III. Writing

Write a short article (35–45 words) to the school newspaper about the popular place or sight in your area. Use the prompts given below:

• its location;

• features that attract visitors to that place;

• your feelings about it.

Examination card № 30

I. Reading

Read the extracts and decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F)

A

Ralph Thompson looked up from the book he was reading on the hot, sandy beach. He felt warm and relaxed as he watched the children playing in the cool sea. It was very peaceful. Suddenly, a loud scream broke the silence. "Help! Shark!" someone screamed, and everyone rushed out of the water.

В

Ruth and Rebecca were sitting at the kitchen table, watching the rain pouring down outside. It was late afternoon and the girls were drinking hot coffee. The smell of it filled the air. Just then, the phone rang. Ruth jumped up to answer it, but Rebecca stopped her. "No, pretend we aren't at home," she said quietly.

C

"Oh no, the car has gone out of control!" Peter shouted. He turned the steering wheel in despair as the car slid across the icy road. It was snowing heavily and the wind was howling. It was very dark. There were no lights on the country road. Jessica turned to Peter and said, "We're going to crash!" You could see the horror in their eyes.

1. In extract A the main character had just finished reading his book when the shark

appeared.

2. In extract A the weather was cool.

3. In extract В the main characters could smell the rain air.

4. One of the people involved in extract В didn't want anyone to know where they were.

5. Extract C takes place in a city.

6. In extract C the people involved were terrified.

II. Use of english

You are going to read the first part of a newspaper article. Some words are missing from the text. Choose the most appropriate word from the list (A-O) for each gap (1-12) in the text. There are two extra words that you do not need to use.

Hunters become the hunted as Hungary gets tough with trigger happy tourists

After years of turning a blind eye, park rangers and police are finally pouncing on Italian parties who travel to neighbouring countries to shoot birds, often protected species, in their thousands.

The rangers from the Kiskunsag National Park watched the Italian hunters through binoculars. There was no sound at first, except for the murmur of the hunters’ voices, and the rain along the (1) ...... of the Szelidi lake.

Then the shooting started. Flocks of (2) ...... birds rose noisily into the air as the eight hunters blasted away and birds started (3) ...... the ground. Then the rangers moved in.

“The Italians were very surprised to see us, as were their Hungarian (4) ...... ,” said

Gabor Wundic, one of the rangers. “They knew very well what they were shooting.”

They had bagged 35 turtle doves – a protected species.

The photographs will be presented at the hearing next Tuesday at one of the first legal actions brought (5) ...... those who shoot protected species in Hungary. There will also be (6) ...... of the 135 other turtle doves shot the previous day, and found in the Italians’ fridge at their hotel, along with a redshank and a bee-eater – for the killing of which the hunters could be (7) ...... .

After years of turning a blind eye, the Hungarian nature protection authorities and police were carefully (8) ...... for the start of the hunting season. Throughout the country, working on information (9) ...... by ornithological societies and, in rare cases, Hungarian hunters, they began raiding hunting parties.

In the past (10) ...... they have caught three groups. Apart from protected species like the turtle dove, they had preyed on more strictly protected birds, (11) ...... the ferruginous duck and the curlew.

Hungarian (12) ...... officers have been trained to recognise the birds. At the border with Slovenia and Croatia, they found hundreds of dead quail and skylarks in one week.

A against	B bringing	C companions	D customs	E details
F fortnight	G hitting	H including	I jailed	J murmur
K prepared	L shores	M startled	N supplied	O wildlife