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

B6. Be sure of what you want like – never shop vaguely because when you get to home your purchase may not match anything you’ve got.

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

Some items of clothing never (B7) … out of fashion. Jeans are worn (B8) … the wealthy and the not-so-rich. White blouses can (B9) … found in the wardrobes of grannies and their granddaughters (B10) … . The same applies to the classical style in clothing.

Переведите на английский язык фрагмент предложения, данный в скобках.

B11. A lot of fashionable articles can be bought (на распродаже). B12. (Почему бы не) visit a fashion show advertised in the media?

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Test 20 READING MORE BOOKS

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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.

Literature can seriously damage your health. I know this for a fact because a book once (A1) … my nose. I (A2) … along the King’s Road, reading a particularly absorbing novel as I (A3) … , when I bumped into a lamp-post and busted my nose. If I (A4) … smarter, I (A5) … the nearest picture of Brad Pitt while rushing to hospital. There I (A6) …, “Help! Send for a plastic surgeon! I (A7) … my nose and it (A8) … exactly like this!” This is the secret trouble with reading. It (A9) … so harmless compared with the brightly colored attractions of cartoons or video games. But in its own subversive way, it (A10) … far more potential to mess about with our lives. Books exist in a strange, symbiotic and rather disturbing relationship with the human mind.

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Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

Stephenie Meyer’s life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003.The stay-at-home mother of three sons woke up (A11) … a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she couldn’t get (A12) … her head. (A13) … E/effect was so powerful that Meyer put (A14) … a million household chores and sat down at her computer – something she hadn’t done for quite (A15) … while. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight. Her elder sister – (A16) … only other person who knew about the book – encouraged the greenhorn author to submit the manuscript (A17) … various literary agencies. Eventually Twilight made its way to the publishing company Little Brown where everyone fell in love with (A18) … gripping, star-crossed lovers. Twilight was one of 2005’s most talked about novels and (A19) … weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list. The long-awaited sequels turned the Saga into (A20) … world-wide phenomenon.

Прочитайте предложения. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

A21. What’s there in the book? Consult the … page.

A22. … you start reading anything by this author, in a week you’ll be

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Укажите номер подчеркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

A23. We spent a great deal of time looking through a large number of

1 2 books to help him find just a little facts about ancient Britain.

3 4

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

The Waste Land is (A27) … title of (A28) … poem by Thomas S. Eliot, first published in 1922. (A29) … style of the poem has had a great influence on (A30) …modern poetry. Due to its complexity though, this masterpiece doesn’t (A31) … to all readers. Most poetry lovers prefer something less (A32) … . It’s all a matter of taste.

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

A33. I see you are reading Agatha Christie. What do you think of her books?

1)Nothing.

2)I am thinking about them.

3)Rather beautiful.

4)Tricky plots and unexpected endings! Great!

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

A34. Never heard of him.

1)Do you like Roald Dahl’s stories?

2)What are you reading?

3)Is it good or bad reading?

4)Have you enjoyed the latest movie?

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

A35. Where does one find the largest library in Britain?

1)The Natural History Museum.

2)The Museum of Modern Art.

3)The British Museum.

4)The National Gallery.

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

I. Research has shown that a love of reading is more important for children’s educational success than their families’ socio-economic status or wealth. Yet, research also shows that young people’s enjoyment of reading may be declining.

II. Recently, various studies have explored young people’s attitudes towards reading, their reading preferences, and what would motivate them to read more. The data for one study was based on 1512 pupils from three primary, one middle school and two secondary schools in England who participated in a survey during spring 2005.

III. The majority of pupils enjoyed reading quite a lot or very much; girls were significantly more likely to enjoy reading than boys. Most pupils showed positive attitudes towards reading, with the majority

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agreeing that reading is fun and important. However, a minority of boys and secondary pupils believed that reading is boring and that they cannot find books that interest them. Boys were also more likely to believe that reading is for girls. Overall, pupils with positive attitudes towards reading tended to enjoy reading more.

IV. Pupils said they enjoy a wide range of reading materials, with magazines, text messages and websites being the most popular. However, there were significant differences in preferred reading materials dependent on age and gender. Girls were more likely to read magazines, fiction, text messages and emails, while boys were more likely to read websites, newspapers, graphic novels and comics. Secondary pupils were significantly more likely to read websites, newspapers and magazines, while primary pupils enjoyed reading jokes, non-fiction books and fiction.

V. Almost half the pupils enjoyed reading fiction. When specifically asked what types of fiction they preferred, adventure, comedy and horror/ghost stories came out as their favourites. Girls were more likely to read romance books, animal-related stories and poetry, while boys were more likely to read science-fiction, comedy and crime/detective stories. Significant age differences also emerged with primary pupils more likely to read adventure stories, horror/ghost stories and animalrelated stories, and secondary pupils more likely to read comedy and realistic teenage fiction.

A36. The article mainly discusses

1)why pupils read and what.

2)how pupils read and where.

3)what pupils read and when.

A37. According to the research, boys and girls displayed

1)somewhat similar attitudes to reading.

2)completely different attitudes to reading.

3)gender-biased attitudes to reading.

A38. The results suggest that age and gender

1)influence little the choice of reading materials.

2)do influence the choice of reading materials.

3)have no influence on the choice of reading materials.

A39. Rather than reading websites, girls are expected to read

1)emails and poetry.

2)comics and stories about crime.

3)science fiction and detectives.

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

A40. data (II)

1)tables;

2)dates;

3)facts.

A41. emerged (V)

1)influenced;

2)appeared;

3)developed;

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

A42. When specifically asked what types of fiction they preferred…

(V)

1)Когда их попросили уточнить, какие именно жанры беллетристики они предпочитают…

2)Когда их специально спросили, какие именно типы литературы они предпочитают…

3)Когда их специально спросили о том, какие именно жанры беллетристики они предпочитают…

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

(A43) ... At first sight the classic detective story might seem to be a form that is continuing the Enlightenment’s attempts to grapple with the dark secrets of the human heart and, somehow, reassure us that sweetness and light can win the day. But the history of the crime story is powered by something as mysterious as the tales themselves.

(A44) ... The form really begins in the 1840s with the publication of a short story called The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Рое, the horrific tale of the murders of two women somewhere in Paris. The crime is solved by a character called Chevalier Dupin who, at first sight, might appear to be the first of those nineteenth century thinking machines of whom Sherlock Holmes is the most famous example. Close inspection of the mechanics of the tale, however, reveals that Dupin is closer to being a wizard of the old-fashioned type. Рое tells us at the beginning of the story that most of Dupin’s deductions are about as far from logical thought as you can get.

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(A45) ... The detective story comes out of the nineteenth century’s loss of faith in religious truth and its heart lies in improbable explanations. Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Holmes is one of the most famous fictional characters in the world, acknowledges his debt to Рое in his first published Holmes tale, A Study in Scarlet. But though Doyle begins by emphasizing the rational nature of his principal character, Holmes gradually gets taken over by the gothic, referring to cases such as that of ‘the giant rat of Sumatra for which the world is not yet prepared’. In order to emphasize his hero’s scientific credentials, Conan Doyle said that he was based on his old professor of surgery.

(A46) ... But one should always be cautious of authors’ attempts to acknowledge or deny the ‘real’ originals of fictitious characters. If we look closely at Holmes’s methods, we discover that the great detective is closer to the mystical and intuitive than anything else. One of his favourite ploys is to withhold facts from the reader as well as the other characters and then providing explanations. One of Holmes’s most famous cases – The Speckled Band – is based on a series of absurdities, not least of which is the idea that snakes can slide down bell ropes.

(A47) ... This anti-rational strand of the genre might seem at odds with its next great development – the English Golden Age Murder, whose greatest exponent is Agatha Christie. Christie is a writer whose charm, for most people, is that her plots are fuelled by ingenuity, not violence. Her great detective, Hercule Poirot, reckons to solve all his cases by use of the ‘little grey cells’. And one of the things that Christie fans will tell you is that she ‘plays fair’ with the reader. Even in a story where the narrator turns out to be the murderer, she does carefully adjust the timescale to demonstrate that X would have had time to do the bloody deed and, in order to seem absolutely above board, leaves an obliging trail of asterisks to put us on our guard.

(A48) ... We read detective stories because we wish to imagine a world in which a strong, independent figure – more and more, these days, a policeman or woman – can reassure us that justice has not altogether been extinguished from the planet. And, as we move farther and farther from the notion of society, and mutual support and concern for others come a long way behind our personal survival, our need for the world of the great detective is greater and greater.

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

1)The ‘Rational Gothic’.

2)The Classical Image.

3)The Age of Thinking Machines.

4)Famous Detectives.

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

1)Explanations Real and Not.

2)Books Giving Justice.

3)Crime Ingenuity.

4)‘The Speckled Band’.

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.

SELL, INTRICACY, CONTRIBUTE, SENSATION

Dan Brown’s books made a solid (B1) … to the popularity of reading among young adults. The author (B2) … certain well-known facts which turned most of his novels into (B3) … . His books are a/an (B4) … blend of art, history, religion and suspense.

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

B5. Audio books are by no all means a way out of in case you spend a lot of time behind the wheel.

B6. If you are a busy housewife with your own hands full but don’t want to miss any literary novelty, audio books are hardly an option.

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

During breaks, my friend was reading a novel (B7) … a red dragon on the (B8) … She told me it (B9) … like a giant lizard with wings.

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The novel itself was a horror (B10) … about vampires and monsters of every kind. She said to me she’d have preferred to read something more serious.

Переведите на английский язык фрагмент предложения, данный в скобках.

B11. Could I (одолжить) your copy of the book? I have to write an essay for tomorrow.

B12. I have never (ожидать) to be so fascinated by this newly-pub- lished book.

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