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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. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.
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1. You can’t learn the German language quickly.
2. Knowing German offers you more career opportunities.
3. I learn German because I’m attracted by the culture.
4. German isn’t as difficult as you may think.
5. Writers, philosophers and scientists need to learn German.
6. Some unique academic books exist only in German.
7. German is almost an impossible language to learn.
Вы услышите диалог. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений A–G 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). Занесите номер выбранного Вами варианта ответа в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.
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A. Andy’s mother likes it when he plays on his phone.
B. Sarah supports Andy’s mum decision.
C. Andy doesn’t have any health problems.
D. Sarah plays computer games at the weekend.
E. Sarah has daily football training.
F. Andy thought about joining a football team last year.
G. Sarah’s team does not need new players.
What do we learn about Cindy at the beginning of the interview?
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1) She is world-famous.
2) She helps celebrities.
3) She works in the media.
Second-person narration reminds Chris of playing …
1) board games.
2) video games.
3) active games.
Doing research for her stories enables Mandy to make them …
1) better illustrated.
2) more personal.
3) commercially successful.
How does Pamela describe her working space?
1) Hectic and eventful.
2) Restful and relaxing.
3) Nice and modern.
Eric thinks writers need a lot of …
1) privacy.
2) medicines.
3) friends.
Which of the following groups is NOT mentioned by Diane as potential clients for hippotherapy?
1) Disabled children.
2) Depressed adults.
3) Professional riders.
Установите соответствие между текстами A–G и заголовками 1–8. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
1. Named after a politician
2. Too lengthy to stay
3. In hope for a good future
4. Named after a tsar
5. Modern pronunciation
6. Named after the river
7. Named after a wrong person
8. Bringing back the first name
A. One local legend claims that the city of Orlando is named after the character in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”, but the more commonly accepted version is that a man named Orlando Reeves owned a plantation and a sugar mill a bit north of what later became the city. Early settlers found where Reeves had carved his name in a tree and thought that it was a grave marker to a soldier, a hero who died in the Seminole War and mistakenly named their settlement after him.
B. When Arizona city began expanding in the late 1860s, settlers realized that their little town needed a name. The founder of the city Jack Swilling, a Confederate veteran, wanted to name the town Stonewall in honour of Stonewall Jackson, but Darrell Duppa found out that their site had been a Native American settlement centuries earlier. He offered the name Phoenix. He believed that their new city would rise from the ruins of the former civilization like the legendary bird.
C. In 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip discovered a supply of fresh water for his thirsty armada in a cave near Port Jackson, today’s Sydney Harbor. Later he started a settlement there. The place needed a name. Though originally he had planned to name his new freshwater-filled settlement Albion — a poetic name for England — instead he decided to call the bay Sydney Cove after the Secretary of State, Lord Sydney. The fact that the guy had never even set foot in Australia didn’t stop him.
D. The Russian capital sits on the Moscva River, which is obviously where the city’s name comes from. However, there are a couple of theories as to where the name Moscva comes from. The first states that it is a derivative of a Finno-Ugric name meaning river of either cows, or bears, or darkness. Nobody is really sure which of the three exactly, but all of them seem quite possible. The other, more popular theory, says that the name comes from a Slavic word meaning dank, swampy river.
E. It’s widely known that the City of Angels got its name from Spanish settlers. The beauty of the place impressed them so much that they considered it heaven on Earth. The original name, however, was a lot longer: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula, or “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion”. They realized there would be a lot of letters to fit on a hat they wore, so they just shortened it to Los Angeles.
F. Have you ever wondered why in a restaurant we never order Beijing duck, but instead call it Peking like our grandmas did? Well, since Chinese characters don’t much lend themselves to transliteration, English interpretations of how the name is pronounced have changed over the years. The name was given to the city during the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Di, who moved his capital there. “Beijing” is about as close as we can get now to saying it like the Chinese.
G. St. Petersburg was founded on May 16, 1703, when the foundation of the Peter and Paul Fortress was being set. Since its foundation, the city’s name has changed several times. Originally, it was named after the Apostle Peter as tsar Peter, the Apostle’s namesake, relied on this saint’s patronage. For a decade in the 1900’s it was called Petrograd. This was from 1914–1924. After Lenin died, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad. St. Petersburg resumed its original name in 1992.
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.
London’s skyscraper
The Shard is a modern glass skyscraper in London. The skyscraper is situated in the London Bridge Quarter in Southwark. It is right near the heart of London and only the river separates it from the City of London. The area is full of history: a bridge was built there by the Romans around 50 AD A ________.
The plans for the London Bridge Tower, as the building was initially called, caused a strong protest from people B ________ for a historic neighbourhood with mostly low-rise brick buildings. They claimed the tower would cut through the neighbourhood like a shard of glass. The name “shard” stuck C ________ — “The Shard”.
When it was completed the Shard held the record as Europe’s tallest skyscraper with a height of almost 310 metres. Only a couple of months later, it was surpassed in height by Moscow’s Mercury City Tower. The Shard towers over the neighbourhood and is visible from afar. The iconic skyscraper looks particularly spectacular at night D ________.
The building is multifunctional, with offices and a hotel on the lower floors E ________. The top floors of the Shard are home to the “View from the Shard”, an observation deck F ________ of the city. On a clear day one can see as far as sixty kilometres. At a height of 245 metres, this is the highest public viewing gallery in London, almost twice as high as the London Eye.
1) when seen from across the river Thames
2) who is concerned about the city’s heritage
3) and the developers even renamed the tower
4) who considered the glass tower inappropriate
5) and residential apartments on the upper floors
6) that offers visitors spectacular 360 degree views
7) and in 1836 the first railway station opened there
Which adjective could best describe Mallaig as presented by the author?
1) Derelict.
2) Beautiful.
3) Abandoned.
4) Unsightly.
Which of the following does Athena do monthly?
1) Invites friends to her place.
2) Uses the Snapchat.
3) Goes to the mall with her family.
4) Changes her iPhone.
The author thinks that her university can affect the environmental campaign by …
1) reducing meat options in menus on campus.
2) creating and offering new vegetarian dishes.
3) educating students about ecological problems.
4) increasing awareness of the harm the meat industry may incur.
Which of the following did the college donors NOT do?
1) Communicate with students.
2) Attend college sport clubs.
3) Write for college publications.
4) Sponsor health treatment.
According to the text, to choose a career it is necessary to ...
1) ignore all the advice you get.
2) take into account your parents’ advice.
3) try working in different places.
4) study all the relevant information.
What did the author NOT do in the course of his Chinese studies, as mentioned in the text?
1) Take a university course.
2) Study the language abroad.
3) Have a lot of language input.
4) Communicate with native speakers.
The author draws the conclusion that technology …
1) will substitute teachers in the distant future.
2) can help teachers but cannot replace them.
3) will never be as effective as human teachers.
4) cannot be trusted as human teachers are.
No more selfies! |
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Modern social media is full of people’s selfies. People use various filters to look ____________________ than they really are, but is it worth it? |
GOOD |
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One of Apollo’s most important daily tasks was to harness __________________ four-horse chariot, in order to move the Sun across the sky. |
HE |
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Recently the Disney studio __________________ some films based on his books, for example, The Reluctant Dragon. These films are certainly worth watching. |
Sports in Victorian times
| Sports became extremely popular in Victorian times. Traditional sports like football, cricket and boxing had been played for centuries but now they were given proper rules for the ____________________ time. | ONE |
| Thanks to this finding, scientists could start ________________ the language of ancient Egyptians. | STUDY |
Anatoly Karpov |
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Anatoly Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster. He is considered to be one of the greatest ____________________ of all time. |
PLAY |
The train has several routes. You will pass through a number of African countries and admire the ____________________ of their landscapes.
DIVERSE
It gives soft and pleasant light which is especially good for people after a ____________________ day at school or at work.
STRESS
Besides, you can apply the skills you learn through sketching in a number ways in your life. To begin with, you may become interested in a career of an ____________________.
ILLUSTRATE
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So in Whistler ____________________ can enjoy a lively town atmosphere throughout the year. |
TOUR |
1) watched
2) saw
3) looked
4) glimpsed
Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 32–
38. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 32–
38, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
A sign of weakness?
What should you do when you realise that you have to apologise? Is it better to swallow your pride and say you’re sorry when somebody is waiting 32 ______ your apology?
The psychologist Jack Black says that people worry that an apology will be 33 ______ as a sign of weakness, rather than as their effort to understand and make up with the opponent. But he adds that effective apologies address the person’s feelings –
they don’t prove a point.
As for how to do it, Professor Black has the following advice, “The right way to apologise is the way your mother taught you. Say you threw a stone at your brother. She’d have you go and 34 ______ him in the eye and say: ‘I’m sorry I threw the stone at you and I won’t do it again.’ It’s important to name what you did wrong, to show yourself as being regretful in some way and to indicate what might be different in the future.”
You should 35 ______ that the number of times you’ll need to repeat the apology may vary depending on where you live. 36 ______ to preliminary data collected by Professor Black, for a minor offence, the optimal number is a single “I’m sorry”. “If the offence is large, then making two apologies seems to be the magic number for restoring trust and liking,” Jack Black says. 37 ______, if you’re British, you may need to double that. “A single ‘Sorry’ does not 38 ______ as an apology: we have to say it so many times with a lot of adjectives,” says Professor Black.
1) treated
2) referred
3) connected
4) related
1) affected
2) satisfied
3) interested
4) convinced
1) managed
2) succeeded
3) achieved
4) maintained
1) Although
2) Moreover
3) Therefore
4) However
1) enthusiastic
2) abandoned
3) controversial
4) sympathetic
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