Комплексна контрольна робота з англійської мови за підручником О.Карпюк 10 клас

1. Listening. Match choices (A–F) to (1–6).

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2. Reading. Match choices (A–F) to (1–6).

First newspapers were nothing like our papers today. They were more like letters containing news. In the fifth century BC, there were men in Rome who wrote these news letters and sent them to people who lived far away from the capital. Something more like our papers was started by Julius Caesar in 60 BC. His government published a daily bulletin devoted mostly to government announcements; it was called Acta Diurna, which meant “Daily Happenings”. In the sixteenth century Venice people paid a fee of one newspaper to read notices that were issued by the government every day. These were called Notizie Scritte (“Written News”). The first regular newspaper established in London was the “Intelligencer” in 1663. At that time papers were mostly published only once a week, because their production was slow. The first American newspaper, “Public Occurrences”, was started in Boston in 1690, but the governor of the colony quickly stopped it. Benjamin Franklin headed the “Pennsylvania Gazette” from 1729 to 1765. The people were so eager to have newspapers that by the time of the American Revolution there were 37 of them in the Colonies.

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3. Writing. Complete the story with the correct forms of the words in brackets (1–12).An example (0) has been done to you.

After ‘The Hound of Baskervilles’ by A. Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes (0) was sitting (sit) one morning at the breakfast table in his room in Baker Street. His friend Dr Watson was standing near the window, examining a (1) __ (walk) stick which a visitor had forgotten the day before. ‘To Dr Mortimer from (2) __ (he) friend’, was engraved upon it, with the date ‘1884’. Sherlock Holmes suddenly (3) __ (turn) to Watson and said, ‘The owner of the stick has a dog which is (4) __ (large) than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff’. ‘How (5) __ (know / you)?’ asked Watson in surprise. ‘I was examining that stick carefully and noticed the marks of (6) __ (dog) teeth on it’, answered Holmes. ‘They are too broad for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff. Probably the dog often (7) __ (carry) the stick behind its master. I think it must (8) __ (be) a spaniel’. Holmes left the breakfast table and (9) __ (stand) near the window as he said this. Watson looked at him in surprise and asked, ‘How can you be sure of that?’ ‘For the simple reason that I see the dog at (10) __ (we) door and I hear the bell which its master (11) __ (ring). I wonder why Dr Mortimer wants to see Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Well, we (12) __ (soon / know). Come in’, he added and then there was a knock at the door.

4. Speaking.

You have visited a sports competition and you want to choose a new kind of sport. Talk to your partner about this and prove that your kind of sport is the best one.

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Text for Listening 

Tom’s First Royal Dinner

After “The Prince and the Pauper” by Mark Twain

Once Tom, a boy from a very poor family, met the Prince. They looked at each other and saw that they were very much alike. So the boys decided to exchange their lives for some time: the Prince went to Tom’s Family and Tom went to the Royal family.

So, one day at about one o’clock Tom was dressed for dinner. Then he was taken to a large room, where a table for one person was ready.

The room was full of people.

All of them knew that the Prince was mad and that they had not to show any surprise if he did anything strange.

Poor Tom ate with his fingers, but no one smiled. He looked at his napkin with great interest, and then said:

“Please take it away; I’m afraid it will become dirty”.

The napkin was taken away without a word of protest. When he finished his dessert, he filled his pockets with nuts, but nobody paid any attention to that either.

Suddenly his nose began to inch. He looked first at one then at another of the lords near him. They ran up to him and asked what the matter was. Tom said with tears in his eyes:

“My nose is itching terribly. What shall I do?”

Nobody smiled; nobody knew how to help him.

Tears began to run down his cheeks; at last he begged pardon of the people standing around him and scratched his nose himself.

Nobody smiled, but all were sorry for the prince.

At last our small friend was led to his cabinet and was left alone. Then he remembered the nuts. He took them out of his pockets and soon was cracking them and feeling almost happy for the first time since he became a prince.

When the nuts were all eaten up, he found some books in a bookcase, among them one about the etiquette of the English court. He lay down upon a sofa and began to read it.