соч Total 15 points 1. Reading. Read the article about mobile phones and do the tasks. (4 points) Mobile Fever Why are we so addicted to mobile phones? There are now over forty million people in Britain with mobiles and if the present trend continues, every man, woman and child in Britain will soon have one – or two, or three! They can be expensive and are possibly bad for us. You can spend a lot of money if you use your mobile a lot. According to some scientists, if we go on using mobiles, we’ll cook our brains. Some people even say that radiation from mobiles causes cancer. Teenagers are among the biggest users of mobiles, and ‘texting’ is creating a new language full of abbreviations such as ‘How RU?’ in Japan, Surveys show teenagers are reading less and mobile use is affecting the marks of secondary school learners. A big problem in Britain is crime. Last year half a million British teenagers were victims of mobile phone theft. As technology improves, mobiles can do more and more. If you have one of the new multimedia mobiles, you can log on the net, pay for things, play games, interact with TV programs and take photos to send to your friends. Read the text again and answer the questions. 1. How many British people are addicted to mobile phones? A) 60 million B) 40 million C) 5 million D) 2 million 2. … are among the biggest users of mobiles. A) Middle age people B) Old people C) Young people D) Adult people Read the text and give a short answer. 3. Does a mobile phone improve the marks of the learners? 4. Is ‘texting’ creating a new type of communication? 2. Writing. Complete the sentences with the suitable words. (3 points) Spread, eat, distract, couch potato, desert island, transform. 1. is a person, who eats a lot of junk food and do nothing all the day. 2. Technology will our home in ways we can only dream about. 3. Don’t say anything if you are not sure, rumors really fast. 4. The ship found the survivors on a . 5. It’s very rude to with your hands in my country. 6. The Internet you from real life. 3. Use of English. Choose the correct item. (2 points) 1. My brother used to/didn’t use to travel a lot before he got married, but now he spends all his time travelling to different countries with his wife. 2. Kristin used to/didn’t use to have long dark hair, but now her hair is really short. 3. My sister used to/didn’t use to eat only seafood, but now she loves it. 4. Mary used to/didn’t use to wear sweater, she preferred wearing jackets. 4. Use of English. Complete the sentences with can, could, be able to in appropriate tense. (6 points) 1. Although I woke up 40 minutes late, I ………. get to work on time. 2. Emily … cook perfect meal as the meat was fresh. 3. We … see the performance better if we buy the tickets in the first row. 4. You … drive a car in Kazakhstan until you are 18. 5. I … speak French now at all but I … speak it two years ago very well. 6. …you hear the sound? I was really scared.

1. Come to us tonight.We'll be home after 7 o'clock.

2. What will you do after class?We're going to see the new museum.

3. What time will you wake up tomorrow?I'll get up earlier than usual.

4. When will you translate this text?We'll start translating it in an hour.

5.Are they staying at the college after school today?Yes.We will go to have a meeting.

6. Will he be free next week?I think he will be very busy.

7. Students will not participate in this discussion.

8. Sports competitions will begin tomorrow at 10 o'clock.Don't be late.

9. When will she arrive in Paris?She's coming next week.

10. The teacher will answer all the students' questions at the next lesson.

Is it possible to imagine modern life without modern inventions, for example, without the Internet? Nowadays, it is customary to scold it and assume that all misfortunes occur solely because of it. So let's try to consider the positive and negative aspects of life without using the global information network and decide whether we should permanently eliminate it from our life or not.

Suppose you decided to exclude the Internet from your everyday life. What positive changes will it lead to? Firstly, if you stop sitting in front of the computer screen, you will have free time to spend on your favorite activities: reading, drawing, sports, music, etc. These hobbies make life fascinating and exciting, as well as broaden your horizons and improve your health if you take the time to exercise. Secondly, real communication will return to our life, and there will be personal meetings with friends, acquaintances, relatives. Discussing the topics of concern to us, we will see a real interlocutor, perhaps with the opposite point of view, and we will learn to respect the opinion of another person, find a compromise, common language, that is, develop communication skills. Most likely, handwritten letters will return to our lives. As you know, fine motor skills positively affect the brain and therefore contribute to the development of intelligence. And this is another advantage of living outside the World Wide Web.

And what negative consequences await us in case of refusal to use the Internet? Although it may sound strange, but above all, now it’s a waste of time to queue up. Using a worldwide network, we can make an appointment to see a doctor at a convenient time for us and come to the hospital at the appointed hour or buy a train ticket without losing time to get to the train station and wait for the operator to work with other clients. Thus, we will lose this convenience at the moment when the Internet disappears from our lives. In addition, we will have to forget about talking on Skype, and it’s so nice to see relatives and friends living in another city or even abroad because we don’t always have time or sometimes financial opportunity to visit them. Besides, we must not forget that the Internet is a repository of information. In seconds, you can find the right book, movie, TV show, historical background, recording of a sporting event, etc.

In conclusion, I want to say that, despite the possible advantages of living without the Internet, I am not going to give up this useful invention because with it I feel much more comfortable. Knowing its negative sides, I will try to mitigate them because the merits of the worldwide computer network are more important to me. Moreover, I believe that one should lodge a claim against themselves, and not against modern technologies. The Internet is only a tool that benefits or harms, depending on whose hands it falls and for what purpose it is used.