Промежуточный контроль по английскому языку для 10 класса

I. Listening Comprehension

Вы услышите диалог. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

1.Who has got the tickets for the Saturday concert?

1) Bob 2) Sally 3) Neither

2.Who has never heard of the Dream Theatre?

1) Bob 2) Sally 3) Neither

3.Who likes Rock music?

1) Bob 2) Sally 3) Neither:

4.Who prefers classical music?

1) Bob 2) Sally 3) Neither

5.Who will go to the Saturday concert?

1) Bob 2) Sally 3) Both

II. Reading Comprehension.

Установите соответствие между текстами A–E и рубриками 1–6. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании одна рубрика лишняя.

1. Events

2. Traditions

3. Literature

4. Sightseeing

5. History

6. Geography

A. Ulan-Ude is a city with a population of 435 thousand people located about 100 km east of Lake Baikal. It is the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, a major cultural, scientific, industrial centre of Eastern Siberia. Ulan-Ude has a unique historical and cultural heritage. There are more than 200 cultural heritage sites in the city: monuments of architecture and city planning, and monuments of art.

B. The Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life is one of the most visited museums in Suzdal. Here you can see rare monuments of wooden architecture of Vladimir-Suzdal land. The museum is not large, it has only 17 wooden buildings: churches, a merchant’s house, peasant houses with interiors of the peasant way of life, windmills, granaries, wells.

C. Considered one of the greatest psychologists in world prose, Fyodor Dostoevsky is perhaps best known for his work Crime and Punishment, or subsequent novels such as The Idiot and Demons. Many of his great works offer an unrivalled view of life in Tsarist Russia during the mid-to-late 19th century, shaped by the environment in which he lived and worked.

D. Larmer Tree Festival is a wonderful well-established festival in one of the most gorgeous Victorian Pleasure Gardens in the UK. Everyone is welcome here whether you are 1 or 101. Provision for kids is nothing short of excellent – rhyme times, storytelling, arts and crafts and dance workshops. Music is eclectic, activities are varied fantastic, and there really is something for everyone.

E. Scotland's shipbuilding industry became important in the 19th century, as steam-power began to replace sail power. Scottish inventors and engineers gained a reputation for being experts in marine engineering. Around 1850, the shipyards of Glasgow and Dumbarton were building half the iron steamships built in the United Kingdom. In the 1880s steel began to replace iron.

III.USE OF ENGLISH

1)Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Образуйте от слов, напечатанных заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 1-6, однокоренные слова так, чтобы они грамматимески и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 1-6.

Many people have the idea that(1)______Americans all lived in ONE

tepees and hunted buffalo on horseback.

In fact, there were many different tribes, and their food,(2)___ , СLOTHES

homes, and art varied according to the climate and the landscape

around them.

The tribes who hunted buffalo and lived in buffalo-hide tepees
were nomads of the (3)_____and western Plains. CENTER

They didn't have horses until the Spanish brought them from
Europe in the sixteenth century. In the west, along the Pacific coast
from California to Alaska, great forests covered the land. The tribes
here were fishermen and (4)______. HUNT

They used logs from the forests to build houses and make totem

poles. Near the east coast, the tribes farmed, hunted wild animals, and

(5)_____roots and nuts for food. They built their houses with bark GATHER

or the leaves of trees.

In the southwest, where the land was hot and dry and there were
few trees, houses were built from adobe (sunbaked mud) bricks.

The tribes grew corn, hunted deer, and,(6)______, raised sheep. LATE

2)Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 7–12, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы

7–12.

When the Italian (7) ____Christopher Columbus arrived in the EXPLORE

"New World" in 1492, he thought that he was in India and called

the people Indians. American (8)_____today prefer to be called INDIA

Native Americans, or by their tribal names like Navajo or Lakota.

The Native Americans helped the early settlers adapt to life in a new

country. Later, the (9)_________changed. RELATION

On the Plains, the buffalo were hunted almost to(10)____, so EXTINCT

that the Plains tribes had no food. The settlers wanted to take over

tribal land, and Native.

Americans were forced to move to separate areas called reserva­tions,

often on poor land that nobody else wanted.

Many children were not allowed to live with their parents and were

sent away to school. (11)_____Indian culture, including dances, TRADITION

religion, and language was forbidden.

Some tribes tried to fight for their rights, but they were (12)_____ by DEFEAT

the US army. By 1890, war, poverty, and diseases like smallpox had reduced the Native American to only 250,000

IV.WRITING

You have received an email message from your English-speaking pen-friend Tom: 

Write an email to Tom. In your message answer his questions, ask 3 questions about his trip to Scotland. Write 100−140 words. Remember the rules of email writing.