Домашнє завдання для учнів 11-А(на 14.11) та 11-Б класів(на 16.11)!

TASK 3

Read the text. Match each passage (11-16) with the statements (A-H). There are two statements you should not use. Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

11 David wants to buy a Christmas present for a very special person, his mother. David’s father gives him $5.00 a week pocket money and David puts $2.00 a week into his bank account. After three months David takes $20.00 out of his bank account and goes to the shopping mall. He looks and looks for a perfect gift. Suddenly he sees a beautiful brooch in the shape of his favourite pet. He says to himself, ’My mother loves jewelry, and the brooch costs only $17.00’. He buys the brooch and takes it home. He wraps the present in Christmas paper and places it under the tree. He is very excited and he is looking forward to Christmas morning to see the joy on his mother’s face. But when his mother opens the present she screams with fright because she sees a spider.

12 I want to tell you... I just gave birth to 5 babies last weekend. Isn’t that exciting? Oh, you don’t believe me? Okay then, I stole some money from a bank on Saturday night. Now do you believe me? (Actually, I hope you don’t.) This holiday started in the sixteenth century in Europe. Before that time, New Year’s Day was celebrated on April 1st. Then a new calendar was introduced called the Gregorian calendar. January 1st became the first day of the year, but many people did not know

about it. So those who continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on April 1st were teased. They were called fools. Nowadays we play jokes on people on this day.

13 A ground hog is a small animal that digs and lives under the ground. It is also called the woodchuck There is a legend that says that the ground hog wakes up from his hibernation on February 2. (February 2 is half way between winter and spring.) If he comes up from his hole and it is sunny, he will see his shadow and be frightened. If he sees his shadow, there will be 6 more weeks of winter weather. But if he comes up and the sky is cloudy, he will not see his shadow and will not be frightened. Then spring weather will come very soon. Some people believe this legend and they watch the sky on February 2.

14 This holiday falls on October 31st each year in North America and other parts of the world. The tradition of this holiday was carried to America by the immigrating Europeans. It is primarily a fun day for children. Children dress up in costumes like people did a thousand years ago. But instead of worrying about evil spirits, they go from house to house. They knock on doors and say ’trick or treat’. The owner of each house gives candy or something special to each trick or treater.

15 The United States has at least one holiday in every month except August. On the third Monday of February, Americans celebrate the birthday of two former presidents. They are George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. You may have heard of them. They were both famous U.S. presidents and they both have birthdays in February. Even though they are different days, we celebrate both of them on the same day.

16 This holiday is a very old holiday. It goes back to the times of Ancient Rome. One of the characters we often see on this day is Cupid. He was the son of Venus, the goddess of love. He shoots people with arrows of love. When a man and a woman are hit by his arrows, they will fall in love. Today people celebrate this holiday on February 14.

A A Special Christmas Present

В Martin Luther King, Jr

C President’s Day

D History of Halloween

E Ground Hog Day

F April Fool’s Day

G St. Valentine’s Day

H St. Patrick’s Day

TASK 4

Read the text below. Choose from (A-H) the one which best fits each space (17-22). There are two choices you do not need to use. Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN

Grady was rich, but he was 78 and on his deathbed. No amount of money—or love—could save him now.

In his youth, Grady had been a major skirt-chaser. No woman was safe from his charm. He used to juggle three or four girlfriends at a time.

He’d often accidentally call them by the wrong names. The first time that happened to (17) ___________________, she would get upset. Instead of lying, Grady would admit that he had another girlfriend—or two. ’But’, he would quickly add, ’you are my number one. You’ll always be my number one’.

Somehow, this little white lie often worked. Sometimes his various girlfriends would even end up meeting each other and become fast friends.

Any attractive woman was (18) ___________________. He would walk right up to her and say, ’You’re very attractive. Are you single and unattached?’ If she said yes, he’d invite her out for (19) ___________________ right then and there. If she said yes, but she didn’t have time just then for coffee, he’d get her phone number and ask for a rain check. If she said no, he’d ask her if she had a twin sister who was single and unattached. This often made the woman smile or laugh. Sometimes she would change her no to a yes.

Grady was (20) ___________________ . He was just average-looking, but he carried himself with confidence and had (21) ___________________ and a pleasant laugh. He was well-read, he knew a thousand jokes, and he had no bad habits. Perhaps most important, he made a woman feel like a woman, according to many of his girlfriends.

Even in his old age, Grady hadn’t slowed down. Tending to his dying needs were Didi and Mimi, (22) ___________________ that Grady had finally ’settled down’ with.

A a target for Grady

В one hundred dollars

C a new girlfriend

D a pair of 40-year-old twins

E a wonderful dancer

F a cup of coffee

G an important information

H a ready smile

ENGLISH IN USE

TASK 5

Read and complete the text below. For each of the empty space (23-32) choose the correct answer (А, В, C or D). Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

HOW TELEVISION HAS CHANGED

You really have to get very old before you realize you’re old. I’m in my middle fifties and I don’t feel old yet. However, sometimes I look back at my childhood and (23) ___________________ things to the way life is for (24) ___________________ kids. Some things have certainly changed.

One area of change is television. Some changes have been improvements. Some changes, on the other hand, have been (25) ___________________.

When I started school, most people didn’t have a television; TV was just beginning to get (26) ___________________. My father decided to go all out and buy a 16 inch black and white Motorola set. I still remember watching the Lone Ranger save people from the (27) ___________________ guys on that awesome electronic machine. That was (28) ___________________!

Now, (29) ___________________ have larger pictures in full color. The pictures_______ are clearer and the sound is much more realistic. The new high definition sets are made to rival (30) ___________________ screens.

The variety and quantity of programming has (31) ___________________ greatly. There are hundreds of channels and more shows than one person could ever watch. There are many me entertainment and educational (32) ___________________. There’s also a lot of garbage, stuff that____________________ most parents don’t want their kids exposed to. Overall, we have more choices, and that is good.

I wonder what television will be like when today’s kids are my age.

	A	В	C	D
23	forget	remember	compare	miss
24	today’s	yesterday’s	tomorrow’s	poor
25	great	huge	setbacks	remarkable
26	gone	replaced	expensive	popular
27	old	good	bad	best
28	stimulation	exciting	allaying	provoking
29	films	movies	billboards	televisions
30	movie	video	watch	telephone
31	loss	increased	decreased	played
32	books	shows	authors	awards

TASK 6

Read the text below. For each of the empty space (33-42) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

UNDERGROUND MUSIC

Waiting for the Metro in Paris is a lot more pleasant nowadays, thanks to a project orchestrated by transit officials.

As Jim Bittermann reports, it brings a whole new concept to the term ’underground music’.

It may be rush hour in the Paris underground, but these days down here there are good reasons to slow down a little when commuting is more than just getting from A to B, when the transit can be too rapid.

Increasingly, the underground tunnels Parisians know as the Metro echo with music worth being late for. That wasn’t, and even today, isn’t always the case. There’s never a shortage of those risking starvation by attempting to sing for their supper, and there’s always someone to appreciate an artist staiggling.

In the past, without much success, authorities periodically (33) ___________________ tried to eject the would-be musicians who inflict themselves on the travelling public. But with their numbers continually growing, the situation seemed to be getting out of hand.

Transit officials came to the conclusion that if they (34) ___________________ not beat the musicians at their game, perhaps they (35) ___________________ perhaps join them, or at least organize it a little better. So just over a year ago, they set up auditions to select the 300-or-so performers who (36) ___________________ become the official underground musicians of Paris.

And it is now an ongoing process. Every six months, all the officially sanctioned musicians, minus those who (37) ___________________ found real work and plus those looking for a underground gig, (38) ___________________ appear at a Metro audition.

Antione Nazo, a one-time guitar plucker himself, video tapes them all for approval by a music committee. ’We (39) ___________________ not have the pretension that we (40) ___________________ selecting music virtuosos’, Nazo says. ’We just put ourselves in the shoes of the riders. We want good quality music, not too aggressive, and as diversified as possible’.

Diversification (41) ___________________ never been a problem in Paris. A city which, as a current exhibition on street musicians plainly illustrates, has more than two centuries of encouraging the artists who work its boulevard.

For those selected to be the Metro’s officially sanctioned performers, there’s a badge which ensures they (42) ___________________ work uninterrupted by transit authority police, and which often guarantees as well a good well travelled spot in a busy metro station, which some musicians, w'hen the mood of the travelling public is right, can mean as much as 600 euros a day in income.

Of course, that does not happen every day to everyone. But many down here are not looking for a fortune.

Paul Suzan said that ’the people who play here play because they first of all, they love the music. But it keeps you in shape and gives you some pocket money’.

After a year in operation, Metro authorities believe their official musicians have raised the quality of underground performances and the mood of the travelling public, and prove that there’s more than one way an underground can move people.

	A	В	C	D
33	must	have	had	have been
34	could	would	should	must
35	could	must	should	would
36	must	should	could	would
37	have	has	had	can
38	would	must	can	could
39	doing	does	do	did
40	is	are	am	to be
41	have	have had	had	has
42	can	could	would	must