History of the Russian 8. The wife of the Russian

The Travel of the author 5. Loquaciousness of the Russian

Talk in the train 6. Acquaintance

Talk 7. Appearance of the Russian

Источник: http://bookfi.org/book (W.S. Maugham «The dream»)

A)It chanced that in August 1917 the work upon which I was then engaged obliged me to go from New York to Petrograd, and I was instructed for safety’s sake to travel by way of Vladivostok. I landed there in the morning and passed an idle day as best I could.

B)The trans–Siberian train was due to start, so far as I remember, at about nine in the evening. I dined at the station restaurant by myself. It was crowded and I shared a small table with a man whose appearance entertained me. He was a Russian, a tall fellow, but amazingly stout, and he had so vast a paunch that he was obliged to sit well away from the table.

C) The service was bad and it was almost impossible to attract the attention of a waiter. We soon got into conversation. The Russian spoke good and fluent English. His accent was marked but not tiresome. He asked me many questions about myself and my plans, which–my occupation at the time making caution necessary–I answered with a show of frankness but with dissimulation. I told him I was a journalist. He asked me whether I wrote fiction and when I confessed that in my leisure moments I did, he began to talk of the later Russian novelists. He spoke intelligently. It was plain that he was a man of education.

D)By this time we had persuaded the waiter to bring us some cabbage soup, and my acquaintance pulled a small bottle of vodka from his pocket which he invited me to share. I do not know whether it was the vodka or the natural loquaciousness of his race that made him communicative, but presently he told me, unasked, a good deal about himself.

E)He was of noble birth, it appeared, a lawyer by profession, and a radical. Some trouble with the authorities had made it necessary for him to be much abroad, but now he was on his way home. Business had detained him at Vladivostok, but he expected to start for

Moscow in a week and if I went there he would be charmed to see me.

F) His hands, small for his size, were buried in rolls of fat. His hair, long, dark, and thin, was brushed carefully across his crown in order to conceal his baldness, and his huge sallow face, with its enormous double chin, clean-shaven, gave you an impression of indecent nakedness. His nose was

small, a funny little button upon that mass of flesh, and his black shining eyes were small too. But he had a large, red, and sensual mouth. He was dressed neatly enough in a black suit. It was not worn but shabby; it looked as if it had been neither pressed nor brushed since he had had it.

G) ‘I am a widower. My wife was a Swiss, a native of Geneva. She was a very cultivated woman. She spoke English, German, and Italian perfectly. French, of course, was her native tongue. Her Russian was much above the average for a foreigner. She had scarcely the trace of an accent.’

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Тексты	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
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Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений A7–A14соответствуют 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).

Источник: http://www.umnet.com/pic/forum/will/a084c67e-2b6c-455c-ab3f-7870ff9a3665.pdf

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard.

It was nearly midnight, and he was lying on his stomach in bed, the blankets drawn right over his head like a tent, a flashlight in one hand and a large leather-bound book (A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot) propped open against the pillow. Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, "Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless discuss."

The quill paused at the top of a likely-looking paragraph. Harry Pushed his round glasses up the bridge of his nose, moved his flashlight closer to the book, and read:

Non-magic people (more commonly known as Muggles) were particularly afraid of magic in medieval times, but not very good at recognizing it. On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. The witch or wizard would perform a basic Flame Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with pain while enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation. Indeed, Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned so much that she allowed herself to be caught no less than fortyseven times in various disguises.

Harry put his quill between his teeth and reached underneath his pillow for his ink bottle and a roll of parchment. Slowly and very carefully he unscrewed the ink bottle, dipped his quill into it, and began to write, pausing every now and then to listen, because if any of the Dursleys heard the scratching of his quill on their way to the bathroom, he'd probably find himself locked in the cupboard under the stairs for the rest of the summer .

The Dursley family of number four, Privet Drive, was the reason that Harry never enjoyed his summer holidays. Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and their son, Dudley, were Harry's only living relatives. They were Muggles, and they had a very medieval attitude toward magic. Harry's dead parents, who had been a witch and wizard themselves, were never mentioned under the Dursleys' roof For years, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon had hoped that if they kept Harry as downtrodden as possible, they would be able to squash the magic out of him. To their fury, they had been unsuccessful. These days they lived in terror of anyone finding out that Harry had spent most of the last two years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The most they could do, however, was to lock away Harry's spellbooks, wand, cauldron, and broomstick at the start of the summer break, and forbid him to talk to the neighbors.

This separation from his spellbooks had been a real problem for Harry, because his teachers at Hogwarts had given him a lot of holiday work. One of the essays, a particularly nasty one about shrinking potions, was for Harry's least favorite teacher, Professor Snape, who would be delighted to have an excuse to give Harry detention for a month. Harry had therefore seized his chance in the first week of the holidays. While Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley had gone out into the front garden to admire Uncle Vernon's new company car (in very loud voices, so that the rest of the street would notice it too), Harry had crept downstairs, picked the lock on the cupboard under the stairs, grabbed some of his books, and hidden them in his bedroom. As long as he didn't leave spots of ink on the sheets, the Dursleys need never know that he was studying magic by night.

A 7 - Harry Potter was a normal boy.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

A8- Harry Potter hated the summer holidays.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

A 9 - Muggles – are magic people, (more commonly known as witches or wizards).

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

A10 - It was nearly morning, when he was lying on his stomach in bed.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

A11 - Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and their son, Dudley, were Harry's only living relatives.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

A12 - Separation Harry from his spellbooks was an unimportant fact for him.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

A13 - Harry was reading culinary books every night and all of his relatives knew about it.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

A14 - At the age of 5 Harry Potter wished to be an illusionist.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

Answers

A7 +

A8 +

A9 –

A10 –

A11 +

A12 –

A13 –

A14 Not Stated

Демонстрационный вариант ЕГЭ 2012 г. АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК, 11 класс.

Раздел 2. Чтение

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A – F частями предложений 1 – 7. Одна из частей в списке 1 – 7 – лишняя. Занесите цифру, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

Busy Day

Let me tell you what happened once when my dear Uncle Podger decided to hang a picture on the wall. He told us not to worryand A _______________. He said he would do it by himself. Well, he came up to the picture which was waiting to be put up in the dining room and took it. But suddenly it fell down and the glass broke into pieces and B _______________. He started to look for his handkerchief but couldn't find it because he had put it in his coat and none of us knew C _______________.

'Six of you!' Uncle Podger exclaimed, 'and you cannot find the coat that I put down only five minutes ago!' But then he got up from his chair and found that he had been sitting on his coat the whole time. 'Oh, you can stop your search. I've found it myself!'

Then after an hour was spent in tying up his finger Uncle Podger wondered D _______________. And while everybody was trying to get the hammer he was standing on the chair saying: 'Well, I want to know if you are going to keep me here all evening!'

Finally the hammer was found, but we noticed that the nail which he had prepared was lost. And, of course, Uncle Podger didn't keep silent while he was waiting for another nail to be brought. We heard all he had to say about our habit of losing E _______________.

When the picture was hanging on the wall at last, D _______________,all except Uncle Podger, who was lively as ever.

Aunt Maria remarked that if Uncle Podger wanted to do a job like that again, she would spend a week with her mother until it was over.

1. he cut his finger

2. where the hammer had disappeared to

3. everybody looked very tired

4. just watch him do it

5. where his coat was

6. everybody was happy

7. all the things he needed

A	B	C	D	E	F

B2Установите соответствие между заголовками A – Ни текстами 1 – 7. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

A. NEW TASTS

B. GOOD MOOD

C. EXOTIC FRUIT

D. HUMAN INSTINCT

E. TRADITIONAL FOOD

F. BAD HABIT

G.RULES OF EATING

H. HEALTH FOOD

1.In today’s fast moving world, people have less and less time to spend eating, let alone eating. It is probably for this reason that junk food has become so popular, and there’s no doubt that it’s here to say. In fact, it seems that you simply can’t get away from it. One British hotel group recently announced that its guests are able to order fast food through room service, a move which is seen by many as signifying a new era in the couch potato.

2.Eating is one the most important events in everyone’s life. We enjoy eating - it’s part of who we are and part of our culture; in fact, eating is the hottest universal topic of all times. We depend on eating: the foods we eat are the sole source of our energy and nutrition. We know so much about eating: we are born with the desire to eat and grown up with rich traditions of eating.

3. The British Diabetic Association has published guidelines to assist people who need to follow a special diet. The B.D.A. recommends controlling bodyweight, reducing fat consumption and eating more fruit, vegetables and starchy food. Aiming for a slow but steady weight loss of one kilogram per week is ideal, until the desired weight is achieved.

4.People used to chew a lot of gum. That’s the history of the '80s—we were all chewing our gum, and then, one day, evil drink corporations decided that they would make gum-versions of every child’s second favorite vice, soda. Pretty soon, store shelves were flooded with Dr Pepper Gum, 7-Up Gum, A&W Root Beer Gum, and, the best of the bunch, Gatorade Gum.

5.British food has traditionally been based on beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and generally served with potatoes and one other vegetable. The most common and typical foods eaten in Britain include the sandwich, fish and chips, pies like the cornish pasty, trifle and roasts dinners. Some of our main dishes have strange names like Bubble & Squeak and Toad-in-the-Hole.

6.Also known as the “King of Fruits,” Durian has a very particular odor, a unique taste and is covered by a hard husk. Having a disagreeable smell, compared to skunk spray or sewage, the fruit is forbidden in hotels and public transportations in Southeast Asia. Still, the whole experience is worth it, considering the absolutely divine taste of the Durian.

7.Chocolate is a special type of sweet associated with romantic love; no wonder its famed use is on Valentine’s Day. Legend has it that it was the food of the gods in the olden times. If the gods used to take chocolate, it gives us mere mortals the reason to indulge in more and more chocolate. Other kinds of sweets like candy have the same effect on the moods of a person.

B3Прочитаите текст и заполните пропуски 1 – 6частями предложении, обозначенными буквами A – G. Одна из частеи в списке А – G – лишняя. Занесите букву, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

A daughter complained to her father about life and how hard things are for her. She said she wanted to give up 1)__________. For just as one problem was solved, another arose.

Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen, filled three pots with water and placed the fire on high.

2)__________ the three pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the other he placed eggs and in the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, 3)__________. The daughter wondered what he was trying to do.

In half an hour he turned down the fire and took out the contents of the pots and put them in bowls. 4) __________, “My dear child, what do you see?” 5)__________, “Carrots, eggs and coffee.”

He brought her closer and 6) __________ the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. He then 7) __________ egg and break it. After shelling it,she observed it was hard-boiled . Finally, 8) __________ the fragrant coffee. She winced 9) __________.

Humbly, she asked, “What does it mean father?” He explained, “Each of them faced the same adversity, 100 C of boiling water. However, each reacted differently. The carrot was strong, hard and unrelenting. But, after going through boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg was fragile. A thin outershell protected a liquid centre. But after sitting in the boiling water, the inside became hardened. However, the coffee beans are unique. After they were in the boiling water, they became stronger and richer. Which one of these are you?” he asked.

Are you the carrot that seems hard but with the smallest amount of pain,adversity or heat, 10)__________. Are you the egg,which starts off with a malleable heart?

But after a death, breakup, divorce or lay off 11) __________. Your shell looks the same but you are bitter and tough inside. Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean does not 12) __________ until it reaches 100oC. When the water gets hotter, it just tastes better.When things are at their worst, you get better.

So how do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

A. asked her to take an

B. you wilt and become soft with no strength?

C. without saying a word

D. as it was very strong

E. Turning to her he said

F. as she was tired of struggling

G. asked her to feel

H. he asked her to take a sip of

I. Soon

J. get its true flavour

K. become hardened and stiff?

L. Smartly she replied