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SECTION А Grade 11

LISTENING(30 min)

B1 Task 1
You will hear 6 people. Match the person 1 – 6 with their statements A – G.
You will hear the recording twice. Be attentive! There is one extra statement.
Put your answers into the table below. You have got 20 seconds to look through the tasks.
A. Gap year should be carefully planned.
B. Gap year is a waste of time.
C. All interested parties may benefit from gap year.
D. Life of modern day students has become harder.
E. Gap year provides useful experience.
F. Gap year just helps middle class people to raise their social status.
G. Americans are not interested in gap year.
Speaker 1 2 3 4 5 6
Statement

Task 2
You will hear two Americans who teach English in China. Decide which statements А1 – А7
are 1 – True, 2 – False or 3 – Not stated. Circle the variant you choose.
You will hear the recording twice. You have 20 seconds to look through the tasks.

A1 Jerry thinks about visiting his family.

1) True2) False 3) Not stated

A2 Jerry hasn’t seen his family for three years.

1) True2) False 3) Not stated

A3 Fay suggests buying a kite for Jerry’s niece.

1) True2) False 3) Not stated

A4 Jerry doesn’t think his parents would like Beijing Opera masks.

1) True2) False 3) Not stated

A5 Fay and Jerry can’t decide on a present for Jerry’s sister.

1) True2) False 3) Not stated

A6 Jerry’s brother is interested in Chinese.

1) True2) False 3) Not stated

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A7 Fay liked Jerry’s choice of present for his brother-in-law.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
Task 3
You will hear an interview with an American actress. Answer the questions А8 – А14.
Circle answer 1, 2 or 3. You will hear the recording twice. You have 50 seconds to look through
the tasks.

A8 What is Melissa’s attitude to the attention of press?

1) She doesn’t care about it.

2) She has to live with it.
3) She doesn’t know how to deal with it.

A9 What does Melissa think about her heroine in Casanova?

She thinks she was…

1) like herself.
2) a glamorous woman.
3) a clever and firm lady.

A10 What did Melissa think about wearing a corset by the end of filming of Casanova?

1) It helped her understand her heroine.

2) It was good for her body.
3) She started to hate it.

A11 What does Melissa think about the character of Casanova?

1) He liked to share his love.

2) Such people don’t exist anymore.
3) Many people want to be like him.

A12 Who of two heroines played by Melissa in Johnny and Casanova is, according to her, a
stronger person?

1) Nikki 2) Francesca 3) Both are equally strong.

A13 What, according to Melissa, was the main feature of Abe Bolder?

1) He was very relaxed in his manner.

2) He was proud of his ego.
3) He reminded her of her brother.

A14 What does Melissa say about future?

1) She’s got too many plans.

2) She is not sure of herself.
3) She hopes to take part in a funny film.

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SECTION B

READING
Task 1

Match the headings A – Н with the texts 1 – 7. Complete the table below.
Be attentive! There is one extra heading.

A Taking refreshment E Theatrical highlights

B What’s happening F To hear and see

C Where to stay G On screen

D What to eat H Things to do

In Bath

1. In the footsteps of Jane Austen is a free audio walking tour of Bath created by Bath Tourism
Plus. Jane Austen was one of Bath's most famous residents and two of her novels are mostly set
in Bath, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. This tour takes you around the highlights of the city
and includes extracts from Jane Austen's novels and letters, which brilliantly describe Bath as it
would have been in its Georgian heyday...we hope you enjoy it!

2. Bath and beyond offers a wide range of accommodation. Stay in a hotel or guest house located
in the grand Georgian terraces or enjoy a stay in the countryside surrounding Bath where Jane
herself would often enjoy walking.
A visitor in the early 19th Century said "lodgings are not only very numerous, but are
distinguished for the elegance, convenience and comfort which they afford visitors", and the
same could be said of the accommodation in Bath today.

3. There is so much to see and do in Georgian Bath! You can 'take the waters' in the grand Pump
Room where you can also enjoy refreshments while listening to the Pump Room Trio. Or 'take
the waters' at the Spa Visitor Centre, and, after tasting the waters, why not bathe in them at
Thermal Bath Spa, the only place in the UK where you bathe in natural thermal waters. Enjoy a
one hour boat trip around the city with Bath City Boat Trips passing the house that Jane Austen
lived in at Green Park. Shopping and evening entertainments were an important part of Georgian
life, this is still true to life in Bath today. Bath has more - and better - shops than a city ten times
its size, it is also known as a city of festivals with 37 taking place throughout the year. During the
evening attend the local theatre.

4. Bath is a thriving, vibrant city with a year round calendar of festivals, theatrical, musical and
sporting events. For Jane Austen fans enjoy the festival dedicated to her in September or attend a
show at the theatre, something that Jane herself loved to do. The tenth Jane Austen Festival will
begin with the annual colourful costumed parade through the city centre. The week long
programme includes talks and productions, readings and tours, and draws Jane Austen fans from
around the world.

5. The theatre that Jane Austen loved to attend opened in Orchard Street in 1750. In 1768 it was
distinguished by being the first theatre outside London to be protected by a royal patent. This
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theatre drew superstars of the time like Sarah Siddons and today the Theatre Royal in Sawclose,
dating from 1805, attracts pre-West End shows and top name performers.

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6. Many of Jane Austen's novels have been made into television adaptations, this includes
Northanger Abbey (1987), Persuasion (1994, 2006) and Mansfield Park (2007). The 2006 ITV
version of Persuasion was filmed in 14 different Bath locations and stared Sally Hawkins as
Anne Elliot and Rupert Penry-Jones as Captain Wentworth. Follow in the footsteps of Jane
Austen and spot the sights which double as filming locations in many of her film and television
adaptations. The Bath movie map will guide you around Bath's famous backdrops, including the
Royal Crescent, the Circus and the Assembly Rooms.

7. In Jane Austen's time visitors flocked to Bath to 'take the waters' which was considered to be
good for your health. This involved drinking large quantities of Bath's natural spa water - up to
eight pints a day! You can still sample a glass of the Spa water at the Pump Room, which was
pivotal to life in Bath in Jane Austen's time. The Pump Room is the perfect place to visit for a
real taste of Georgian life. Enjoy listening to the sound of the Pump Room Trio while you take
some drink and food here and admire this striking neo-classical salon.

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Task 2
B3
Read the text. Choose parts of the sentences A-G to fill in the text 1 – 6.
Be attentive! There is one extra piece of information in the list A-G. Complete the table below.

A nap after lunch boosts the brain's learning capacity

Having a nap after lunch can increase your intelligence, a new study claims.

Researchers have found that sleeping for an hour in the afternoon boosts brain power and
dramatically increases its 1_________. On the other hand, the more hours we spend awake, the
more sluggish our minds become and the 2___________. "Sleep not only rights the wrong of
prolonged wakefulness but, at a neurocognitive level, it 3______________ before you took a
nap," said Professor Matthew Walker, who led the study at the University of California.
Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Prof
Walker said the results 4__________ “pulling an all-nighter” – or cramming for exams reduced
ability to learn new facts by 40 per cent. The reason was due to a 5________ due to sleep
deprivation and the filling up of the short term memory that was usually filed and emptied during
periods of sleep.
Scientists have long suspected that there is a link between sleep and memory and have
suggested that it 6_________, enabling the brain to distinguish between important and useless
information.

A. ability to learn new facts and tasks

G. less able to absorb new information
E. moves you beyond where you were
C. support previous research that found
D. shutdown of parts of the brain regions
F. acts like a sort of filing system
B. region of the brain where fact-based memories are first stored

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Task 3

Read the story. Choose the best answer 1, 2, 3 or 4 to the questions А15–А21.Circle the
answer.

It might be the worst house of the week – and indeed most of the people sitting near me
looked stupid – but even so it was wonderful in a way to leave the darkening and chilly streets of
Newcastle and then find oneself sitting in the fourth row at the Empire. I think the secret of all
these music halls is that while they seemed big –and most of them were - at the same time they
seemed warm, cosy, intimate. A lot has been written about the magic of the playhouse, but it has
always seemed to me very pale and thin compared with the warmer and deeper magic of the
music-hall. The first was a “fill-in”, a pair of trick cyclists, and of course I wasn’t interested in
them. The second act on the programme were the Colmars, three male acrobats and a girl. It was
one of those acts, which had always rather bored me, in which the men stood on each other’s
shoulders and chucked the girl around a lot. (I saw one recently, on a TV circus programme, and
it seemed just the same, unchanged in a world of bewildering transformations).
Next was Harry Burrad, Eccentric Comedian, who came rushing on, with the band
playing its loudest, waving his arms and hoarsely breaking at once into one of his hell-for-leather
idiotic songs. His make-up and costume left the audience in no doubt that he was a funny man.
But this Monday first house offered him only a few distant giggles. Perhaps like me they didn’t
think him funny. Diddy-diddy-oodah-oodah-oodah, he croaked away, still waving his arms, and
nobody cared. At first, he made me feel embarrassed, and then as he went on and on without any
encouragement, I began to feel sorry for him. I know I felt relieved when he took himself off,
with the band at its loudest again, pretending desperately that a little weary clapping was an
ovation.
Uncle Nick was next, the last act before the interval. The orchestra opened as usual with
part of the Ballet Egyptian, and then a gong sounded. And there – a tall, commanding, sinister
figure –was the Indian magician himself. There was no doubt that Uncle Nick was a superb
showman. Even the stupid fat deadheads sitting all round me waiting for death rather than for
any entertainment, were not entirely unimpressed.
I led the rather scattered applause, but did not succeed in bringing back the magician
before the curtain to take a final bow. When the lights went up for the interval I looked around
me. The Monday first-house people looked just as stolid as they had done before. Their sense of
wonder had not been touched and aroused, because they had none.
Tommy Beamish, topping the bill, came on next. He was one of those rare comedians
who began to make me laugh as soon as they appeared. He was a born comic. He never bothered
with the ordinary comedian’s patter, told no funny stories, sang no comic songs. He would go on
repeating some commonplace phrase or even one word, with deepening bewilderment or
growing indignation, like a creature from some other world baffled by this one, until he had only
to make the smallest gesture or mutter half a word to produce another roar of laughter from the
nearest stalls to the high distant gallery. Even the fat deadheads all around me had to laugh,
though they hated doing it.
I watched the evening performance from the wings. It was queer watching it all again
from the side. Luckily the atmosphere was quite different from what it had been during the first
house. The audience was now large, lively, responsive. The Colmars went very well, and had to
take several calls. I found Uncle Nick’s act even more impressive than at the first house, seeing it
from the front. This was chiefly because of the audience. He was called back several times.
As the curtain came down for the interval, Uncle Nick joined me in the wings.
“Went well, didn’t it?”
“Wonderful”, I told him.

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A15 Why was the author displeased when he came to the theatre?- He didn’t like ...
1. the theatre building.
2. the spectators.
3. the performance.
4. the scenery.

A16 What is the secret music-halls have? -They are ...

1. seemingly big .
2. darkening and chilly.
3. big but intimate.
4. magically deep.

A17 Why was the author bored when he saw the acrobats?
1. He had already seen this performance on TV.
2. He thought such programs lacked variety.
3. He thought such programs should be shown in the circus.
4. It seemed to him this act resembled the previous one.

A18 How did the spectators react to the performance of the Eccentric Comedian?
1. They giggled a lot.
2. They gave him an ovation.
3. They waved their hands.
4. They practically didn’t laugh.

A19 Why did the author feel relieved when the Eccentric Comedian left?
1. He was bored with the performance
2. He enjoyed the performance so much that he couldn’t laugh any more
3. He felt pity for the comedian as the audience wasn’t responsive.
4. He was ashamed of the poor performance of the comedian.

A20 Why did the spectators remain indifferent to the show?

1. The audience lacked a sense of wonder.
2. The actors hadn’t shown their best.
3. The performance was not planned well.
4. The spectators were very tired.

A21 Why did the author like uncle Nick’s act more during the next house?
1. Uncle Nick was more convincing.
2. The audience was more animated.
3. The atmosphere was luckier.
4. The author was in a better mood.

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SECTION C

USE OF ENGLISH

Read the text. Change (if necessary) the words in capitals in each line B4–B10
to fit in the blanks . Put down the words.

Bill Smith had a way with dogs, a kind of power over

B4 ______. They would sit in awe of him, would listen to him, THEY
would slink away sheepishly if they had growled near him.
B5 It was a skill I had cause to be thankful for once or _______. TWO
The odd thing was, that Bram, the last dog Bill owned
B6 _________in 1925 - fifty years distant. DIE
B7 Bill was a ________, life long bachelor. He lived alone in the RETIRE
small terraced house next door but two from us. On a
number of occasions, I visited Bill's house, and it seemed
B8 that it _____ much from the 50s. NOT CHANGE
B9 There were hints that some articles _____ apart from the NOT DISTURB
occasional silverfish or woodlouse, since the 1930s. He had a
picture of a dog in the small converted
kitchen which housed his huge solid pillowed chair,
B10 newspapers___________ from beneath its seat cushion. PROTRUDE

Read the text. Change (if necessary) the words in capitals in each line В11–В16 to fill in the
text. Write the words into the text.

ESCORTED TOURS

B11 Organizing a holiday can be a very challenging task. Some people STRESS
find the experience as _________ as the
B12 _______ demands of work and family commitment if you DAY
are in this situation, you may find that taking an escorted
B13 holiday as the ideal ________ . Escorted holidays offer a great SOLVE
balance between sightseeing, entertainment and leisure time, with the
advantage that you have the services of a professional
B14 tour manager, who accompanies you throughout the trip, acting as PERSON
your _________guide. From the first day to the last, tour managers
B15 make your holiday experience even more memorable because of the INFORM
invaluable ________ and helpful suggestions they provide. Your tour
manager will give you many insight into the place you are visiting,
B16 including useful information on the distinctive characteristics of the REGION
place, such as _______ food and local entertainment.

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Read the text. Choose the word 1-4 that best fits the blanks in the text А22–А28.
Circle the word you choose.

British male buoyed up by beer and chips

MORE than a third of British men live on a diet of beer and fast food, a study of the national diet
has shown. 
Women do A22___ any better, eating a “traditional British diet” high in sugars, cereals
and fats and washed down with lots of tea. 
Only 17 per cent ate a diet close to that recommended by healthy eating groups — high in
fibre and  A23___  in fat. But even this group consumed above­average amounts of wine and
spirits. The study was produced by a team from University College London, which used data
from The Dietary and Nutritional Survey of British Adults, a report by the Department of Health
and the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that was updated in October this year. 
The data was A24___ from seven­day food and drink diaries compiled by 2,000 men and
women. When their diets  were broken down into groups, the team found that the “beer and
convenience” diet was favoured by most men. 
This group ate large quantities of ready­made meat products, chips and white bread and
drank beer. They steered clear of A25___ choices such as wholegrain cereals, fish and low­fat
dairy products. 
Women who ate the “traditional British diet”, which is high in refined sugars and dairy
products, preferred A26___ to alcohol and ate more chips and cakes than vegetables, fruit and
wholegrain cereals. 
The study’s findings will come A27___ a setback to the Department of Health, which has
tried to promote healthy diets. 
It may also explain  A28___  Britain has one of the highest rates of heart disease in the
world. It is the UK’s biggest killer, causing more than 250,000 deaths each year.

A22 1. not 2.almost 3. nearly 4. hardly

A23 1. higher 2.low 3. lower 4. rich

A24 1. shown 2. taken 3. seen 4. given

A25 1. tastier 2. fatter 3. healthier 4. cheaper

A26 1. beer 2. wine 3.tea 4. spirits

A27 1. like 2. as 3. to 4. for

A28 1. when 2. while 3. because 4. why

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SECTION D

WRITING

С1 This is a part of a letter you have received from an American friend whose parents are
about to take a long holiday overseas.

…
My parents will be passing through your part of the country in mid-
October. Can you give them some advice about what clothes they will
need? What sorts of things can they expect to be able to buy as souvenirs?
By the way, if there’s anything you would like from the US, please let
them know.

Anyway, I have moved to a new house.

Write a letter to your friend. In your letter

- answer his questions
- ask 3 questions about his new house
Write 100 – 140 words. Remember the rules of letter writing

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C2 Comment on the following statement.

It is important that people decide on their career when they are still students at school.

What is your opinion? Write 200 – 250 words. Use the following plan:
- Make an introduction (state the problem)
- Express your personal opinion and give reasons for it
- Give arguments for the other point of view and explain why
you don’t agree with it
- Draw a conclusion

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THE END OF THE READING AND WRITING SECTION

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