Английский язык тесты зно год.

Зовнішнє незалежне оцінювання 2015 року з англійської мови

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5. The following advertisement informs us of an offer to ___.

Read the texts below. For questions (6-10) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Going Green!
By Julie Cameron

When I told my mother I was going to be a vegetarian she didn’t try to discourage me, she simply said, “Fine, but I’m not making two dinners”. She thought it was a phase, something that I would grow out of. After all, who can live their entire life without eating a hamburger, or the traditional turkey at Thanksgiving? Turns out, lots of people can.

Much to my mother’s dismay, I turned out to be one of thousands of vegetarians in Canada who were under voting age. Some people thought I did it to be cool, some people (like my mother) thought I did it for shock value. But I was always asked the one-word question: WHY?

Lots of reasons. I was never a big steak fan, loved animals, and when I was little I had a friend who lived on a dairy farm. If you have ever named a cow, you will understand how difficult it is to sit down to a hamburger. But there was, of course, one fateful encounter that pushed me to my dinner of destiny.

My mother had a friend named Jen. Jen had long brown hair down to her calves. I’m not exaggerating, it was down to her calves. She insisted we go to a natural food store in our town so she could get organic vegetables and soymilk. I had never even known what soy was, or that there was a difference between vegetables from the grocery store and vegetables from a natural food store. And I was amazed. Not only did she have hair down to her calves, but she also knew about foods I had never even heard of. My decision was made.

I feel very fortunate to be a vegetarian in an age where there are so many meat alternatives. My friends and family appreciate that I don’t try to force my food choices on them.

If you are thinking about becoming a vegetarian, it’s important to do a little research first and make sure you maintain a healthy diet. I have met so many junk-food vegetarians (a self-proclaimed vegetarian who doesn’t eat meat, but doesn’t eat anything healthy or remotely close to a vegetable), that I’m not surprised most people think eating vegetarian isn’t healthy.

6. According to paragraph 1, how did Julie’s mother react to her daughter’s decision to become a vegetarian?

7. What finally persuaded Julie to try vegetarianism?

8. According to the text, which of the following is the most essential to be a vegetarian?

9. According to the text, all of the following statements about vegetarians are true EXCEPT ______.

10. It is stated in the text that Julie _____.

Discovered: Oldest Writing in the New World

Anthropologists study people (17)___. Items those men, women, and children left behind when they died - (18)_____ - tell anthropologists a lot. And sometimes even their words survive. Experts believe that a discovery in Mexico, near the capital city of ancient people called the Olmec, is the oldest example of writing that has ever been found in the Americas. The people who created it probably lived 3,000 years ago, (19)_____. Stephen Houston, (20)_____, says the discovery is extremely exciting. “It makes clear that the Olmec were literate, (21)______. It’s like hearing voices from the past," he says. But experts don’t know exactly what the writing says. If you have ever tried to figure out a message written in code, you have a pretty good idea of the hard work ahead. Finding other examples of Olmec writing could help crack the code. “We could have whole sets of ancient writing (22)_____,” says Houston. “There are many puzzles to be solved, and this is just one of them.“

17. Anthropologists study people (17) _____.

18. Items those men, women, and children left behind when they died - (18)____ - tell anthropologists a lot.

19. The people who created it probably lived 3,000 years ago, (19)____.

20. Stephen Houston, (20)_____, says the discovery is extremely exciting.

21. “It makes clear that the Olmec were literate, (21)_____.

22. “We could have whole sets of ancient writing (22)____,” says Houston.

Read the text below. For questions (23-32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Is There Such a Thing as Internet Addiction?

Ben Alexander always struggled to (23)<_____> in. Teased at school, he (24)_____ to the internet, where he found a (25)______ new world of friends. Subscribing (26) the hugely popular online game World of Warcraft , he (27)_____ 12 million other people - including the actor Vin Diesel, the presenter Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane Goldman - in a quest reminiscent of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings .

In the game, players create avatars in whose guise they spend hours with other players (28)_____ battles. “There’s lots of working together,” says Alexander. “That’s what made it so attractive, because the social thing was something I always had trouble with. It was a lot easier to socialize and make friends online than it was in real life.”

The 19-year-old’s interest in the game soon developed into an obsession. He began (29)______ his biology lectures at university and spending up to 17 hours a day online. Eventually he had depression diagnosed and was (30)______ medication. He was also treated (31)______ internet addiction.

Alexander admits that he needed help: “I don’t think I would have been able to (32)_____ out of it myself.”

23. Ben Alexander always struggled to (23)____ in.

24. Teased at school, he (24)____ to the internet, ...

26. Subscribing (26)______ the hugely popular online game World of Warcraft, ...

27. ... he (27)_____ 12 million other people - including the actor Vin Diesel, the presenter Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane Goldman...

28. In the game, players create avatars in whose guise they spend hours with other players (28)____ battles.

29. He began (29)_____ his biology lectures at university and spending up to 17 hours a day online.

30. Eventually he had depression diagnosed and was (30)_____ medication.

31. He was also treated (31)____ internet addiction.

32. Alexander admits that he needed help: “I don’t think I would have been able to (32)____ out of it myself.”

Read the texts below. For questions (33-37) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812 and died in London in 1870. He is buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. Dickens spent (33) his life in London and often used to walk (34) ten and twenty miles all over the city when he was (35) to sleep and was thinking about the plot of a new novel. While (36) , he used to observe the sights, sounds and smells of London in order to write about them. Because of the Industrial Revolution Britain, and especially London (37) very quickly.