Вариант 20

Вы услышите четыре коротких диалога, обозначенных A, B, C и D. Определите, где происходит каждый из диалогов. Используйте каждое место действия из списка 1-5 только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее место действия. Вы услышите запись дважды. У вас есть 20 секунд, чтобы ознакомиться с заданием.

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1. At a veterinary clinic

2. At a pharmacy

3. At a hospital

4. At dentist’s

5. At a doctor’s office

Вы услышите пять высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего А-E и утверждениями, данными в списке 1-6. Используйте каждое утверждение из списка 1-6 только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. У вас есть 30 секунд, чтоб ознакомиться с заданием.

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1. The speaker talks about friendship as the beginning of love.

2. The speaker talks about uselessness of life without love.

3. The speaker talks about different attitudes to love.

4. The speaker talks about that true companionship gives psychological comfort.

5. The speaker talks about individual opinions being varied.

6. The speaker talks about his disapproval of negative attitude to love.

Norah lives close to

1) the park.

2) the zoo.

3) the stadium.

Nora is interested in

1) theatre.

2) sports.

3) science.

To enter the zoo Simon and Nora

1) paid the full ticket price.

2) had free tickets.

3) paid a discount ticket price.

Nora and Simon are going to have lunch

1) after visiting the zoo.

2) while visiting the zoo.

3) before visiting the zoo.

In the cafe Nora and Simon are going to have

1) a fish soup.

2) a meat salad.

3) a vegetarian pizza.

Out of the wild animals, Nora is most fond of

1) tigers.

2) monkeys.

3) dolphins.

1. Natural preservation

2. A custom of preservation

3. A quicker way of recording events

4. Saved out of the ruins

5. A collection of wooden ritual things

6. A unique find

7. The diversity of the exhibits

8. Printed heritage

A. The British Museum in London is one of the largest museums in the world. There are lots and lots of ancient objects from all continents, so if you don’t have a clear plan of action when you visit it, you’ll get lost among Egyptian mummies, Mexican masks, Viking swords and Greek sculptures. The place itself is ancient. It was set up in 1753 by Sir Hans Sloane, a doctor and a scientist. Here’re just a few of the things you can see there.

B. Egyptian mummies are always popular with museum visitors. There are real mummies of people and animals and amazing coffins (called sarcophagi). The Egyptians believed in life after death. They thought that when they died, they would make a journey to another world where they would lead a new life. To make that long journey they would need their bodies (as well as all the things they had used when they were alive). The men who made dead bodies into mummies were called embalmers.

C. At first only the very rich could afford mummification, but later it became a big industry and even the poor had their bodies mummified. The climate of Egypt is very good for preserving a body. A poor farmer died 5 000 years ago and his body was covered with the dry desert sand. It’s better preserved than many mummies. The man’s nickname is Ginger and he can be seen in the British Museum, too.

D. 5 000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians wrote things down using a picture writing called hieroglyphics. The Egyptians, however, didn’t call it that. The word ‘hieroglyph’ is Greek, but the Egyptians called their signs ‘words of the god’. The people who did the writing were called scribes. The scribes had a problem, however. The ancient Egyptians wrote everything down, absolutely everything! Although hieroglyphics were very pretty, it took time to write in pictures. Scribes needed a faster way to write things down, so they created a new form of writing called Demotic script.

E. The new scribes didn’t study the old language of hieroglyphics. They could write much quicker with some of the new scripts they created. Soon the skill of reading hieroglyphs was lost, and for hundreds of years, people didn’t know what they meant. Then in 1799, an officer of Napoleon’s army found a strange stone. This stone had the same short story written on it in Greek, in Demotic, and in hieroglyphics. This became the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics.

F. The British Museum is famous for its collection of ancient sculptures which once decorated the outside of the Parthenon, a temple in Athens. By 1801, the Parthenon was falling apart. The British ambassador to Greece, Lord Elgin, wanted to save the temple’s marble sculptures. After asking for permission, Elgin asked workers to remove some sculptures off the temple and pick up others that had fallen to the ground. Elgin later sold the sculptures to the British government, which turned them over to the British Museum.

G. The British Museum has one of the world’s finest collections of totem poles. A totem pole is an artistic way that some Indian tribes used to tell a story. The totem pole, about 160 years old, was found in the village of Haida in Canada. In the past, it was beautifully painted, but now all the paint has disappeared. The Haida totem pole is 8 metres tall and made from the wood of a cedar tree. It stands in the Great Court of the British Museum.

The narrator was very upset that day.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

The narrator had made an appointment beforehand.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

They decided to meet at the editor room.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

The narrator could speak some foreign languages.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

The editor suggested him to write his own detective.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

The narrator was very glad to get that job.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

The narrator wrote the detective novel on time.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

Hans didn't know Spanish.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

BEIt happened one Sunday morning in November when 16 year-old Liz Bryant decided to go and buy a newspaper.___________a bitterly cold day, Liz pulled her coat tightly around her.

NOT SEEAs she walked down her road, Liz noticed a rather strange looking man standing in a neighbour’s driveway. She thought it was odd because she ____________him in the area before.

STANDWhen Liz reached the shop she went in to buy a can of her favourite fizzy drink and a newspaper. A few minutes later, a figure appeared in the doorway of the shop. It was the man who____________in the driveway.

KILL‘Hand over your money or I___________’, said the stranger to the customers inside the shop.

CANLiz suddenly remembered the can of fizzy drink which was in her hand. She gave it a quick shake, pointed the can at the man/s face and pulled back the ring on the lid. The stranger gave a yell, turned round and ran out of the shop as fast as he ____________go.

WAITWhile Liz____________with the shopkeeper for the police to arrive,

COVERit suddenly struck her that she___________in sticky drink!

SEEEventually, she gave the police a statement about what happened. The police told her to call immediately if she_________________him

GREETThe shopkeeper told Liz how brave she had been and promised that whenever she came to his shop, she___________with a free can of fizzy drink.

SCIENCEThe first X-ray photograph was taken by a German ___________, W. K. Roentgen, in 1896. It was his wife’s hand.

ELECTRICX-rays were discovered by accident, while he was experimenting with___________.

OPERATESoon afrer, he built the first X-ray machine. Immediately, hospital ___________were made much safer.

INVENTFor the first time, doctors could see inside people’s bodies before they cut them open. His ____________is still used every day by doctors and dentists, and is called ‘the window into the human body’.

CRIMESince the introduction of computer imaging in 1970s, X-ray machines have been used for other things, too. At airports, many ___________ have been caught with illegal items in their luggage.

BENEATHAlso, lost works of art have been discovered ___________other paintings.

You are going to read the text aloud. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, and then be ready to read it aloud. Remember that you will not have more than 2 minutes for reading aloud.

Earl Grey tea is a famous tea blend, which is loved by millions of people all over the world. Earl Grey is not a registered trademark, and numerous tea companies produce their own versions of Earl Grey tea, using a wide variety of tea leaves and additives.

The Earl Grey blend, or Earl Grey’s Mixture, is assumed to be named after Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who was British Prime Minister in the 1830s. According to one legend, a grateful Chinese Mandarin whose son was rescued from drowning by one of Lord Grey’s men first presented the blend to the Earl in 1803. The tale is probably not true, as Lord Grey never set foot in China. However, it was accepted as an official version by the Twinings company, which has been producing Earl Grey for over 200 years.

You are going to take part in a telephone survey. You have to answer six questions. Give full answers to the questions. Remember that you have 40 seconds to answer each question.

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You are going to give a talk about animals. You will have to start in 1.5 minutes and will speak for not more than 2 minutes.

Remember to say:

• what problems wild animals face nowadays

• what animals you can see in the forests of Russia

• whether people should keep wild animals in zoos, why/why not

You have to talk continuously.