Комплект заданий для учащихся 9-11 классов.
PART 1.
LISTENING.
Time: 20 minutes.
Task 1.
You will hear a conversation about music. For each question 1-6, choose the correct answer A,B or C.
1. Alan has chosen his job because of … .
A. his ability to play the guitar.
B. his ability to sing.
C. His passion to rock-and-roll.
2. A lot of people at the end of 50-s thought that … .
A. rock-and-roll died.
B. rock-and roll survived.
C. rock-and roll prospered.
3. They talked about … .
A. the famous politics.
B. the famous actors.
C. the famous singers.
4. The situation in pop music was improved by … .
A. American singers.
B. British singers.
C. German singers.
5. Pop music is based on … now.
A. rock-and-roll.
B. heavy metal.
C. different kinds.
6. Alan thinks he won’t … in future.
A. feel the same impression.
B. find something boring in music.
C. listen to rather simple music.
Task 2.
You will hear an actor’s monologue about the problems in his life. For each sentence 7-14, fill in the
missing information in the numbered space. Write only one word in each gap.
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Albert was born in a … family.
Albert gave up school because he had to … for living.
Albert started his acting career on the … .
Albert wants to … his modern life.
Albert usually buys … clothes.
He spends a lot of time in therapy … he wants to be happy.
Albert wants to have plastic surgery because he would like to change his … .
Albert Dinero wants to be a … .
Task 3.
You will hear a conversation between a presenter and a science reporter Jessica Mile about National
Science Week. Look at statements 15-20 below. Decide if each statement is true or false. Put a tick (+) in
the corresponding box.
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National Science Week is particularly intended for young people.
National Science Week was successful when it was first held.
Click for Climate Change involves people agreeing to take action themselves.
The website makes suggestions about how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Click for Climate Change starts after National Science Week.
You can get more information if you visit the BA website.
True
False
PART 2.
READING.
Time: 20 minutes.
Task 1.
Read the text and questions 1-5 below. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D.
From My Life and Hard Times, by James Thurber.
Another course that I didn’t like, but somehow managed to pass, was economics. I went to that class
straight from the botany class, which didn’t help me any in understanding either subject. I used to get
them mixed up. But not as mixed up as another student in my economics class who came there direct
from a physics laboratory. He was a tackle on the football team, named Bolenciecwcz. At that time Ohio
State University had one of the best football team in the country, and Bolenciecwcz was one of its
outstanding stars. In order to be eligible to play it was necessary for him to keep up his studies, a very
difficult matter, for while he was not dumber than an ox he was not any smarter.
Most of his professors were lenient and helped him along. None gave him more hints in answering
questions, or asked him simpler ones than the economics professor, a thin, timid man named Bassum.
One day when we were on the subject of transportation and distribution it came to Bolenciecwcz’s turn
to answer a question, “Name one means of transportation,” the professor said to him. No light came
into the big tackle’s eyes.”Just any means of transportation,” said the professor. Bolenciecwcz sat
staring at him. ”That is,” pursued the professor, ”any medium, agency, or method of going from one
place to another.” Bolenciecwcz had the look of a man who is being led into a trap. “You may choose
among steam, horse drawn, or electrically propelled vehicles,” said the instructor. “I might suggest the
one which we commonly take in making long journeys across land.” There was a profound silence in
which everybody stirred uneasily, including Bolenciecwcz and Mr. Bassum.
Mr.Bassum abruptly broke this silence in an amazing manner:”Choo-choo-choo,” he said, in a low
voice, and turned instantly scarlet. He glanced appealing around the room. All of us, of course, shared
Mr. Bassum’s desire that Bolenciecwcz should stay abreast of the class in economics, for the Illinois
game, one of the hardest and most important of the season, was only a week off. “Toot, toot, tootooooot!” some student with a deep voice moaned, and we all looked encouragingly at Bolenciecwcz.
Somebody else gave a fine imitation of a locomotive letting off steam. Mr. Bassum himself rounded off
the little show.”Ding, dong, ding, dong,” he said hopefully. Bolenciecwcz was staring at the floor now,
trying to think, his great brow furrowed, his huge hands rubbing together, his face red.
“How did you come to college this year, Mr. Bolenciecwcz?” asked the professor. “Chuffa chuffa ,
chuffa chuffa.” “My father sent me,” said the football player. “What on?” asked Bassum.
“I git an’lowance,” said the tackle, in a low, husky voice, obviously embarrassed.
“No, no,” said Bassum. “Name a means of transportation. What did you ride here on?”
“Train,” said Bolenciecwcz. “Quite right,” said the professor. “Now Mr. Nugent, will you tell us…”
1. The author writes about an event that once took place:
A in a class for Economics;
B in a class for Botany;
C in a class for Physics;
D in a class for Maths.
2. The passage tell us that the University valued for his:
A hard work in the classroom;
B intelligence and kindness;
C excellent sports achievements;
D loyalty to the University.
3. In the order to be able to play football for the University Bolenciecwcz should:
A not fail in studying chosen subjects;
B not fail to play well in the football team;
C be on good terms with teachers;
D be on good terms with his classmates.
4. We learn from this passage that teachers at this University always:
A tried to give Bolenciecwcz the highest possible mark in all subjects;
B asked Bolenciecwcz the most difficult questions in the classroom;
C gave Bolenciecwcz some clues about how to answer their questions correctly;
D said themselves the correct answer to their own course questions.
5. In order to help Bolenciecwcz answer the professor’s question, students:
A whispered one by one correct answer to the question;
B tried to imitate the sounds associated with the word “train”;
C used their gestures and showed pictures of different trains;
D said “Ding, dong, ding, dong” all the time.
Task 2.
Read the text and mark the statements 6-12 below as T(true) or F(false).
When I got back to the reservation, my family wasn’t surprised to see me. They’d been expecting me
back since the day I left for Seattle. There is an old Indian poet who said that Indians can reside in the
city, but they can never live there. That’s as close to truth as any of us can get.
Mostly I watched television. For weeks I switched TV programs, searched for answers in the game shows
and soap operas. My mother would circle advertisements about job in red and hand the paper to me.
“What are you going to do with the rest of your life?” she asked.
“Don’t know,” I said, and normally, for almost any other Indian in the country, that would have been
a perfectly fine answer. But I was special, a former college student, a smart kid. I was one of those
Indians who was supposed to succeed, to rise above the rest of the reservation like an eagle. I was a
new kind of warrior.
For a few months I didn’t even look at the advertisements my mother circled, just left the newspaper
where she had set it down. After a while, though, I got tired of television and started to play basketball
again, I’d been a good player in high school, nearly great, and almost played at the college I attended for
a short time. But I’d been too out of shape from lazy and sadness to be good again. Still I liked the way
the ball felt in my hands and the way my feet felt inside my shoes.
At first I just shot baskets by myself. It was selfish, and I also wanted to learn the game again before I
played against anybody else. Since I had been good before and embarrassed fellow tribal members, I
knew they would want to take revenge on me. Forget about the cowboys against Indian business. The
most intense competition on my reservation is Indians against Indians.
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The story-teller’s family had always thought that he would not enjoy life in the city.
The story-teller was very passive for some time.
The story-teller never studied.
People expected the story-teller to be successful in life.
The story-teller got tired of television and started to play basketball again.
The story-teller wanted to find a job.
The story-teller felt he was no more a strong player.
Task 3.
Match the paragraphs 13-20 with the titles A-H.
13. Artificial intelligence is the art of making machines that are able to “think”. We often don’t
notice it, but artificial intelligence is all around us. It is present in computer games, in the cruise
control in our cars and the servers that direct our e-mail. Some scientists believe that the most
powerful computers could have the power of the human brain. Machines have always been
excellent at tasks like calculation. But now they are better than humans in many spheres, from
chess to mixing music.
14. The world’s most powerful computer is ASCI Purple, made by IBM in 2004. It can carry out 100
trillion operations per second and has the size of two basketball courts. A computer with double
power is expected in the next two years. A spokesman for IBM said that ASCI Purple is near the
power of the human brain. But some scientists believe our brains can carry out almost 10,000
trillion operations per second.
15. The possible dangers of intelligent machines became the stories of many science fictions films.
In the Terminator (1984), a computer network uses nuclear weapons against the human race in
order to rule the world. This network then makes intelligent robots called “Terminator” which it
programs to kill all the humans. In The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003), a
machine dominates humanity, using people as batteries to power it.
16. In 1997, then the world chess champion Garry Kasparov played against IBM’s Deep Blue
supercomputer – and lost. After six games, Kasparov lost 2.5 to 3.5 to the computer. In February
2003 Kasparov restored human reputation by finishing equal against the Israeli-built
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supercomputer Deep Junior. Kasparov ended the game with the score2-2 against US Company X
3D Technologies’ supercomputer X 3D Fritz in November 2003, proving that the human brain
can keep up with the latest developments in computing (at least in chess).
There are a number of different methods which try to measure intelligence, the famous of
which is perhaps the IQ, or “Quotient” test. This test was first used in early 20th century Paris.
The modern day IQ test measures a variety of different types of ability such as memory for
words and figures and others. Whether IQ tests actually test general intelligence is disputable.
Some argue that they just show how good the individual is IQ tests!
Analysis shows that human intelligence is changing. We are gaining abilities in some areas of
intelligence, while losing them in others, such as memory. So this generation may not remember
the great number of poems, their abilities are greater in other areas. It has been discovered that
wide use of video games improves reaction time. But we could only dream of computing
without calculators as fast as our grandparents did.
In 1950, mathematician Alan Turing invented a test to check machine intelligence. In the Turing
Test, two people (A and B) sit in a closed room, a third person (C), who asks questions, sits
outside. Person A tries to answer the questions so that person C doesn’t guess who they are:
men or women, while person B tries to help him (C) in their identification. Turing suggested a
machine take the place of person A. If the machine fooled the human, it was likely to be
intelligent.
Good-bye, pencils! Farewell, sheets of paper! These days cartoons are being made with a
computer. The first-ever cartoon to be created by computer was “Toy Story” produced by Steve
Jobs. A typical Walt Disney cartoon usually needs up to 600 designers. “Toy Story” was made
using only 100. So, like so much of modern life, today’s cinema seems to be falling more and
more into the hands of the computer.
Supercomputer
Human intelligence test
Man against computer
Computer for making films
Intelligence machine in our life
Computer intelligence test
Computers change human brains
Electronic film stars
PART 3.
USE OF ENGLISH.
Time: 20 minutes.
Task 1.
Match sentences 1-10 with the correct word (a-j).
1. Steven Spielberg is an American motion-picture director and producer whose highly entertaining
and escapist films enjoyed unprecedented ________ .
2. He achieved great _____ success and is among the most famous film-makers of the late 20th
century.
3. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. An amateur film _______ even before he entered high
school, Spielberg attended California State College, Long Beach.
4. He began making _______ at the age of 12, and by the time he left college he had at least eight
amateur works to his credit.
5. He attracted the attention of Universal Pictures with his _____ films.
6. For Universal he directed episodes of television series, including the ______ Duel (1971), whose
success enable him to begin making theatrically released motion pictures, beginning with The
Sugarland Express (1974).
7. Spielberg was also the executive producer of many documentaries and films by other _____ .
8. In 1994 he joined with studio heads Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to form Dream Works
SKG, an entertainment _______ created to produce animation, recordings, and television
programs.
9. In 2006 they ______ the company to Viacom for $1.6 billion.
10. Two years later Spielberg announced he was forming an ______ studio.
a. short
b. sold
c. popularity
d. movies
e. maker
f. directors
g. independent
h. commercial
i. thriller
j. company
Task 2.
For questions 11-20, read the text below and choose A, B, C or D to fill in the gaps.
History 11___ full of myths, and so is climatology. Every generation of historians gives rise 12 ___ a
revisionist school that reinterprets the past in light of new material and facts. 13 ___ the revisions join
the body of history; other times they 14 ___ by the next generation. Overall, 15 ___ leads to a richer and
more truthful history.
The settlement of America produced a series of myths about the climate of different regions of 16
___ country. Even before the first British settlements in North America, Europeans held certain concepts
17 ___ the supposed climate of the New World, and those concepts greatly influenced their efforts to
establish colonies from Newfoundland 18 ___ the Carolinas.
Once the seaboard was occupied, new myths arose about the lands west of the Allegheny Mountains.
19 ___ unfounded beliefs appeared to influence the occupation of the Mississippi Valley and Great
Plains until, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, the land office in Washington officially declare
the frontier closed, though much territory 20 ___ unsettled. Most of this, however, was thought to be
wasteland unsuitable for cultivation. This belief would be dispelled in the next century by the
introduction of scientific methods of agriculture and the construction of huge irrigation projects.
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13 A Some time B Any time C Sometimes D No time
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15 A the process B a process C we process D processing
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17 A concerning B concerned C being concerned D having concerned
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B The other C Others
20 A remains
B to remain C remaining D remained
D Other
ID NUMBER
PART 4.
WRITING
Time; 20 minutes.
Comment on the following statement.
Everyone can help protect the environment; it is not the responsibility of the government and large
“green” organizations.
What is your opinion? Do you agree with this statement?
Write 100-120 words.
Remember to
_ make an introduction
_express your personal opinion and give reasons for your opinion
_make a conclusion.
Participant’s ID number
Answer sheet.
Listening.
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Listening.
Task 1. (02-3 В начале записи идет другое задание по-русски - включить тише.)
Task 2.(06-3)
Task 3.(14-2)