Examination card №12

I. Read and translate the text.

William Shakespeare

There have been many great writers in the history of English literature, but
there is no doubt about which writer was the greatest. Many people consider
William Shakespeare to have been the best writer who ever lived.
Shakespeare’s most famous plays include Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth,
Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Julius Caesar. Usually, Shakespeare did not
invent the stories that he told in his plays. Instead, he wrote his plays using
stories that already existed. However, Shakespeare’s plays told these stories
in a more interesting way than ever before. Some of the stories were
tragedies, some were comedies, and some described historical events.
In his plays, Shakespeare revealed a very wide knowledge of many areas of
life. The characters in his plays discuss many different topics, often with the
knowledge of experts. But what is even more impressive about these plays is
Shakespeare’s use of the English language. His vocabulary was very large,
and Shakespeare seems to have introduced many words to the language! Also,
many of the phrases that are said by Shakespeare’s characters are now used in
everyday conversation. Today, writers often use quotations from
Shakespeare’s plays in their own works.
But perhaps even the most impressive features of Shakespeare’s plays are
the characters within them. The many characters in his plays seem very
different from each other, but they seem very realistic. The emotions they
feel, the words they say, and the actions they perform are all easily
understood. Many people who watch one of Shakespeare’s plays will find that
they know people who remind them somewhat of the characters in those
plays.

II. Put a question to a sentence

1. He will tell us about his work.
2. She has some flowers.
3. He has lived in England for fifty years.

1. The book was read by her ( книга была прочитана ней ) ;

2. The cinema was invented in France ( кинотеатр был изобретен у Франции ) ;

3. St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv was built in the 11th century ( собор святой Софии в Киеве был построен в 11 столетии ) ;

4. The books were published last year by them ( книги были опубликованы в году ними ) ;

5. The dog wasn't taken for a walk an hour ago ( собака не была выгуляна час назад ) ;

6. English and Arabic are taught at our school ( английский и арабский учат у школе );

7. The book was written in 1975. ( книга была написана в 1975 ) ;

8. This program is watched by millions people . ( эту программа смотрят миллионы людей) ;

9. The song was sung by John Lennon ( Песня пелась Джоном Ленаном ) ;

10. the myth about Loch Ness was created by Scottish people ( миф про лохнес был создан шодландскими людьми ).

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Объяснение:

Read the text. Are the sentences true or false?

Martin Blane is a farmer in Cornwall, in England. One summer, Martin noticed that something strange was happening on his land. He was standing on a bridge and looking at the wheat in his fields when he realised there was a strange picture in the wheat.

‘I looked and saw lots of circles in the wheat. The line of circles went across the field from the gate all the way to the end by the stream. They were very big. Other circles made a kind of picture in the wheat. I thought aliens had come from space.’

During that summer, and all through the 1970s, more strange pictures appeared in wheat fields on farms in the south of England. Nobody knew what these ‘crop circles’ were. Photographs of them appeared in all the newspapers and people thought the subject was gripping. Many thought that aliens had come to Earth and made the pictures.

But then in the 1990s two men admitted to making the crop circles. They made a plan for a picture and then they went out secretly in the night to make their picture in the fields. Some people think they were creative and the crop circles were entertaining, but their actions were illegal. The men were on land that didn’t belong to them. Farmers were angry because their crops were damaged. The two men promised to stop.

However, the crop circles are still appearing. On the Internet, you will find photographs of crop circles on farms in different countries around the world. Some people believe the two men were lying, and the crop circles are really made by aliens.

1 Martin Blane noticed that the animals in his fields were behaving strangely.

2 The big circles went from one end of the field to the other.

3 The media weren’t interested in the crop circles.

4 Everyone was angry because the men damaged farmers’ crops.

5 People disagree about who makes the crop circles.