Контроль чтения Spotlight 10 (1 полугодие)
Reading
A mysterious robbery Mr. Fergus Dilger turned up at his toy shop in Fareham, England on Monday morning to find that he had been robbed! Someone had entered the shop at some point between the moment he closed at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, and the time he arrived on Monday morning. The mystery was that there had been money in the shop, and it was still there. The thieves also hadn’t stolen his computer or any of the expensive computer games in the store. The only thing that was missing was about twenty packets of children’s cards. These come from a game with pictures of monsters, which has been incredibly popular since it went on sale last year. Mr. Dilger spoke to me by phone this morning. “If they had stolen something valuable, I would have called the police” he said, “but this is crazy!” Later in the day, the crime was solved by video cameras in the street outside the shop. They had recorded a pair of people about 1½ metres tall climbing through a window at the back of the shop late on Saturday evening. “It seems clear that some children saw the open window and decided to steal the cards for their favourite game” said a police officer this afternoon, after we had contacted them about the events. “But because Mr. Dilger said he wouldn’t complain to us, we haven’t begun an investigation. Nevertheless, we will visit all schools in the local area to remind children that a crime is a crime.” Mr. Dilger told us that his shop would be open throughout the week, as usual.
1. Read the text. Put the events in order 1–7.
A reporter spoke to Mr. Dilger.
The thieves took the cards.
Mr. Dilger left a window open.
Mr. Dilger discovered the crime.
The thieves were filmed.
The children’s card game went on sale.
The police learned about the crime.
2. Read the text again. Are the sentences True or False? If you don’t have enough information, write ‘Not stated’.
1. Mr. Dilger saw how the crime was happening.
2. The thieves took a lot of cash.
3. The cards show hundreds of different monsters
4. Mr. Dilger phoned the police.
5. The crime happened at the weekend.
6. There were two criminals.
7. The police have been visiting lots of schools.
3. Make up your own 5 questions to the text.
Критерии оценивания:
19 -18 =” 5”
15 – 13 = “ 4”
12 – 9 = “3”
8 – 0 = “ 2”
Контроль чтения Spotlight 10 (2 полугодие) Reading
TASK 1
Read the text. Six sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
People often ask which is the most difficult language to learn, and it is not easy to answer 1___________________. A native speaker of Spanish, for example, will find Portuguese much easier to learn than a native speaker of Chinese, because Portuguese is very similar to Spanish, while Chinese is very different, so the first language can affect learning a second language. The greater the differences between the second language and our first one, 2___________________. Many people answer that Chinese is the hardest language to learn possibly influenced by the thought of learning the Chinese writing system. The pronunciation of Chinese appears to be very difficult for many foreign learners, too. However, for Japanese speakers, who already use Chinese characters in their own language, learning this language will be less difficult than for speakers of languages using the Roman alphabet.
Some people seem to learn languages readily, 3____________________. Teachers and the circumstances in which the language is learned also play an important role, 4____________________. If people learn a language because they need to use it professionally, they often learn it faster than people studying a language that has no direct use in their day-to-day life.
British diplomats and other embassy staff have found that the second hardest language is Japanese, which will probably come as no surprise to many. But the language that they have found to be the most problematic is Hungarian, which has 35 grammatical cases. This does not mean that Hungarian is the hardest language to learn for everyone, but it causes British diplomatic personnel the most difficulty. However, Tabassaran, a Caucasian language has 48 cases, 5____________________. Different cultures and individuals from those cultures will find different languages more difficult. In the case of Hungarian for British learners, it is not a question of the writing system, which uses a similar alphabet, but the grammatical complexity, though native speakers of related languages may find it easier, 6____________________.
A. as well as each learner’s motivation for learning
B. because there are many factors to take into consideration
C. so it might cause more difficulty if British diplomats had to learn it
D. while others find it very difficult
E. while struggling with languages that the British find relatively easy
F. the harder it will be for most people to learn
G. as it might seem
Task 2.
Read the text and mark statements 7‐13 below as T (true) or F (false).
On 2 November 1982, the British public turned on their television sets for the arrival of the nation’s
fourth TV station, called Channel 4. They were greeted by the smiling face of local TV news presenter
Richard Whiteley, who welcomed them with the words: ‘As the countdown to a new channel ends, a
brand new countdown begins.’ And with this sentence, the words and numbers game show
‘Countdown’ was launched.
The rules of this new game show were as follows: two contestants faced each other over several
rounds of games with letters and with numbers. Finally, there was the Conundrum round, where
contestants had to work out the nine‐letter anagram. At the end of the show, the contestant with the
highest score won and was invited back the next day to face a new challenger.
However, despite the simplicity of the rules, those who watched the early editions of the 30‐minute
show, which was on five days a week, could hardly have imagined that it would last any longer than
the original seven weeks that had been planned for it. The first contestants and guests were not
exactly the most exciting people on television.
But luckily for ‘Countdown’, there were enough old people, university students and other people with
nothing much to do each afternoon to keep the show alive. When the show began, Carol Vorderman
won over fans with her amazing mathematical abilities. ’Countdown’ made a celebrity out of Carol,
and these days she’s a familiar face on British TV. Despite her fame, Carol still loyally turned up on
‘Countdown’ each day to turn over the letters and show the contestants how to solve the numbers
game until she retired in 2008.
Yes, that is correct – nearly 30 years since it began, ‘Countdown’ continues to keep its audience’s
brains working every afternoon. In fact, on 3 January 2006, it celebrated its 4,000th show. Other signs
of its success include the increase in the length of each programme to 45 minutes, the addition of a
show on Saturdays and the number of British celebrities who have made an appearance.
7. ‘Countdown’ was the first programme ever shown on Channel 4. ……………
8. Every day two new contestants compete to become ‘Countdown’ champion. …………..
9. Originally only 35 programmes of ‘Countdown’ were planned. ……………
10. The early shows were popular with working people. ……………
11. Carol Vorderman is no longer involved with the show. ……………
12. These days ‘Countdown’ is on for four and a half hours every week. ……………
13. More and more famous people like turning up on the programme. ……………
Критерии оценивания :
13 – 11 = “ 5”
10 – 8 = “4”
7 – 6 = “3”
5 - 0 = “ 2 “
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