Al The man is waiting for his bus for 15 minutes.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

A2 It is raining.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

A3 The man is a perfect stranger to the woman.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

A4 The man and the woman are waiting for the same bus.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

А5 All the buses are overcrowded.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

A6 The woman hates travelling during rush hours.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

А7 All the seats in the bus are full.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

 

Вы услышите интервью с известной писательни­цей. В заданиях А8—А14обведите цифру1, 2 или 3, соответствующую номеру выбранного вами вари­анта ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

 

A8 The Gomez family emigrated to the USA because

1) Mr. and Mrs. Gomez were unemployed in Nicaragua.

2) they had the political trouble in their country.

3) their lives were in danger in Nicaragua.

A9 Steve's parents came to the USA

1) when he was only a little boy.

2) when his sister Diane was 11 years old.

3) when he was 14.

А10 Mrs. Gomez can't speak English fluently that's why

1) she has no work in the USA.

2) studies in a special school.

3) doesn't want to move to another district of San Francisco.

A11 Steve's father works

1) as a secretary in a Mexican company.

2) as an architect in a firm.

3) as a bus driver.

A12 The Gomez family prefers

1) American food to Spanish.

2) to celebrate Mexican holidays.

3) to watch American TV channels.

A13 Steve's mother

1) often cooks Spanish food.

2) can cook nothing.

3) has no time to cook at home.

A14 The boys' club is organized

1) to attract boys' attention to religion.

2) keep the boys off the street gangs.

3) to teach them English.

 

По окончании выполнения заданий В1и А1—А14НЕ ЗАБУДЬТЕ ПЕРЕНЕСТИ СВОИ ОТВЕТЫ В БЛАНК ОТВЕТОВ №1! ОБРАТИТЕ ВНИМАНИЕ, что ответы на задания В1, А1—А14располагаются в разных час­тях бланка. В1 расположено в нижней части бланка. При переносе ответов в задании В1буквы записы­ваются без пробелов и знаков препинания.

 

Раздел 2 Чтение

В2

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. A dangerous creature

B. Are traditional postal services effective?

C. The first steps of postal service

D. Treating body through feet and hands

E. A dangerous underwater sport

F. Complementary medicine

G. New technologies in education

H. Underwater swimming

 

1 Traditional Chinese medicine has been practised for around 3,000 years in the Far East. But in recent years alternative medicine has become very popular in the West. It seems that people have begun to worry about the side effects of drugs and choose such treatments as yoga, reflexology, homeopathy and acupuncture to complement, or sometimes even replace, Western medicine.

2 Reflexology is a form of therapy in alternative medicine which is massaging of feet and hands based on the research into the nervous system and reflex. Feet and hand sensors communicate with body organs. It is possible to influence their health by pressing certain points.

3 Humans always needed to keep in touch and to exchange information. When writing was not invented yet people carried oral messages from one person to another.

In writing it became much easier. But not reliably enough. The first people who created and organised the system of mail delivery were the Romans.

4 Airmail made sending letters to most parts of the world easy, quick and cheap. Nevertheless, new technology of the 20th century gave the world an alternative way of communication through fax machines or the Internet sending e-mails. So, traditional postal services are becoming less popular. Because of its slow speed compared to an e-mail or a text message many people now call traditional post "snail mail".

5 Humans have always wanted to fly. Their desire to swim under the water was not weaker. Primitive devices that allowed people to breath under water date from 3,000 years ago. But only a little more than half a century ago French diving legend Jacques Cousteau developed the first practical Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA). Since then interest to the sport of scuba diving is growing only stronger.

6 There is a blue-ringed octopus on Australian coasts, an octopus tiny enough to be hiding in a can of drink. Though little and harmless it may seem, it is the most dangerous lethal octopus in the world. Its venom includes a component found in no other creature. His mouth contains enough venom to kill at least twenty men.

7 On line education has revolutionized the education industry. The computer technology has made the dream of distance learning a reality. Education is no more limited to classrooms. It has reached far thanks to the computer technology. Physically distant locations have come close to each other only due to computer networking.

 

 

В3

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 1—6 час­тями предложений, обозначенными буквами А—G. Одна из частей в списке А—G лишняя. Занесите букву, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

 

The popularity of eco-tourism or ecological tourism is increasing every year 1 ____________ _____________________________________________________________________________.Most commonly it is understood as "a kind of tourism operating in an environmentally friendly fashion".

Mass tourism has often harmed natural habitats and caused pollution of remote places like the Himalayas, 2 ____________________________________________________________. And thinking of where resources are coming from and where wastes are going is at the heart of the idea of eco-tourism.

More and more people live in towns and cities and they want to experience wild spaces and species, so, 3 ______________________________________________________________. The draw for people is often the natural environment — seeing giraffes, elephants in Kenya or South Africa, walking through the forests of Costa Rica, diving among the corals of Australia's Great Barrier Reef or the Red Sea.

Being a real eco-tourist means being responsible for the environment of the place you travel to, protecting nature and trying not to damage or remove endangered plants or animals, learning new ways to live on the planet and thinking about our impact: as guests, 4 __________________ _______________________________________________________________________. A walk through the rainforest is not eco-tourism if that particular walk is taken at the expense of the natural world or of 5 _____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________.

In Russia there are also places 6 _________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________. People travel through the wilderness of Siberia, enjoy beautiful views of unspoiled taiga forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and mineral springs.

 

A. where litter just doesn't biodegrade

B. the people who already live there

C. we shouldn't do anything we wouldn't do at home

D. but not everybody knows what this term really means

E. within nations there are tourism bureaus in states, provinces, and cities

F. that you can visit being an eco-tourist

G. one in every 10 tourists is already an eco-tourist

 

 

Прочитайте отрывок из рассказа и выполните за­дания А15—А21,обводя цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соот­ветствующую номеру выбранного вами варианта ответа.

 

Johnny was three when he ran away from home for the first time. Somebody left the garden gate open. Johnny wandered out, crossed some fields, and two hours later, arrived in the next village. He was just able to give his name and address.

By the time he was seven, Johnny used to vanish from home two to three times a year. Sometimes he covered quite long distances on foot. On other occasions he got on a bus or even a train, and simply sat there until someone asked for his ticket. Generally the police brought him home. "Why do you do it?" they used to ask. "You aren't happy at home, are you?" "Of course not," Johnny replied. "Then why?" "I just like seeing places," Johnny told them.

Johnny continued "to see places" although everyone tried to stop him. His parents used to watch him closely, and so did the teachers; but sooner or later Johnny managed to slip away. As he grew older, his favourite trick was to hide on a long distance lorry. Sometimes he used to travel hundreds of miles before anyone discovered him.

It is hardly surprising that eventually Johnny managed to get on board a plane. He was twelve at that time. It was a cargo plane and, a few hours later Johnny found himself in Cairo. How did you get on board? No one knows! According to Johnny himself, it was easy: he just went into the airport, walked along some corridors and got on board the nearest plane.

In spite of this, Johnny did well at school. He enjoyed Maths and languages and, perhaps not surprisingly, he was especially good at Geography. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" his teachers asked him. Johnny did not take long to answer that question. "An explorer!" he answered. "But it's difficult to become an explorer in this modern age," they tried to tell him, "unless you go to space!" But it was no use: Johnny knew what he wanted.

Just before he left school, Johnny saw a notice in one of the daily papers. An expedition was about to go to Brazil to travel up the Amazon. There were vacancies for three young people "willing to work hard and with a sense of adventure". Johnny applied... and, two months later, he was on his way to Brazil.