КИМ 1 (1/8)
Раздел 1. Аудирование
Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего A - F и утверждениями, данными в списке 1-7. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей цифрой только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.
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1. I’m concerned about my parents.
2. I might get held at gunpoint.
4. I’m afraid of becoming overweight.
5. I want a stable financial position
6. I’m anxious to get a decent job
7. I want to stay fit for years to come
Ответ:
Говорящий
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A
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B
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C
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D
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E
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F
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Утверждение
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Вы услышите диалог. Определите, какие из приведенных утверждений A - G соответствуют содержанию текста ( 1 -True ), какие не соответствуют
(2 - False ) и о чем в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа ( 3 - Not stated ). Занесите номер выбранного Вами ответа в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.
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A Carter wants to revier the material.
B Holly usually drinks a cup of coffee before lectures.
C Carter hasn't lost his notes.
D Carter usually stats falling asleep in the end of the lectures
E The cafeteria isn't far from the library.
F Carter invites Holly to attend lectures in the international center.
G Holly likes ice - cream.
Ответ:
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Утверждение
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A
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B
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C
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D
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E
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F
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G
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Соответствие диалогу
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Вы услышите интервью. В заданиях 3-9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1,2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.
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. Fred describes the outgoing year as the one which
1) marked the end of his career.
2) brought him a lot of problems.
3) changed his life.
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Fred worked with the children who
attended an ordinary school.
lacked some physical ability.
were volunteers in the hospital.
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КИМ 1 (2/8)
When dealing with the children Fred was instructed to
try to behave in the usual way.
be calm.
be aware of their depression.
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The unusual project helped Fred to become more
supportive.
patient.
creative.
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Fred says that before becoming a father he was
quite a character.
busy as a bee.
a lazy - bone.
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The parenthood made Fred
more responsible.
show much attention to his wife.
spend less time in the sport centre.
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Fred mentions as his special father’s talent the ability
for a sound sleep.
to calm down his wife.
to understand other fathers.
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По окончании выполнения заданий 1 – 9 не забудьте перенести свои ответы в БЛАНК ОТВЕТОВ №1. Запишите ответ справа от номера соответствующего задания, начиная с первой клеточки. При переносе ответов в заданиях 1 и 2 цифры записываются без пробелов, запятых и других дополнительных символов. Каждую цифру пишите в отдельной клеточке в соответствии с приведенными в бланке образцами.
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КИМ 1 (3/8)
Раздел 2. Чтение
Установите соответствие между текстами A- G и заголовками
1 – 8. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
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1. New method of research 5. New phrases enter dictionary
2. Non – verbal content 6. A cooperative research project
3. The first study of spoken language 7. Accurate word frequency counts
4. Traditional lexicographical methods 8. Alternative expressions provided
The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types – usually bespectacled – who love to pore over weighty tomes and make pronouncements on the finer nuances of meaning. They were probably good at crosswords and definitely knew a lot of words, but the image was always rather dry and dusty. The latest technology is revolutionizing the content of dictionaries and the way they are put together.
For the first time dictionaries publishers are incorporating real, spoken English into their data. It gives lexicographers (people who write dictionaries) access to a more vibrant, up - to - date language which has never really been studied before. In one project, 150 volunteers each agreed to tie a Walkman recorder to their waist and leave it running for anything up two weeks. Every conversation they had was recorded. When the data was collected, the length of tapes was 35 times the depth of the Atlantic Ocean. Teams of audio typists transcribed the tapes to produce a computerized database of ten million words.
This has been the basis – along with an existing written corpus – for the Language Activator dictionary, described by lexicographer Professor
Randolph Quirk as “the book of world has been waiting for.” It
shows advanced foreign learners of English how the language is
really used. In the dictionary, key words such as ‘eat’ are followed
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by related phrases such as ‘wolf down’ or ‘be a picky eater’, allowing
the student to choose the appropriate phrase.
This kind of research would be impossible without computers,” said Delia summers, a director of dictionaries. “It has transformed the way lexicographers work. If you look at the word ‘like’, you may intuitively think that the first and the most frequent meaning is the verb, as in ‘I like swimming’. It is not. It is the preposition, as in ‘she walked like a duck”. Just because a word or phrase is used doesn’t mean it ends in a dictionary. The sifting out process is as vital as ever. But the database does allow lexicographers to search for a word and find out how frequently it is used – something that could only be guessed at intuitively before.
Researchers have found that written English works in a very different way to spoken English. The phrase ‘say what you like’ literally means ‘feel free to say anything you want’, but in reality it is used, evidence shows, by someone to prevent the other person voicing disagreement. The phrase ‘it’ is a question of crops up on database over and over again. It has nothing to do with enquiry, but it’s one of the most frequent English phrases which has never been in a language learner’s dictionary before: it is now.
The spoken Corpus computer shows how inventive and humorous people are when they are using language by twisting familiar phrases for effect. It also reveals the power of the pauses and noises we use to play for time, convey emotion, doubt and irony.
For the moment, those benefiting most from the Spoken Corpus are foreign learners. “Computers allow lexicographers to search quickly through more examples of real English,” said Professor Geoffrey Leech of Lancaster University. “They allow dictionaries to be more accurate and give a feel for how language is being used.” The spoken Corpus is part of the larger British National Corpus, an initiative carried out by several groups involved in the production of language learning materials: publishers, universities and the British Library.
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КИМ 1 (4/8)
Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A-F частями предложений, обозначенных цифрами 1- 7. Одна из частей в списке 1-7 лишняя. Занесите цифры, обозначающие соответствующие части предложений, в таблицу.
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The Internet’s Impact
For some, the advent of television marked the beginning of the end of civilized society. More and more, people have watched TV at the cost of playing cards or board games, or other communal pastimes. Many fear that the Internet too will further limit social interaction.
That may be true but, as researches at Stanford University in the USA are the first to say, further study is needed. In a recent survey they found that A_____. What’s more, people who go online are likely to watch less television than others.
The study makes two things clear. Contrary to all the fuss in the media, the Internet’s popularity is still in its infancy. More than half of US households are not connected yet, but B_____.
Workers may be using the Web on the job for such personal ends as checking sports scores but, according to the study, C_____. Just 4 per cent of the surveyed Internet users said they had cut back on their working hours since getting connected to the Internet.
But will the Internet make us more isolated socially? While a fourth of the Internet
Users say they spend less time talking on the telephone with friends and relatives,
D_____. Since e – mail is free and can be sent and received at any hour of the day, it has many build-in advantages. For some, it has actually received the highly social art of letter writing. As for spending less time on the telephone, E_____.
Few would argue that the Internet has had a profound effect on the lives of many in its first decade on common use. But assessing its long-term impact is difficult. That’s why for all the questions they raise, F_____. If we don’t pay close attention to how we use the Internet, it will change our lives not just for better, but for worse.
they also use the Internet to work from home.
the continuing boom in mobile phone use makes an overall decrease less and less likely.
they also use it to buy and sell shares on the stock market.
studies such as Stanford’s are so useful.
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the Internet’s potential impact on how we live and interact is enormous.
e-mail allows them to stay in touch, regardless of distance.
the Internet and the use of e – mail have actually increased some forms of human interaction.
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания 12 – 18. В каждом задании запишите в поле цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
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Lucky Break
For the first ten years of my life my father was in RAF (Royal Air Force). This meant that he was frequently posted to different air bases around the UK and I, as frequently, changed schools. One year we moved no fewer than three times and each time I tried, in vain, to settle and make friends. For a young child this frequency of change can only have a detrimental effect and I still have school reports stating that I was “lazy” and a “dreamer”.
When I reached ten, my worried parents decided I needed a personal tutor. She turned out to be a kindly and patient old lady who presented me with a large, black book of tests. She made me complete it as a home task and I scored about 20 out of 100. At out next meeting, on a Saturday morning, she went through it with me item by item, until I completely understood each task. She then made me retake the test and of course I got almost every correct. Then we again moved house!
In our new town I took and failed the 11 plus exam ( my excuse was that I was still only ten!) and my prospects looked dim. I was destined to go to the local comprehensive which had a reputation for being quite rough. But also nearby was an ancient public school, set in a castle. This was a place for rich kids only – apart from every year they gave 2 free places to the highest performing local boys (it was a boys only school) in their entrance exam.
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КИМ 1 (5/8)
My crazy parents decided I should enter the exam. I had as much chance of succeeding as going to the moon – or so I thought. But then I sat down to take the test, a rather familiar black book of 100 tests was placed on the desk!
I did the test and kept quiet and the text term, as a terror struck 11 year old in an ill fitting suit, I arrived for my first day at ‘the castle”.
Clearly I was going to have problems in this new, intensely academic environment and I did. There were 31 boys in my class and in every subject, despite my best efforts, I
finished in the bottom 5 in every test, exam and report.
We were then streamed into “sets” for each subject, and I ended up being taught with boys closer to my own ability. I worked really hard and at the end of my third year there, I won my first firm prize. I was top of the bottom of the class! But I was really motivated and in time got “promoted’ to higher “sets’. I worked really hard and won prizes every year until I left after A Levels. My grades were all A’s – the highest you can get – and I was offered a place to study at a prestigious university.
So then a certain old Lady presented me with a large black book full of tests, you could say it was my lucky break. Although I would argue that if you work really hard and keep your wits about you – then you begin to make your own luck.
Because of the father’s job the boy had to
visit UK air bases.
often change schools
change home three times a year.
Behave as a dreamer.
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With his personal tutor the boy
read a big book.
did test items.
answered her questions.
learned how understand the tasks.
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Failing the 11 plus exam meant that the boy
had to wait another year to retry.
was to enter a comprehensive
was to study with rich kids.
became a highest performing local boy.
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What helped the boy to enter the public school?
familiarity with the tests
his parents
his knowledge
keeping quite
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In all the school subjects the boy
demonstrated his academic gifts.
managed to solve any problems.
was the best in efforts made.
was worse than twenty of his classmates.
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By the end of the school the boy
was awarded his first form prize.
was among the best school students.
had to work harder and harder.
still couldn’t get the high grades.
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КИМ 1 (6/8)
According to the boy the “Lucky Break” refers to
moving to a right place.
entering a good school.
getting a big test book.
meeting the lady tutor.
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