16.06.2020

Practice. Choose the correct sentence in each pair:

1. Theare are nearly five hundreds children in this school.
   Theare are nearly five hundred children in this school.


2. Jessica received twenty-nine roses on her birthday.
   Jessica received twenty-nine rose on her birthday.


3. He pays for rent six hundred dollars each month.
   He pays for rent six hundred dollar each month.


4. Million of people are involved in nature protection.
   Millions of people are involved in nature protection.


5. Josh paid hundred pounds for a new tea-service.
   Josh paid a hundred pounds for a new tea-service.


6. The table shows that the number of employed people has increased by two percents.
   The table shows that the number of employed people has increased by two percent.


7. This galaxy is thousands light years away from the earth.
   This galaxy is thousands of light years away from the earth.

Write each amount from the list in words:

You can click on question sing in blue to show hint.
Example: £23 : twenty-three pounds

8. £807 :


9. 480,000 :


10. 19% :


11. $9,000,000 :


12. $35,000 :

    

    
SECTION 3. QUESTIONS 21-30

Questions 21-23
Complete the information below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
21. The total course duration is .
22. During the final project students will work in teams of .
23. The professor told that the key thing in marketing strategy is to .


Questions 24-28
Choose FIVE letters, A-I. What FIVE modules does the course include?

1. Marketing
2. Design of custom logos
3. Product management
4. Branding
5. E-commerce
6. Advertising
7. Analytics
8. Customer attraction
9. Business strategies

Questions 29-30
Complete the information below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

29. The next lecture is in the big classroom on the .
30. Students need to take their last week .

SECTION 4. QUESTIONS 31-40

Questions 31-35
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or С.
31. Initially, the Great Wall was built to

1. prevent invaders from entering China
2. function as a psychological barrier
3. show country’s enduring strength

32. The construction of the Great Wall started

1. in third century B.C.
2. in 220 B.C.
3. in 390 A.D.

33. The Chinese name of the monument is

1. the Great Wall
2. the Big Wall
3. the Long Wall

34. The wall as it exists today was constructed mainly by

1. Qin dynasty
2. Northern Wei dynasty
3. Ming dynasty

35. During the Ming dynasty, the wall’s main purpose was

1. to be a military fortification
2. to protect caravans traveling along the trade routes
3. to contribute to the defense of the country

Questions 36-40
Complete the timeline with information about the history оf the tomato in the United States.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

36. Before the use of bricks, the Great Wall was mainly built from stones, wood and .
37. Many western sections of the wall are constructed from mud and thus are more .
38. A part of the wall in Gansu province may disappear in the next 20 years, due to .
39. To see the wall from the Moon would require superhuman .
40. The Great Wall is generally recognized as one of the most impressive in history.

Part 1

Hobbies

1) Can you tell me about any hobbies that you have?
2) Are there any other hobbies that you would like to have in the future?
3) Do you think hobbies should be relaxing or should they be exciting?

English Studies

4) When and why did you start to learn English?
5) What aspects of learning English do you find the most difficult?

Daily Routine

6) How do you spend a typical Sunday?
7) What routine activity do you dislike the most?
8) Do you like having a set routine at work or would you prefer less structure?

Part 2

Describe a sport that you enjoy playing or watching.
You should say:

• Why you started playing or watching this sport
• How often you play or watch it
• What benefits you get from playing or watching it

And explain why you prefer this sport to others.

Part 3

Spectator Sports

1) Are there differences between the numbers of people who watch sports and the numbers who play it?
2) Why do you think some people enjoy watching sport?
3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of watching sport live or on television?

Sports Advertising and the Media

4) What role does advertising have in sports events?
5) How important is money in sport?

 

1    Studying art in school improves students' performance in other subjects, because it is easier for multi-skilled students to learn new things. That's why art should be obligatory in schools.
Do you agree or disagree?

2 

Some students work while studying. This often results in lacking time for education and constantly feeling under pressure.
What do you think are the causes of this?
What solutions can you suggest?

3

Online education is becoming more and more popular. Some people claim that e-learning has so many benefits that it will replace face-to-face education soon. Others say that traditional education is irreplaceable.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.

  

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Reading 

Sea monsters are the stuff of legend - lurking not just in the depths of the oceans, but also the darker corners of our minds. What is it that draws us to these creatures?

"This inhuman place makes human monsters," wrote Stephen King in his novel The Shining. Many academics agree that monsters lurk in the deepest recesses, they prowl through our ancestral minds appearing in the half-light, under the bed - or at the bottom of the sea.
  "They don't really exist, but they play a huge role in our mindscapes, in our dreams, stories, nightmares, myths and so on," says Matthias Classen, assistant professor of literature and media at Aarhus University in Denmark, who studies monsters in literature. "Monsters say something about human psychology, not the world."
  One Norse legend talks of the Kraken, a deep sea creature that was the curse of fishermen. If sailors found a place with many fish, most likely it was the monster that was driving them to the surface. If it saw the ship it would pluck the hapless sailors from the boat and drag them to a watery grave.   This terrifying legend occupied the mind and pen of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson too. In his short 1830 poem The Kraken he wrote: "Below the thunders of the upper deep, / Far far beneath in the abysmal sea, / His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep / The Kraken sleepeth."
  The deeper we travel into the ocean, the deeper we delve into our own psyche. And when we can go no further - there lurks the Kraken.
  Most likely the Kraken is based on a real creature - the giant squid. The huge mollusc takes pride of place as the personification of the terrors of the deep sea. Sailors would have encountered it at the surface, dying, and probably thrashing about. It would have made a weird sight, "about the most alien thing you can imagine," says Edith Widder, CEO at the Ocean Research and Conservation Association.
  "It has eight lashing arms and two slashing tentacles growing straight out of its head and it's got serrated suckers that can latch on to the slimiest of prey and it's got a parrot beak that can rip flesh. It's got an eye the size of your head, it's got a jet propulsion system and three hearts that pump blue blood."
  The giant squid continued to dominate stories of sea monsters with the famous 1870 novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne. Verne's submarine fantasy is a classic story of puny man against a gigantic squid.
  The monster needed no embellishment - this creature was scary enough, and Verne incorporated as much fact as possible into the story, says Emily Alder from Edinburgh Napier University. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and another contemporaneous book, Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea, both tried to represent the giant squid as they might have been actual zoological animals, much more taking the squid as a biological creature than a mythical creature." It was a given that the squid was vicious and would readily attack humans given the chance.
  That myth wasn't busted until 2012, when Edith Widder and her colleagues were the first people to successfully film giant squid under water and see first-hand the true character of the monster of the deep. They realised previous attempts to film squid had failed because the bright lights and noisy thrusters on submersibles had frightened them away.
  By quietening down the engines and using bioluminescence to attract it, they managed to see this most extraordinary animal in its natural habitat. It serenely glided into view, its body rippled with metallic colours of bronze and silver. Its huge, intelligent eye watched the submarine warily as it delicately picked at the bait with its beak. It was balletic and mesmeric. It could not have been further from the gnashing, human-destroying creature of myth and literature. In reality this is a gentle giant that is easily scared and pecks at its food.
  Another giant squid lies peacefully in the Natural History Museum in London, in the Spirit Room, where it is preserved in a huge glass case. In 2004 it was caught in a fishing net off the Falkland Islands and died at the surface. The crew immediately froze its body and it was sent to be preserved in the museum by the Curator of Molluscs, Jon Ablett. It is called Archie, an affectionate short version of its Latin name Architeuthis dux. It is the longest preserved specimen of a giant squid in the world.
  "It really has brought science to life for many people," says Ablett. "Sometimes I feel a bit overshadowed by Archie, most of my work is on slugs and snails but unfortunately most people don't want to talk about that!"
  And so today we can watch Archie's graceful relative on film and stare Archie herself (she is a female) eye-to-eye in a museum. But have we finally slain the monster of the deep? Now we know there is nothing to be afraid of, can the Kraken finally be laid to rest? Probably not says Classen. "We humans are afraid of the strangest things. They don't need to be realistic. There's no indication that enlightenment and scientific progress has banished the monsters from the shadows of our imaginations. We will continue to be afraid of very strange things, including probably sea monsters."
  Indeed we are. The Kraken made a fearsome appearance in the blockbuster series Pirates of the Caribbean. It forced Captain Jack Sparrow to face his demons in a terrifying face-to-face encounter. Pirates needed the monstrous Kraken, nothing else would do. Or, as the German film director Werner Herzog put it, "What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."

Questions 1–7
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 1–7 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE                          if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE                        if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN                if there is no information on this

1. Matthias Classen is unsure about the possibility of monster's existence.

Questions 8–12
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write the correct letter in boxes 8–12 on your answer sheet.

8. Who wrote a novel about a giant squid?
1. Emily Alder
2. Stephen King
3. Alfred Lord Tennyson
4. Jules Verne


9. What, of the featuring body parts, mollusc DOESN'T have?
1. two tentacles
2. serrated suckers
3. beak
4. smooth suckers


10. Which of the following applies to the bookish Kraken?
1. notorious
2. scary
3. weird
4. harmless


11.  Where can we see a giant squid?
1. at the museum
2. at a seaside
3. on TV
4. in supermarkets


12. The main purpose of the text is to:
1. help us to understand more about both mythical and biological creatures of the deep
2. illustrate the difference between Kraken and squid
3. shed the light on the mythical creatures of the ocean
4. compare Kraken to its real relative

Questions 13–16
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 13–16 on your answer sheet.

13. According to the Victor Hugo's novel, the squid would if he had such opportunity.
14. The real squid appeared to be and .
15. Archie must be the of its kind on Earth.
16. We are able to encounter the Kraken's in a movie franchise.

Kraken is probably based on an imaginary animal.

Previous attempts on filming the squid had failed due to the fact that the creature was scared.

Giant squid was caught alive in 2004 and brought to the museum.

Jon Ablett admits that he likes Archie.

According to Classen, people can be scared both by imaginary and real monsters.

Werner Herzog suggests that Kraken is essential to the ocean.