Итоговая контрольная.

1. Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами А–Е и заголовками 1–5.

A. The ‘Sunday papers’ are so called because that is the only day on which they are published. Sunday papers are usually thicker than the dailies and many of them have six or more sections. Some of them are ‘sisters’ of the daily newspapers. It means they are published by the same company but not on week days.

B. The quality papers or broadsheets are for the better educated readers. They devote much space to politics and other ‘serious’ news. The popular papers, or tabloids, sell to a much larger readership. They contain less text and a lot more pictures. They use bigger headlines and write in a simpler style of English. They concentrate on ‘human interest stories’ which often means scandal.

C. Not so long ago in Britain if you saw someone reading a newspaper you could tell what kind it was without even checking the name. It was because the quality papers were printed on very large pages called ‘broadsheet’. You had to have expert turning skills to be able to read more than one page. The tabloids were printed on much smaller pages which were much easier to turn.

D. The desire to attract more readers has meant that in the twentieth century sometimes even the broadsheets in Britain look rather ‘popular’. They give a lot of coverage to scandal and details of people’s private lives. The reason is simple. What matters most for all newspaper publishers is making a profit. They would do anything to sell more copies.

E. If you go into any newsagent’s shop in Britain you will not find only newspapers. You will also see rows and rows of magazines for almost every imaginable taste. There are specialist magazines for many popular pastimes. There are around 3,000 of them published in the country and they are widely read, especially by women. Magazines usually list all the TV and radio programmes for the coming week and many British readers prefer them to newspapers.

1.

Money above privacy

2.

Focus on different readers

3.

The successful competitor

4.

Size makes a difference

5.

Weekend reading

2. Грамматика.

2.1. Косвенная речь.

a) Father said to Nick:”Have you done your homework?”

b) “Give me your book, Nick”, said the teacher

c) She asked me: ”What will you do tomorrow?”

d)“I can’t explain this rule to you”’ said my classmate to me.

e) “You have not done your work well”, said the teacher to me.

2.2 Условные предложения.

Раскрывая скобки, выберите правильный вариант согласно типам условных предложений. Первая часть подскажет.

a) If my friend comes to see me....

b)If mother had bought a cake.....

c) If we  received a telegram from him......

d) If you do not work systematically....

e) If you was busy.....

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слово, напечатанное заглавными буквами в скобках так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.

Dr Michael Werner says that he has eaten nothing for four years.

The German ________1__________(SCIENCE) explains that he gets all his energy from sunlight. He says he drinks only water and ____________2______(DIFFER) fruit juices. Dr Werner has written an _____________3_____(EXCITE) book about his experiences. In it he says that when he started the experiment he even put on weight.

He says: “I can't really give an ________4__________(EXPLAIN) of what’s happening to me; perhaps I just believe in my theory.” Dr Werner’s colleagues say that only plants can produce energy from the sun, and they cannot explain how he is able to stay ______________5____(HEALTH). “This case ____________6______(PROBABLE) needs a lot more research before we will be able to explain it,” they say.