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Задание № 1

ЧТЕНИЕ

Прочитайте текст и выберите правильный ответ (A - утверждение верно, B – утверждение неверно, C - в тексте нет такой информации).

Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) Victorian novelist who created some of the most memorable characters in English Literature, while also criticising the worst excesses of Victorian society. Novels included Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and David Copperfield.
Early life
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens.
As a child, Charles experienced the fickle hands of fate; he was first taught at a private school before being removed because of his family’s financial hardship.
In fact, his father’s debts were so bad, the whole family (apart from the young Charles was sent to the debtor’s prison at Marshalsea (this would later be the setting for one of his novels – Little Dorrit). However, although Charles escaped detention in the debtors’ prison, he was made to work long, 10 hour days, at a local boot blacking factory. The hard and dangerous work left a lasting impression on Charles Dickens, who would later incorporate in his writings a sense of social injustice that was endemic in Victorian Britain.

“I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!” – from David Copperfield.

Charles managed to escape the grind of factory work, by training to be a shorthand writer and gaining employment as a journalist – reporting on court cases.
In 1833, he became a parliamentary journalist for the Morning Chronicle. The young Dickens was fascinated with the Houses of Parliament, though he was often left with a lowly impression of the MPs. Shortly after this, he began writing his first serialised stories, published under a pseudonym – Boz. In 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth and also in that year, he saw the first publication of ‘The Pickwick Papers’ His first book proved to be a great seller, and this enabled him to become a full time writer.
As well as writing popular novels, Charles Dickens took great interest in the social issues of the day. He toured both Europe and the United States speaking against slavery and the various social injustices that he saw. He even founded his own paper – The Daily News. This was its first editorial:

“The principles advocated in The Daily News will be principles of progress and improvement; of education, civil and religious liberty, and equal legislation. Principles, such as its conductors believe the advancing spirit of the time requires: the condition of the country demands: and justice, reason and experience legitimately sanction.”
The Daily News (21st January 1846)

Charles Dickens has become one of the most popular writers in English. In particular, his novels are brimming with colourful and eccentric characters which leave a lasting impression. He achieved this through his vivid memory of the various people he had met through his life, but also, he added a touch of fantasy and exaggeration with his vivid descriptive style.
There are various themes which run throughout his writings, which often reflect a degree of autobiography. Dickens loved the Rags to Riches stories, exemplified by Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. He frequently highlighted the worst excesses of Victorian society and made a passionate case for a more caring and moral society. For his attacks on social injustice, Dickens was considered a “Radical” of his time. Though in a later essay by the socialist, George Orwell, Orwell questioned his lack of alternatives:

“In Oliver Twist, Hard Times, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself hated, and, more he has become a national institution himself. In its attitude towards Dickens the English public has always been a little like the elephant which feels a blow with a walking-stick as a delightful tickling. Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody. Naturally this makes one wonder whether after all there was something unreal in his attack upon society.”
George Orwell, Charles Dickens (1939)

Charles Dickens had ten children with his wife, but, became estranged from her and ended his life living with his mistress Ellen Ternan. Also, towards the end of his life, in June 1865, he was involved in the tragic Staplehurst rail crash where he narrowly avoided injury.
Dickens died on June 8th, 1870 after a stroke. He was writing a book ‘Edwin Drood’. He had wished to be buried at Rochester Cathedral in a simple and private manner, but contrary to his wishes, he was buried at Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey.

Вопрос № 1 1 балла(ов)

Charles Dickens was the second out of eight children

A) TRUE

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED Это правильный ответ

Вопрос № 2 1 балла(ов)

Charles Dickens finished a private school

A) TRUE

B) FALSE Это правильный ответ

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 3 1 балла(ов)

Once the whole family was sent to prison

A) TRUE

B) FALSE Это правильный ответ

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 4 1 балла(ов)

Charles managed to escape hard physical work by studying and acquiring a profession of a shorthand writer

A) TRUE Это правильный ответ

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 5 1 балла(ов)

Charles published serial stories under a pseudonym

A) TRUE Это правильный ответ

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 6 1 балла(ов)

Names and characters of people greatly inspired Charles Dickens

A) TRUE

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED Это правильный ответ

Вопрос № 7 1 балла(ов)

Dickens became a journalist

A) TRUE Это правильный ответ

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 8 1 балла(ов)

Dickens used to create his early masterpieces at night

A) TRUE

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED Это правильный ответ

Вопрос № 9 1 балла(ов)

Dickens loved stories in which poor people became rich

A) TRUE Это правильный ответ

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 10 1 балла(ов)

Charles Dickens’ wife was called Ellen

A) TRUE

B) FALSE Это правильный ответ

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 11 1 балла(ов)

Dickens managed to survive in a rail crash

A) TRUE Это правильный ответ

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 12 1 балла(ов)

The train crash experience shocked Dickens so greatly that he

A) TRUE

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED Это правильный ответ

Вопрос № 13 1 балла(ов)

Charles Dickens died at the age of 70

A) TRUE

B) FALSE Это правильный ответ

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 14 1 балла(ов)

Charles was buried not where he wanted

A) TRUE Это правильный ответ

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED

Вопрос № 15 1 балла(ов)

He was buried in Westminster Abbey

A) TRUE Это правильный ответ

B) FALSE

C) NOT STATED

Задание № 2

ЛЕКСИКА-ГРАММАТИКА

TASK 1

Выберите верный фразовый глагол (a, b, c или d) в данном контексте.

Вопрос № 1 1 балла(ов)

I have to ________ on my expenses, I can’t make my ends meet.

a) cut back Это правильный ответ

b) fall back on

c) sit back

d) set back

Вопрос № 2 1 балла(ов)

You should really pay attention in class! You cannot ________ in time and make your teacher explain it all once again!

a) bounce back

b) get back Это правильный ответ

c) take back

d) call back

Вопрос № 3 1 балла(ов)

Lisa should never ________ this issue in our conversation! I think, there is no point discussing.

a) set up

b) take up

c) go up

d) bring up Это правильный ответ

Вопрос № 4 1 балла(ов)

Our plans to go on holiday_________ when we learnt we had so many exams.

a) went through

b) saw through

c) came through

d) fell through Это правильный ответ

Вопрос № 5 1 балла(ов)

Make sure we have enough drinks to ________ before the party.

a) go round Это правильный ответ

b) come round

c) give round

d) set round

Задание № 3

TASK 2

Выберите правильный ответ, который подходит в оба предложения.

Вопрос № 1 1 балла(ов)

(A) I can't go out with you tonight. I'm up to my _____ in work.
(B) I've just lost the company a £10,000 order. I'll probably get it in the _____ for that.

a) toes

b) hair

c) throats

d) ear/ears

e) eye

f) neck Это правильный ответ

Вопрос № 2 1 балла(ов)

(A) You're always working so hard. Why don't you let your _____ down for a change?
(B) I thought Heidi would be really angry with me for going out with her boyfriend, but to my surprise she didn't turn a _____.

a) toes

b) hair Это правильный ответ

c) throats

d) ear/ears

e) eye

f) neck

Вопрос № 3 1 балла(ов)

(A) When John stood up and started singing in the restaurant, it made my _____ curl.
(B) I didn't mean to tread on your _____, but I didn't realise it was your job to answer the phone.

a) toes Это правильный ответ

b) hair

c) throats

d) ear/ears

e) eye

f) neck

Вопрос № 4 1 балла(ов)

(A) Could you keep an _____ on the children while I go to the shops?
(B) Andy and I get on very well together, even though we don't always see _____ to _____.

a) toes

b) hair

c) throats

d) ear/ears

e) eye Это правильный ответ

f) neck

Вопрос № 5 1 балла(ов)

(A) Richard and Mark were at each other's _____ all through the meeting.
(B) Television channels are always forcing programmes about the environment down our _____.

a) toes

b) hair

c) throats Это правильный ответ

d) ear/ears

e) eye

f) neck

Задание № 4

TASK 3

Выберите правильный вариант A, B, C или D.

Вопрос № 1 1 балла(ов)

You ____ a tie on Friday they don’t let men into the restaurant unless they are wearing a tie.

A) would wear

B) have to wear Это правильный ответ

C) can wear

D) may wear

Вопрос № 2 1 балла(ов)

Jennifer ____ the promotion that she is expecting as she hasn’t reached her sales target yet.

A) shouldn’t have got

B) hadn’t got

C) may not get Это правильный ответ

D) wasn’t getting

Вопрос № 3 1 балла(ов)

In our company the sales representatives and the managers are provided ______ a company car.

A) with Это правильный ответ

B) from

C) by

D) into

Вопрос № 4 1 балла(ов)

The coach driver couldn’t see through the window because it _____ properly.

A) doesn’t clean

B) didn’t use to clean

C) wasn’t supposed to clean

D) hadn’t been cleaned Это правильный ответ

Вопрос № 5 1 балла(ов)

The film “Rainmaker” is based _______the book of the same name by John Grisham and tells the story of a newly qualified lawyer

A) for

B) from

C) on Это правильный ответ

D) by

Задание № 5

СТРАНОВЕДЕНИЕ

Совместите писателей и их работы.

Вопрос № 1 5 балла(ов)

А	В
Mary Shelley Правильно:3	1. The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne a child out of wedlock. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England very much alive and conceals his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery.
Washington Irving Правильно:5	2. This is a story about the American Civil War, heartbreak and slavery. It is not necessarily a book one would associate with hope. And yet, at the novel’s heart lies Scarlett O’Hara, one of the most ruthlessly optimistic characters in literature.
George Gordon Byron Правильно:4	3. The book tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who creates an artificial man from pieces of corpses and brings his creature to life.
Margaret Mitchell Правильно:2	4. The poem tells of a disillusioned young man, a melancholy, solitary, cynical hero, who tires of his sinful, pleasure-seeking lifestyle and decides to travel. The poet drew on his own experiences of the Grand Tour.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Правильно:1	5. The story of Ichabod Crane and his hapless attempt to win the heart and hand of Katrina van Tassel in the context of a comical ghost story. Ichabod comes to Sleepy Hollow, New York, from his home state of Connecticut, to be the schoolmaster of the village.