Задание 3. Устная монологическая и диалогическая речь
Подготовьте устное сообщение в объеме 15 предложений, устно ответьте на 3 вопроса по теме.
Билет № 21
Задание 1. Чтение с охватом содержания (тестовый контроль).
Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений 1–5соответствуют содержанию текста (1 – True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False)и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Notstated).
Cambridge University
Cambridge University is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after theUniversity of Oxford) and the seventh-oldest in the world.
The story of Cambridge University begins in 1209 when several hundred students arrived in the little town of Cambridge after having walked 60 miles from Oxford. These students were all churchmen and had been studying in Oxford at that city's well-known schools. It was a hard life at Oxford for there was constant trouble, even fighting, between the citizens of the town and the students. Then one day a student accidentally killed a man of the town. The Mayor arrested three other students who were innocent and they were put to death. In protest, many students leftOxford, some of them went to Cambridge. And so the new University began.
It was Cambridge University. Of course, there were no Colleges in those early days and student life was very different from what it is now. Students were of all ages and came from anywhere and everywhere. Life in College was strict. Students were forbidden to play games, to sing (except sacred music), to hunt or fish or even to dance. Books were very rare and all the lessons were in the Latin language which students were supposed to speak even among themselves.
In 1440 King Henry VI founded King's College, and other colleges followed.
Nowadays there are more than 30 different colleges, including five for women students and several mixed colleges, in the University. The number of students in colleges is different: from 30 to 400 or 500.
The training course lasts 4 years. The academic year is divided into 3 terms. The students study natural and technical sciences, law, history, languages, geography, medicine, economics, agriculture, music and many other subjects. After 3 years of study a student may proceed to a Bachelor’s degree, and later to the degrees of Master and Doctor.
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There are many ancient traditions that are still observed at Cambridge. Students are required to wear gowns at lectures, in the University library, in the street in the evening, for dinners in the colleges and for official visits. One more tradition is to use Latin during public ceremonies of awarding degrees.
All the students must pay for their education, examinations, books, laboratories, university hostel, the use of libraries. The cost is high. It depends on college and university speciality. Very few students get grants.
Many great men studied at Cambridge, for example, Bacon (the philosopher), Milton and Byron (the poets), Cromwell (the soldier), Newton (the outstanding physicist), Darwin (who is famous for his theory of evolution) and Kapitsa (the famous Russian physicist).
1) The first students of Cambridge University got only religiouseducation.
· 1)True
· 2)False
· 3)Notstated
2) In early days of Cambridge University the students were taught inEnglish.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
3) Cambridge University was started by the students of OxfordUniversity.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
4) The education at Cambridge University isfree.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
5) There are famous scientists among the graduates of CambridgeUniversity.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
Задание 2.Письменнаядиалогическаяречь.
Составьте письменно 3 вопроса к тексту задания № 1.
Задание 3. Устная монологическая и диалогическая речь.
Подготовьте устное сообщение в объеме 15 предложений, устно ответьте на 3 вопроса по заданной теме
Билет № 22
Задание 1. Чтение с охватом содержания (тестовый контроль).
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Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений 1–5соответствуют содержанию текста (1 – True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False)и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Notstated).
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott, known as Captain Scott or Scott of the Antarctic, was a British polar explorer. He joined the Royal Navy in 1882. Although he had no previous experience of polar research, in 1900 he became the leader of the British Antarctic Expedition. This expedition, known as theDiscovery Expedition lasted from 1901 to 1904. Among other important things it determined the nature and size of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
The aim of Scott’s second expedition in 1910-12 was to reach the South Pole. Departing from Cardiff, Wales, on the ship Terra Nova, the expedition reached the Antarctic coast in 1911. There Scott learned that the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, had already left for the Pole. So Scott’s chance to reach the South Pole before R. Amundsen was poor.
Equipped with motor tractors, ponies and dogs, Scott and 11 members of his team set off for the Pole on 24 October 1911. Unfortunately, the motor tractors rapidly broke down and their ponies were unsuitable for Antarctic conditions. Very soon, six members of the team were sent back. The five explorers continued their dangerous journey across the snowy desert. On 16 January, they saw a black marker flag left by the Norwegian expedition, and two days later the party reached the South Pole itself, where the Norwegians had built a snow marker. Amundsen
had reached the South Pole more than a month earlier, on 14 December 1911. Scott was greatly disappointed after the exhausting 81-day journey and recorded in his diary, "This is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have reached it without the reward of priority."
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However, the 800 mile return journey was even more terrible. Two members fell ill and died, and the remaining explorers were frozen inside their tent in a terrible nine-day snowstorm. The last entry in Scott's diary was made on 29 March.
Eight months later a search party, led by Dr Atkinson, discovered the tent and the bodies of the explorers, along with the diaries and last letters of Scott. Scott had written a message explaining the reasons for the failure. The search party buried the brave explorers and built a snow memorial on their grave. Later, another memorial was put up at Observation Hill, at Hut Point (Antarctica) with the words ‘to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.’
The news about the death of the Polar team reached Britain in February 1913. Within days, Scott became a national icon. A memorial service was held in St Paul’s Cathedral. A campaign was launched to raise a memorial fund to continue the scientific work Scott had carried out. The Scott Polar Research Institute was founded. In the several years following the disaster, more than 30 monuments and memorials were set up in Britainalone.
1) Captain Scott’s team reached the South Pole later than the Norwegianteam.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
2) The British did a lot to keep the memory of Captain Scottalive.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
3) Scott’s diaries were found onlyin the 21stcentury.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
4) Captain Scott put the British flag on the SouthPole.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
5) Scott’s body was transported to Britain to beburied.
o 1)True
o 2)False
o 3)Notstated
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