Вариант № 1500354
Вариант № 1500354
1 . 1 . Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего A–F и утверждениями, данными в списке 1–7. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей цифрой, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды.1. I’m afraid of becoming overweight. 2. I want a stable financial position. 3. I might get held at gunpoint. 4. I’m concerned about my parents. 5. I want to stay fit for years to come. 6. I feel upset by my friend’s problems. 7. I’m anxious to get a decent job.
Говорящий A B C D E F
Утверждение Расшифровка записи Расшифровка записи
Speaker A.
Speaker A. What is something that really troubles me? Well, like everyone else these days I worry about earning enough to pay my monthly bills, my rent and all the other current living expenses. I’ want to be secure for the future and make sure I will have everything I need and maybe start saving some money. I am so afraid of losing everything I own.
Speaker В.
Speaker В. What do I worry about? Oh, about a lot of different things — money, politics, the weather. But my greatest concern is my mum and dad. I have a good job with a foreign firm and I am living overseas at the moment. I am so worried about them. I’m afraid they won’t be able to deal with all their problems. If anything happens to them when I’m away, I won’t be able to come back home quickly enough to help.
Speaker С.
Speaker С. I think my biggest worry today is my career. I’m 26 now and I’ve spent the last few years travelling. Most of my university friends have settled down. They work hard and have made a good start to their careers. So I began to worry that when I go back home I will be too old for companies to want me. What shall I do then? That’s a tough question. I do not want to be unemployed.
Speaker D.
Speaker D. Every time I look in the mirror I feel nervous. I am afraid of getting fat as I love pizza and hamburgers. I like shopping a lot and always buy sweets. I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help it. Like any other woman in her thirties, I am really afraid of gaining extra kilograms.
But I just can’t say “no” to cakes and sweets. Who can?! Speaker Е.
Speaker Е. What am I afraid of? Well, recently I visited a friend of mine in Shanghai and she made a comment that I thought was very interesting. She said I look as though I have plenty of money. I don’t, but compared to ordinary people in the street I look like I have a lot of money. I am really afraid of someone thinking that I have a lot of money and trying to rob me, especially if they have a gun. I have a little bit of paranoia about guns and robbers.
Speaker F.
Speaker F. I guess I worry about the usual things, like getting in shape for the summer or being healthy and fit. I think being healthy is the most important thing. So I exercise regularly and watch what I eat. You know it’s all about getting the right amount of vitamins, minerals, and fibre. I need this body to last at least another fifty years.
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2. Вы услышите диалог. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений А–GА–G соответствуют содержанию текста (1 —(1 — True)
True), какие не соответствуют (2 — False)(2 — False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 — Not stated)(3 — Not stated). Занесите номер выбранного Вами варианта ответа в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.
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What do we learn about Vanessa at the beginning of the interview? 1) She has won her first writing award.
2) She writes affecting novels. 3) She is a beginner.
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In her childhood Vanessa produced a … 1) newspaper.
2) comedy.
3) collection of poems. 5.
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What made Vanessa start her writing career? 1) An accident in Brighton.
2) Reading a book bought by chance. 3) A meeting with a writer.
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Vanessa thinks that anybody can be a storyteller because … 1) everybody enjoys being one.
2) people know a lot of stories. 3) people are born with this gift. 7.
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What books does Vanessa specifically advise beginner writers to read? 1) Both good and bad books.
2) Good books. 3) Bad books. 8.
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How does Vanessa treat her characters? 1) Like puppets.
2) Like means to impress readers.
3) Like people living their own lives in a story. 9.
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Which of the following does Vanessa say about editing? 1) It may considerably shorten your text.
2) A raw text is more interesting than its edited version. 3) You should edit at least a third of the original text.
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10. Установите соответствие между текстами A–GA–G и заголовками 1–81–8. Запишите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
1. Look to your past 2. Health benefits of hobbies 3. Finding a hobby that suits you 4. Dangerous hobby
5. Time out with a purpose 6. Finding time for your hobby 7. Making new friends 8. Finding excitement A.
A. Hobbies provide work-free and responsibility-free time in your schedule. This can be especially useful for people who feel stressed by all that they have to do and need to recharge their batteries. For some of us it may be difficult to give ourselves permission to just sit and relax. Having a hobby, however, can provide a break and help people feel that they’re not just ‘sitting around’ but are using their free time for something productive.
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B. Are there things you enjoyed as a child that you might still enjoy as an adult? Maybe you had a fantastic record collection, loved to make clothes for your dolls or were always out on your bike. Those are all things you could pick up again as an adult that would make great hobbies. Or there may be hobbies in your home right now that you started but have recently forgotten about. Maybe it’s time to finish that crochet project or pick up the guitar again.
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C. If you’re adding a new thing into your life, you have to take time and focus away from something else. The good news is that most of us have a lot of time we’re not using well, either because we’re spending a lot of time online or watching TV or just wasting time we could be spending on our hobbies. See if you can spend a half hour or so every other day to explore your interest. This way it would be best in case you find that hobby isn’t for you after all.
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D. Of course, everyone is different and your personality does play a role in what sorts of hobbies you’ll like. If you don’t have a lot of patience you might feel that knitting is too much for you, but exploring quick sewing projects might be a better choice. Maybe you really like being with friends, so you need to take a class or have an interest that you can do with a group. If you travel a lot, something portable or that you can do anywhere is helpful.
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E. One study found that those who engage in physical leisure activities for at least 20 minutes once a week are less likely to have a fatigue. Other research found that enjoyable activities performed during leisure time were associated with lower blood pressure, total cortisol, and body mass index, and feelings of better physical function. Such activities were also associated with higher levels of positive psychosocial states and lower levels of depression.
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F. When you look for material or equipment for your hobby, you are likely to find people who have the same hobby as you. You may be surprised to know how serious some people are about their hobbies and therefore would have great knowledge of their chosen pastime. Instead of meeting people from your work or college or those whom you have grown apart with, it is a great way to meet people with whom you have something in common.
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G. For those who aren’t very stressed and may actually be understimulated, hobbies provide a nice source of eustress, the healthy kind of stress that we all need to remain feeling happy about life. If the rest of your life is somewhat dull or uninspiring, hobbies can provide meaning and fun, and can break up a boring schedule, without feeling like work. In other words, hobbies can provide just the right amount of challenge.
Текст A B C D E F G
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11. Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A–F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1–7. Одна из частей в списке 1–7 — лишняя. Занесите цифры, обозначающие соответствующие части предложений, в таблицу.
A Young Mayor A Young Mayor
This is a very unusual case, but as you will see, unusual doesn’t mean impossible.
An 18-year-old school girl has become the youngest mayor of a British town in history. Amanda Bracebridge, AA _____________________, won leadership of Clun village council in a dramatic election last night. The tiny village only has 122 voters and Amanda won the election by just two votes from the only other candidate, 69-year-old Fred Gardner of the Conservative party. Amanda, BB _____________________, was an independent candidate. She was surprised by her success, CC _____________________. “My election promise was to make sure DD _____________________,” she told us. She was referring to the plans from a large company to buy up farmland and build flats there. “We live in one of the most beautiful villages in Shropshire and I want to make sure it stays that way.”
Amanda, who is in her last year at nearby Bishop’s Castle High School, EE _____________________ and her exams which she takes in two months. “It’s going to be a pretty busy few months,” she said. “But when the exams are over I will be able to concentrate completely on helping my village”.
Amanda had plans to go to university but is now going to start a year later FF _____________________. “I’ve talked to Leeds University and they say my place will wait for me”. And what is she going to study? Politics? “No, actually, I am going to do sociology and economics”.
1. who is not a member of any political party
2. that our village would be protected from outside interests 3. but it was not a total shock to her
4. being a politics student at the university 5. so she can do her job as mayor properly 6. who is only just old enough to vote herself 7. will have to find time for her work as mayor
Пропуск A B C D E F G
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12. Because of the father’s job the boy had to 1) visit UK air bases.
2) change home three times a year.. 3) often change schools
4) behave as a dreamer.
Lucky Break Lucky Break
For the first ten years of my life my father was in the RAF (Royal Air Force). This meant that he was frequently posted to different air bases around the UK and I, as frequently, changed schools. One year we moved no fewer than three times and each time I tried, in vain, to settle and make friends. For a young child this frequency of change can only have a detrimental effect and I still have school reports stating that I was “lazy” and a “dreamer”.
When I reached ten, my worried parents decided I needed a personal tutor. She turned out to be a kindly and patient old lady who presented me with a large, black book of tests. She made me complete it as a home task and I scored about 20 out of 100. At out next meeting, on a Saturday morning, she went through it with me item by item, until I completely understood each task. She then made me retake the test and of course I got almost every question correct. Then we again moved house!
In our new town I took and failed the 11 plus exam (my excuse was that I was still only ten!) and my prospects looked dim. I was destined to go to the local comprehensive which had a reputation for being quite rough. But also nearby was an ancient public school, set in a castle. This was a place for rich kids only — apart from every year they gave 2 free places to the highest performing local boys (it was a boys only school) in their entrance exam.
My crazy parents decided I should enter the exam. I had as much chance of succeeding as going to the moon — or so I thought. But when I sat down to take the test, a rather familiar black book of 100 tests was placed on the desk!
I did the test and kept quiet and the next term, as a terror struck 11 year old in an ill fitting suit, I arrived for my first day at “the castle”.
Clearly I was going to have problems in this new, intensely academic environment and I did. There were 31 boys in my class and in every subject, despite my best efforts, I finished in the bottom 5 in every test, exam and report.
We were then streamed into “sets” for each subject and I ended up being taught with boys closer to my own ability. I worked really hard and at the end of my third year there, I won my first form prize. I was top of the bottom class! But I was really motivated and in time got “promoted” to higher “sets”. I worked really hard and won prizes every year until I left after A Levels. My grades were all A’s — the highest you can get - and I was offered a place to study at a prestigious university.
So when a certain old Lady presented me with a large black book full of tests, you could say it was my lucky break. Although I would argue that if you work really hard and keep your wits about you — then you begin to make your own luck.
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15. What helped the boy to enter the public school? 1) familiarity with the tests.
2) his parents. 3) his knowledge. 4) keeping quiet. 16.
16. In all the school subjects the boy 1) demonstrated his academic gifts. 2) managed to solve any problems. 3) was the best in efforts made.
4) was worse than twenty of his classmates. 17.
17. By the end of the school the boy 1) was awarded his first form prize. 2) was among the best school students. 3) had to work harder and harder. 4) still couldn’t get the high grades. 18.
18. According to the boy the ‘Lucky Break’ refers to 1) moving to a right place.
2) entering a good school. 3) getting a big test book. 4) meeting the lady tutor. 19.
19. Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово MAKEMAKE так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
How old is Coca-Cola? How old is Coca-Cola?
Do you know how old this popular drink is? In 1886 a chemist from Atlanta, John Pemberton, _________ a syrup from cola-nut extract, cocoa leaves, some vegetable extracts, caffeine, and sugar.
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20. Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово ONEONE так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
He ran the ____________ advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal. 21.
21. Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово SERVESERVE так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
He started ___________ the syrup diluted with soda-water to customers in his drugstore. That's how the 22.
22. Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово INVENTINVENT так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
That's how the world famous drink __________. 23.
23. Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово OLDOLD так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
College life College life
We are a family of five. My ______________ sister, Heather, is in her second year in college. This year she could not find a book she needed.
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2 4 . Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово NOT HAVENOT HAVE так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
When the professor assigned reading from a hard-to-find book, 150 hands shot in the air to inform him they __________ it. He told them it had arrived at the bookstore that morning.
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26. Образуйте от слова MASSMASS однокоренное слово так, чтобы оно грамматически и лексически соответствовало содержанию текста.
City Living City Living
Humans have lived together in cities since ancient times, but even in 1800 urban areas were home to just 3 per cent of the world’s population.
The __________________ explosion of urbanization that accompanied the Industrial Revolution saw that figure rise 15 per cent in the space of 100 years.
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27. Образуйте от слова BELIEVEBELIEVE однокоренное слово так, чтобы оно грамматически и лексически соответствовало содержанию текста.
The cause of the _______________ growth of cities from the 19th century onwards is the ascendancy of industry over agriculture.
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28. Образуйте от слова EMPLOYEMPLOY однокоренное слово так, чтобы оно грамматически и лексически соответствовало содержанию текста.
The mechanization of agriculture and the abolition of serfdom in Europe left an excess of labour in rural areas, and that labour force flooded into the cities when the Industrial Revolution provided a new form of __________________ in the shape of factories and workshops.
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29. Образуйте от слова MAJORMAJOR однокоренное слово так, чтобы оно грамматически и лексически соответствовало содержанию текста.
By 1900, nine European cities had more than a million inhabitants: London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, Manchester, Birmingham, Moscow and Glasgow. However, the __________________ of people – even in industrialized nations – still lived in the country.
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30. Образуйте от слова MISERYMISERY однокоренное слово так, чтобы оно грамматически и лексически соответствовало содержанию текста.
For many people life in cities was often _________________. 31.
31. Образуйте от слова RELATIVERELATIVE однокоренное слово так, чтобы оно грамматически и лексически соответствовало содержанию текста.
Food supply and sanitation were often so bad that the high mortality rate kept city growth __________________ slow. 32. 32. Вставьте пропущенное слово: 1) brought up 2) grew up 3) went up 4) got up
New York City: New York City:
Nostalgia for the Old Neighbourhood Nostalgia for the Old Neighbourhood
Life is made up of little things: some unimportant memories from childhood that, in fact, shaped your character. I 32 ______ on Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the 1950s-60s where family life was centred around old 33 ______ of flats and small stores. Third Avenue was my old neighbourhood and it had character. It was 34 ______ with working families of Italian, German and Irish origin. We shopped together with all those people and their kids played together. Third Avenue influenced the way our
34. 34. Вставьте пропущенное слово: 1) covered 2) held 3) loaded 4) filled 35. 35. Вставьте пропущенное слово: 1) knowledge 2) information 3) education 4) training 36. 36. Вставьте пропущенное слово: 1) looked after 2) looked for 3) looked through 4) looked at 37. 37. Вставьте пропущенное слово: 1) hard 2) rough 3) strange 4) heavy 38. 38. Вставьте пропущенное слово: 1) stay out 2) take out 3) move out 4) go out 39.
39. You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend Nancy who writes:
… I hope you liked my New Year card. Where and how did you celebrate New year this time? What was the weather like? What’s your secret wish or at least hopes and expectations for the coming year?
I’ve redecorated my room and it looks much nicer now …
Write a letter to Nancy. In your letter
- answer her questions
- ask 3 questions3 questions about the way her room looks now Write 100–140 words.100–140 words.
Remember the rules of letter writing. 40.
40. Выберите только ОДНО из двух предложенных высказываний и выразите своё мнение по предложенной проблеме согласно данному плану.
Comment on one of the following statements.
1. Public libraries are becoming less popular and they will soon disappear.
2. Some people think that you can master the language only if you study it abroad, in the native speaking environment.
What is your opinion? Do you agree with this statement? Write 200–250 words. Use the following plan: − make an introduction (state the problem)
− express your personal opinion and give 2–3 reasons for your opinion − express an opposing opinion and give 1–2 reasons for this opposing opinion − explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion
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41. Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.
Nicotine is colourless. In theory, cigarettes can be made out of potato or tomato leaves. Some programmes designed to help people stop smoking also advise giving up potatoes and tomatoes in order to eliminate low-level nicotine intake completely. In small doses, the nicotine compound that is present in all these plants produces feelings of pleasure. That’s why tobacco is more addictive than either cocaine or heroin. But it’s also why we sometimes find ourselves craving chips or pizza.
In large doses, however, nicotine is as deadly as the nightshade whose relative it is. The nicotine in a single cigarette, if taken direct into the bloodstream, would be fatal. Eating one cigarette could make you severely ill. Swallowing a packet of ten would definitely kill you. In 1976, the Department of Health urged pregnant mothers to wear rubber gloves when peeling potatoes. More than a kilogram of potatoes eaten at a single sitting would be certain death.
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42. Study the advertisement.
You are considering staying one week at the resort and you'd like to get more information. In 1.5 minutes you are to ask five direct questions to find out the following:
1) discounts for regular customers 2) special offers
3) entertainment programs 4) multilingual staff
5) if you can pay with a credit card You have 20 seconds to ask each question. 43.
43. These are photos from your photo album. Choose one photo to describe to your friend.
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44. Study the two photographs. In 1.5 minutes be ready to compare and contrast the photographs: • give a brief description of the photos (action, location)
• say what the pictures have in common • say in what way the pictures are different
• say what kind of time spending presented in the photos you prefer • explain why
