10A Read the articles on p. 49 and write down which article(s) mention(s) a person who/an animal which:
has been arrested twice
travelled by bus
often returns to the place he has run away from
was attached to his family
gets food from people
doesn’t make people frightened
has attacked people
is going to be caught
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one that got away...almost!
ESCAPED PRISONER FLAGS DOWN POLICE BUS
An escaped prisoner flagged down a bus to make his getaway only to find it was full of policemen looking for him. Sergio Vilas Boas escaped from a police station in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and stopped the first bus he saw.
But it was owned by the city’s police station and was being used by officers trying to track him down. Vilas Boas was being held, awaiting trial, after he was arrested at a football match where he was caught allegedly carrying three handguns. He made his escape after asking to make a phone call and then overpowering the police officer who was guarding him.
О Estado de S Paulo Online reports that the bus was full of “many policemen” who immediately arrested and handcuffed him.
ESCAPED MONKEY RETURNS TO ZOO TO VISIT FAMILY
A monkey which escaped from a Romanian zoo comes back each night to visit his family. Miki, a Japanese macaque, now spends his days in a nearby cemetery but goes back to his old cage at night. He left his mate and a young baby behind when he escaped from the zoo at Tirgu Mures.
Miki has been free for a few days now but keepers are not worried as they know he is still in the area. Zoo manager Berecki Maltazar says keepers will try to catch Miki during one of his evening visits. The graveyard caretakers say Miki is not aggressive.
The monkey has scared some old ladies who came to take care of their relatives’ graves and even managed to steal their bags. But he has become popular with other visitors to the cemetery who have taken to feeding him.
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CROCODILE HITCHES LIFT ON BUS
A crocodile travelled unnoticed for several miles on an Australian bus before it was spotted. The reptile, which had its jaws taped shut, was found behind the driver’s seat by a passenger. The woman passenger, who got on the bus in Palmerston, Northern Territory, told the driver, Barry Young.
He told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the woman was happy to stay on the bus although she wasn’t sure whether to sit or stand on a seat.
The one-metre fresh-water crocodile was taken to the police station and later handed over to a wildlife officer, who is searching for its owner.
1 0B Read the texts again and find the words that mean:
клетка
остановить(автобус)
челюсти
передать (кому-либо)
преследовать
быть замеченным
испугать
заботиться
Exam practice 3 (Units 5-6)
1 You are going to read a magazine article. The first sentence of each paragraph has been removed.
Choose from the sentences A-F the one that fits each gap (1 -5).
The first one is done for you.
A Australia is a nation of athletes.
В The first British settlement in Australia was a prison settlement.
С Australia has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.
D Australia is thirty times bigger than Great Britain.
E There are many animals in Australia that you cannot find anywhere else in the world
F The most beautiful building in Australia is the Sydney Opera House.
D Only seventeen million people live there. Ninety per cent of them live on the coast, therefore the centre is almost empty. However, there are 162 million sheep.
The British killed plants and animals that were important to the
Aborigines. They also killed many of the Aborigines and took their land. The Aborigines became very poor and had many problems. Many were alcoholics or committed crimes because they weren’t able to adjust to the white man’s life. Today, things are getting better. The population is rising and the government has given some land back to the Aborigines.
It took sixteen years to build and caused many arguments. The Danish
architect, Jorn Utzorn, left the project before the Opera House was finished. The architect said he found the idea for this design while he was eating an orange. He looked at the curved pieces and thought they looked good.
The beach is the way of life for many Australians. Sydney has one of
Australia’s most famous beaches.
The most famous ones are kangaroos and koalas. A common place to
see a kangaroo is on a golf course. They stand and watch! Farmers and golfers don’t like kangaroos.
The Australian Institute of Sport spends a lot of money on sport. Every
year they look for children who might be good at a particular sport. Then they spend millions of dollars training them. They test most schoolchildren and tell them what sports to practise in the future.
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Read the magazine article and choose the correct answer (a), (b) or (c) for the questions below.
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agazine publishing used to be big business. Smash Hits, one of Britain’s leading pop magazines, used to have sales of half a million, but the sales have now fallen to around 190,000. The world of teenage publishing is in crisis in Britain. The most popular teenage magazines — Smash Hits, Just 17 and Sugar, dealing with pop, make-up, fashion and gossip, are losing sales, and a lot more titles, products and activities are competing for teenagers’ time and money.
Magazine editors think that they have identified the main culprit for their declining sales. The answer is text messaging.
They say that teenagers in Britain are spending their pocket money on pay-as- you-go-mobile phones, leaving little cash for things like magazines. It is a central social activity for 11 to 14-year-olds; it’s simple, it’s secret, and it’s their language. Young people ignore journalists and write to each other instead.
Smash Hits and Sugar have realised what influence texting has on teenagers and have recently started text clubs. Over 40,000 teens belong to the Smash Hits club. Teenagers text each other about absolutely everything, even sending each other messages when they are sitting next to one another. Magazine editors have gone even further to suggest that youth publishing could be the first area to stop using paper altogether.
c 1 What is the state of teenage magazine publishing business in Britain now?
It is progressing.
I
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is progressing only for Smash
Hits, Just 17
and Sugar.It is decreasing.
| | 2 What is the main competitor with the magazine publishing?
Writing letters
Mobile phones
The Internet
| | 3 What is the reason for text messaging’s popularity?
It’s easy and personal.
Teens do not respect journalists.
11-14 year olds don’t like magazines.
| | 4 What way out of the crisis did the teenage magazine publishers suggest?