READING
Read the text and then answer questions 1-5.
Different Colours can affect us in many different ways; that’s according to Verity Allen. In her new series «Colour me Healthy”, Verity looks at the ways that colours can influence how hard we work and the choices we make. They can even change our emotions and even influence how healthy we are. «Have you ever noticed how people always use the same colours for the same things?» says Verity. “Our toothpaste is always white or blue or maybe red. It’s never green. Why not? For some reason we think that blue and white is clean, while we think of green products as being a bit disgusting. It’s the same for businesses. We respect a company, which writes its name in blue or black, but we don’t respect one that uses pink or orange. People who design new products can use these ideas to influence what we buy.” During this four-part series, Verity studies eight different colours, two colours in each programme. She meets people who work in all aspects of the colour industry, from people who design food packets, to people who name the colours of lipsticks. Some of the people she meets clearly have very little scientific knowledge to support their ideas, such as the American “Colour Doctor” who believes that serious diseases can be cured by the use of coloured lights. However, she also interviews real scientists who are studying the effects of green and red lights on mice, with some surprising results. Overall, it’s an interesting show, and anyone who watches it will probably find out something new. But because Verity is goes out of her way to be polite to everyone she meets on the series, it’s up to the viewers to make their own decisions about how much they should believe.
What is the writer doing in this text?
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A. giving information about how colours influence us
B. reporting what happens in a new television series
C. giving information about a television presenter
D. giving his opinion of a recent television show
Which of the following shows the probable content of the four shows?
A. Part 1 – Health; Part 2 – Products and Industry; Part 3 – Emotions; Part 4 – Decisions
B. Part 1 – Blue and Black; Part 2 – Red and Orange; Part 3 – White and Grey; Part 4 – Green and Yellow
C. Part 1 – Meeting Designers; Part 2 – Meeting People who Name Colours; Part 3 – Meeting Doctors; Part 4 – Meeting Scientists
D. Part 1 – Cleaning Products; Part 2 – Make-up; Part 3 – Clothes; Part 4 – Food
According to Verity, why is a knowledge of colour important?
A. It can help you to choose the best products.
B. It can give you new ideas.
C. It can help you to change people’s minds.
D. It can help you to sell products.
Who does the writer respect least?
A. Verity Allen
B. The people who name lipsticks
C. The «Colour Doctor»
D. The scientists who work with mice
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Which of the following would make a good title for the text?
A. Enjoy it, but don’t believe everything.
B. Another great show from Verity Allen! Five Stars!
C. Don’t miss this if you work in Business!
D. Watch this programme! It will make you healthy!
Match the following headings with the sections of the text below, one heading is extra.
This museum tells you about the history of
A. Industry
B. Science
C. Toys
D. Costumes
E. A city
F. Transport
G. Canals
1. Step inside this magical 1850s «Cinema» for an exciting tour of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. As the lights go down a brilliant moving image of the capital appears before you, while the guide tells the story of Edinburgh's historic past.
2. The National Waterways Museum of Gloucester brings to life the time when Britain's waterways were dug between towns. Transport by these ways was cheaper than transport by land. Many exhibits give visitors the chance to relive the Age which helped to revolutionize Britain's water system.
3. Black Country Museum is an open-air museum. Your visit there is always exciting and enjoyable. Guides in national costumes and working demonstrators tell visitors a story of the time when different machines were invented in Britain and factories began to develop very quickly.
4. Travel through time and discover the colourful story of travel. See shiny buses, tube trains and trams of different centuries. As you step into the past you'll meet people who've kept London moving for 200 years. Hold tight as you put yourself in the driving seat and enjoy your journey.
5. This museum is full of wonderful models of trains, buses, ships and cars. See the 1920s model Story Land Park and play the old slot-machines. It also has a nursery of the beginning of the 20th century. The wonderful collection of dolls contains different marionettes from Ancient Roman Gladiator doll to figures of today.
6. This museum illustrates the development of human knowledge through different instruments. The museum has a clockwork model of the solar system from1750 as well as microscopes, telescopes, navigation instruments, electrical machines and tools. Конец формы
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Read the text and complete it with the correct forms of the words.
Francisco Goya
1 Francisco Goya _________ in Zaragoza, where he was born, and later moved to Madrid. STUDY
2 His early works convey the freedom and charm of popular life, but after his _________ as painter to the court, where he was a great favourite, APPOINT
3 he became ________________ somber. INCREASE
4 His etchings of the disasters of war, witches, and monsters were the reactions of a sensitive man __________ by the events of his time. APPALL
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5 He went deaf at 60, after which his work becomes steadily more melancholic. His extraordinary candor in some royal portraits, where he employs exquisite technique to depict a family, has few___________ in commissioned art. PARALLEL
6 He _________permission to depart for France in 1824 and died in Bordeaux at the age of 82. GIVE
7 Few artists __________such a variety of work. COMPOSE
Grammar
1. Pushkin is … Russian poet.
a) the
b) a
c) -
2. A glass vase is made... glass.
a) from
b) out of
c) with
3. Have you read any books … Margaret Mitchell?
a) since
b) on
c) by
4. Of two evils choose the...
a) less
b) little
c) least
5. Actions speak... than words.
a) more louder
b) the loudest
c) louder
6. Happiness is … than money.
a) important
b) more important
c) the most important
7. You... take care of your parents
a) should
b) ought to
c) are to
8. You will … speak Spanish in another few months.
a) can
b) have
c) be able to
9. My dentist says I … eat so many sweets.
a) needn’t
b) mustn’t
c) shouldn’t
10. Dinosaurs... millions of years ago.
a) died out
b) had died out
c) were died out.
11. Now she... difficulty in putting facts in order.
a) is having
b) has been having
c) had
12. What...you...at 4.30.tomorrow afternoon?
a) would...do
b) were...do
c) will...be doing
13. American schools for many years...... federal aid for special purposes.
a) have received
b) received
c) receive
14. We … here for 7 years already.
a) had lived
b) was living
c) have lived
15. I don’t know when I … a job.
a) will find
b) find
c) would find
16. I don’t know about it, ask... else.
a) nobody
b) anybody
c) somebody
17. There is... new under the sun.
a)no thing
b) nothing
c) anything
18. Could you lend me … money?
a) any
b) some
c) no
c) nobody
19. I don`t like … jokes.
a) somebody`s
b) anybody`s
c) nobody `s
20. Mike hoped that his friend (help) him with his car.
a) would help
b) will help
c) helped
21. We didn’t know the score, but we were sure their team (lose) the game.
a) has lost
b) had lost
c) lost
22. Yesterday Tom heard that his aunt (be ill) for five days.
a) was ill
b) has been ill
c) had been ill
23. We were told that Andrew (go) to enter that college.
a) is going
b) went
c) was going
24. My parents decided that we (celebrate) my birthday on Saturday.
a) would celebrate
b) shall celebrate
c) celebrated.
25. While... the book I came across a lot of interesting facts.
a) studying
b) study
c) having studied
26 ... her address I could not write her a letter.
a) not knowing
b) without knowing
c) not to know
27. The holiday... Thanksgiving Day is now observed on the fourth Thursday of November.
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a) calling
b) called
c) to be called
28. Найдите правильный вариант перевода слова reading
a) читающий
b) прочитанный
c) читая
d) читаемый
29. The actress playing the leading role is my mother.
a) инфинитив
b) причастие
c) герундий
30. They must be playing football now.
a) инфинитив
b) причастие
c) герундий
31. Отметьте предложения, в которых вместо инфинитива можно употребить причастие:
a) Everybody considered him to be a talented writer.
b) I believe her to know it.
c) We watched the sun rise.
d) She felt somebody walk behind her.
32. Выберите правильную форму причастия (Present or Perfect)
… his homework, he was thinking hard.
a) doing
b) having done
33. Выберите правильный вариант перевода причастия на русский язык
His broken arm was examined by the doctor.
а) сломанная
b) сломав
c) ломая
34. Выберите правильный вариант перевода причастия на русский язык
The room facing the garden is much more comfortable than that one.
а) выходящая
b) выходившая
c) выходя
35. We expect them...us this summer.
a) to visit
b) to have visited.
36. We are glad... the summer in the Crimea.
a) to spend
b) to have spent
37. It seems... outside.
a) to rain
b) to be raining
38. He hasn’t come yet. He must still …
a) work
b) be working
c) has worked
39. You should … music lessons when you were a child.
a) take
b) be taking
c) have taken
40. English is easy. It can … within a few years.
a) learn
b) be learnt
c) be learning