most of the other
buildings in the city burnt down in the great fire that followed it. Many
people died or lost their homes. It took 9 years to rebuild
the city. There was another big earthquake in San Francisco in 1989 and everyone
knows that one day, perhaps very soon, there will be another. But people
continue living in San Francisco because life there is fun.
D.
San Francisco is a city of hills — Nob Hill,
Russian Hill, Pacific Heights, Telegraph Hill... In fact, San Francisco has 43 hills! So if you
live in San Francisco, you have plenty of exercise! The views from the hills
are very beautiful. One of the best places to see nearly all of the city is
from the top of Twin Peaks, the city's second and third highest hills. Another
great place to see the city is from Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.
E.
San Francisco is famous for its cable cars. The first
car climbed up Nob Hill in 1843. It was driven by Andrew Hallidie, an
engineer from Britain who built it. Soon there were more and more
cable cars in San Francisco. Cable cars run along three different routes every
ten minutes. They begin working at 6 o'clock in the morning and continue
until 12 : 30 night. There is
an interesting Cable Car Museum at 120 Mason Street.
F.
The symbol of San Francisco is the famous Golden Gate
Bridge. You can see it in many photos, posters and postcards of the city. This
beautiful orange suspension bridge is 1280 metres long and is one of the longest
bridges in the world. 100,000 cars travel
across it every day. You can cross the bridge by car or by bike. Many people
want to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. Indeed, this is a wonderful
experience. You can see the Pacific Ocean on one side and the San Francisco Bay
on the other.
G.
If you are on the Golden Gate Bridge and it isn't
foggy, you can enjoy a great view of the city skyline and also see Alcatraz, a
famous American prison. Until 1963, the island of Alcatraz was a
maximum-security prison, holding famous crime bosses such as A1 Capone.
Prisoners once named the Alcatraz's corridors after famous American streets
(New York's Broadway or Park Avenue, Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard, etc.). Now
it's a museum. About 1.5 million tourists visit it each year. You
can see real cells (luckily, without dangerous criminals).
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Утверждение
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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 положи- тельного, 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 his uncle'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 tbe 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 Alice 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.
l)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 3jW stated
A10 Walt had to get up very early in the morning to help
his uncle on the
farm.
1) 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
|А13| 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.
Раздел 3. (задания по грамматике и лексике)_
Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст.
Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк,
обозначенных номерами В4 — В12 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали
содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск
соответствует отдельному заданию В4 — В12.
The next day Betty arrived
at the hotel to find
that Billy had gone on a
picnic with Dolores and
her friends. 'It's quite all right, Mrs.
Black,' she said.
B4 'It______ . But I think — all the same — that NOT
MATTER
we'd
better call the whole thing off.' She slipped
from her finger the engagement ring that
В5 Billy __________her. ' GIVE
B6” _____ you.______ him back this,
Mrs. Black? GIVE
And tell him
it's all right — not to worry...' '
Betty, dear, don't! He does
love you — really.
В7 'It looks like,_____________ it?' said the
girl with a DO
short laugh. 'No — I've got some pride. Tell him
everything's all right and that I — I wish him
luck.'
В8 When Billy returned at sunset he _ . by the storm GREET
He flushed a little at
the sight of his ring.
'So that's how she feels, is it? Well,
probably it's
В9 the ._____thing.' GOOD
'Billy!
B10 'Well, frankly you_________ me yourself not to BEG
marry
Betty.'
'В11' That was
before I_____ her. Billy—my KNOW
B12 dear — you're not
thinking of ________ this other MARRY
creature.'
'I'd marry like a shot if she'd have me — but I'm afraid
she won't.'
Cold chills went down Mrs.
Black's spine.
Прочитайте приведённый ниже
текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк,
обозначенных номерами В13 — В18 так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически
соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.
Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию В13 — В18.
Прочитайте приведённый ниже
текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк,
обозначенных номерами В13 — В18 так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически
соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.
Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию В13 — В18.
B13
You’ve probably heard a lot about dwarf planets
_______
RECENTLY
B14
One of the most ________ of them is Sedna. MYSTERY
B15
Sedna was discovered in2003 by _______from Yale SCIENTIST
University.
B16
They called it in honour of the Inuit ______ of the GOD
sea, who, according to legend, lived
at the bottom of
the ice-cold Arctic Ocean.
В17 Sedna is the object from the sun in our so- FAR
lar system. It's further than
Pluto! It lives in the so-
called Oort Cloud, which is filled
with comets
В18 and other__________objects. ICE
Раздел 4. (задание по письму)
Для ответа на задание С1 используйте
отдельный чистый лист. При выполнении задания С1 особое внимание обратите на
то, что ваши ответы будут оцениваться только по записям, сделаннымJi на отдельном листе. Никакие записи черновика не будут
учитываться экспертом. Обратите внимание также на необходимость соблюдения
указанного объёма письма. Письма недостаточного объёма, а также часть текста
письма, превышающая требуемый объём — не оцениваются.
| С1 | You have 30 minutes to do
this task.
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Arthur.
... Гт so happy to receive your congratulations on my
birthdayt Ifs unbelievable but my dream has come true! My parents have gifted
me with an aquarium! Tomorrow Гт going to the zoo shop to buy fish! My sister has
promised to help me choose. What pets have you got? What problems do you think
I may come across? Any advice would be very useful. What pet would be better
for me? Best wishes, Arthur.
Write him a letter and answer his 3 questions.
Write 100 — 120 words. Remember
the rules of letter writing.
