Контрольно- измерительные материалы по английскому языку

TESY YOURSELF

I. READING 1.Сопоставьте характеристики транспорта с его названием. Один вид транспорта – лишний. Внесите ответы в таблицу

1.- Car 2.- Bike 3.- Underground 4.-Taxi 5.-Walking 6.-Bus

A. These are reasonable in price, the drivers always know the fastest routes and you'll have a very comfortable journey.

B. This is a very efficient way of getting around London. You won't see much of the city but you will get to your destination quickly. There are nearly 300 stations, so you’ ll usually find one close by.

C. For people with time and energy, this is the best way of traveling short distances. You'll be able to stop and look at anything that interests you and it'll give you a sense of the 'atmosphere' of London.

D. The traffic is sometimes slow but you' II get a good view of the city, especially if you sit on the top deck. This is one of the fastest ways of traveling across central London, but you'll have to be careful. You can hire one from the local firms.

E. Traffic congestion in central London is a problem, so your journey will probably be very slow, and parking can be difficult.

2. Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений А5—А8 соответствуют содержанию текста (1 — True ), какие не соответствуют (2— False) ио чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 — Not stated).

Dame Agatha Christie (1890—1976), the famous En­glish 'Queen of Crime', creator of world-known detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, was born in En­gland on 15 September1890. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was the youngest of the three children. Her father died when Agatha was just ten years old. She received no for­mal education, her mother and then governesses taught her at home to read before she entered and finished school in Paris in 1906. Encouraged at an early age by her moth­er to write, Agatha started writing her first stories.
On 24 December 1914, she married a pilot Archie Christie, with whom she had a daughter, Rosalind. Dur­ing World War I Agatha worked as a nurse. She got a great deal of knowledge about illnesses and poisons such as strychnine. So while she was writing her detective sto­ries she could easily describe all the symptoms of this or that illness. Her first novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", where she used some of her knowledge, was an immediate bestseller. In 1926, the year of the death of her mother, Agatha Christie created some mystery of her own, disappearing for a time; when she was found she said that she didn't remember where she had been. Unfortu­nately, in 1928 Archie divorced Agatha.
She then travelled to the Middle East, Baghdad and Iraq. There she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan. They got married in Scotland in 1930. She often accompanied him in his expeditions to the Middle East. In 1974 Agatha Christie appeared for the last time in public for her play "Murder on the Orient Ex­press". When she was not travelling the world, her and Max's home in England was in the town of Wallingford, Ox­fordshire, where she died peacefully on 12 January 1976.

A7. Agatha's mother was against her daughter's first attempts in writing. 1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

A8. Working as a nurse helped Agatha in writing her detective stories. 1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

A9. Agatha's first detective novel was a success. 1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

A10. Agatha had visited all European countries. l)True 2) False 3) Not state

3.Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски вариантами a - f. Ответы внесите в таблицу в листе ответов. The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty is one of the most famous monuments in America. 1 (…) It was given to the American people by the French in the nineteenth century. It was designed by Gustav Eiffel. 2 (…).

3 (…) Then they were put together – like a giant puzzle. After that, the statue was taken to pieces again. The pieces were packed into 210 boxes, and the boxes were transported across the Atlantic ocean. 4 (…).

Although Eiffel designed the whole construction, Frederic Bartholdi made the famous model. It shows a woman. 5 (…). A staircase was built inside the statue and a door was put in the right foot. Visitors are allowed to climb from the foot to the head and then they can look out over New York Harbour.

Since it was built, the Statue of Liberty has been visited and photographed by millions of people. 6 (…).

a)      It will certainly be visited by many, many more in the future.
b)     Finally, the pieces were put together again.
c)      He was the man who later designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
d)     However, it was actually built in France.
e)      She was a copy of his mother.
f)       First, thousands of metal pieces were made.

II. GRAMMAR
4. Put in "the" where necessary.

1. We live on the ... Earth. 

2. At night I like to watch stars in ... sky. 

3. Many people dream about traveling in ... space. 

4. ... Russia is situ­ated in ... Europe and ... Asia. 

5. There are 50 states in ... USA. 

6. He is going to see ... Alps. 

7. ... Volga flows into ... Caspian Sea. 

8. The water in ... Lake Baikal is the purest in ... world. 

9. Which is higher: .. .Everest or ... Elbrus? 

10....London is the capital of...Great Britain.

5. Open the brackets using Past Continuous or Past Simple.

1. When I (come) home, my mother (cook) dinner. 

2. Yesterday at 2 o'clock I (prepare) for my English test. 

3. What... you (do) when it (be­gin) raining? 

4. He (buy) this car last month. 

6. Put in "For" or 'Since".

1.I haven't heard anything about him ... childhood. 

2. We have been writing the test... already 20 minutes. 

3. They have known each other ... a long time. 

4. We have been working in the garden ... early morning. 

7. Open the brackets using Past Perfect or Past Simple.

1. Helen (do) it by 10 o'clock yesterday. 

2. She (translate) the article before the film (begin). 
3.I (see) him yesterday. 

4.1 (see) him before the accident (happen).