Контрольная работа по английскому языку в 11 классе: Steps to understanding culture

Control Work 11 V-I

1. Listen to the text about Sir Christopher Wren and say if these facts are true, false or not stated.

1. Sir Christopher Wren was born and died in one and the same century.

2. After the Great Fire of London Wren began to replan the city.

3. Sir Christopher Wren designed the first building of St Paul’s Cathedral.

4. Wren worked on this Baroque-style building for about fifty years.

5. There are two towers in the structure of St Paul’s Cathedral.

6. Sir Christopher Wren painted the walls of St Paul’s himself.

1. Read the texts about British novelists and match them with the statements. There is one statement you don't have to use.

1. Daniel Defoe began his career in trade but soon went bankrupt and was even in prison for debts. For some time, he carried out intelligence work as a spy and government agent. In 1719, at the age of fifty-nine, Defoe turned from journalism to a new form of prose fiction and produced his most famous work, Robinson Crusoe. During the next seven years he wrote his other literary works. In method, style and language, they all owe much to his previous experience as a journalist.

2. Born into an aristocratic family in 1707, Henry Fielding went to Eton public school and then to the University of Leiden in Holland where he took the courses of classics and law. On his return to England, Fielding chose to take up the career of a dramatist and wrote over 20 plays mostly of satirical nature. Later he took to writing novels, among which Tom Jones is probably the most popular. Fielding worked out his own theory of novel writing; his novels are highly structured and cast in new literary forms.

3. Thomas Hardy spent sixteen years of his life working in the architectural field before he decided to dedicate himself to writing. Although he wrote a lot of poetry, he is best remembered for the series of novels and short stories that he wrote between 1871 and 1895. In his works he painted a vivid picture of life in the nineteenth century countryside. In the last years of his life Hardy was awarded honorary degrees by Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Like Charles Dickens, he is buried in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.

a) This author’s poetry is better known than his/her prose.

b) This author’s earlier occupation influenced his/her writing.

c) This author was inspired by works of other writers.

d) This author introduced some innovations in novel writing.

3. Use а/ аn or zero (-) article to complete these sentences.

1)There was a little bottle of_____ perfume on her dressing table.

2) Could you buy _______paper for me to read on the train?

3) ____ iron has a handle and a flat metal base.

4) For dessert there was ______ vanilla ice cream.

5) His parents gave him ____very good education.

6) Would you like _______ chicken or_______ beef for dinner?

4. Use the words from the box to complete the sentences.

in spite of, constant, , diverse, , valuable, passers-by, curricula,reflection

1. The ____________________didn’t seem to notice the big parcel lying on the bench.

2. If a group is _______________, it is made up of a wide variety of things.

3. 1 wonder if the ____________________ in English are the same in different schools.

4. Philip is my _______________ companion; we spend so much time together.

5. We decided to go for a walk_______ the windy weather we had that day.

6. Her ___________in the mirror looked strikingly unfamiliar.

7. These documents are extremely ____________to historians.

Control Work 11 V-II

1. Listen to the text about Sir Christopher Wren and say if these facts are true, false or not stated.

1. As an architect Wren introduced the forms of Middle Ages design to English architecture.

2. St Paul’s Cathedral is extremely important among the other buildings Wren designed.

3. St Paul’s Cathedral was rebuilt after the Great Fire of London.

4. The building is decorated with four towers.

5. There is a clock in one of the towers and the largest bell in England.

6. The wedding of Queen Elizabeth II was held in Si Paul’s Cathedral.

1. Read the texts about British novelists and match them with the statements. There is one statement you don't have to use.

1. Most of his life Jonathan Swift spent in Ireland where he held the position of Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. A lot of his time was dedicated to writing books of satirical nature. Eventually Swift became a highly influential writer who tried his hand at both verse and prose. His prose style is characterized by precision and clarity and his irony can be cleverly hidden between the lines. He is mostly remembered for his novel Gulliver’s Travels — Swift’s satirical masterpiece which over the ages has continued to appeal to all kinds of readers from children to adults.

2. England’s first truly important female novelist, Jane Austen, had difficulty in establishing a reputation for herself. Her works dealt with a limited social circle of provincial middle and high-class society. The writer concentrated on its everyday life — balls, trips, dances, marriage proposals. Anyhow, within this limited field she managed to create a memorable range of characters whose behaviour was treated with a remarkable degree of objectivity and psychological depth.

2. Charlotte Bronte showed literary promise from a very early age, and her main influences were Walter Scott and Byron. Charlotte’s most famous work is Jane Eyre published in 1847. Though the novel has some flaws in the plot, it must be one of the most gripping novels ever written because of its psychological insight into the mind of the long-suffering main character.

a) This author had problems on his/her way to success.

b) This author’s ideas were not always on the face of his/her writings.

c) When this author was advanced in years, he/she gained praise, respect and admiration. .

d) This author was inspired by works of other writers.

3. Use а/ аn or zero (-) article to complete these sentences.

1) “Chanel 5” is ... expensive perfume.

2) Ron picked up a piece of_______paper and gave it to her.

3) ___ iron is a strong hard metallic element that is found in rocks.

4) Could I have ___ coffee and ____ ice cream, please?

5) I think the government's policy on ______ higher education is a disaster.

6) There was _____ little apple in the pie.

Revealing, in spite of, shape, constant, valuable, reference, reflections

1. This was one of the most _______________ lessons I learned.

2. Albert had nothing _______________ to say. His speech was full of riddles.

3. The police have not found any other _______ to those events in the victim’s papers.

4. His constant _____ of his childhood showed how happy he was then.

5. The card in the _______of heart turned out to be an invitation to the party.

6. The temperature must be kept___________.

7. ____________all the hardships they are happy.

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