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Test 12

Страна/страны изучаемого языка и родная страна.

Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)

A rich football fan

Women’s voice in poetry

Imitating the great

Keeping a foreign example

Famous Russian sports model

Trouble provoking leader

Notoriously famous

Equal to the world’s masters

The poetry of Anna Akhmatova can be called “the book of woman’s soul”. At the turn of the centuries – 19th and 20th, on the edge of the great revolution, in the epoch having two world wars, there appeared, formed and developed perhaps the most significant female poetry in the history of the new time. Do we really need to distinguish between “male” and “female” poetry? Of course the great poetry is all-human, but it will hardly be possible to understand Akhmatova’s work not taking into consideration its female character. And the main explanation of it is in the world and Russian history itself – it was for the very first time that a woman had a poetic voice of such strength. “I taught women to speak”, – noticed Akhmatova in one of her epigrams.

There is no doubt that practically every person in the entire world knows Tchaikovsky as one of the most famous composers of all time. He is a real genius and ranked among such unsurpassable masters as Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. And yet, he didn’t have an easy life. Few people know about his searches, failures and success, his delight and his despair. If you are in Russia you’ll probably be visiting one of his beautiful and striking ballets or operas – Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping beauty, Eugene Onegin, or Queen of Spades listening to which is great pleasure and experience of a lifetime.

Valentin Serov was considered to be the greatest portraitist of his time. He has been extremely revered both in Russia and abroad. Serov continued the traditions of late nineteenth-century realist portraiture influenced by late Impressionism. While creating his early works that resemble Renoir in a way, he did not know about the existence of the new trend called Impressionism. Serov painted a brilliant gallery of portraits that are among the most treasured exhibits in the Russian Museum in St Petersburg and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Roman Abramovich is a Russian multi-billionaire who owns the private investment company Millhouse LLC. Born in Soviet Russia and orphaned at the age of two, he was raised by an uncle and his family in Ukhta, N Russia. While still a student he set up a small company producing plastic toys, and its success enabled him to found an oil company later the fourth biggest in the world. Roman was elected twice to the Russian parliament representing Chukotka. Among his many homes is a country estate in Sussex, and he has become a familiar face in England since his acquisition of Chelsea Football Club in 2003.

Catherine II, often called Catherine the Great, the Russian empress under whose reign Russia expanded its territories and was modernized following the example of Western Europe. Catherine started out as a minor German princess. She grew up in Stettin in a small principality called Anhalt-Zebst. Her father, Christian August, was a prince of this tiny dominion, but he gained more fame for his military career. He served as a general for Frederick William I of Prussia. Catherine II’s mother, had little interest in her daughter.

Anna Kournikova is a Russian professional tennis player. She was competing in the juniors since 9. She subsequently won several international junior tennis tournaments and was declared the Junior European Champion and Junior World Champion in 1995. In 1999, she won two Grand Slam doubles titles with a partner. However, she was soon ranking quite low in tournaments. Despite her losing record, her fame grew thanks to her modeling career and personal life.

Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953. In a 1956 “secret speech,” he discussed Stalin’s crimes for the first time, starting a process called ‘de-Stalinization.’ He also visited the West, putting a smiling face on his brand of ‘Reformed Communism.’ But he is more famous for provoking the Cuban Missile Crisis and his frightening speech in the white House.

Тексты

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B

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D

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G

Заголовки

Peter the Great

Born in Moscow, Russia on June 9, 1672, Peter the Great was a Russian czar in the late 17th

Restoring a Red Square Icon


BBC Moscow correspondent

Ever since it was built by Ivan the Terrible, St Basil’s Cathedral with its host of multi-coloured domes has been one of the most recognizable buildings in all of Russia. Today it is covered with green dust-netting. Builders shout to each other, as they winch materials to the top of one of St Basil’s towers. “It's like a visual icon of Red Square. I think it’s beautiful,” says an American tourist gazing up at the building.

A three-year restoration project on the cathedral’s exterior is just coming to an end. But inside, the walls – built over 400 years ago – are slowly cracking. There are fears Russia is in danger of losing its most famous landmark. If you walk up the dark and narrow staircase in the centre of St Basil’s, you emerge in one of the nine separate chapels inside the building. The walls are covered in old paintings and frescoes. But long cracks run through the brickwork. A report commissioned by the Russian Government has said the cathedral is slowly sinking into the ground and cracking apart. It warns St Basil’s could fall into ruin if its foundations are not strengthened.

The earth under the cathedral is more solid in some places than others. As a result the cathedral has settled unevenly over the years. So that’s why there are these cracks.

The use of Red Square for huge public events has also helped weaken St Basil’s foundations. During the Soviet years massive military parades were held here. Squadrons of tanks and missiles launchers would grind their way past the cathedral. In more recent years it has been used as the venue for rock concerts by the likes of Paul McCartney.

“When tanks used to cross Red Square we could feel everything shake,” says Igor Mitichkin, the man responsible for the upkeep of all the monuments around the Kremlin.

“Thank God there aren’t tanks any more. Gun salutes don’t really have any effect on the buildings. But rock concerts, if they are too loud, they do.”

Right across the road from St Basil’s is Number Five, Red Square. It is a long cream-coloured building with a green tiled roof, and a commanding view of the cathedral and the Kremlin.

There are plans to turn it into a giant hotel complex with an underground car park big enough for 600 vehicles.

The cathedral’s curator, Lybov Uspenskaya, says she has not been consulted about the plans for the hotel so has no way of knowing if they might further undermine St Basil’s.

“Nobody has showed us any plans for the development. As for who’s in charge of it, they have nothing to do with us. We don’t even know which authorities are handling the project.”

Mrs Uspenskaya is not going to question the new development. It is not her place to do so she says. Instead she will wait and then fix any new damage that is done to cathedral.

But she insists St Basil’s will still be standing as a symbol of Russia for centuries to come.

A 7         St Basil’s Cathedral was built during the reign of Ivan the Great.

        1) True                2) False                 3) Not stated

A 8        The building of St Basil’s Cathedral is the most recognizable Russian construction.        

        1) True                2) False                 3) Not stated

A 9        Now St Basil’s Cathedral is being rebuilt.

        1) True                2) False                 3) Not stated

A 10        All visitors of Red Square admire the beauty of St Basil’s Cathedral.

        1) True                2) False                 3) Not stated

        

A 11        The basement of St Basil’s Cathedral need fixing.

        1) True                2) False                 3) Not stated

A 12        The basement of St Basil’s Cathedral is not evenly grounded unfortunately.

        1) True                2) False                 3) Not stated

A 13        Military parades have lead to cracks all over the inside walls of the cathedral.

        1) True                2) False                 3) Not stated

A 14         Rock concerts do not do any harm to the building.

        1) True                2) False                 3) Not stated

Раздел 3. (задания по грамматике и лексике)


В4


В5


B6

В7




В8




B9

В10


B11


B12

Where Are They Now: Life After Olympic Gold

________ celebrated Olympic champions from decades past wrote sports history, but what are they up to now? Here’s the _______ on some of the greatest.

Mary Lou Retton, Gold Medalist in Gymnastics (1984 Los Angeles Games), continues to encourage _______ as a motivational speaker and active member of the _______ Miracle Network. As founder of Mary Lou’s Weigh, Retton spreads the message of healthy weight loss and a balanced nutrition with a reinvented bathroom scale  o ne that never ________ the starting weight.

Gail Devers, Gold Medalist in 100 meters, 4x100 meters (1992 Barcelona Games, 1996 Atlanta Games), also famous for her outrageously painted fingernails. In 2007, Devers _______ from the sport and now stays fit by _______ tag with her two daughters in the backyard of her Atlanta home. She regularly volunteers at the local elementary school (her husband _______ her “Ms. PTA”) and gives motivational speeches. As for her fingernails, they _____ short for practicality’s sake.


THIS


LATE


OTHER

CHILDREN




SHOW




RETIRE

PLAY


DUB


CUT


В13

В14




В15


В16


В17





В18

Asimov, Isaac (1920–1992) – a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, was a ______ successful writer best ________ for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. Asimov’s most famous work is the _______ Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same _______ universe. Asimov was born in Petrovichi (Smolensk Oblast, Russia) into a ________ family of millers. His family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old. Around the age of eleven he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, having discovered science fiction fandom, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. Asimov attended New York City Public Schools and went to Columbia _________, from which he graduated in 1939, returning after WW II to earn a PhD in biochemistry in 1948.


HIGH

KNOW




FOUND


FICTION


JEW





UNIVERSE

Раздел 4 (задания по письму)

You have 30 minutes to do this task.

You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Karen.

White a letter to him and answer his 3 questions.

Write 100–120 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.

Ключи

Раздел 2

Задание В3

7 – extra

Тексты

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B

C

D

E

F

G

Заголовки

2

8

3

1

4

5

6

Задание А7–А14

A7 –2; A8 – 1; A9 – 2; A10 – 3; A 11 – 1; A12 – 1; A13 – 1; A14 – 2.

Раздел 3

Задание В4–В12

B4 – These; B5 – latest; B6 – others; B7 - Children’s; B8 – shows; B9 – retired; B10 – playing; B11– dubbed; B12 – ’ve been cut.

Задания В13В18

B13 – highly; B14 – known; B15 – Foundation; B16 – fictional; B17 – Jewish; B18 – University.

Раздел 4

Задание С1

Dear Karen,

It’s nice to receive a fresh letter from you. You’ve been silent for quite a long time. Busy, I guess, like all of us. Reading stories about celebrities is a very good way of having a rest from the routine of the day. You sit and imagine you are one of them living in some luxurious place, wearing fashionable clothes, dining out in exquisite restaurants. It really helps to forget about everyday problems but you should never overdo. Remember that celebrities work a lot and follow this pattern.

As for the party you are going to have, I think, you should invite those who have the same interests and can keep a good conversation. Five or six people will be enough for the first time. Start making your party with a plan of entertaining your quests not to be bored during the evening.

See you soon,

Marcus.

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.

В3

Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений А7–А14 соответствуют содержанию текста (1 – True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основания текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Not stated).

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами. В4–В12 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию В4–В12.

Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами В13-В18 так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию В13-В18.

Для ответа на задание С1 используйте бланк №2.

При выполнении задания С1 особое внимание обратите на то, что ваши ответы будут оцениваться только по записям, сделанным на бланке №2. Никакие записи черновика не будут учитываться экспертом. Обратите внимание также на необходимость соблюдения указанного объёма письма. Письма недостаточного объёма, а также часть текста письма, превышающая требуемый объём – не оцениваются.

С1

…I like magazine stories about celebrities and always read them…

        I’d like to make a party at the weekend. What shall I start with? Shall I keep my parents at home? How many guests shall I invite?


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