Контрольная работа для 10 класса Unit1
тест по английскому языку (10 класс) на тему

Listen to the interview and complete the following statements.

1. Hobbies in Britain are ____

a) the same as in the other countries                     c) usually shared by a lot of people

b) often exotic                                            d) an inherent feature of life

2. the British tend to work in their gardens ____

a) in all seasons                                                  c) in summer

b) in spring                                            d) in spring and summer

3. Sandra doesn’t have ____

a) a flower garden                                                c) fruit  trees  in her garden

b) a kitchen garden                                       d) grass in her garden

4. Walking as a pastime ____

a) is usually done in organized groups                c) became popular quite a long time ago

b) is always done with the help of maps                  d) became popular in the British countryside

5. Nowadays cycling is ____

a) the most popular pastime in Britain                            c) extremely dangerous in the British countryside

b) one of the popular         pastimes in Britain                d) allowed only on  cycling paths

6. to win in an extreme  ironing  competition one must____

a) find some hard conditions for ironing                       c) do a lot of ironing as compared to the other contestants

b) find the most unusual conditions for ironing         d) do more ironing than the other contestants in hard    conditions

 Listen to the text, and choose the appropriate answers (a-d) to the following questions.

1. Who were the first people to wear glasses?____

a) Europeans                                             c) the Chinese

b) Italians                                            d) there is no evidence as to who did it first

2. What sort of eyeglasses could people buy at the optician in the 19th century?____

a) Only glasses made to individual order                                            

b) Only glasses owned by somebody else before them                                    

c) Glasses recently made and never used by anyone before.

d) Both secondhand and newly made glasses

3. Who used lorgnettes in the 19th century? ____

a) Both men and women                      c) Only women

b) Just men                                    d) Nobody did

4. How did the appearance of cars might influence the popularity of eyeglasses?____

a) Women began to wear them more willingly                                    

b) Men began to wear them while driving                                    

c) Drivers had to wear them as it was compulsory.

d) Drivers had to pay more attention to their eyesight

5. What made a revolution in people’s attitude to glasses after the Second World War?____

a) The fact that people didn’t mind looking funny anymore.                                    

b) The new materials used for making frames.                                    

c) The new materials used for making lenses.

d) The new technology of making lenses

6. How many people in the world wear glasses nowadays?____

a) One sixth of the world population.                                    

b) One fifth of the world population.                                    

c) One fourth of the world population.

d) One third of the world population

Read the text paragraphs (a-g) and put them in a logical order to get the story of a girl’s career.

a) After that I was promoted and became an accountant manager. I stayed in that job for two more years, which makes four altogether. But then I really got bored. I decided to leave and apply for some other job in the area. My mother was ill and I couldn’t move far from her.

b) At the university I studied economics. My ability to count quickly helped me in my studies a lot. Some of my university friends envied me and said I got a computer inside my head. They thought I would be in big business some day. They were mistaken.

c) The new place was not far from the house where I lived which was really convenient. But. alas, I wasn’t very successful working in the restaurant. That wasn’t my kind of thing. As it turned out I was quite clumsy and kept dropping things. In fact I was no waitress at all. So after a few weeks they gave me the sack and I really didn’t know what to do.

d) While at school I was very good at mathematics. It took me practically no time to learn multiplication tables. I could multiply one number by another in my head and didn’t find it difficult. When I had a multiplication to do, I don’t know, almost instantly arrived at the right answer.

e) I don’t know why but I had no luck getting a second job at all. Nobody seemed to need my ‘great’ abilities. Mum’s medicines were rather expensive. Soon we became very short of money. I understood I just had to take any job available. So in the end I started working as a waitress in a restaurant.

f) But then, just by chance, I met an old friend who I was at the university with. He was working at television and he got me a job as a TV researcher on a program called “Business today”. After a few months they decided to change a presenter of the program, they wanted somebody younger. Wee, I got the job – and I love it.

g) It didn’t happen like that at all. After graduation I got a job as an accountant in a local department store. It was not what I wanted but it was my first job. I thought I was lucky to get it so quickly. I worked as an accountant for two years.

Read the text and complete it with the phrases (a-g). there is one phrase you don’t have to use.

a) immediately creates many more

b) which have had attendance problems in the past

c) when the pupils put the cards in the machine

d) stay in prison up to two months

e) very hard to say why they miss school

f) are excluded for violence, criminal behaviour

g) they may be committing crime

 “Why aren’t you at school?” this is a question that many British schoolchildren may hear at some point in their school careers, when they are “playing truant”, “bunking off” or absent without permission.about one million children a year bunk off school. In primary schools the average time missed per absent pupil is over five days in the year.for secondary schools it is 10 days. Why is it such a problem? The evidence shows that truancy is linked to crime and failure at school. When children are out of school (1)____. And they certainly aren’t learning. The government thinks that absenteeism is getting out of control in England, but what can they do to make sure children go to school? Some people think that the answer to this question is electronic registration: this is a chip in a card that the children have to swipe at the beginninh of the school day. (2)____ the school headmaster can see immediately who is in the school and who is absent. Other schools resort to more extreme methods: when pupils don’t turn up, they get expelled. Thousands of children in England (3)___ and truancy. Of course, throwing children out of school solves one problem but (4)___ . Some teachers want corporal or physical punishment brought back into the classroom (it was banned in the 1970s), but the government doesn’t agree. British parents can be even sent to prison for failing to make their children go to school. They may have to (5)___ if they are found guilty. Probably the best way of improving attendance is to make school and the breaks between the lessons more interesting. Some schools (6)___have started lunchtime radio stations, sport, music and a breakfast club with morning TV and aerobics.

                          Use the derivatives of the words on the right to complete the sentences.

1. Meredith, don’t you dare to go to the river alone, it’s(1) _____

2. Mrs. Sanderson scolded the child, but she did it so(2) ____ and her(3) _____  

    was so loving as it always was.

3. The woman sighed under her (4)____

4. That’s fine, “ Kate responded, and forces a smile despite her growing(5) ______

5. The day was(6) ____ but(7) _______. The bright sky was (8)____

6. The kitchen was the hub of the house and the room they used most. There was a massive (9)______ table in the middle a(10) ______ coloured rug on the stone floor.

7. Kate took pride in her home, and this showed in the care and(11) ____ she gave it.

8. Mrs. Wilson sat waiting(12) ____. She watched the girl moving(13)____, bringing plates of sandwiches and scones to the table.

9. The child loved her mother and the(14) ____ was mutual.

10. There was strong(15) ____that she could get a job at the town’s most(16)___ dress shop.

11. As so often happens in England, the warm August afternoon turned into a (17)____ evening.

12. There was a (18)___ for a salesperson in the shop and the(19) ____ told her to come back on Friday to meet the (20)____

Choose the appropriate words (a-d) to complete the text.

I was badly homesick during the whole of my first term at St Peter’s School. So I decided to do something to get myself sent home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop (1)___ acute appendicitis. You will probably think it silly that a nine –year – old boy should imagine he could get (2)___ with a trick like that , but I had good reasons for trying it on. Only a month before my elder half-sister has actually had appendicitis, and for several days before her operation I was able to (3)__ her behaviour. I noticed that the thing she (4)___about most was a severe pain down in the lower right side of her tummy. As well as this, she kept being

Sick and refused to eat and (5)___ a temperature. You might, by the way, be interested to know that my sister has her appendix(6)____ not in a fine hospital operating –room full of bright lights and efficient nurses but on our own nursery table at home by the local doctor and his anesthetist. In those days it was fairly common practice for a doctor to (7)__ at your own house with a bag of instruments, then drape a sterile sheet over the most convenient table and get on with it.

1 .a) an attack b)a battle c) an illness d) a disease

2. a) along b)on c) away d) down

3. a) view b)look c) observe d) experience

4. a) mentioned b)told c) declared d) complained

5. a) ran b)rode c) drove d) went

6. a) returned b)removed c) redone d) revised

7. a) come b)go c) arrive d) travel

Use the prepositions to complete the sentences: about(2), by, in(3), of, on, out of(2), to(3), with

1. Jonathan appeared___ the blue. “is there anything I can do for you?” he asked.

2. Her son and daughter had practically nothing ___common, except their sincere love for their grandmother.

3. I am not familiar____ these papers. Where have you found them?

4. This ring is very precious__me. It has been given to me __my parents.

5. Georgina is not capable ____ deceiving her parents.

6. Further research ___ the topic has not produced any result.

7. Helen was extremely tired and could hardly raise herself ____ the armchair.

8. Where is the key ___ the front door? Has anyone seen it?

9. According___ my estimation we’ll arrive___ Rome in two hours.

10. The child is so shy ____ reciting poems in public.

11. Jane was vain___ her elder daughter: her looks, her success, her ambitions.

12. All my attempts to calm the old lady were___ vain. She was not able to listen to any explanation.