Контрольна робота для 11 класу з теми "Environment"

Control test “Environment”

Task 1. Listening

Look at the six sentences for this part. You will hear two local politicians, a man called Robin and a woman called Lisa, talking about recycling in their town. Decide if the sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, put “+”. If it is not correct, put “-“.

1. Robin is surprised by how much recycling people do in his town.

2. Lisa thinks it takes too long to recycle metal.

3. Robin believes there should be more bottle banks.

4. Lisa thinks that people are making good progress with paper recycling.

5. Robin and Lisa agree that people need more information about plastic.

6. Robin thinks that people should pay less to use public transport.

Task2. Complete the words to match the definitions.

1. Where a river drops from a high point to a low point w_ _ _ _ _ a _ _ . 

2. The area of land next to the sea c_ _ _ t.

3. A very large sea o _ e _ _.

4. High rocks, often next to the sea c _ _ f _.

5. A low area of land between hills with a river in it v_ _ _ _y.

6. There are seven of these large areas of land in the world c _ n_ _ _ _ _ _ _.

7. A large forest in a very wet area r_ _ _ _ _ _ _ s_.

8. A hole in the side of a hill or under the ground c_ _ _ . 

Task 3. Choose the correct adverb.

 1. The rain fell so heavily / angrily on the roof that it kept me awake all night.

2. Snow falls so softly / suddenly that you can't hear it at all.

3. The sun shines happily/ beautifully on the hills in the evening.

4. Ben shouted strongly/ loudly to his friend who was lost in the fog.

5. The wind lightly/ kindly moved the leaves on the trees.

6. The fox hid curiously/ quietly in the cave all night.

Task 4.  Complete each sentence with the present or past simple passive form of the verb in brackets.

1. Waste plastic and metal ___     ___ (collect) once a week in our town.

2. Why ___ litter never ___ (pick up) in this park? It’s always the same.

3. Climate change ___      ___ (predict) by scientists 40 years ago.

4. About 50 % of our country’s rubbish ___   ___ (recycle) last year.

5. Most of air pollution in London ___   ___ (cause) by cars and buses.

6. Six electric buses ___    ___  (buy) for our town last month.

Task 5. Read the letter to the editor and fill in the gaps.

     Dear Sir,

    We  are  writing to suggest that all cars should be banned from the centre of my city as 1) ___.              The amount of 2) __              from car exhaust fumes is now increasing, and we believe that the public must be 3) ___.

Apart from this, the streets are crowded with cars, and our lives are at 4)____ when we try to cross the road! There has been a huge increase in the amount of traffic recently, and the government just seems to put off the problem, 5)____ of learning with.                           

Furthermore, unless we face up to the 6)____ problem, and seriously consider some of the matters, life in our city will become 7)____.

To sum up, our organization, Cities for People, has been set up to 8) ___ the government do something! We are holding a demonstration next week in the city centre, and hope that many people will join us.             

     Yours faithfully,

     Mary Kingwood, Secretary, Cities for People.      

  The key: 1) possible 2) pollution 3) protected 4) risk 5) instead 6) traffic 7) impossible 8) make)

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