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Задание В1
Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего 1-6 и утверждениями, данными в списке A-G. Используйте каждую букву , обозначающую утверждение, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды.
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The Speaker advises those who want to be news reporters to
A. write about ordinary events in an interesting way - 46513лишнее утверждение2
B. wait pationately for their chance to get a job - 46513лишнее утверждение2
C. have as many quallifications as possible - 46513лишнее утверждение2
D. get practice in interviewing people - 46513лишнее утверждение2
E. try their best to achieve their goal - 46513лишнее утверждение2
F. establish contacts with people in the news-reporting business - 46513лишнее утверждение2
G. be ready to travel on business at a moment's notice - 46513лишнее утверждение2
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Задания А1-А7
Вы услышите разговор между друзьями. Определите, какие из приведенных утверждений А1-А7 соответствуют содержанию текста (True), какие не соответствуют (False) и о чем в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (Not stated). Вы услышите запись дважды.
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A1. Charlie is going to arrive at Gatwick airport at 7.30. - FalseNot statedTrue
A2. Charlie is looking forward to going sightseeing in Tunisia. - FalseNot statedTrue
A3. Charlie's wife usually buys a lot of new clothes when she is on holiday. - FalseNot statedTrue
A4. Annie is a member of a trekking club. - FalseNot statedTrue
A5. Annie is going to visit different countries. - FalseNot statedTrue
A6. Annie finds camping enjoyable. - FalseNot statedTrue
A7. Annie is coming back home earlier than the other members of the group. - FalseNot statedTrue
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Задания А8-А14
Вы услышите рассказ мужчины о его первых годах пребывания в Англии. Выберите правильный ответ из предложенных. Вы услышите запись дважды.
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A8. The Polish lady knew a lot about the property market because she
was going to move house soon.
worked as an estate agent
got information from her future husband
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Bill and his wife were happy to
have their landlady's support and advice.
be able to make use of Mr. Black's contacts.
have a variety of houses to choose from.
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The house the couple was going to buy
proved to be profitable for them.
needed little repair work.
belonged to a local building society
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The couple couldn't move into the house right away because
Bill was too busy working for the BBC day and night.
it was hard to get money to move house.
the house was not suitable for living in yet.
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When the couple had finally moved into the house, they
couldn't get over the nervous stress
had to carry on improving it
invited their friends to come round
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Bill cycled to work because
the bus fare was unreasonably high.
the buses were unreliable.
cycling was environmentally friendly.
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Bill doesn't feel like an Englishman because
he prefers to lead the lifestyle he used to.
his heavy accent makes it difficult to understand him.
he has strained relationships with his English neighbours.
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Задание B2
Установите соответствие между заголовками A-H и текстами 1-7. Используйте одну букву только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
1. Tourists from all over the world will enjoy their time in London if they plan a visit to one of the capital's famous musicals or plays as an inbuilt part of their holiday in England. The London stage scene has been a big success story for over a hundred years and visitors will appreciate the programme in London theatres which has not changed for years. - D. Pleasure of the Holidays.E. Beginning of the Career.C. Satisfying Different Tastes.F. Great Changes.H. Financial PolicyG. Lost of Interest.A. Country Tour.B. New Management.
2. Robert Sims is the brilliant new author of the comedy play about student life in Scotland at the Round House Theatre in Glasgow. Robert, who is only twenty four, started to write the play immediately after leaving university. He told our reporter that he couldn't write the play while he was at university, because many of the characters in it were his fellow students or university lectures. The play is also partly a musical with some very funny songs. - D. Pleasure of the Holidays.E. Beginning of the Career.C. Satisfying Different Tastes.F. Great Changes.H. Financial PolicyG. Lost of Interest.A. Country Tour.B. New Management.
3. The new programme of plays at the Eastbourne Winter Garden Theatre contains a very varied and interesting variety of productions. The summer holiday programme starts with a French comedy, continues with the play "The Tree Sisters" by Chekhov and ends with the "Rocky Horror Movie Show". I wonder how the Conservative Eastbourne audiences will cope with this surprising mix. - D. Pleasure of the Holidays.E. Beginning of the Career.C. Satisfying Different Tastes.F. Great Changes.H. Financial PolicyG. Lost of Interest.A. Country Tour.B. New Management.
4. The New winter season at the Hippodrome Theatre is a big break with tradition. There are no musicals, no comedies and no Agatha Christie thrillers. The new management is staging three Shakespeare plays and two plays by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, in addition to a very modern pantomime which doesn't have either a Prince Charming or two ugly sisters. We wish the Hippodrome every success in its efforts to bring culture to the masses. - D. Pleasure of the Holidays.E. Beginning of the Career.C. Satisfying Different Tastes.F. Great Changes.H. Financial PolicyG. Lost of Interest.A. Country Tour.B. New Management.
5. Our winter programme of plays and musicals starts on the first of December. We offer special rates to all students and senior citizens and there are also very good reductions for all theatre goers, who join our theatre club and buy tickets for three or more performances in advance. Theatre programmes with details of each performance and the actors are also free for all members of the theatre club, which is another big saving. Support your local theatre again this season. - D. Pleasure of the Holidays.E. Beginning of the Career.C. Satisfying Different Tastes.F. Great Changes.H. Financial PolicyG. Lost of Interest.A. Country Tour.B. New Management.
6. The long running soap opera "Green Wellies", set in the rural south east of England is sceduled to end in August. The directors of Channel 4 point to decreased enthusiasm for the programme over the last year as a major cause for this decision. Many viewers have complained about the weak story lines and the poor actingof some of the main characters. Also a lot of young people are not interested anymore in hearing about agricultural topics. - D. Pleasure of the Holidays.E. Beginning of the Career.C. Satisfying Different Tastes.F. Great Changes.H. Financial PolicyG. Lost of Interest.A. Country Tour.B. New Management.
7. The new boys'pop group "No Chance" is scheduled to perform at the Liberty Theatre in Clacton. This is part of their journey of England from Bognor in the south to Grimsby in the north. The boys are in big demand after the successful launch of their new CD "Mind over Matter" and it is anticipated that the Clacton venue will be a complete sell out. Buy your tickets now to be sure of a seat. - D. Pleasure of the Holidays.E. Beginning of the Career.C. Satisfying Different Tastes.F. Great Changes.H. Financial PolicyG. Lost of Interest.A. Country Tour.B. New Management.
Лишний. - D. Pleasure of the Holidays.E. Beginning of the Career.C. Satisfying Different Tastes.F. Great Changes.H. Financial PolicyG. Lost of Interest.A. Country Tour.B. New Management.
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Задание B3
Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 1-6 частями предложений A-G. Одна из частей в списке A-G лишняя.
The science of sound, or acoustics, as it is often called, has been made over radically within a comparatively short space of time. Not so long ago the lectures on sound in colleges and high schools dealt chiefly with the vibrations of such things as the air columns in organ pipes. Nowdays, however, thanks chiefly to a number of electronic instruments engineers can study sounds as effectively 1______________________. - D. that loud sound is of high intensity.F. as a painful sensation in the ear.B. since it was heard 3,000 miles away.G. that the unaided human ear can detect.C. and they have been able to put many of these discoveries to practical use.A. and finally measure them.E. as they study mechanical forces.
The result has been a new approach to research in sound. Scientists have been able to make far-reaching discoveries in many fields of acoustics - D. that loud sound is of high intensity.F. as a painful sensation in the ear.B. since it was heard 3,000 miles away.G. that the unaided human ear can detect.C. and they have been able to put many of these discoveries to practical use.A. and finally measure them.E. as they study mechanical forces.
Foremost among the instruments that have revolutionized the study of aucoustics are electronic sound-level meters also known as sound meters also known as sound meters and sound-intensity meters. These are effective devices that first convert sound waves into weak electric signals, then amplify the signals through electronic means 3___________________. - D. that loud sound is of high intensity.F. as a painful sensation in the ear.B. since it was heard 3,000 miles away.G. that the unaided human ear can detect.C. and they have been able to put many of these discoveries to practical use.A. and finally measure them.E. as they study mechanical forces.
The intensity of a sound is measured in units called dicibels. "Zero" sound is the faintest sound 4_______________.The decibel measures the ratio of the intensity of a given sound to the standard "zero" sound. The decibel scale ranges from 0 to 130. - D. that loud sound is of high intensity.F. as a painful sensation in the ear.B. since it was heard 3,000 miles away.G. that the unaided human ear can detect.C. and they have been able to put many of these discoveries to practical use.A. and finally measure them.E. as they study mechanical forces.
An intensity of 130 decibels is percieved not only as asound, but also 5 _________________.The normal range of painlessly audible sounds for the average human ear is about 120 decibels. For forms of life other than ourselves, the range can be quite different. - D. that loud sound is of high intensity.F. as a painful sensation in the ear.B. since it was heard 3,000 miles away.G. that the unaided human ear can detect.C. and they have been able to put many of these discoveries to practical use.A. and finally measure them.E. as they study mechanical forces.
The ordinary sound meter measures the intensity of a given sound, rather than its actual loudness. Under most conditions, however, it is a quite good indicator of loudness. Probably the loudest known noise ever heard by human ears was that of the explosive eruption in August, in 1883, of the volcano of Krakatoa in the East Indies. No electronic sound meters, of course, were in existence then, but physicists estimate that the sound at its sourse must have had an intensity of 190 decibels, 6 ________________________. - D. that loud sound is of high intensity.F. as a painful sensation in the ear.B. since it was heard 3,000 miles away.G. that the unaided human ear can detect.C. and they have been able to put many of these discoveries to practical use.A. and finally measure them.E. as they study mechanical forces.
Лишний. - D. that loud sound is of high intensity.F. as a painful sensation in the ear.B. since it was heard 3,000 miles away.G. that the unaided human ear can detect.C. and they have been able to put many of these discoveries to practical use.A. and finally measure them.E. as they study mechanical forces.
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Задания А15-А21
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания A15 - A21, выбрав вариант ответа 1, 2, 3 или 4.
I think I'm a good librarian. I love books, and the people who read them, and if that makes me intolerant of the video and computer age, it doesn't matter much in here. Paul was embarrassed by my job. It didn't fit in with his creative Director image at dinner parties. He'd rather I had either stayed at home, and then he could continue to make jokes about me being the last house-wife in captivity; or else that I had found some trendy, highly-paid job in the media. When I pointed out that I did work in the media, it just wasn't very highly paid, he would look pained.
I've always been addicted to the printed word. A former headmistress once said, "If Constance had nothing else to read, she'd read the label on a jam jar!"
She meant to be scathing, and the other girls tittered sycophantically, but I thought she was being silly. You could learn a lot from the labels on jam jars... and besides, the other girls would only gaze into space and moon. Was that supposed to be better?
So my first thought, when Kate started school and I decided I could now take a job with a clear conscience, was something to involve me with books. I would have been quite happy in a bookshop, but the humiliation of having his wife wife working as a shop assistant was more than Paul could contemplate. I tried to argue that all advertising is only selling. I'd heard him propound the argument often enough at dinner parties, when smart women fresh out of university and burning to write had asked him if it wasn't an awful come down, when you'd got a First in English, to wind up working in advertising? The moment he heard that contemptuous stress on the first syllable, advertising, adman, Paul would assume his patient, sophisticated smile and take them through his catechism about selling. But evedently the same didn't apply to me and bookshops.
"Not even Hatchards?" I'd said. "Then I'd be near your office and we could meet for lunch sometimes. That would be nice..."
" My dear girl, you wouldn't stand a chance of getting a job in Hatchards!" Paul had answered.
So I did get a year's course in librarianship, and started work within a month of completing it. There aren't that many librarians with a First from Oxford, and although I didn't tell my colleagues, it showed up on my CV and must have impressed the selection committee. They probably thought I wouldn't stay, but I have spent nearly nine years now in the same public library. It helped to tide me over the utter disorientation I felt when Paul left me, and my raging sense of pain and injustice over the divorce. My incredulity at the distortion of our marriage as expressed in solicitors' letters, and later my fury over the court proceedings, were tamed and made bearable by the sweet unvarying routine of the Dewey classifying system and the old ladies, the truanting children and the coffee breakes.
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A15. Paul disapproved of his wife's job because it
deprived him of a chance to show off.
had nothing to do with computers.
made her look like a housewife.
was not acceptable in their circles.
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A16. According to the text, the narrator was critical of her school
the headmistress had disapproved of her love for books.
the headmistress had teased her for her obsession.
the other girls had never shared her love for reading.
it had never been a source of excitement for her.
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A17. The narrator decided to take a job in a bookshop because
it could offer her vast career opportunities.
she knew it would bring her a lot of money.
her daughter had grown up and did without her help.
it was a great place to meet people who read books.
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A18. According to the text, the narrator thought "advertising" to be NOT
effective
profitable
successful
creative
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A19. In order to start the work in a library the narrator needed
a First from Oxford.
a year of job experience.
professional qualifications.
a reference enclosed in CV.
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A20. The narrator felt completely confused because of
the disappointment with her job.
injustice on the part of old ladies.
financial difficulties.
splitting up with her husband.
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A21. The narrater surved the trauma because
she and her husband remained friends.
she found satisfaction in her job.
the court proceedings were just.
her own children supported her.
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B4-B10. Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Заполните пропуски, преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, так чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста.
A Smart Boy
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B4-B10. Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Заполните пропуски, преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, так чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста.
B4. Mr. Jones and Mr. Brown worked in the same office. One day Mr. Jones said, _________________________(smile) pleasantly to Mr. Brown: "We are going to have a small party next Monday evening. Will you and your wife come?"
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B5. That's very kind of you. We are free that evening, I think. But I ___________(call) my wife and ask her".
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B6. Mr. Brown _________________(go) into the other room and telephoned.
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B7. He___________________(surprise) very much by his telephone conversation.
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B8. When he came back Mr. Jones asked him, "_____________(you, speak) to your wife already?"
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B9. "No, she ______________(not be) there when I phoned. My small son answered the phone. I asked him, "Is your mother there?" And he said, "She is somewhere outside".
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B10."Why is she outside?" I asked. "She _________________(look for) me", he answered.
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B11-B16. Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Заполните пропуски, преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, так чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста.
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B11. Brazil is one of the world's largest and most ____________(population) countries.
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B12. It is the largest country in the South America, occupying almost half of the continent and ______________ (extension) from north of the equator to south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
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B13. Brazil's large size and ______________(diversity) population provide great variety in the natural environment,
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B14. culture, and ________________ (economic)
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B15. The nation's natural beauty is reflected in a wide _________ (vary) of geographic locations.
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B16. The climate is generally tropical, but areas located at higher elevations or _______________ (far) from the equator tend to be more temperate.
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A22-A28. Прочитайте текст, заполните пропуски.
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Can Work Kill?
According to Sigmund Freud, a man's mission in life is "to work and to love". In the modern world, an excess of love can be hazardous indeed. But what of work? Can a man literally work A22________________to death?
itself
himself
oneself
themselves
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The Japanese think so; in fact, karoshi, or "death from overwork", is recognized diagnosis. A 1988 A23 _________________of 526 Japanese men, aged30 to 69, supported the idea that long working hours could be hazardous to a man's health.
survey
report
discussion
prognosis
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The subjects of the study A24 ____________ men who had been hospitalized with a heart attack
consisted
had
considered
included
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as well as healthy men of A25 _____________ ages and occupations. The results were striking: men from both groups who put in more than 11 hours of work on an average day were 2.4 times more likely to have a heart attack than were men who worked "just" seven to nine hours a day.
similar
same
like
both
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What accounts for the increased risk of heart attack A26______________ Japanese men who work very long hours?
between
in
among
at
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The Japanese are notorious workaholics, but working conditions in Japan are actually designed to be predictable and to minimize stress among employees. In general, Western men do not A27 ______________ such advantages,
take
join
enjoy
give
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so one wonders just how working too A28 _________________ affects their health.
many
hardly
a lot
hard
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C1. You have 20 minutes to do this task.
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend Nick who writes:
It's always a good idea to learn a few words of the local language when you'll be traveling in a foreign country. But with a lot of creativity and a willingness to look a little undignified, you can communicate basic ideas even if you don't speak a word of the language. Do you think I need to collect the most important phrases? Is learning of language more effective abroad? Do you use a phrase-book abroad?
As for me, I'm going to France next month. I don't speak French so I need your advise...
Write a letter to Nick.
In your letter
answer his questions
ask 3 questions
Write 100-140 words.
Remember the rules of letter writing.
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C2. You have 40 minutes to do this task.
Comment on the following statement.
It's often said "laughter is the best medicine".
What is your opinion? Do you gree?
Write 200-250 words.
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