Тренировочные работы для подготовки к ВПР

Task 1 (VPR 6)

А. The lady would like some _________.

1. breakfast 2. lunch 3. dinner

B. The lady`s name is_________.

1. Mrs Johnson 2. Mrs James 3. Mrs Jones

C. The lady would like some _________.

1. apple juice 2. grapefruit juice 3. orange juice

D. The lady wants to have _________.

1. a pot of black coffee 2. a pot of black tea 3. a pot of green tea

E. The lady will eat _________.

1.four scrambled eggs with four sausages 2. two scrambled eggs with four sausages 3. three scrambled eggs with three sausages

Task 2

The Internet entered the life of people in the 20th century. It took us less than ten years to face the fact of its spreading all over the world, including the developing countries. It has become not only the hugest information resource in the world but one of the most rapid means of communication. People from different countries have got an opportunity to communicate with each other in quite a short time. In comparison with a snail-mail or even airmail, an e-mail gets over distance and time, borders of states with a fascinating speed.

Thus, people get closer to each other. Now they have got a chance to get to know each other better, to become aware of what is common among nations and unites them, and what is different.

Task 3

У вас есть полторы минуты на подготовку и не более двух минут для ответа. У вас должен получиться связный рассказ (7−8 предложений). План ответа поможет вам:

— the place

— the action

— the person's appearance

— whether you like the picture or not

— why

Start with: “I’d like to describe picture № ... . The picture shows …”

Task 4

This text deals with …

1. Country’s brave defenders.

2. A really international place.

3. Governesses of rich children.

4. Textile business links.

5. A nice-sounding building.

6. The initial steps of commerce.

A. Moscow has always been a multicultural city. If we look back at its history, we will see that there were several foreign communities living in Moscow on a permanent basis. We all know about German people inhabiting the banks of the Yauza River, where little Peter, the future tsar of all Russia, ran around, made friends and got his first ideas of learning about ships and fleets. But what do we know about the British community of Moscow? Did it even exist?

B. The first ties between Russia and Britain were formed in the middle of the 16th century in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It was then that some wealthy British merchants founded the Muscovy Company which held a monopoly on trade between Britain and Russia until 1698. The building of its Moscow headquarters was granted to the company by the tsar in 1556 and can be still visited at 4, Varvarka Street, known to us now as The Old English Court.

С. Beginning from the time of Peter the Great, several talented British military men moved to Russia. Many of them served as army generals and navy admirals, defending Russian borders in different wars and battles. Among the most famous ones were Field Marshall James Bruce, Field Marshall Barclay de Tolly and Admiral Thomas Mackenzie, all of them of Scottish origin.

D. In the 18th century, British industrialists made themselves known in Russia. One of the most outstanding figures was Robert McGill, who lived in Moscow and served as an intermediary between Lancashire mill engineers and the Russian cotton industry and built over 180 mills (cotton factories) in Russia. Robert McGill had a house in Spiridonovka Street and together with his wife Jane was a prominent member of the British community in Moscow.

E. If you talk to Moscow concert musicians who were active between the 1970s and the 1990s, they will tell you of the fantastic acoustics of the “Melodiya” recording studio at 8, Voznesensky Lane, which they lovingly called ‘kirche’, mistakenly thinking it was a German church. This building, designed in the English neo-gothic architectural style, was in fact built in 1885 by Robert McGill and is St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, which was used as a recording studio in Soviet times.

Task 5

Halloween

I remember my first Halloween. It was a cold evening, 31 October 1988. I was A____ far from my home country, B____ my British neighbours whose kids were very C____ about that day. I was thinking about my family when, suddenly, there was an energetic knock at the door. I opened the door wondering who was there knocking D____ loudly. To my surprise, I saw a group of kids, dressed up as ghosts, witches, queens and cowboys. Two of them were carrying a E____ with cut out eyes, a nose and a mouth. There was a candle inside, and the holes were shining. “Trick or treat!” they shouted. I was surprised. I didn’t know what to do. My son Tom, told me, “Give them some sweets, Mummy, or they will play a trick on us.” “Like what?” I asked. “They can throw water on the windows, put a pin into the front door keyhole or break an egg on the windscreen of your car”, he explained.

A 1) lived 2) live 3) lives 4) living

B 1) among 2) between 3) behind 4) with

C 1) tired 2) excited 3) tiring 4) exciting

D 1) such 2) such a 3) so 4) so a

E 1) potato 2) pumpkin 3) carrot 4) cabbage

Task 6

Schools in the Past

One (A)____ years ago schools were very different. Children did not wear (B)____. They used to wear their everyday clothes to school.

Children learned to read, write and do mathematics. They had (C)____ and geography lessons but they did not (D)____ science.

They used to write on slates with (E)____ chalk. When the children finished their work, they cleaned their slates with a rag so that they could write on them again and again.

1. uniforms; 2. expensive; 3. history; 4. playground; 5. hundred; 6. white; 7. learn.