Who is the head of the state in Britain?

Топорова Д.

Губкина В.

Рыбаков А.

Толстова А.

Перевалова К.

Мартюшев В.

Ципилева А.

Пономарева А.

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I. Аудирование

 

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. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.

A. Different activities in a foreign country helped the speaker learn the language.

 

B. The speaker learns the foreign language while listening to music.

 

C. The speaker thinks that some foreign languages give better career opportunities than others.

 

D. The speaker’s hobby was a strong motivation for learning the foreign language.

 

E. The speaker started learning the foreign language because she/he was going to travel.

 

F. A job in a foreign country helped the person speak the language better.

 

G. Mixing with native speakers helped the speaker learn about their way of life.

II. Чтение

Прочитайте тексты установите соответствие между заголовками А—Н и текстами 1 — 7. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Исполь­зуйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании один заголо­вок — лишний.

A. Chocolate mania

B. History of chocolate

C. Love of sweet from your father

D. Balanced diet

E. Friend or enemy

F. Safe sweetness

G. Help to dentists

H. Problems with weight

 

1. Chocolate is made from the seeds of the tree Theobroma cacao. The ancient Aztecs used the beans of the cacao tree as a form of money. The Aztecs discovered that by crushing the beans into a paste and adding spices, they could make a refreshing and nourishing drink. This drink was very bitter, not like our chocolate drinks today. 16th century European explorers brought the drink back from their travels, added sugar, and soon it was popular as an expensive luxury.

 

2. You can receive a ‘sweet tooth’ from your parents. Recent study at New York University suggests there is a genetic reason why some people prefer sugary foods. The study was based on two groups of mice. The parents of the first group were given sweetened water and the parents of the second — unsweetened water. The team found the gene that was different in the two groups of mice and then looked for similar genetic chains in humans.

 

3. All modern chocolate products have large amounts of sugar, a fact which may partly explain why it becomes a sort of drug for some people. An ability to recognize sweet things, and a tendency to like them was very useful for our forefathers. Such a genetic quality made prehistoric humans look for energy-rich, healthy and tasty food such as fruit, and helped them avoid bitter-tasting poisonous plants.

 

4. Like other sweet food, chocolate helps endorphins, natural hormones, that give us the feelings of pleasure and well-being, to appear in our body. Chocolate also makes us feel good by reacting with our brains. Scientists say that some people may develop chocoholism - a dependency on chocolate. So it's just possible that, with every bar of chocolate, your brain changes step by step in order to make you love chocolate more and more!

 

5. Back in the 17th and 18th centuries, many scientific works were written explaining the advantages of chocolate for medicine, and today it's a regular food in army rations. Chocolate could help prevent tooth decay, according to scientists at Japan's Osaka University. The cocoa beans from which chocolate is made have an antibacterial agent that fights tooth decay. These parts of the beans are not usually used in chocolate production, but in future they could be added back in to chocolate to make it friendly for teeth.

 

6. Californian scientist Professor Carl Keen and his team have suggested that chocolate might help fight heart disease. They say that it contains chemicals called flavinoids, which thin the blood. Researchers at Harvard University have carried out experiments that suggest that if you eat chocolate three times a month you will live almost a year longer than those who don't do it. But it's not all good news - chocolate has much fat, which means that eating too much of it may lead to obesity.

 

7. Being very fat, or obese, is linked to many health problems including heart disease and diabetes. The causes of obesity are not yet fully understood. Both genes and the environment play a role. The recent growth of the number of fat people seems to be linked to environmental factors: people are much less active nowadays, fatty and sugary foods like chocolate are cheap, people eat larger portions of food, and the calories per person have increased.

 

III. Лексический тест

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номе­рами А22-А29. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям А22-А29, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Обве­дите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа.

 

Your Future World

What will you be doing in 2025? Will you be living in an undersea research station? Will you be the chief engineer A22 _______a bridge across the Atlantic Ocean? Will you be leading an A23 _______to the planet Mars? Will you be...?

You can daydream, of course, but nobody knows exactly what the world will be A24 _______. But scientists have made some guesses. Based on the advances made, they believe people will be healthier. Diphtheria, malaria, tuberculosis, polio and many other killers are under control now. These diseases are on the way out, A25 _______ to germ-killing chemicals, new ways of finding out about our bodies, and new ways of providing clean, safe A26 _______and water.

Healthier people live longer, so we can expect the world's population to A27 _______sharply. It may double in the next forty years! This brings up a serious problem: how will we find food, water and minerals for such a huge population?

Scientists are at work on some A28 _______. From the ocean they hope to get new fertilizers to increase the yield of the soil; new chemicals to kill crop-destroying insects without A29 _______other animals, new sources of water or supplies of food.

 

A22. 1) inventing

A23. 1) exploration

A24. 1) like

A25. 1) as a result

A26. 1) eat

A27. 1) decrease

A28. 1) solutions

A29. 1) hurting

 

2) designing

2) expenditure

2) alike

2) because

2) feed

2) distract

2) alternatives

2) harming

 

3) scheming

3) expedition

3) likely

3) on account

3) food

3) dissolve

3) preferences

3) injuring

 

4) doing

4) exhibit

4) likable

4) thanks

4) cooking

4) increase

4) questions

4) wounding

 

 

IV. Грамматический тест

Выберите один правильный вариант ответа:

1. … is dangerous to walk in the road.
1. There
2. It
3. Those

1. That isn’t my key. … is here.
1. my
2. me
3. mine

1. That was … question in exam.
1. difficultest
2. the most difficult
3. the difficultest

 

1. I’m not working tomorrow, so I … get up early.
1. have not to
2. don’t have to
3. must not

1. The last time I … Dick was in 1985.
1. have seen
2. had seen
3. saw

 

1. I … to talk to you.
1. am wanting
2. have wanted
3. want

 

1. There are so … beautiful flowers in the garden!
1. much
2. little
3. many

1. These … are the pride of our company.
1. women
2. woman
3. womans

 

1. If we … out of money, we’ll get a job
1. run
2. will run
3. would run

1. I was walking in town the other day when I … old MR. Brown.
1. meet
2. was meeting
3. met

V. Страноведческий тест

Выберите один правильный вариант ответа:

1. The one part of Great Britain is:

a) Cambridge

b) Wales

c) Alaska

d) Glasgow

 

2. The longest river is:

a) the Thames

b) the Clyde

c) the Severn

 

Who is the head of the state in Britain?

а) the President

b) the Prime Minister

c) the Monarch