Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "TOP CITIES"

Вариант № 3

I. Выберите соответствующую форму сказуемого в Present Continuous Tense.

1. I ... hard because I’ve got exams next week.

2. Peter ... for a better job because he doesn’t earn much.

3. Where ... you ... tonight?

4. We ... to go to a new restaurant not far from here. Do you want to go with us?

5. I’m sorry I can’t. I ... late tonight.

II. Выберите соответствующую форму сказуемого в Present Simple или в Present Continuous Tense.

1. Hello, Adam. Where ... you ...?

2. Hi, Bill. It’s nice to see you again. I ... to work.

3. Where ... you ...?

4. I ... in a bank and I like my work very much.

5. My mother ... in a bank too. She is an accountant.

 III. Выберите правильный перевод сказуемого в Present Perfect Tense.

1. Bob is not here. He’s gone to work.

2. He’s worked here for 10 years.

3. Bob is a good designer. He has developed many new products so far.

4. Have you ever bought anything from Bob’s company?

5. No, I haven’t, but I’ve seen his products and I like them very much.

IV. Выберите соответствующую форму сказуемого.

1. I think I … all James Bond films. I’m his great fan.

2. How many James Bond films … he …?

3. We … to the cinema twice this month.

4. … you ever … to our Opera House?

5. Thousands of citizens … our theatre this year.

V. Выберите соответствующую форму сказуемого в Past Simple или Present Perfect Tense.

1. … you ever … to the USA?

2. Yes, I … to the USA three years ago.

3. How … you … it there?

4. It … really interesting. We saw so many places.

5. What … you … most of all?

VI. Определите время сказуемого.

1. How often do you go on business trips to Moscow?

2. I have been to Moscow many times.

3. Last time I was there three years ago.

4. She’s going to Moscow next week.

5. I’ll have to go to Moscow next week too.

VII. Выберите соответствующий вспомогательный глагол в следующих отрицательных предложениях.

1. I … not seen the weather forecast yet.

2. It … not rain yesterday. It was a wonderful day.

3. I hope the weather … be fine tomorrow too.

4. Take your umbrella, please. – Why? It … not raining.

5. It … not often rain here at this time of the year.

6. I … not believe in weather forecasts. They always lie.

VIII. Выберите соответствующий модальный глагол.

1. I don’t think I … know everything about Yekaterinburg history.

2. … I ask you a couple of questions about the history of Yekaterinburg?

3. You … talk loudly when the lecturer is speaking.

4. I … do several things at the same time. I multitask really well.  

5. I … just sit and wait till they come. I have lots of things to do.

IX. Выберите соответствующий модальный глагол или эквивалент.

1. When he was young he … play tennis really well.

2. I’m sure he … beat you at tennis even now.

3. You … practice tennis a lot if you want to win.

4. I … start work when I was only 16.

5. I … save some money and got into the university.

X. Выберите соответствующую форму неопределенного местоимения.

1. Were there … letters for me this morning?

2. Yes, there are … letters on your desk.

3. Unfortunately, there is … information from our partners. I’ve been waiting for it for ages.

4. … information on this subject is very important. We need it badly.

5. I think I can give you … information but not much.

XI. Выберите соответствующую форму производного неопределенного местоимения.

1. There’s … at the door. Can you open it?

2. Oh, it’s my Chinese teacher. Do you know … who can speak Chinese?

3. I’m afraid I know … about China and the Chinese but I’d like to.

4. I can tell you … if you have time.

5. Thank you very much for the information. … was of great interest.

XII. Прочитайте текст и укажите, верны (True) или нет (False) следующие за ним утверждения.

TOP CITIES

Have you ever walked around a city and thought, “this is Paradise”? Or maybe, “this is the ugliest, most polluted, dangerous place I’ve been to and I can’t wait to get out”?

Most of us have. And that’s why most of us want to know about the place before we go there. One thing we can do is to read a good guide book. Another is to look at a new survey conducted by William Mercer, one of the world’s largest Human Resources consultancies.

Mercer decided to judge some of the world’s great cities. They produced their results by giving marks for various criteria. They included political, economic and social environment, healthcare, education, recreation and transport infrastructure.

So, which are the best cities to live in, and which should we avoid? In joint first place were Vancouver, Berne, Vienna and Zurich while Sydney, Geneva, Auckland and Copenhagen came second. Swiss cities occupied three of the top ten places, making it the single most successful country of all those surveyed. ....

 

1. William Mercer is a Human Resources Manager at a consulting firm.

2. To judge some of the world’s greatest cities, they assessed many factors, including economic and political situation in the country.

3. Vancouver was at the bottom of their list.

4. Swiss is a very comfortable country to live in.

5. London rank was lower because of its notorious climate and bad criminal situation.

6. Some people think that the judgment was not fair because we can’t compare big cities with smaller places.

Тексты для внеаудиторного чтения

Text 1

Country and people 

The United States is a large country with many different natural wonders. It goes from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the islands of Hawaii in the Pacific, and from cold, snowy northern

Alaska to sunny Florida in the southeast. The US has almost every kind of weather. Also, it has many kinds of land – rocky coasts, dry empty deserts, and powerful rivers, lakes of all sizes, high mountains, great forests, sunny beaches, and lands of endless winter.

More than 250 million people live in the U.S. The people of the United States are a mixture of many different nationalities.....
 

Text 2

The stars and stripes

The “Stars and Stripes” is a popular name for the red, white, and blue flag of the United States. This is also the name of the national anthem of the United States.

Every country has its own flag. In 1776, the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. The United States was born. George Washington was the general of the American Army. He decided that the United States needed a flag, too.

There is a story that General George Washington asked Betsy Ross to make the flag. She used three colours: red, white, and blue. The colour red was for courage, white was for liberty, and blue was for justice. She sewed thirteen red and white stripes and thirteen white stars in a circle on a blue square. The thirteen stars and stripes stood for the number of states at the beginning of the United States. On June 14, 1777, Congress voted this flag to be the national flag....
 

Text 3

New York City

New York is the largest city in the United States. More than eight million people live there. New York has very tall buildings. It is the city of sky-scrapers. It is also the biggest port in the world. Thousands of ships come to the port of New York each year.

New York is a very cosmopolitan city. People from many countries came to live in New York. Three-quarters, or 75 percent, of the people in New York City come from five groups. The groups are: blacks, Jews, Italians, Puerto Ricans, and Irish. The other quarter, 25 percent, comes from all over the world....
 

Text 4

The president of the United States

Do you want to be president of the United States of America? Maybe you can apply for the job. Answer these three questions. Are you a U.S. citizen? Are you thirty-five years old or older? Have you been a resident of the United States for fourteen years or longer? Did you say “yes” to all three questions? Then you can take the first steps to the White House.

You become president for a term. A term is four years. You can only serve two terms. This means that you can only be president twice. This became law in 1951. Before that, the law was different. In fact, Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933. He was still president when he died in 1945. He was president for twelve years. No one was president longer than he was....
 

Text 5

The Pentagon

The Pentagon is a building in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. It has the offices of the U.S. Department of Defense. The Department of Defense includes the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard.

The word pentagon comes from the Greek penta, which means “five”. A pentagon is a figure with five sides. The Pentagon has five rings. The rings are inside each other. Each ring has five sides. How tall do you think the Pentagon is? The answer is easy. Each ring is five stories tall....
 

Text 6

George Washington

The first US President known to all Americans as “The Father of the Nation” was George Washington. George was born in Virginia in a planter’s family. When the boy was eleven his father died. The family had a lot of land but not enough money to send George to school in England as rich families used to do at that time.

G. Washington began his career in the service of his country as a major in the Virginia militia and later became Commander in Chief of the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War. He was among those who wrote the US Constitution in Philadelphia. People respected him for his courage, honesty and wisdom....
 

Text 7

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the USA. Like* George Washington, he takes a special place in the list of American presidents.

Abe grew up in the Middle West. His first home was a small, one-room house in the woods. His family was pioneers who helped to fight Indians and push the borders of the United States farther west. The family lived in poverty. His parents moved from Kentucky to Indiana when Abe was 7, and this was his home for 14 years....
 

Text 8

White house

The White House is the residence of the president of the United States of America. It is situated in Washington. The White House was the first public building which was built in the capital of the USA. They laid the cornerstone in 1792.

In 1800 President John Adams and his wife moved into the building. At the beginning of the 19th century it was a light-grey structure made of sandstone. There were no conveniences in the house. There were no bathrooms and people brought water by hand into the house from a spring which was five blocks away....
 

Text 9

The statue of liberty

One of the most famous statues in the world stands on the island in New York Harbor. This statue is, of course, the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a woman who holds a torch up high. Visitors can go inside the statue. The statue is so large that as many as twelve people can stand inside the torch. Many more people can stand in other parts of the statue. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 301 feet tall....
 

Text 10

Modern Babylon

Some people call New York a poem in steel and stone, others a monster. It doesn’t look like any other city in the world.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century only the wigwams of the Iroquois stood where the sky-scrapers of New York now touch the clouds. In 1626 the Dutch Governor, Peter Minuit, bought a large island from Indians. Later the Indians named this island Manhatta (today Manhattan, one of the famous parts of New York)....