Материал контрольной работы по чтению в 10 классе

Reading.

V - 1.

Read the text. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false)

Lily and Jimmy are hungry. There is no food in the cupboard. They go to the garden and look for some apples. There are a lot of apple-trees in the garden, but Lily and Jimmy can’t get to them the apples are too high. Jimmy says: “I must go and bring a long stick. We can get to those apples with that stick”. And so he goes to find it. Lily waits for him under an apple tree. Suddenly an apple falls down on Lily’s head. At first she wants to cry but then she understands she is very lucky. Lily eats the apple when Jimmy comes back. Jimmy is angry with Lily because he is hungry.

The children want to eat.

They don’t want the apples in the cupboard.

There are a lot of cherry-trees in the garden.

There are a lot of apple-trees in the garden.

5.The children can get to the apples easily.

Jimmy goes to find a long stick.

Lily doesn’t go with him.

Lily waits for Jimmy under the apple-tree.

Lily thinks she is lucky.

Jimmy is not very happy.

Reading.

V - 2

1. Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами А–G и заголовками 1–6. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок.

A)The United States is the second largest country in North America after Canada. It is washed by the Atlantic Ocean in the east, by the Pacific Ocean in the west and by the Gulf of Mexico in the south. The country is so big that there are four standard time zones. It also possesses many islands in the Pacific Ocean and Puerto Rica and the Virgin Islands in the Atlantic. The USA has the third largest population in the world (after China and India).

B)The American Dream, the hope for a better life in a new country, has attracted people from all over the world. Most of them leave their homeland because they are poor and have few opportunities. Some are forced to leave because of famines and civil war; others come for religious freedom. There are nearly 250 million people living in the USA. 10% are Spanish-speaking people than people of Asian and Pacific Island origin.

C)Each September, more than fifty million students between the ages of five and seventeen start the new school year. Students attend classes for an average of five hours a day, five days a week, and they have homework assignments to complete after school and on weekend. Many students sign up for after-school programs at their school or nearby. Sports are very popular. There are children’s baseball, soccer, football, and basketball teams in almost every school. 41% of high school graduates go to college.

D)This day celebrates Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492. As Columbus was Italian, working for Spain, Columbus Day is especially important for many Italian-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. Since 1971, the holiday has been commemorated in the U.S. on the second Monday in October. Officially, the people of the USA are invited to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of their country with church services and other activities. In some towns and cities, special church services, parades and large events are held.

E)Most Americans enjoy sports – both playing sports themselves and watching their favourite teams and competitions. Children are encouraged to participate in sports at an early age. The rivalry between high schools and colleges in sporting events goes right through the school year from football in September to track and field in June. Sports are important in college. Students who show talent in a sport like tennis, track and field, swimming, football, or basketball can apply for sports scholarships.

1)Geography

2)Famous people

3)Population

4)Education

5)Sports

6)Holidays

2. Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений соответствуют 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 – Not stated).

Sports in Great Britain

It is interesting how many of today’s sports games originated in Britain – football, rugby, tennis, boxing, rowing and horse racing among them. Of course, horse racing was popular with the Greeks and Arabs long before the British began to put them into practice; and people had been playing football in one form or another for thousands of years all over the world. But it was the British who created special rules for these sports and sports games.

Football is a good example. In the Middle Ages people in Europe, Japan and Asia all played some forms of the game. A sort of football was also very popular in England, especially as a contest between villages. But at that time there were very few rules. When the students of English schools started to play football, rules then became necessary. They were changed several times and by the middle of the 19^thcentury football had become very much the game that we know and like today. By the way, the first serious football rules were written at Cambridge University.

A similar story can be told about some other sports. Why did this happen in Britain before other countries? There are some possible explanations: after the Norman invasion of 1066, Britain was quite a peaceful country. As a result people had time to develop sports. Later, after Britain’s industrial revolution, English factories were based on highly organized work and strict time keeping. The same discipline was applied to sport. So uniforms, referees and punishments were introduced to football and other games. British authorities thought that team games were good training for future military and industrial careers.

Every country has its own list of favourite sports. What is the British list? There are lots of games apart from football. Schoolgirls, for example, play a game which seems a lot like basketball. It is called netball. Netball is different from basketball in many details: for example, the ball is lighter, the court is bigger and netball has seven players in each team (not five). There is something very strange about netball – it is never played by boys. There is no biological reason for this, it is simply a tradition. It is popular throughout the English-speaking world, and the Australians and New Zealanders usually win the competitions.

But the most famous and popular British sport is cricket. Cricket is an important part of English summer life. You can watch it all day on TV or even listen to it on the radio. News programmes keep you up-to-date with the score. Men, when they meet, always exchange a few words about the state of the game.

One of cricket’s distinguishing features is that the games are very long. In an ordinary game at a boys’ school it takes up to a whole afternoon. But the big international games are up to five days long.

1.The British mass media pay lots of attention to cricket.

1)True

2)False

3)Not stated

2. Football was the most popular game in the Ancient World.

1)True

2)False

3)Not stated

3. The rules for modern football were created in Great Britan.

1)True

2)False

3)Not stated

4. According to the rules, a game of cricket lasts no longer than an hour and a half.

1)True

2)False

3)Not stated

5. Netball was invented in a British boarding school for girls.

1)True

2)False

3)Not stated

6. Teams from Great Britain always win the international netball competitions.

1)True

2)False

3)Not stated

7. Basketball and netball are the same game under different names.

1)True

2)False

3)Not stated

8. All the students had to play football and other team games at British schools.

1)True

2)False

3)Not stated

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