CONTROL WORK № 6
Variant 1
READING
TEXT 1
1. Read the text and decide whether the statements (1–7) are True (T) or False (F).
1) It is easy to find food for people in the countries of “The Third World”.
2) People of the countries of “The Third World” prefer to live in the resettle-ments camps.
3)Nowadays, with modern kinds of transport it is very easy to supply food to the outlying areas.
4) The aid given to the countries of “The Third World” is not enough to save them from hunger.
5) The charity organizations give any available money to the countries where people die from hunger.
6) Many thousands of people have escaped from the camps and returned to their desert homeland.
7) The conditions for living in the camps are perfect.
FOOD FOR AFRICA
People in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa are dying in huge numbers for the simple reason that they are not getting enough to eat. One of the rea-sons for this is that lush and fertile areas have become desert-like because of drought, overpopulation, and bad farming. People in such areas are being ‘re-settled’ and, in the meantime may spend months, if not years, in resettlement camps. Finding enough food to feed people in camps has become a night-mare. Even worse is the fact that many thousands of people have escaped and returned to their desert homeland because of the wretched conditions in the camps, and because they fear being moved further on. It is vital that money must be found to finance the transport of food to these outlying areas, not ac-cessible by normal transport. This means airplanes that can dump sacks of grain much nearer to the scattered villages where people need them.
At the moment, the mountain inhabitants have to walk fifty kilometers once a month to collect their dry rations, which are barely enough to feed their families anyway. More and more people are so undernourished that they are dying on the way.
The organization, Concern, strongly believes that this is where any available money should go right now: to the resettlement areas and to the people who are refusing to leave their traditional homelands. We believe that first things come first, and that your money makes the difference between life and death.
TEXT 2
2. Read the text “Make yourself at Home”. Choose the correct item (A, B, C or D) for each space (1–8). The first is given for you.
MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME
Japan (0)_A_ my country, men usually go to restaurants on their own. They always take their shoes (1) _____before they go in. Then they usually sit on the floor around a small, low (2) _____. In the evening they often sing songs.’
Germany You usually take (3) _____or flowers. But you always take an odd number of flowers, and you remove the paper before you give them to the (4) _____. You can also send flowers before you arrive. You don’t usual-ly take wine except when you visit very close friends.'
Britain People’s private lives are very important so they never ask you personal (5) _____ about your family or where you live or your job. They never talk about religion or matters of finance, education or politics, but usu-ally stay with safe (6) _____ like the weather, films, plays, books and restau-rants.’
Russia ‘It’s difficult to know when to leave, but an evening meal usual-ly lasts (7) _____ three or four hours. When the host (8) _____ coffee, this is sometimes a sign that the evening is nearly over, but you can have as much coffee as you want.’
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0) |
A. in |
B. on |
C. at |
D. from |
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1) |
A. up |
B. off |
C. on |
D. of |
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2) |
A. mat |
B. chair |
C. desk |
D. table |
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3) |
A. flower |
B. chocolates |
C. chips |
D. Champaign |
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4) |
A. housekeepers |
B. guests |
C. hostess |
D. landlord |
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5) |
A. questions |
B. talks |
C. interview |
D. inquiry |
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6) |
A. subjects |
B. themes |
C. texts |
D. objects |
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7) |
A. round |
B. off |
C. around |
D. about |
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8) |
A. makes |
B. has |
C. serves |
D. takes |
VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
3. Choose the correct item A, B, C or D.
1) Glass is a _____ material.
A. poisonous
B. non-toxic
C. flammable
D. flexible
2) The ‘greenhouse effect’ describes the _____ in the atmosphere of pollutant gases.
A. build-up
B. break-down
C. absorption
D. creation
3) Coal and oil are _____fuels.
A. non-flammable
B. fossil
C. fragile
D. resumable
4) A strong dose of ultraviolet light to human skin causes _____.
A. protection
B. extinction
C. cancer
D. freckles
5) You’ve been travelling by train. You _____be tired.
A. can
B. must
C. may
D. might
6) Carol knows a lot about films. She _____ to the cinema a lot.
A. must went
B. can go
C. must have gone
D. went
7) Ted isn’t at work today. He _____ be ill.
A. was
B. must
C. need
D. is
8) Shakespeare _____his education in the Stratford grammar school.
A. receiver
B. received
C. receivable
D. graduated
9) If you say “no”, your host _____ that you have more to drink.
A. insists
B. will insist
C. will be insist
D. won’t
10) If we visit someone, we _____ chocolates or flowers.
A. take
B. will take
C. took
D. taken
TRANSLATION
4. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
1) The biological diversity which has evolved over the centuries may be a cornerstone of this equilibrium.
2) “Deforestation” is the term used to describe the disappearance of forests from large parts of the world’s surface.
3) Many of the plants, animals and insects are likely to be endemic i.e. found in one place, and nowhere else.
4) There are references to theatrical entertainments in China as early as the Shang Dynasty; they often involved happiness, mimes, and acrobatic displays.
5) Cantonese shadow puppets were the larger of the two. They were built using thick leather which created more substantial shadows.
6) Usually the contest or game is between two sides, each attempting to ex-ceed the other.
7) Sport is also a major source of entertainment for non-participants, with spectator sport drawing large crowds to sport venues, and reaching wider audiences through broadcasting.
8) Print media transmit information via physical objects, such as books, comics, magazines, newspapers, or pamphlets.
9) The organizations that control these technologies, such as movie studios, publishing companies, and radio and television stations, are also known as the mass media.
10) Each mass medium has its own content types, creative artists, technicians, and business models.
WRITING
5. Write an opinion essay on the problem: what is the best way to save endangered animals? Talk about zoos, national parks, the Red Book. Write the essay not less than 200 words.
