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Тест по английскому языку для IX класса
(в формате ГИА)
READING. ЧТЕНИЕ
В2 Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между заголовками 1-8 и текстами А-G. Запишите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок.
1. Shopping in comfort
2. Professional sport
3. First computers
4. Digging for the past
5. Risky sport
6. Difficult task
7. Shopping from home
8. New users
A. Another generation of computer fans has arrived. They are neither spotty schoolchildren nor intellectual professors, but pensioners who are learning computing with much enthusiasm. It is particularly interesting for people suffering from arthritis as computers offer a way of writing nice clear letters. Pensioners have now discovered the Internet and at the moment they are the fastest growing user group.
B. Substantial remains of an octagonal Roman bath house, probably reused as a Christian baptistery, have been uncovered during a student training excavation near Faversham in Kent. The central cold plunge pool was five metres across, and stood within a structure which also had underfloor heating and hot pools, probably originally under a domed roof.
C. For many years now, mail-order shopping has served the needs of a certain kind of customer. Everything they order from a catalogue is delivered to their door. Now, though, e-mail shopping on the Internet has opened up even more opportunities for this kind of shopping.
D. Potholing is a dull name for a most interesting and adventurous sport. Deep underground, on the tracks of primitive men and strange animals who have adapted to life without light, finding unusual landscapes and underground lakes, the potholer lives an exciting adventure. You mustn't forget, though, that it can be quite dangerous. Without the proper equipment you can fall, get injured or lost.
E. Not many people know that, back in the fifties, computers were very big, and also very slow. They took up complete floors of a building, and were less powerful, and much slower than any of today's compact portable computers. At first, the data they had to process and record was fed in on punched-out paper; later magnetic tape was used, but both systems were completely inconvenient.
F. A group of university students from Brazil have been given the job of discovering and locating all the waterfalls in their country. It is not easy because very often the maps are not detailed. The students have to remain in water for long periods of time. Every day they cover a distance of 35 to 40 kilometres through the jungle, each carrying 40 kilos of equipment.
G. Shopping centres are full of all kinds of stores. They are like small, self-contained towns where you can find everything you want. In a large centre, shoppers can find everything they need without having to go anywhere else. They can leave their cars in the shopping centre car park and buy everything in a covered complex, protected from the heat, cold or rain.
Тексты A B C D E F G
Заголовки
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Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведенных утверждений A7-A14 соответствуют содержанию текста (1 - True), какие не соответствуют (2 - False) и о чем в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 - Not stated).
It happened to me last week. I was sitting in a restaurant with three Italian colleagues. The conversation was lively, but as so often, much of it was conducted on the cellphone, with each guest around the table talking on the telefonino as opposed to each other. I watched as Gianni dexterously held a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette and the cellphone in the other. He chatted away in a boisterous tone, laughing for public consumption but without letting the smoke get into his eyes. Giorgio took the conspiratorial approach. He was crouched over, his face barely visible, whispering revelations into his slimline model. Antonio, I was convinced, was speaking to me. He muttered something into his hand, when I realised that he was not speaking to me at all, but to the tiniest, most elegant, wafer-thin, foldable, After Eight' sized telefonino that Italy has to offer. It dawned on me that I was I being completely ignored. There was only one thing for it. I grabbed my cellphone, a bulky old model: the telephone equivalent of a blunderbuss. When it rings, which is very rarely, it emits a rattling noise as opposed to the subtle chortle of a nightingale that is now de rigueur. I was going to ring the office to check if there were any messages, an entirely futile task designed solely to save face. I dialled the number and waited. The others were engrossed in their own conversations. And then it happened. My cellphone emitted a loud bleating noise. The others all looked up. I looked down at my phone and to my horror discovered the letters BLOC TOT had appeared on the digital panel. This is short for blocco totale, total block. It could mean any number of things: the user has not paid his bill, or the telephone company has put a block on all calls - a disciplinary measure for unreliable payers. Whatever the
reason, the blocco totale means rustication from the Elysium of telefonino users -social death. It also means spending a day at the Great Inquisition, the SIP telephone headquarters in the north east of the capital just behind the Vatican.
It is a cruel twist of the Italian mobile phone system that serious problems cannot be ironed out on the phone. You have to turn up in person. The waiting room of the Great Inquisition was full of crestfallen sinners, cradling their telefonini. I had been given number 187 in the queue. After one hour the small piece of paper showing my number had been torn to shreds, so nervous was I about the impending interview. Those before me got up wearily as if dragging a ball and chain and disappeared into one of the five cubicles that lined the wall. The bell rang and number 186 flashed up on the screen. I would be next. My stomach muscles tightened. I could taste the bile of anxiety. I clutched my telefonino even tighter and braced myself for the hot coals of booth number four.
Without looking at me the man behind the desk barked, 'Your number!' I blurted out the seven digits. He typed them into a computer terminal. Out of the corner of my eye. I could see my personal details flash up on the screen. My date of birth, my address, my profession. What else did they know? I felt naked, vulnerable, crushed by the State's omniscient apparatus. The man, who was wearing a grey short-sleeved shirt with razor-sharp pleats, looked at me without even blinking. He said, 'I'm sorry, we must have made a mistake on the last digit. Everything seems to be in order. We will lift the block on your phone immediately.' I did not know whether to feel relieved or enraged by this game of bureaucratic Russian roulette, which I had survived. I left the headquarters of SIP a free but abused man. The letters BLOC TOT had disappeared from my telefonino. I had regained my place in society.
A7. The writer said that one of his Italian colleagues in the restaurant was hatching a conspiracy while on the phone.
1) True
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2) False
3) Not stated
A8. The writer decided to use his own mobile phone because he realized that nobody was paying attention to him.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A9. The writer was shocked to see the message on his phone because it meant he was now friendless.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A10. The writer felt angry because he couldn't solve problems with his mobile over the phone.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A11. The writer was nervous because he hadn't paid his bill.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A12. The writer felt naked and vulnerable because the telephone headquarters knew his personal details.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A13. The writer met his colleague in the queue.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A14. As the writer left the headquarters of SIP he was filled with fury mingled with relief.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
Keys: B2
A10. Not stated A11. False A12. True A13. Not stated A14. True
Литература
1. Cunningham S, Moor P. New Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate. - Лонгман, 2009.
2. Alexander L.G. Developing Skills. Интенсивный курс для знающих английский язык на среднем уровне: Учеб. - М.: ТК Велби, изд-во «Проспект», 2004.
Е.Д. Федорова, Д.Р. Газиева
Сведения об авторах: Федорова Елена Дмитриевна, старший преподаватель кафедры западноевропейских языков и переводоведения МГПУ;
E-mail: sssamanta@rambler.ru Газиева Диана Рустамовна, преподаватель английского языка ГБОУ Центр образования № 1699, магистрант кафедры западноевропейских языков и пере-водоведения МГПУ.
E-mail: diana-gazieva@mail.ru
Ключевые слова: подготовка к ГИА, чтение, лексико-грамматическое задание.
A B C D E F G
8 4 7 5 3 6 1
A7. True A8. True A9. False
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