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3. Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896–1981) – “The Citadel”, “The
Stars Look Down”, “The Keys of the Kingdom”, “The Green
Years”
4. Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – “Oliver Twist”, “Dombey and
Son”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, “Nicholas Nickleby”
5. Charlotte Brontё (1816–1855) – “Jane Eyre”
6. D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) – “Sons and Lovers”, “The Rain-
bow”, “Women in Love”, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
7. Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) – “The Life And Strange Surprising
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, “Roxana”
8. Emily Brontл (1818–1848) – “Wuthering Heights”
9. Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864–1960) – “The Gadfly”
10. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400) – “The Canterbury Tales”
11. George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) – “Pygmalion”
12. George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) – “Childe Harold’s Pilgri-
mage”, “Manfred”, “Don Juan”
13. Graham Green (1904–1991) – “The Quiet American”
14. H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) – “King Solomon’s Mines”,
“She”
15. Herbert G. Wells (1866–1946) – “The Time Machine”, “The
Invisible Man”, “The War of the Worlds”, “The First Men in the
Moon”
16. Ian Fleming (1908–1964) – the James Bond novels
17. Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) – “The Black Prince”, “The Sand
castle”
18. J. K. Rowling (Joanne Murray) (born 1965) – “Harry Potter”
19. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) – “The Hobbit”, “The Lord of the
Rings”
20. James Joyce (1882–1941) – “Ulysses”, “Finnegans Wake”,
“Dubliners”, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
21. Jane Austen (1775–1817) – “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride and
Prejudice”, “Mansfield Park”, “Emma”
22. Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) – “Three Men in a Boat”
23. John Fowles (1926–2005) – “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”
24. John Galsworthy (1867–1933) – “The Forsyte Saga”
25. John Osborne (1929–1994) – “Look Back in Anger”
26. Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) – “Tale of a Tub”, “Gulliver’s Tra-
vels”
27. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) – “The Jungle Book”, “
Mandalay”
28. Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ) (1832–1898) – “Al-
ice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, “Through the Looking-Glass”
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29. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) – “The Importance of Being Ear-
nest”, “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, “The Picture of Dorian
Grey”
30. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) – “The School for
Scandal”
31. Robert Burns (1759–1796) – “My Heart’s in the Highlands”,
“Auld Lang Syne”, “A Red, Red Rose”
32. Robert L. Stevenson (1850–1894) – “Treasure Island”, “The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
33. Thomas More (1478–1535) – “Utopia”
34. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) – “Mrs. Dalloway”, “To the Light-
house”, “Orlando”, “A Room of One’s Own”
35. Walter Scott (1771–1832) – “Rob Roy”, “Ivanhoe”, “Quentin
Durward”
36. Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) – “The Moonstone”, “The Woman
in White”
37. William Golding (1911–1993) – “Lord of the Flies”, “To the
Ends of the Earth”
38. William M. Thackeray (1811–1863) – “The Book of Snobs”,
“Vanity Fair”
39. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) – “Much Ado About Noth-
ing”, “King Henry VI”, “Hamlet”, “King Lear”, “Macbeth”
40. William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) – “The Moon and
Sixpence”, “Cakes and Ale”, “The Magician”
литература сша
1. Dan Brown (born 1964) – “The Da Vinci Code”, “Angels & De-
mons”
2. Danielle Steel (born 1947) – “Journey”, “The House on Hope
Street”, “The Kiss”
3. Don DeLillo (born 1936) – “Underworld”, “Libra”, “White
Noise”
4. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) – “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue”
5. Elizabeth George (born 1949) – “Missing Joseph”, “A Traitor to
Memory”
6. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) – “A Farewell to Arms”, “The
Old Man and the Sea”
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) – “The Great Gatsby”, “Tender
is the Night”
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8. Herman Melville (1819–1891) – “Moby Dick”, “The Confidence
Man”
9. J. D. Salinger (born 1919) – “The Catcher in the Rye”
10. Jack London (1876–1916) – “The Call of the Wild”, “White
Fang”, “Sea Wolf”, “Martin Eden”
11. James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) – “The Last of the Mohi-
cans”, “The Spy”, “The Pioneers”
12. John Steinbeck (1902–1968) – “The Grapes of Wrath”, “Of
Mice and Men”
13. Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950) – “The Jane Austen Book Club”,
“Wit’s End”
14. Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835–1910) – “Tom Saw-
yer”, “Huckleberry Finn”
15. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) – “The Scarlet Letter”
16. O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) (1862–1910) – short stories
17. Philip Milton Roth (born 1933) – “American Pastoral”, “The
Human Stain”
18. Ralph Ellison (1913–1994) – “Invisible Man”
19. Ray Bradbury (born 1920) – “Fahrenheit 451”, “The Martian
Chronicles”
20. Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) – “Master of the Game”, “The
Other Side of Midnight”, “Rage of Angels”
21. Stephen King (born 1947) – “Carrie”, “The Plant”, “Just After
Sunset”
22. Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911–1983) –
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, “Glass Menagerie”
23. Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) – “An American Tragedy”, “Sis-
ter Carrie”
24. Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) – “Gravity Rainbow”, “Mason
and Dixon”
25. Tim O’Brien (born 1946) – “In the Lake of the Woods”
26. Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford) (born 1931) – “Song of
Solomon”, “Beloved”, “Paradise”
27. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) – “Lolita”
28. Walt Whitman (1819–1892) – “Leaves of Grass”, “Drum Taps”
29. Washington Irving (1783–1859) – “The Sketch Book”, “Rip Van
Winkle” (Father of American Literature)
30. William Faulkner (1897–1962) – “Light in August”, “A Fable”,
“The Sound and the Fury”
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I. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа:
The United Kingdom
1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is
situated to … of Europe.
a. the north-west c. the north-east
b. the south-west d. the south-east
2. What is the territory of the United Kingdom?
a. 224,000 km
2
c. 242,000 km
b. 244,000 km2 d. 424,000 km
2
2
3. How many parts does the United Kingdom consist of?
a. two c. four
b. three d. five
4. Which is the nearest continental neighbour of Great Britain?
a. France c. Spain
b. Ireland d. Italy
5. The largest undersea tunnel in the world is under … .
a. the North Channel c. the Straight of Dover
b. the English Channel d. St. George’s Channel
6. Which mountain chain is called ‘the backbone of England’?
a. the Cumbrians c. the Pennines
b. the Cheviot Hills d. the Grampians
7. The Lake District is situated in… .
a. Northern Ireland c. Scotland
b. Wales d. England
8. What place in England is called a kind of Disneyland?
a. Hampstead Heath c. Windsor Safari Park
b. Alton Towers d. The Lake District
9. The mysterious Loch Ness monster is from ... .
a. Scotland c. Wales
b. Ireland d. England
10. What is the most ancient monument in Great Britain?
a. the Lower West Gate c. Hadrian’s Wall
b. the Tower Gate d. Stonehenge
11. New England is ... .
a. a separate country c. part of the US
b. part of the UK d. an island
12. The United Kingdom is … .
a. a parliamentary republic c. a constitutional monarchy
b. an absolute monarchy d. a limited monarchy
13. The Queen of Great Britain is also the Queen of ... .
a. Australia c. The USA
b. Ireland
d. India
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14. Who is the heir to the British throne?
a. Prince Edward c. Prince Charles
b. Prince Henry d. Prince Andrew
15. Who rules the country in practice?
a. the Sovereign c. the Parliament
b. the Prime Minister d. the Government
16. The British Constitution was written in … .
a. 1689 c. 1801
b. 1786 d. there is no written constitution
17. Parliament is the supreme … body.
a. legislative c. judicial
b. executive d. governing
18. Who composes the Cabinet?
a. the Queen c. the Prime Minister
b. the Speaker d. the Lord Chancellor
19. The most important departments of civil service and ministries are
situated in …
a. Whitehall c. Westminster
b. Downing Street d. Fleet Street
20. Tories and Whigs are … .
a. the Conservative and the Democratic parties
b. the Labour and the Liberal parties
c. the Liberal and the Democratic parties
d. the Conservative and the Labour parties
21. Both of them belonged to the Conservative Party.
a. M. Thatcher and A. Blair c. J. Major and G. Brown
b. J. Major and M. Thatcher d. G. Brown and A. Blair
22. The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown belonged to the ... Party.
a. Conservative c. Liberal Democratic
b. Labour d. Communist
23. London is about … years old.
a. 1000 c. 2000
b. 1500 d. 2500
24. The wealth and luxury of London is … .
a. the West End c. the East End
b. the City d. the Westminster
25. Where is the Bank of England situated?
a. in the West End c. in the City
b. in the East End d. in Westminster
26. Which of these cannot be found in the West End?
a. theatres c. supermarkets
b. hotels d. banks
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27. Where does the coronation of the British monarchs take place?
a. Westminster Palace c. Westminster Abbey
b. Buckingham Palace d. the Tower of London
28. Which of them contains the largest library in Great Britain?
a. The Tate c. The National Gallery
b. Westminster Abbey d. The British Museum
29. The wax models of famous people are exhibited at … .
a. the British Museum c. Madame Tussaud’s
b. the National Gallery d. the Tower of London
30. Many famous people of Great Britain are buried in Poets’ Corner
situated in ... .
a. Canterbury Cathedral c. Westminster Abbey
b. The Tower of London d. Kensington Gardens
31. What London street is famous for its shops and department stores?
a. Oxford Street c. Lombard Street
b. Fleet Street d. Charing Cross Road
32. What is the Barbican?
a. a river c. a pop group
b. an art centre d. a cinema
33. What is standing in the middle of Piccadilly Circus?
a. the Statue of Eros c. the Statue of Cromwell
b. the Statue of Pan d. the Marble Arch
34. What building houses the Big Ben bell?
a. The Tower of London c. Westminster Palace
b. St. Paul’s Cathedral d. St. James’s Palace
35. What’s the name of the London underground?
a. Metro c. Subway
b. Tube d. Underground
36. The Whispering Gallery is situated in ... .
a. Westminster Abbey c. the Tower of London
b. Hyde Park d. St. Paul’s Cathedral
37. The Royal Opera House in London is called ... .
a. Covent Garden c. ‘Old Vic’ Theatre
b. the National Theatre d. the Barbican
38. The Crown Jewels are kept in ... .
a. the Tower of London c. Westminster Palace
b. Buckingham Palace d. the British Museum.
39. The famous Globe Theatre where Shakespeare staged his plays is
situated in … .
a. Stratford-upon-Avon c. Glasgow
b. London d. Liverpool
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40. Eisteddfod is the international competition of … .
a. folk-dancing and music c. poetry
b. modern drama d. rock music
41. Bagpipes is the traditional musical instrument of … .
a. Wales c. Ireland
b. Scotland d. England
42. The language spoken in Scotland is ... .
a. Scot c. Scotch
b. Scottish d. Scotland’s
43. … is considered to be the beginning of English literature.
a. “The Song of Beowulf” c. “Ivanhoe”
b. “Canterbury Tales” d. “Hamlet”
44. What is Benjamin Britten?
a. an architect c. a writer
b. a politician d. a composer
45. Who was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for
literature?
a. Conan Doyle c. R. Kipling
b. G. Wells d. J. Galsworthy
46. Which of these authors is not a British one?
a. M. Twain c. W. Golding
b. W.S. Maugham d. G. Green
47. British inventors didn’t give the world … .
a. telephone c. television
b. bicycle d. radio
48. Secondary education in Britain is ... .
a. compulsive c. optional
b. compulsory d. voluntary
49. In England ‘public school’ means ... .
a. state-financed school c. comprehensive school
b. private school d. religious school.
50. Which of these universities is the oldest in Great Britain?
a. Cambridge c. London
b. Oxford d. Sheffield
51. The famous British newspaper which is printed on pink paper is ... .
a. The Times c. The Mirror
b. The Guardian d. The Financial Times
52. The British money is ... .
a. franks c. crones
b. dollars d. pounds
53. Cockney is ... .
a. a bird c. an accent
b. a dish
d. a town
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54. A double-decker is ... .
a. a train с. a hotel room for two people
b. a small plane d. a bus
55. Smog is ... .
a. a man’s suit c. a heavy rain
b. a thick fog d. a man’s hat
56. In Britain people’s weight is measured in ... .
a. tons c. stones and pounds
b. kilos d. pints
57. The British go to pubs … .
a. to drink beer c. to have lunch
b. to drink tea d. to drink wine
58. A brunch is … .
a. breakfast c. dinner
b. late breakfast d. a tea party
59. Englishmen eat dinner at … .
a. 11 a.m. с. 6 p.m.
b. 2 p.m. d. 9 p.m.
60. When it is 12 o’clock in Minsk in London it is … .
a. 7 o’clock c. 9 o’clock
b. 8 o’clock d. 10 o’c
lock
II. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа:
The United States of America
1. The United States is a federal union of ... .
a. 51 states c. 50 states
b. 55 districts d. 49 districts
2. The United States of America covers the territory of … .
a. 6.5 mln. km
2
c. 8.5 mln. km
b. 7.5 mln. km2 d. 9.5 mln. km
2
2
3. The population of the USA is about … .
a. 250 mln. people c. 300 mln. people
b. 200 mln. people d. 350 mln. people
4. The United states of America is … .
a. a constitutional republic c. a federal republic
b. a monarchy d. a commonwealth
5. The USA flag has … .
a. 13 stripes and 50 stars c. 50 stripes and 13 stars
b. 15 stripes and 48 stars d. 13 stripes and 13 stars
6. The coat of arms of the US represents … .
a. a bear c. a lion
b. an eagle d. an oli
ve twig
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7. How many time zones is the continental part of the USA divided into?
a. three c. five
b. four d. six
8. ‘The rain shadow’ is characteristic for … part of the US.
a. northern c. western
b. southern d. eastern
9. Where are the deserts situated in the USA?
a. the north c. the west
b. the south d. the east
10. What is the most exciting national park in the USA?
a. Yellowstone National Park
b. Yosemite National Park
c. Rocky Mountain National Park
d. Grand Canyon National Park
11. What is the most widely known natural wonder in America?
a. the Colorado River c. Niagara Falls
b. the Rocky Mountains d. sequoias
12. Which is the biggest state in the USA?
a. Texas c. California
b. Alaska d. New York
13. Which US state is the smallest?
a. Rhode Island c. Delaware
b. Connecticut d. Hawaii
14. He travelled to the West Indies and South America and discovered
the mouth of the Amazon. Americas are named after him. What is the
name of the person?
a. Christopher Columbus c. Amerigo Vespucci
b. Vasco da Gamma d. Hernan Cortes
15. When did Christopher Columbus discover America?
a. in 1492 c. 1294
b. in 1429 d. 1776
16. Native Americans are … .
a. the Spaniards c. the Afro-Americans
b. the English d. the Indians
17. The English colonization of the American continent began in the ... .
a. 15th century c. 17th century
b. 16th century d. 18th century
18. Which famous event happened in California in 1849?
a. The Gold Rush c. The War of Independence
b. The Great Plague d. The Civil War
19. The territory under the capital Washington is called … .
a. the District of Columbia c. the District of Washington
b. the District of New York d. the District of Ca
lifornia
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20. Which of these cities has once been the capital of the USA?
a. New York c. Philadelphia
b. Denver d. Los Angeles
21. Washington D.C. stands on the river … .
a. Mississippi c. Potomac
b. Missouri d. Ohio
22. A law limits … in the city of Washington.
a. the number of streets c. the number of inhabitants
b. the height of buildings d. the height of monuments
23. The centre of Washington D.C. is … .
a. the White House c. the Executive Mansion
b. the Washington Monument d. the Capitol
24. Which of these cannot be found in Washington?
a. the Pentagon c. the Department of Justice
b. the National Archives d. the Statue of Liberty
25. The building of the US Department of Defense is called ... .
a. the Mission Control Centre c. the War Ministry
b. the Pentagon d. the Whitehall
26. The symbol of US financial power is ... .
a. Times Square c. Wall Street
b. Pennsylvania Avenue d. White House
27. Who is called ‘The Father of the American Constitution’?
a. James Madison c. Thomas Jefferson
b. George Washington d. Andrew Jackson
28. The Bill of Rights is … .
a. the constitution
b. the articles of the constitution
c. the amendments to the constitution
d. the Preamble to the constitution
29. How many amendments have been made to the original text of the
Constitution?
a. 16 c. 20
b. 27 d. 18
30. In the United States of America the legislative power is vested in ... .
a. the Senate c. the Congress
b. the House of Representatives d. the President
31. What chambers does the American Congress consist of?
a. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
b. the Senate and the House of Commons
c. the House of Lords and the House of Representatives
d. the Senate and the House of Representatives
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