Ingliz tili attestatsiya №12

1. Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for each question below. Snow is composed of ice crystals. These crystals fall from clouds in cold weather when the air is too cold to melt the ice crystals into rain. In most of the world outside the very hot tropics, most rain starts to fall as snow but melts to rain on the way down. The heaviest snowfalls occur when the air temperature is close to the freezing point at 32°F. For this reason, more snow falls on the northern United States than at the North Pole because it is too cold at the North Pole for snow to fall. Snow can be as much as 90 percent air. For this reason, snow helps to keep the ground warm and protect some plants from extreme cold. Because so much of the snow is composed of air, it takes about ten inches of snow to equal the amount of water in one inch of rain. All snowflakes are six-sided crystals, with some occasional needles or columns. One farmer and amateur scientist photographed thousands of snowflakes through a microscope. He was trying to find two identical flakes. Neither he nor anyone else ever has. Snow often melts slowly because the white color reflects sunlight away. The most snow in a single storm in the United States was 189 inches. It occurred at Mount Shasta, California, in February 1959. Antarctica is buried in an average of two-and-a half miles of snow. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

2. Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for each question below. Suppose your teacher gave you an assignment to add all of the numbers from 1 to 100 without using a calculator. How long do you think it would take? You could do it in about 30 seconds. Here’s how: Add 1 plus 100, which equals 101. Add 2 plus 99, which equals 101. Add 3 plus 98, which also equals 101. You re adding 50 pairs of numbers, which all equal 101. Therefore, you can multiply 50 times 101. This equals 5,050. Multiplication, of course, is simply a fast method of addition when you use the same numbers. The mathematician who worked out this particular problem was named Carl Gauss. He lived from 1777 to 1855. As a college student, he discovered that a seventeen-sided figure could be drawn with just a compass and a ruler. This was thought to be impossible. During his lifetime, Gauss made many discoveries in the study of numbers and shapes. He studied the use of statistics. This is the science of collecting, using, and studying information from real events in life. Gauss also studied stars and planets. He became famous for discovering the orbit around the sun of the asteroid Ceres. See if you can add all the numbers from 1 to 100 in less than 30 seconds! Maybe you, too, will become a scientist or math expert! . Which word in the passage refers to “the study and use of numbers”?

3. Choose the correct answer. Often people . . . remember their childhood with pleasure choose to forget the bad times.

4. Choose the best answer.… of the contestants was given a topic about which they’d make a five-minute speech.

5. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence. A long distance journey often ... travelers feel stiff, because they ... in one position for several hours.

6. Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated predominantly in North America, and it possesses a different meaning in each of the countries where it's acknowledged. In the United States, Thanksgiving is a federal holiday (meaning all government employees and most private employees are given a day off of work), and always takes places on the Fourth Thursday in November, regardless of the date. The holiday signifies the immense progress made by pilgrims, or some of the first travelers to North America, at Plymouth Plantation circa 1621. It was at this time that the hungry and weary Pilgrims were taught (by Native Americans) how to grow and produce food on North America's unique terrain. Once they'd grown (and caught) an abundance of food, the Pilgrims were expectedly thankful, and they celebrated alongside the Native Americans who provided them with such valuable assistance. President Abraham Lincoln initiated the contemporary practice of Thanksgiving by calling for a "day of Thanksgiving" during one of his Civil War addresses. In America today, Thanksgiving remains firmly engrained in its historical roots, and is widely considered to be a day for giving thanks for good food, good times, and family. Thanksgiving dinner generally consists of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, gravy, and ample desserts. To be sure, indulging in abundance is a cornerstone of the holiday, as doing so could only be possible if one possesses abundance. Which food(s) are often prepared for Thanksgiving dinner?

7. Choose the right answer. Let me know if you hear from her, …?

8. Choose the best answer.

A: Your shoes are dirty.

B: Yes, I know. I…them.

9. Choose the best answer. After trying for some time, he gave … working on it.

10. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence. After I ... that I had lost my way, I went back home.

11. Choose the best answer. If you don’t leave my house, I’ll have you … .

12. Choose the best answer. Because of the flu, Lauran was absent … her lessons for a couple of days.

13. Read the text and answer the questions according to it.
Reptiles have been around for millions of years and once were the most common vertebrate animals
on Earth. Today, reptiles are divided into four main groups: turtles and tortoises; lizards and snakes; crocodiles and alligators; and the tuatara. A tuatara looks like a lizard, but it isn’t. It’s a species left over from a group of reptiles as old as dinosaurs. It is the closest thing to a living dinosaur. Tuataras live only in New Zealand and are in danger of becoming extinct.
Some reptiles spend most of their time in water. But most species live on land. All have scaly skin to protect them. Reptiles are found in all habitats except polar ice in the Arctic and the tundra.
Reptiles usually lay their eggs in nests or holes dug in the ground. But some snakes, like rattlesnakes, let the eggs hatch inside the body and give birth to live babies. Female crocodiles are very good mothers. They guard the nest and even help the hatchlings get a start in life. Some snakes do this, too. But most reptiles lay their eggs and leave. The hatchlings, which are perfect miniature copies of their parents, are on their own.

According to the passage, tuataras are most like . . . .

14. Choose the correct answer. −Is your brother . . . ? −No, he isn’t. He is fat.

15. Choose the correct answer. He has been short of money ever … he bought a new house.

16. Choose the correct answer. No sooner … Elbek … the room, ... it started to snow.

17. Choose the correct answer. I don't want to watch . . . television.

18. Choose the correct answer. The reason . . . he gets into trouble so often is that he has a bad temper.

19. Choose the correct answer. The survival of some large mammals is being put at... risk by global warming and other disasters.

20. Read the text and answer the questions according to it.

Every day, a fisherman sat on a bridge. He threw the seeds into the water. He had a simple way to catch fish. He cut a branch off a tree and tied a plain string to it. He put a sharp hook on it. Then he whispered, "Come here fish." Like magic, the fish bit the hook. He took the fish home to make a big pot of fish soup from them. One day, another man walked up to him. He said, "My name is George. I am staying at the hotel. I bet that I am a better fisherman than you. I will accompany you today. I want to prove my skill." The fisherman cast his string. George had a lot of electronic tools. One machine showed him the locations of fish. The other machine could weigh the fish. At the end of the day, George subtracted his fish from the fisherman’s. The fisherman had beaten him by forty-seven. George was shocked. The fisherman told George, "I am patient and I believe in myself. Take a breath, and try it in my way."

According to the passage, all the following are TRUE about the fisherman, EXCEPT . . . .

21. Choose the correct answer. Veronica and her friend didn’t live in Brest… . They left three and a half years ago.

22. Choose the correct answer. The instructor made her students write an essay about … hometown.

23. ". . . sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate but to be indifferent to them", said Ernest Hemingway.

24. .....they need is a big fridge in their kitchen.

25. - James Smith wasn’t at home at 10 o’clock yesterday.- ... .

26. Where will the new hotel be . . . ?

27. A brief outline of the course and bibliography were handed ... to the students at the first meeting.

28. .....were you all night? I was really worried about you.

29. The flowers would grow much better if you . . .them regularly.

30. “She a famous writer one day”. “Yes, I think you are right”.

31. Are you talking to ?

32. He insisted ... being paid the full sum.

33. - Is there any difference between English spoken in the United Kingdom and that of India? -Of course, there is: in vocabulary, pronunciation and meaning of some words.

34. It was a really long trip. You be tired now.

35. - Is the soup ?- No, it isn’t. It is cold.

36. Those are glasses.

37. I was so relieved when I found my keys. I ... for them all morning.

38. He promised, “I will do it tomorrow.”

39. I am accustomed to care of myself.

40. If I lived in the country, I a lot of farm animals.