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тест по английскому языку (11 класс) по теме

Progress check, 1

1.Guess the person who does work to improve bad social conditions and help people in need.

  a)  a social worker          c) a mechanic

  b) a journalist                 d) a computer operator

2. Choose the appropriate word.

For my boss home exists only in his ______.

a) imagine        c) imagination

b) imaginary        d) imaginable

3.Choose the correct form of the verb.

Next year all the school-leaving exams ______ by the end of June.

a) will be taken        c) will have taken

b) will take        d) will have been taken

4. Give the definition of the word “responsible”.
 a) well-informed

 b) pleased and happy

 c) difficult and complex

 d) having a duty to be in charge of doing something

5.Make the right word combinations.

1) dead-end                           a) skills

2) interpersonal                       b) estimate

3) rough                                        c) person

4) self-confident                         d) job

6. Fill in the gaps with the correct words.

Career choice

Making a career choice is one of the most difficult and most important decisions we will ever make in our lives. It has to be made with much_____ (1) and deliberation. Moreover, career choices cannot be made based on just a few criteria alone. Your job may carry great monetary benefits and perks, but if you do not enjoy what you do then you are_____ (2) wasting a large part of your life. At the same time, remember that money is also important for you need it to survive. So, if a job is all____ (3) but no pay, things can get difficult.

Before you start choosing a perfect career, you need to know yourself first. But sometimes all this self-analysis leads to ___(4) . We end up more____ (5) than we

were at the beginning. Then, the best way to deal with the dilemma is to think

about _______ (6) a career counselor.

A career development professional will use various tools to help you evaluate

your interests, personality, _______ (7) and values. He or she will then show you how all these things, combined, play a role in choosing a career. You can also learn about

a career by interviewing people who are already in that profession.

1. a) think              b) thought      c) thinking       d) thinkable
2. a) fool               b) foolish        c) foolishly       d) fooling
3. a) satisfaction    b) satisfy        c) satisfying     d) satisfied
4. a) somewhere    b) anywhere   c) where          d) nowhere
5. a) confusion      b) confused     c) confusing    d) confusable
6. a) consulting     b) consult        c) consulted     d) consultive
7. a) skillful          b) skilled         c) skills            d) unskilled

7. Open the brackets and fill in the appropriate form of the words.

1)        This job is not well paid but it is quite_______ (satisfaction).

2)        Does your friend have any unusual_______ (ambitious)?

8. Write the three most important personal qualities and the three most important

professional qualities or skills for each job.

a) I think that a pilot should be very responsible, ______, _____, _____.

b) Besides, it is important for him to be able to solve problems, _____, _____, ____.

Progress check, 2

1.  Guess the person who repairs the pipes in the bathroom.

a) a physician        c) a plumber

b) a surgeon          d)  a school teacher

2. Choose the appropriate word.    

My relatives were very ... when I made a career.
a) support                   c) supported

b) supportive              d) supportable

3. Choose the correct form of the verb.

They ... their school certificates by next Friday.

a) will be given

b) will give

c) will have given

d) will have been given

4. Give the definition of the word “challenging”.

a) dull and tiresome

b) making you feel happy and satisfied

c) irritating and often overwhelming

d) difficult in an interesting or enjoyable way

5. Make the right word combinations.

    1) full-time                 a. person

    2) self-employed        b. profession

    3) engineering            c. job

    4) be out of                

6. Open the brackets and fill in the appropriate form of the words.

1)        This job is not well paid but it is quite_______ (satisfaction).

2)        Does your friend have any unusual_______ (ambitious)?

7. Fill in the gaps with the correct words.

Career choice

When school is over, young people need to make a choice of what they want to do further. Our grandparents  often say that life used to be safer and less_____(1) when they were young. That may be true, but I think that our generation have more opportunities than they had. We have a wider career choice and we can shape our life ______ (2) our inclinations and abilities. I'm sure that there are no good or bad jobs but there are right and wrong ones for every particular person. One and the same job could be very______(3) and enjoyable for one person and absolutely inappropriate for another one. It's also natural that different people have different job_____ (4). Some of us seek a prestigious job, some look______(5) a well-paid job, and some people want to work freelance and don't care about money or______        (6) — they just want to be their own bosses and plan their own days. Distance jobs are gaining popularity for the same reasons. You see that we can choose not only the industry we want to devote_____(7) to, but the format of the job too.

1. a) complicated        b) comfortable        c) communicative            d) competent
2. a) because of         b) due to                   c) according to                 d) in spite of
3. a) refreshing          b) retraining             c) relaxing                       d) rewarding
4. a) preferences        b) benefits                c) opportunities               d) responsibilities
5. a) at                       b) after                     c) for                                d) forward
6. a) salary                b) payment               c) costs                             d) prestige
7. a) ourselves          b) yourselves            c) us                                  d) yours

8. Write the three most important personal qualities and the three most important professional qualities or skills for each job.

a) I think that a businessman should be very responsible, ______, _____, _____.

b) Besides, it is important for him to be able to solve problems, ______, _____, ____.