Контрольная работа № 6

Чтение

Базовый уровень A 2+

Установите соответствие между заголовками A – G и текстами 1 – 6. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании один лишний заголовок. Если вы затрудняетесь соотнести какой-либо текст с темой, то ставьте в таблице знак Х под номером этого текста.

A Film for aliens

B. Phun factory

C. Helping nose

D. First monster star

E. Extreme cello playing

F. New stars

G. Retiring to Internet

1. Phun Factory in New York is the largest open air graffiti gallery in the world. On the wall of the factory, street kids show their talents — legally — for everyone to admire. The gallery was founded to keep the city clean, and give people a chance to express themselves. The 'masterpieces' are changed every three months.

2. A Dutch film company has made a film to explain what humans are like to aliens. "Imagine then how difficult it would be to explain it to an alien," says one of the filmmak­ers. "That's why we decided to make a film about us." The eight-minute cartoon shows what people are and what they think and feel. The makers hope it will be taken into space on a mission in 2007.

3. Pop star George Michael is retiring from the music busi­ness to become an Internet-only artist. The singer says he will never make another album for sale in record shops because he doesn't need the money and is tired of being famous. Instead he intends to put all future songs on the Internet for free. Fans will be invit­ed to make donations in exchange for down­loading the tracks, which multi-millionaire Michael will give to charity.

4. The first movie monster to become a star was King Kong (1933). Although the giant ape made some film-goers faint, King Kong was actually a model only 45 centimeters tall. For close-ups the studio used a giant furry head worked by three men inside!

5. Cameron Diaz believes her nose has helped her get most of her acting roles. She says that when she began acting her friends told her that she would never be able to make it big in Hollywood unless she got a nose job. Cameron says her refusal to get her nose correct­ed actually helped her get film roles instead of losing them. 'I thought it kind of gave me a different look to all the other surgery-type girls,' she says.

6. One day, a group of British cellists was watching a documentary on TV which showed the Extreme Ironing World Championship in Germany. This gave them an idea: why not try to make music in extreme locations? This is how a new sport — Extreme Cello Playing — was born.

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тема

Повышенный уровень B1

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 1 – 6 частями предложений, обозначен-ных буквами А - G. Одна из частей в списке А – G лишняя. Занесите букву, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

British visual art began 1 ………….. , influenced by early Scandinavian wood carvings, and after the Christianization of England, painting appeared at first only in ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. From the 12th to the 16th century, the great cathedrals in the Romanesque and Gothic styles were 2 ………………….. Among the characteristics that distinguished English from European cathedrals were double transepts, rectangular apses, and fan vaulting. Later, such 17th- and 18th-century architects as Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren brought, respectively, 3 ……………

From the beginning of the Renaissance, English painting was influenced by foreign artists, such as the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger in the 16th century and the Flemish painter Sir Anthony van Dyck in the 17th century. Not until the 18th century, with the work of portrait painters such as William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and George Romney, did 4 ……….. English styles in furniture and ceramics, in the work of Thomas Chippendale and Josiah Wedgwood in particular, evolved in the 18th century. In the 19th century John Constable was notable for landscape painting and Joseph Mallord William Turner 5 ……….., and in the 20th century perhaps 6 ……………. are the sculptor Henry Moore and the painters David Hockney and Francis Bacon.

A.. Renaissance and baroque architecture to England

B are known all over the world

C. with the interest in ornamentation

D for seascape painting

E a distinctive style develop in English painting

F the best-known artists

G. the most outstanding products of English art

1	2	3	4	5	6

Высокий уровень

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания А1– А5, обводя цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую номеру выбранного вами варианта ответа.

During the past hundred years, the radio, the cinema, TV and now Internet have made great changes in the entertainment with which people fill their free time. More than a hundred years ago people knew how to entertain themselves much better than they do now. When a group of people gathered together, they talked, played cards or other games, read aloud to each other, or went out shooting, or walking together. Summer picnics were also a great hit those days. Most of people could sing or play a musical instrument, so at a party the guests entertained each other. Conversation was an art, amusing conversation could keep people happy for hours.

As for games, such as football, tennis, people used to play them more often than they do now. Most of them didn’t play very well, but they could amuse themselves and their friends. Nowadays we are entertained by professionals. There appeared even such phenomena as show industry and professional sport. With the help of electronic Mass Media they are ruling in modern society. I’m not an exception and also pay my tribute to them. So choosing among theatre, cinema and TV, I’ll certainly choose Theatre.

Theatre is the ancient but ever - youthful parent of all entertainment in dramatic form. It has existed on and off for two-and-a-half thousand years because there is something special to itself that it offers us. But what is it that is special about the theatre? A famous playwright Priestly compares theatre with the restaurant. In a very good restaurant we have a dinner that is specially cooked for us; in a canteen we are merely served with standard portions of a standard meal. And this is the difference between the living Theatre and the mass entertainment of films, radio and television. In the theatre the play is specially cooked for us.

The production never takes its final shape, until it has an audience. The actors are not playing to microphones and cameras but to warmly responsive fellow-creatures. And they are never giving exactly the same performance. If the audience tends to be heavy, unresponsive – the company slightly sharpens and heightens its performance to bring the audience to life, and vice versa, if the audience is too enthusiastic. One more thing, when we see a play we form part of an audience. This is important, because we behave differently when we are part of audience. If the play is funny, we laugh a great deal more that we should if we were by ourselves. If it is pathetic we are more deeply moved just because a lot of other people are being moved too. We have to share the feelings of a great many other people to enjoy a play properly, and this in itself is a good thing, particularly these days when too many people usually living in large cities feel cut off, and separate.

To enjoy the theatre we have to join it. Today theatre is at some kind of crisis. The houses are alarmingly empty. Many other forms of entertainment have superseded theatre. There are many who do not care whether theatre lives or dies. This is causing anxiety. The main reason for that is that our cultural level is painfully low. Now we can see the degradation of people’s spiritual and cultural standards as a whole, the erosion of values and ideals. And culture is the health of a nation, a way of improving its genetic fund. It’s impossible to survive without culture. Theatre is the means of the disseminating culture. School is responsible for awakening a child’s interest to theatre, it’s necessary to instil into people, into their consciousness the love to the theatre. I do believe that the situation will change to the better. Theatre will never die. For some people it died long ago, - for people who are poorly developed emotionally, they simply do not understand the Theatre, as they do not understand painting, serious music. But theatre is eternal. The atmosphere in theatre is solemn. It’s the magical place where man meets his image, where people are taught to appreciate the beauty, to hate the evil, ugliness, where feelings are stirred, where our souls and mind are elevated. It is the enduring home of dramatic experience, which is surely one of the most searching, rewarding, enchanting of our many different kinds of experience. Theatre unites actors and spectators, moves our feelings, establishes close contacts between people, and creates the atmosphere for thinking. Theatre makes it possible to establish close contacts between actor and spectators, to create intellectual atmosphere, to distinguish between the good and the bad, to understand and enjoy the beauty.

A1. Great changes in the entertainment took place in our life because ……….. appeared.

1. the radio

2. the cinema

3. Internet

4. the radio, the cinema, TV and Internet

A2. Nowadays we are entertained by

1. show industry

2. professional sport

3. show industry, professional sport and electronic Mass Media

4. electronic Mass Media

A3. A famous playwright Priestly compares theatre with

1. the kitchen

2. the restaurant

3. the buffet

4. the canteen

A4. The actors are playing to

1. microphones and cameras

2. themselves

3. the audience

4. to their pleasure

A5. The health of any nation is

1. their genetic fund

2. their people

3. theatre

4. culture

Говорение

Student Cards

Task 1 (3-4 min)

Give a talk on the problem “What helps young people to relax?”

Remember to speak about:

• the role of the cinema and TV films in our life;

• what arts cinema combines;

• what kind of films you like best and why;

• the role of theatre I modern life;

• your attitude to ballet, opera or musical.

Task 2 (1, 5 -2 min)

Some movies are serious, designed to make the audience think. Other movies are designed primarily to amuse and entertain.

You are discussing the problem with your friend. Which type of movie do you prefer and why?

You will start the conversation

Remember to:

• be active and polite;

• ask all the questions to get the necessary information.

Task 3 (4-5 min)

You and your friend are discussing advantages and disadvantages of planning activities for your free time. Some people prefer to plan activities very carefully. Others choose not to make any plans for their free time.

You have to compare the benefits of planning free-time activities with benefits of not making plans. Give specific reasons to support your answer.

You begin the conversation.

Remember to:

• discuss all the points;

• take an active part in the conversation and be polite;

• come up with suggestions;

• give reasons;

• invite your partner to come up with suggestions;

• find out your partner’s attitudes and take them into account;

• come to an agreement.

Грамматика и лексика

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