Тесты по английскому языку. Заключительный этап подготовки к централизованному тестированию и экзамену

of being praised, particularly for young children who are still more familiar with actions than words. (A48) …

Touch is not on the teacher-training curriculum. Kate Bevan, who trains teachers, believes it should be. «Teachers can only do what they feel comfortable with, but this is part of the teacher’s answer to what makes children work hard and what motivates them. They should at least be aware of it».

Заполните пропуски A43–A45 одним из предложенных текстовых фрагментов (1–4). Один фрагмент является лишним.

1)The results were staggering.

2)Almost none of the teachers used touch to accompany praise.

3)The findings left the researchers in two minds.

4)The researchers’ theory was that a touch would reinforce praise.

Заполните пропуски А46–A48 одним из предложенных текстовых фрагментов (1–4). Один фрагмент является лишним.

1)Some of them weren’t even aware that they touched children at all.

2)Though the kids’ performance improved greatly, discipline left much to be desired.

3)They kept control without touching, too.

4)Praise then becomes more memorable for the touched child and those nearby.

Часть В

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AVAILABLE, DEPEND, EDUCATION, PARTNER, FAMILIAR, APPROPRIATE

In many schools computers, particularly the Internet, are now playing a significant role in education. The Internet has a never ending supply of (B1) … websites that have ready-made tests and practice material most of which is not (B2) … for all age groups and levels. The (B3) … of all this material means that the teacher can encourage the students to (B4) … themselves with their chosen subject by studying in small groups or (B5) … . Some schools have formed (B6) … with schools in different countries while many others have their own web pages to promote their school all around the world.

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

Most teaching methods are based on the theory that children (B7) … a teacher. But the Montessory method presupposes that a child will (B8) … naturally if placed in an environment rich in learning materials to play (B9) … . The materials are suited to children’s abilities and interests, and learning takes (B10) … as the child plays. The teacher steps in only when a child needs help.

Переведите на английский язык фрагмент предложения, данный в скобках.

В11. In schools of the future nobody will (смотреть свысока на) a student because he or she is different.

В12. I see the school of the future (как) a school of partnership.

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5Test 7

BECOMING PART OF THE MOBILE CULTURE

Часть А

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

Mobile phones are now equipped with a choice of languages and (A1) … future will bring us phones that respond (A2) … voice commands. (A3) … ten simple commands are recognized by some phones and designers are looking for ways to increase (A4) … number. One company has a dream (A5) … finding a way to instantly translate from one language to another while (A6) … phone call is being made. But our speech is so complex that it will take at least twenty years before we are able to speak to anyone in the world (A7) … a language problem. Yet the possible effect of this kind of technology is that we may feel less enthusiastic (A8) … learning a foreign language!

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

There (A9)…claims that mobile phones can cause memory loss in some people, and even cancer. But scholars who (A10)… to prove or disprove these theories (A11) … that there is no evidence that mobiles cause cancer or any other illnesses. Yet it has been discovered that cellphone emissions (A12) … a variety of strange effects on living tissue that can’t be explained so far. As soon as these questions (A13) … scientists (A14) … to say for sure what mobiles might be doing to our heads. One experiment involved using a device that (A15) … the microwave emissions of mobile

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phones. It (A16) … to the left ear of volunteers who were asked to recall words and pictures they (A17) … on a computer screen. The result was quite unexpected. The microwaves decreased the time the subjects took to complete the tasks. But if microwave emissions (A18) … reaction times as they pass through the skull, what else might they be doing?

Прочитайте предложения. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

А19. On condition that this mobile … a camera and Internet access, I … it immediately.

1)has, will buy;

2)has had, buy;

3)had, will buy;

4)had had, would have bought .

А20. It’s a sheer waste of money … expensive mobiles for kids: they either lose the gadget or it’s taken away from them.

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А21. This Nokia model is … more costly than I have expected. I can’t

А22. Five years ago only … cellular phones had the Bluetooth connection, but nowadays nearly every model is equipped with it.

А23. Mobile communication has become one of the most striking … of the XXI century as it has nearly replaced all live conversation.

А24. You press this secret button … to switch the mobile off.

Укажите номер подчёркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

А25. It’s hard to keep track about (1) all the developments (2) in mobile technology (3) as things happen so fast (4).

А26. A smartphone is like (1) a mini-computer in your pocket: it not only provides access (2) to Internet (3), but performs hundreds of (4) other operations.

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

For those who don’t like (A27) … their meals, concerts or train journeys with people having heated (A28) … on their mobiles, Japanese manufacturers have come up with the latest defense – mobile jamming devices. Japan now has the second-highest number of mobile users after the USA, so cellular chatting is becoming more of a public (A29) … every day. Many restaurants, cinemas and offices have been trying to ban the use of mobile phones, but these (A30) … haven’t been very successful. It seems that without technical intervention it is impossible to (A31) … noise pollution.

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A32. Определите ряд, в котором не все слова относятся к теме.

1)SIM-card, keypad, display, memory card;

2)earphones, charger, voice-recorder, DVD player;

3)to phone, to call, to text, to e-mail.

А33. Выберите ответную реплику, подходящую по смыслу к предложенной реплике-стимулу.

My mobile is useless. It keeps turning itself off.

1)Does it? That must be annoying!

2)Doesn’t it? That’s tough.

3)Cheer up!

4)Relax and don’t take it to heart.

A34. Выберите реплику-стимул, подходящую к предложенной ответной реплике.

Here you are.

1)Have I got the wrong number?

2)Could I use your mobile, please?

3)Have you bought a new mobile? It’s so cool!

4)Would you give me a lift home?

A35. Прочитайте вопрос. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

What do you think the term m-learning describes?

1)ways to learn more and more and more;

2)the learning potential of mobile phones;

3)the techniques of teaching would-be managers;

4)learning with the help of multimedia facilities.

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

I. In our mobile era we tend to use ordinary phones less and less. Yet without them mobiles probably wouldn’t have appeared. So let’s give ordinary phones their due. These days, when you dial a friend in Australia, it’s easy to take the whole thing for granted. After a few clicks and whirrs, you’re through. Thousands of miles vanish in an instant. But anyone over 50 will remember a time when it could take hours to phone a friend just a few hundred miles away. In fact, if we take a brief look at the development of the phone system, we’ll find that not much changed at all between 1880 and 1950.

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II. In 1880, when the first brass and mahogany phone arrived, it cost 45 pounds, the equivalent of a year’s wages for the average working man. In those far off days, the airwaves were virtually silent. There were no exchanges in Britain and most of the telephones in use were installed in large country houses so the wealthy could talk to their servants and each other.

III. By the 1920s, there were manual exchanges in towns and cities up and down the country, the cost of telephones had come down considerably and far more of us were installing the new wonder instrument. But by 1930, there were still only a few experimental automatic exchanges. This meant that all calls had to go through an operator. When you picked up the receiver the operator was automatically alerted at the exchange: basically a little flap dropped on her switchboard or a light came on and she knew you wanted to use the phone.

IV. The system was that the operator would decide how to route your call. She would contact the next exchange on your route and the operator at that exchange would either connect you or hand you on to what could turn out to be the first in a whole series of operators, depending on how far your call had to go. And if one of the exchanges on the way happened to be engaged, you simply had to wait until it cleared. Incredibly, the last manual exchange was still operating in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, as late as 1975. People in the area still had phones without dials and all their calls had to be put through, manually, by the operator.

V. How things have changed! Today a lightning-fast, digital system works out how to route your call in a split second, and a call from London to Oxford may go via Edinburgh if all the more direct routes are engaged. Such is the speed of modern technology that we notice no delay. In an emergency, the old system was horribly slow and not always reliable. But there was something rather grand about the stately progress of a call that could only be achieved through the skills of a series of individual operators devoting their energies to keeping you in touch.

А36. These days telephone communication

1)has turned into part and parcel of our life.

2)has been replaced by other more progressive technologies

3)has remained unchanged since the previous centuries.

А37. The first phones were too expensive

1) to become popular; 2) to be accessible;

3) to be usable.

А38. In the old days if one of the exchanges was busy

1)your call was put through another one;

2)your call was stuck;

3)your call was returned to you.

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А39. There was something majestic in the way

1)the wealthy talked to their servants;

2)the automatic telephone exchange worked;

3)the phone call was passed from operator to operator.

Определите значение указанного слова в тексте.

А40. virtually (II)

1) visually; 2) factually;

3) traditionally.

А41. to route (IV)

1) to throw; 2) to send;

3) to direct.

Выберите правильный вариант перевода (1, 2 или 3) в соответствии с содержанием текста.

А42. Such is the speed of modern technology that we notice no delay. (V)

1)У современной технологии такая скорость, что мы не замечаем никакой задержки.

2)Скорость современной технологии такова, что мы не замечаем опозданий.

3)Скорость современной технологии такова, что задержки не заметны.

Прочитайте текст.

It’s getting hard to be anonymous. To do anything, you have to prove who you are. Want to buy something or draw some cash? There is a lot of credit cards to lug around, and a plethora of four-digit PINs to remember. Even before stepping out of the front door, you’ve got to find your driving licence or rail pass, perhaps even your passport. In a few years, this plastic and paper baggage could be history. (A43) … But beware! Lose your phone, and your identity and money go with it. The big question is whether people will be willing to trust so much to a sliver of silicon.

Inside every digital mobile phone is a SIM card. SIM stands for Subscriber Information Module, and the chip embedded in the SIM card is what makes the mobile yours. (A44) … In future it could identify you to everyone who needs to know who you are and would enable you to carry out transactions which require a form of identification. To pay for a meal, say, you will use the phone to transfer money through the phone network to a restaurant’s computer. There will be no payment slip to sign because your SIM will do it for you. (A45) …

The Finnish government is looking at using SIM’s in place of a national identity card – and eventually a passport. Under this plan, the SIM will

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become a person’s legal proof of identity. And there’s no reason why it couldn’t unlock your health records, social security details and other personal information. One click and a hospital would know exactly who it’s dealing with. But for these dreams to become reality there’ll have to be a revolution in public attitudes. People will have to let go of their apprehensions about e-commerce and learn to trust their mobiles.

«Cultivating that trust is a very difficult thing to do and takes a lot of time», says Ian Pearson, resident futurologist at British Telecom.

People can lose or mislay their phones, and they are a tempting target for thieves, who can easily dispose of them on the black market. (A46) … When your phone becomes the key to your identity, secrets and cash, you’ll want to make sure it stays safely locked up, even if only the gadget itself falls into the wrong hands.

«Having something that contains all this information would be extremely rash», says Roger Needham, managing director of Microsoft’s British research laboratory in Cambridge. «People will simply find it unacceptable». The solution, according to experts in the field, is to share precious information on secure servers accessible via a WAP connection on the web. The SIM would only store a personal identifier – along string of digits that would unlock the servers and give access to the information they hold. (A47) …

The beauty of this system is that the identifier would act as one half of what’s called a public key encryption system. (A48) … To read a message locked with this private key requires a second, public key, which can be freely distributed.

Заполните пропуски A43–A45 одним из предложенных текстовых фрагментов (1–4). Один фрагмент является лишним.

1)Likewise, when you board a plane you won’t have to wait in line for a boarding pass and seat number.

2)A single chip hidden in your cellphone will be all you need – a little treasure that holds your complete identity.

3)So far it seems like something from a science-fiction novel.

4)For now, the SIM just identifies you to the phone system, and holds details of your favourite phone numbers.

Заполните пропуски А46–A48 одним из предложенных текстовых фрагментов (1–4). Один фрагмент является лишним.

1)To use the identifier, the phone’s owner would have to punch in a PIN.

2)Many believe that identity theft is inevitable, no matter how careful safeguards are.

3)That’s bad enough when there’s only a large phone bill at stake.

4)The identifier, kept safe inside the phone, acts as a key, known to no

one else.

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Часть В

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BUSY, PRIVATE, USE, SIGNIFICANCE, INTEREST, OFFENCE

I think mobile phones are very often (B1) … . People seem to believe they have to shout when they are on their mobiles and that the rest of the world is (B2) … in their (B3) … . Many users forget they are in public places and that others may be (B4) … by the volume and content of their calls. People often make (B5) … calls that could have been made later in the (B6) … of their homes.

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Sales of chocolate in Britain have fallen for the first time in fifty years. According to researchers, this is largely (B7)…children prefer to spend their pocket money on mobile phones. Schoolchildren who (B8) … to visit their local shop to buy sweets are now buying cards for their mobiles instead, (B9) … that they can text friends. This is surely an example of (B10) … teenage life is changing as a result of new technology.

Переведите на английский язык фрагмент предложения, данный в скобках.

В11. These days mobile industry is developing (быстрыми темпами). В12. New mobile gadgets keep appearing (на мировом рынке).

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