Тест по английскому языку, УМК Millennium, 11 класс, Unit IV
тест по английскому языку (11 класс) на тему

ENGLISH-11                                                                                                                         UNIT 4

TEST

1. Прослушайте текст о городских легендах и кратко ответьте на данные вопросы. Вы услышите текст два раза.

1) Where can people read urban legends?

2) Are urban stories always true?

3) What country hosted America's Cup yacht race in 1987?

4) How much cash had been stolen by the kangaroo?

5) In 1997 Japanese fishermen faced a storm, didn't they?

6) What part of Russia was the airbase situated in?

7) How many "bug bombs" did the woman buy?

8) Should "bug bombs" be used indoors or outdoors?

2. Соотнесите две части предложений.

3. Прочитайте краткие рецензии на три книги ("Сто лет одиночества", "Дом духов" и "Алхимик") и соотнесите пропуски 1 - 9 и части предложений A - J. Одна часть в списке лишняя.

1. One hundred years of solitude by the Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Márquez is the novel that made magical realism popular around the world. It tells the story of seven generations of the Buendia family, 1) _____. This small area is a place where supernatural happenings are part of everyday life - at one point everyone living in the village suffers from both insomnia and amnesia. Many characters also have magical qualities. One man, 2) _____, is always followed by hundreds of butterflies, and people who die early in the story often return as ghosts.

The book has dozens of characters, 3) _____, but a family tree helps you work out who's related to who. This brilliant novel, which Marquez says is based on his childhood memories of living with his grandparents, has sold over ten million copies worldwide.

2. The house of the spirits was the first novel written by the Chilean author Isabel Allende. It tells the story of three generations of women whose lives are changed by their country's politics. The women's story, 4) _____, begins when the granddaughter, Alba Trueba, finds some diaries that her grandmother Clara wrote 50 years earlier.

As a child Clara realises she can see the future and is able to predict almost every event in her life. She marries a powerful landowner named Esteban Trueba, 5) _____. The house is full of ghosts and spirits, which advise Clara on how to deal with family problems. The story takes place at a time when political groups are battling for control of the country - a fight 6) _____. This famous novel, which began as a letter to the author's dying grandfather, is considered a classic of the magical realism genre.

3. The Alchemist by the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho is a story about following your dream. It's about a boy named Santiago, who travels from his home in Spain to Egypt hoping to find some treasure that is buried near the Pyramids. He meets many people 7) _____, but nobody knows where the treasure is hidden. However, Santiago eventually meets the famous Alchemist, the only man alive who can turn lead into gold.

Finally, the time comes and Santiago realises 8) _____ can only be found within himself.

This powerful tale, which has been translated into 61 languages, has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Its success helped Paulo Coelho, 9) _____, to become the best-selling Brazilian author that has ever lived.

A) which takes place in an unnamed South American country

B) who are travelling along the same road

C) whose girlfriend is "the most beautiful girl ever born"

D) that has never been true

E) who builds her a large house in the country

F) who live in an isolated South American village called Macondo

G) that the treasure he's been looking for

H) whose other books include the Fifth Mountain and The Valkyries

I) which can make the plot difficult to follow

J) that ends in a bloody civil conflict and political chaos

4. Соотнесите слово и его значение.

5. Выберите подходящий вариант для заполнения пропусков.

Strange service

I like to kill several birds with one rock. So one day as I filled my car up with 1) ____ gas and got my usual cup of coffee, I thought that I 2) ___ get a needed Birthday Card as well. The blonde at 3) ___ cash register asked me who 4) ___ going to get the Birthday Card. I told her just as I had taken the one I wanted to give my friend. The blonde came over and wanted to see the card I 5) ___ picked out. She told me I needed a better one so she started going through cards determined to pick out a better one for me. She didn't pay any attention to the fact I was in a hurry and liked the card I had 6) _____ before. I thought I was going to have to check myself out just to get out of the store. I heard that she 7) ___ fired soon afterwards. In her words she probably found 8) ___ better job just like she did with my card.

1) a) a                         b) an                         c) the                 d) -

2) a) will                         b) would                 c) do                         d) did

3) a) the                         b) a                         c) an                         d) -

4) a) were                         b) was                 c) is                         d) been

5) a) have                         b) did                 c) had                 d) -

6) a) chosen                 b) choosing         c) choosed                 d) chooses

7) a) was to                 b) been                 c) had been         d) was being

8) a) a                         b) -                         c) an                         d) the

ENGLISH-11                                                                                                              UNIT 4

TEST

Текст для аудирования

Urban legends

Urban legends are funny, surprising or scary stories that are told again and again, often by people saying that they happened to "a friend of a friend". These days they're often passed on by e-mail and collected together on websites. Most urban legends are stories that people have made up, but not always. A few turn out to be completely true, and others are based on actual events, but have been changed to make them sound more interesting or shocking. For example, have you heard the one about the dead kangaroo, the falling cow or the exploding house?

The dead kangaroo

In 1987 the worlds best sailors were competing in the America's Cup yacht race off the coast of Fremantle, in Western Australia. One day, one of the sailors went for a drive and accidentally ran over a kangaroo. The sailor got out and leaned the dead kangaroo against the side of the car. Then he decided to put his America's Cup team jacket on the animal and take a few pictures to show his friends. However, it turned out that the accident hadn't killed the animal, it had only knocked it out. While the sailor was taking some photos, the kangaroo came round. Realising that something was wrong, the animal immediately ran away - taking the sailor's jacket, his passport, three credit cards and 1 000 dollars in cash with it.

The falling cow

In 1997 the crew of a Japanese fishing boat were rescued after their boat had sunk in very unusual circumstances. According to the fishermen, the boat had been sailing in calm waters when a cow fell from the sky and crashed through the boat. Unfortunately, the police thought the crew had made the whole story up and arrested them. They remained in prison while the police tried to work out why the boat had sunk. Eventually, the pilot of a Russian transport plane told the police what had happened. Before they took off from their Siberian airbase, the plane's crew had stolen some cows from a nearby field. While they were flying at 25 000 feet, one cow broke free and started running around inside the plane. The crew managed to push it out of the door and into the sea - or so they thought.

The exploding house

A woman from California had been trying to get rid of all the bugs in her home for years, but without success. Then, in December 2001, she bought nineteen "bug bombs", which are designed to spread insecticide over a wide area. She put all the bug bombs in her house, but unfortunately she hadn't read the instructions, which warned that no more than one bomb should be used at any one time, and they should never be used indoors. All bug bombs went off at the same time, completely destroying the building and causing over $150 000 worth of damage. A number of bugs were also hurt.

ОТВЕТЫ И БАЛЛЫ

1.

1) Websites.

2) No, they aren't.

3) Australia.

4) $ 1 000 (one thousand dollars).

5) No, they didn't.

6) Siberia.

7) 19 (nineteen).

8) Outdoors.

Каждый верный ответ – 1 балл. Всего – 8 баллов.

2.

Каждый верный ответ – 1 балл. Всего – 5 баллов.

3.

Каждый верный ответ – 1 балл. Всего – 9 баллов.

4.

Каждый верный ответ – 1 балл. Всего – 8 баллов.

5.

Каждый верный ответ – 1 балл. Всего – 8 баллов.

ИТОГО: 38 баллов

Перевод баллов в оценку:

34 - 38 баллов – “5”

24 - 33 балла – “4”

15 - 23 балла – “3”

менее 15 баллов – “2”