- •Справочный материал.
- •I вариант.
- •I. Определите время сказуемого в предложениях и переведите их на русский язык.
- •II. Выберите правильный вариант ответа
- •III. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в требующемся времени.
- •IV. Переведите предложения на английский язык.
- •V. Напишите вопросы к выделенным словам.
- •II вариант.
- •I. Определите время сказуемого в предложениях и переведите их на русский язык.
- •II. Выберите правильный вариант ответа.
- •III. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в требующемся времени.
- •IV. Переведите предложения на английский язык.
- •V. Напишите вопросы к выделенным словам.
- •Text 1. Oakland Puts Crime Statistics Maps On the Internet
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 2. Airport Delays on the Rise
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 3. Sound Technology Helps Police Locate Gunfire
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 4. Permits to Prevent Fortune-Telling Scams
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 5. Earthquake Science
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 6. Fuel Cell Technology for Cars
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 7. Foster Adoptions
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 8. Doctor Found Guilty of Elder Abuse
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 9. Dreams of New Ways To Fly
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
- •Text 10. Computers and Girls
- •I. Vocabulary
- •II. Multiple Choice
I. Vocabulary
sniper
killer
hidden shooter
one who cuts
criminal
investigators
guards
shooters
detectives
teachers
celebratory
festive
loud
party
dangerous
dispatchers
wardens
police operators
crooks
bosses
alerts
warns
sends
reports
hears
pinpoint
reach
see
listen
locate
accuracy
certain
unsure
close
exactness
tremendously
certainly
somewhat
greatly
lazily
originated
first
started
alerted
told
community
home
police station
state
locality or town
II. Multiple Choice
Eight microphones placed on rooftops _____.
talk to police
warn the public
listen for gunfire
play rap music
In Redwood City, police can hear gunfire within ____.
five seconds
seven seconds
seven minutes
thirty seconds
The red dot on the police map shows _____.
the address of the criminal
Redwood City
the capital of California
the location of the gunfire
The ShotSpotter has helped police ____.
a little bit
cut down the use of weapons
tremendously
solve all the shootings
Text 4. Permits to Prevent Fortune-Telling Scams
From a news story by
CNN San Francisco Reporter Rusty Dornin
Gloria Acunia comes to this bookshop for a New Age treatment known as raking. She sees it as a sort of spiritual counseling.
"I feel like some energy needs to be boosted."
But in the past Gloria says she has been hoodwinked by so called spiritual advisors, psychics who frightened her with the same line. "You have this curse and I can do candles. She said put your money on the bible." Says Gloria.
Or how about the one where the client is supposed to give money to be buried here in a cemetery. All fortune-telling scams center around curse removals, but now the city of San Francisco is trying to stop those scams by forcing fortune-tellers, palm readers and the like to get finger printed and get a permit.
"We're trying to identify the people so that we will know when people get ripped off," says a city consumer protection advocate.
This San Francisco woman says she got ripped off seventeen thousand dollars [by] a psychic who told her daughter would die if she didn't give the fortune-teller her money. "She actually told me I will do something to my daughter and she going to die."
Fraud investigators say the fortune-tellers prey on people's fears.
"They show there's a piece of grapefruit with blood in it or a little skull in it that the person is supposed to bring them, and please bring me your card to Macy's as well because I know you don't have enough money, but we will go shopping."
"People really fall for this?"
"They fall for it again because they are desperate."
Anjelique Royce, manager of the Psychic Eye, says psychics here give legitimate one-time services. "We don't practice curse removals for a certain fee of any kind."
"Hey it's a good opportunity. Go for it," says card-reader Patricia Carroll. Patricia Carroll reads tarot cards and practices raking for a one-time fee. She says the proposed law won't stop the rip-offs.
"Do you think this is going to drive the scam artist fortune-tellers underground?" asks Rusty Dornin.
"Oh definitely. But not away. Just underground. Because I think they will still operate and I think it will still be very difficult to stop them," says Patricia.
[This] new regulation [is] for people who want their fortune told, not taken.