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Учебный год
Английский язык
Классы
Use of English
Time: 45 minutes
Task 1
For questions 31-45 read the introduction to a book about action sports below and use the words to the right of the text to form a word or a grammar structure that fits in the same numbered space in the text. There is an example at the beginning ( 0).
Action Sports and
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Risk-takers (0) have been taking part in action sports since the beginnings of time: the new challenge has always appealed to (31) _____________ minds. The trick with risks is to understand the (32) ______________ dangers and then remove them by treating each as a problem with only one solution: the safe one. From the outside the game still looks ‘risky’, but the (33) ____________ who understands the difficulties, the game is a personal test of skill, rather than nerve. None of these sports ought to be (34) _____________; if they are, you’re doing something wrong.
Risk-taking has other benefits. The (35) ____________ cure for a stressful working life may not be a week flat-out on a beach; emptying the mind merely leaves it open for occupation by the home stresses which you take with you. Pick up a new challenge, something that is exciting, stretching, new, and you not only escape entirely from that other life, but return to it on a wave of confidence and
(36) _____________ that carries you over the problems which once seemed part of everyday life.
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(37) ___________ : in one week – or even in one weekend – you can learn more about yourself than you did all year. All inner fears
(38) ______________ in the burn of concentration demanding by learning to fly, dive, ride or climb. The pride earned through
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(39) _____________ from an aeroplane at 12,000 feet, or learning to roll a canoe, will stay with you for life. Then there are the other spi-offs: the mental calm which (40) _________ with rock-climbing; the wonderful colours of caves; the moment of freedom (41) _________ during that first flightbeneath the wing of a glider. All these sports cause a wonderful thrill – be it dashing waves or free-falling through the air at 120 miles per hour – but thrills are just a part of the story. Many of these sports double as types of travel. Horses, bicycles, skis, hot-air balloons can be used as vehicles for truly exotic journeys; journeys on which you can look at landscapes (and (42) _________) from a new angle. And all of these are ‘soft’ vehicles; ones which allow you to move through, and feel for, the countryside, the mountains and deserts.
The sports in this book cover the complete range of physical and mental skills: they can (43) _________ from your own doorstep or from any one of hundreds of places abroad. The sports demand as little as the cost of a pair of boots to as much as it costs to buy a flying machine. Some of them are very easily reached (I have a friend who goes gliding in his lunch-break), while others require travelling-time and complex (44) _________.
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Finally, remember that each action sport is a wonderful experience, and the more experiences we have, the (45) _________ we become, and the more we have to share.
(Text from First Certificate Gold Practice Exams book by Amos Paran, Longman); task by the author)
Task 2
Read the story of Beauty and the Beast. Fill each space (46-60) with a suitable word. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Once upon a time, (0) there was a man who had three daughters. The family (46) _________ have much money and they had to work hard to survive. Only the youngest daughter tried to (47)_________ brave and happy. Her name was Beauty because she was very (48) _________. One day the father decided to go away and earn some money. The two eldest daughters asked for new clothes and jewellery, (49) _________ Beauty said that she would just like a rose.
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As the father was walking back through the forest, he found a large castle. In the garden, he saw some roses and remembered (50) _________ promise to Beauty. As he picked one, a terrible Beast appeared who was angry that he had taken a rose. The Beast said he (51)_________ kill the man unless he could marry one of his daughters.
So the father took Beauty to stay at the Beast’s castle. Beauty was frightened of the Beast at first, but she enjoyed her days (52) _________ there were many interesting things to do. And, (53) _________ she was asleep, she always had beautiful dreams about a handsome prince. In the dreams, the prince told (54) _________ to distrust appearances, to let her heart guide her, and not her eyes.
Generally, Beauty was happy and soon she was not afraid (55) _________ the Beast anymore. Every evening, the Beast came to Beauty (56) _________ asked if she would marry him. Every evening, Beauty said no, because although he was kind, the Beast was very ugly. Then, one morning, Beauty found the Beast lying in the garden and so she thought (57)_________ was dead. Suddenly, she realized that she really loved him she began to cry. The Beast (58) _________ dead, however, and began to move.
Later that evening, the Beast came in and again asked if Beauty would marry him. This time she said yes, and when she looked at the Beast, she saw that he had turned (59) _________ the prince from her dreams and tat she had rescued him. They got married the (60) _________ day, and Beauty and the Prince lived happily ever after.
(Text from Going for Gold Intermediate coursebook by Richard Acklam and Araminta Crace, Longman); task by the author)
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