Английский язык. Проверь себя. Итоговые тесты повышенной сложности. Пособие для подготовки к централизованному тестированию

Определите, в каком значении слово употреблено в тексте. Укажите выбранный вариант.

A40. access (III)

1)approach.

2)outlet.

3)passage.

A41. soothing (V)

1)softening.

2)relaxing.

3)convenient.

Выберите правильный вариант перевода в соответствии с содержанием текста. Укажите выбранный вариант.

A42. There should be a feeling of lightness, not seriousness, in the air. (V)

1)Вокруг должно быть ощущение легкости, а не серьезности.

2)В воздухе должна ощущаться легкость, а не серьезность.

3)В воздухе должно быть чувство светлости, а не серьезности.

Прочитайте текст. Подберите заголовок к каждому абзацу в соответствии с его содержанием.

(A43)___As Kristi Linauer, a Waco, Tex., interior decorator, put it: “Pets have become family members. We love them like children, so people are naturally drawn to anything that gives our pets a special place in our homes”. For some animal lovers, that means not just buying aesthetically pleasing pet supplies, but creating their own animalfriendly design solutions to complement their human-centric dйcor.

(A44)___Amy Britton, an interior designer who owns Artisan Kitchens in Osterville, Mass., on Cape Cod, said that more of her clients are asking her to include amenities for their pets as part of their renovations. One example is a kitchen island with alcoves for food and water dishes, drawers for leashes and treats, and roll-out storage bins. “People are trying to do a better job at planning everything out and accommodating the whole family, pets included,” Ms Britton said.

(A45)___Keeping pets happy helps prevent unwanted behaviors, said Kate Benjamin, who runs the blog Moderncat in Phoenix and recently created a line of cat products, like artfully shaped scratching posts. “Integrating pet-friendly design into your home makes for a more serene environment for both you and your pet,” Ms Benjamin said.

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(A46)___For Kim Johnson, who runs the home-design blog Desire to Inspire in Ottawa, Canada, that meant installing a small door in the hatch leading to her basement during a kitchen renovation, so her cats could get to the basement-level litter box as needed. “I hate it when designers say you shouldn’t decorate for your pets,” Ms Johnson said. “If I didn’t, my cats would be miserable. I hate the idea of depriving them of their right to lead the life of comfort, the way we live”.

(A47)___“When I tell people how many animals live in my tiny space, they always think they’re going to walk in and be overpowered,” said Kasie Maxwell, 39, who shares her 660-square-foot Bernal Heights home in San Francisco with her partner, Ron Love, 40, and a dog, a cat, three doves, three turtles and one goldfish. A home with such a menagerie might be expected to look like a scaled-down Petco, but Ms Maxwell, who owns an online holistic pet supply store, and Mr Love, who works in finance, have managed to maintain their style.

(A48)___“I hate how pet stuff looks,” Ms Maxwell said. So instead of buying a pricey aquarium for their turtle, Martha Mayhem bought a 150-gallon galvanized-steel livestock tank. The makeshift pond serves as a home for the turtle and a room divider that separates the couple’s bedroom from the living room.

Подберите заголовки A43–A45 из предложенных (1–4). Один заголовок является лишним.

1)Creating a Better Environment for All.

2)A New Look at Renovation.

3)Human-centric Dйcor.

4)Designing for Pets, Too.

Подберите заголовки A46–A48 из предложенных (1–4). Один заголовок является лишним.

1)A San Francisco Menagerie.

2)Luxurious Co-existence.

3)Pet Supply Stores.

4)Animal Rights as a Must.

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Часть

Прочитайте текст (В1–В4). Выберите подходящее по смыслу слово из предложенных и запишите его в той форме, в которой оно должно стоять в предложении. Помните, что каждое слово может быть использовано только один раз и что заданную форму слова необходимо изменить.

SIGHT, DESTROY, OCCUR, HAUNT

Borley Rectory was built in 1863 on a site with a long history. All the people who lived there reported strange (B1) … as a result of which it was named the most (B2) … house in Britain. The weird incidents, most of which have never been explained, include objects being thrown, things appearing and disappearing, (B3) … of stange people, writing on the walls and the like. The (B4) … of the house in 1939 made the number of incidents in the area drop sharply, yet the place is still a source of interest to many visitors.

Прочитайтетекст(В5–В6). Выпишитеподвалишнихслова из каждого предложения в порядке их предъявления в тексте.

B5. To my mind the house needs in complete redecoration as it is not fit to live in it.

B6. First an air-conditioning unit should be put in inside and the old fireplace should be taken out apart.

Прочитайте текст. Заполните каждый из пропусков только одним словом, подходящим по смыслу.

According to an old English saying, there is no place like home. It is forever true, of course. Home is more than (B7) … a place to live in. We (B8) … here to feel safe (B9) … loved. It’s the place we are (B10) … welcome.

Переведите на английский язык фрагмент предложения, данный в скобках.

B11. My study room (подходит) all my academic needs.

B12. The family decided to fit out the new kitchen themselves and (сделали) quite a mess of it.

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Test 12 TRAVELLING FAR AND WIDE

Часть

К каждому заданию даны варианты ответов, из которых только один является верным. Выберите правильный ответ из четырех предложенных.

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

My wife (A1) … from a trip, full of praise for the travel company which (A2) … it. The trip (A3) … off badly, due to my wife getting the travel time wrong, but the company managed to reorganize it for her. What impressed her most was the courtesy of the stuff and the high quality service. Although she (A4) … her connection, she (A5) … very sympathetically. While she (A6) … in the lounge, she (A7) … some light refreshments. She (A8) … never … the staff of such a huge organization to show such pleasant behavior towards clients who were obviously in the wrong. In fact her needing to get a new ticket (A9) … surely … some inconvenience, but if so she wasn’t made aware of it. My wife only wishes she (A10) … this travel operator before.

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Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

Getting (A11) … London is a breeze on of the numerous coach tours. Coaches stop (A12) … all major attractions giving (A13) … full tour of the city. London is home (A14) … treasures of the world’s civilizations but treasures of a different kind can also be found in boutiques catering (A15) … every taste, from clothes to souvenirs to diamonds and caviar. Another kind of shopping can be found at (A16) … restored Victorian market at (A17) … Covent Garden with its diverse range of goods on stalls selling everything from inexpensive jewellery to second-hand books. This is truly (A18) … street market which gives you (A19) … insight into another way of life in London. With its seasonal programme of events and activities providing plenty of fun and entertainment (A20) … the year, this place is always alive.

Прочитайте предложения. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

A21. Attention! The Tokyo flight is boarding at …

A22. Let’s buy a detailed map … not to get lost in the old part of the

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Укажите номер подчеркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

A23. He got angrily when the receptionist said she had lost their booking.

1 2 3 4

A24. When you fly from the Europe to the Middle East, America or

1 2

Asia, your flight will be longer than three hours.

3 4

A25. If you suffer from motion sickness while traveling it might be

1 2

helpful to fixing your eyes on the horizon which doesn’t move.

3 4

A26. A travel company which staff is inefficient and unsympathetic is

1 2

unlikely to be successful on the market.

3 4

Прочитайте текст, выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Укажите выбранный вариант.

Is it better to go on a package (A27) … or (A28) … on your own? I suppose the answer depends on what kind of (A29) … you are. A complicated tour organized by a travel (A30) … has some advantages: you have a/an (A31) … which gives you all the details of your future adventure. On the other hand your freedom of choice of what to do is (A32) … .

Выберите ответную реплику, подходящуюпосмыслукпредложенной реплике-стимулу. Укажите выбранный вариант.

A33. We are sailing tomorrow, you know.

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Выберите реплику-стимул, подходящую по смыслу к предложенной ответной реплике. Укажите выбранный вариант.

A34. Not bad on the whole, though the take off was a bit rough.

1)How was your flight?

2)Did you enjoy your cruise?

3)Were you airsick?

4)I am not sure it was bad.

Прочитайте вопрос. Выберите один из вариантов ответа. Укажите выбранный вариант.

A35. Which of the great explorers reached the South Pole?

Прочитайте текст и выберите вариант ответа, соответствующий содержанию прочитанного текста. Укажите выбранный вариант.

I. It is staggering to think that Heathrow Airport, which is now almost a self-contained city with a population of 60,000 workers, started life as small grass airfield. It was initially privately owned by the Fairy Company and used mostly for test flying. London’s commercial flights took off from nearby Heston. World War II changed the course of Heathrow’s history. In 1944 it was decided that Heathrow should be developed as a major transport base for the Royal Air Force. It was never to be. Before the work was completed, the war ended, and thus there came the prospect of a huge expansion in civil aviation.

II. London needed a large airport with modern equipment and the partly-built site at Heathrow was ideal. One runway was ready for use, and when the Ministry of Civil Aviation took it over in 1946 a tented terminal was quickly put in place and a new chapter began. As air traffic boomed, the airport found itself with an ever-increasing demand for passenger facilities. By the mid-1950s, restaurants, cafes and shops had attached themselves to the airport.

III. Next there came the new Oceanic terminal handling long-haul carriers, a function it still performs as Terminal 3. It was followed by Terminal 1 in 1968. Increased congestion in the central area led to the construction of Terminal 4 in 1986 on the south side of the airport, a modern facility but an inconvenient 10-20 minute transfer from the heart of Heathrow.

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IV. The pressures on London’s principal airport keep mounting. The extension of the city rail link to the airport central area is now open. Nowadays Heathrow is fighting hard to build yet another passenger terminal in the face of local objections. In fact, by the early 1960s, aircraft noise in the vicinity of most large urban airports had become a major problem.

V. The cause of the problem was a rapidly increasing number of aircraft movements and the introduction of the first generation of turbojet aircraft with low climb performance, such as the early models of the Boeing 707. That resulted in public objections to the planned expansion of most urban airports. London was no exception. Such objections held up the expansion of Heathrow Airport for many years. Ultimately, noise curfew was introduced at Heathrow Airport. Yet there are many more problems to be solved in the future.

A36. The article does not say anything about

1)the construction of terminals at Heathrow.

2)the facilities introduced at Heathrow.

3)the work of traffic controllers at Heathrow.

A37. The turning point in the airport’s history was

1)the decision made during World War II.

2)the establishment of the Fairy Company.

3)the construction of the new Ocean Terminal.

A38. The airport grew rapidly because

1)the central area was not equipped adequately.

2)air-traffic increased on a large scale.

3)at the beginning it was partly-built.

A39. One can make a conclusion that a passenger

1)can reach London from Heathrow rather quickly.

2)can get only limited access to transportation.

3)can hardly get to London with great difficulty.

Определите, в каком значении слово употреблено в тексте. Укажите выбранный вариант.

A40. facility (III)

1)factory;

2)station;

3)terminal.

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A41. curfew (V)

1)order;

2)limit;

3)principle.

Выберите правильный вариант перевода в соответствии с содержанием текста. Укажите выбранный вариант.

A42. It was never to be. (II)

1)Этого так никогда и не бывало.

2)Этому не суждено было случиться.

3)Это так и не происходило никогда.

Прочитайте текст. Подберите заголовок к каждому абзацу в соответствии с его содержанием.

(A43)___Having decided in later life that it might actually be quite nice to master another language, rather than dusting off my schoolgirl French, I opted for a clean break: Spanish.

(A44)___Three years of half-finished evening classes later, thanks to the enthusiastic teachers efforts I could order in a restaurant and ask directions, but my conversational skills were limited to asking everybody how many brothers and sisters they had. The only true way to master a language is to live and breathe it for a period of time. I toyed with the idea of taking a language ‘immersion’ course abroad, but two little words always stopped me: home stay. Then I saw that tour operator Journey Latin America had started offering Spanish courses in Peru, amongst other places. The opportunity to realise two long-held ambitions in one holiday – to improve my Spanish and to see Machu Picchu – proved irresistible.

(A45)___My misgivings evaporate the moment I am met by my home-stay family, the Rojas, at Cusco airport. They greet me warmly, like an old friend. Carlos is an optician and Carmucha owns a restaurant. With their four children they live in a comfortable house right in the centre of town. Then I’m whisked off to a family friends birthday party, where I understand nothing apart from the bit where they sing ‘Happy Birthday’. By the end of the evening my face aches from holding an expression of polite, but uncomprehending interest, and I fall into bed wondering what I’ve let myself in for.

(A46)___The following morning, I’m off to school and get to know my new school chums. We’re aged between 19 and 65, each spending up to a month studying before travelling around Peru. We had all clearly

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hit it off with our new families, though one of us is a bit alarmed at the blue flame that jumps out of the shower switch in the morning, another has a long bus ride in to the school, and yet another is disconcerted to find that his host mother is actually six years younger than he is. We’re all keen to meet our teachers and see which class we’ll be joining, but after sitting the placement test, we learn that as it’s not yet high season and the school is not too busy, tuition will be one-on-one. Although some find the prospect daunting, to my mind, this is a pretty impressive ratio – though even in high season the maximum class size swells to only four pupils.

(A47)___And so it’s started. Four hours of classes in the morning, back home for lunch, then afternoons free for sightseeing. Cusco will supply anything it can to lure the feckless student away from his or her homework. It’s all too-easy to swap verb conjugations for a swift beer in a bar, although it’s at least three days before anybody plucks up the courage to suggest that maybe we don’t have to go back to our respective families for dinner every night. Once the seed of rebellion has been planted we queue up like nervous teenagers outside the phone box plucking up the courage to ring our ‘Mums’ and ask if we can stay out late — all the more strange when you consider that our average age is probably thirty-three. But after one strangely unsatisfying restaurant meal, I decide that true authenticity is back home at the dinner table with Carmucha.

(A48)___As the week wears on, a strange thing starts to happen: the dinner-table chatter, which at first was so much ‘white noise’, starts to have some meaning and, miraculously, I can follow the thread of the conversation. What’s more, I’ve started to dream in Spanish!

Подберите заголовки A43–A45 из предложенных (1–4). Один заголовок является лишним.

1)The Opportunity One Can’t Miss.

2)Bad Luck.

3)Culture Shock Hits.

4)Changing the Tune.

Подберите заголовки A46–A48 из предложенных (1–4). Один заголовок является лишним.

1)Slipping into a Routine.

2)The Placement Test.

3)A Miracle at Last.

4)New Educational Realms.

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