1. Match the types of stories to their descriptions. (*1; max 6) 1. A funny story with a happy ending.
2. An exciting story about a hero who does dangerous things.
3. A story about a crime or a strange event.
4. A serious and emotional play written for the theatre, radio or television.
5. A story of somebody’s life written by another person.
6. A story which makes you feel worried, because you don’t know what is going to happen next.
A mystery
В adventure
C suspense story
D humorous story
E drama
F biography
2. Fill in the correct word. (*1; max 10)
• hide • imagination • intelligent • cosy • explore • glance • initials • solve • famous • compass
7. This is my father’s T-shirt. It’s got his … on it.
8. Let’s use a … to find our way back.
9. Do you think he’ll … the mystery?
10. I love your living room! It’s very …
11. At first … it looked like a cat, but it wasn’t.
12. Where did you … the money? I can’t find it.
13. Let’s … the city before it gets dark.
14. Agatha Christie was a … mystery writer. Everybody knows her work.
15. Jules Verne had a great …
16. Brian is a very… boy and the best student in his class.
3. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple. (*2; max 20)
17. Dr Frankenstein … (meet) Captain Walton on the ice.
18. Arthur Conan Doyle … (create) the detective, Sherlock Holmes.
19. Agatha Christie … (write) over thirty novels.
20. Hercule Poirot … (be) a Belgian detective.
21. Sherlock Holmes wore a cape and … (smoke) a pipe.
22. The professor and Axel … (find) a mysterious message.
23. How … (Axel and the professor/travel)?
24. Hercule Poirot … (catch) many criminals.
25. … (Miss Marple/live) in England?
26. …. (you/help) Copy with his homework?
4. Read the text and answer the questions. (*2; max 12)
When I was ten years old, my family left the countryside and moved to the city. I was very excited because our new house was near a beautiful big park.
One day, I decided to go for a walk in the park but I lost my way. I tried to get back but I just went deeper into the park. I looked around me and started calling for help, but no one heard me. I was confused and scared because it was almost dark, so I sat on a bench and began to cry.
Suddenly I heard someone coming. It was a girl my age. "Hi," she said. "I'm Maria.
What's the matter?" I told Maria that I was lost. "Don't worry," Maria said. "I live near here. I know the park well." We walked and talked until we were out of the park. Maria said goodbye and left before I could thank her.
When I got home my mum was talking to a policeman. They were both very upset. "Oh, Elizabeth, thank goodness you're OK!" my mum said when she saw me. "I lost my way in the park, Mum, but I'm fine now. I'm so sorry," I said. "You were lucky, young lady," the policeman said. "Never play alone in that park, it's too dangerous. Ten years ago, a young girl named Maria Josephson lost her way in that same park and never came back."
I did not say a word. I wanted to tell them about the girl who helped me but I was afraid they wouldn't believe me. Did a ghost help me? I couldn't sleep that night, or the next. I never saw Maria again and I never went back to the park!
27.How old was Elizabeth when she moved house?
28. Where did Elizabeth’s family move to?
29. How did Elizabeth feel when she discovered she was lost?
30. Did Elizabeth thank Maria when they were out of the park?
31. What happened to Maria Josephson ten years ago?
32. Why couldn’t Elizabeth sleep that night?
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I suppose everybody considers modern technologies to be significant in our everyday life. Nowadays people can't imagine their lives without new devices. They are everywhere in our everyday life.
Almost nobody washes the clothes by hand. Almost everybody has a mobile phone. All modern offices are equipped with computers, scanners, printers, and other self-operating machines. The rapid rise of using the Internet is the reality of our time.
But I think modern technologies can be dangerous to some extent for people because mankind becomes too dependent on them. We and our children depend on how 'clever' appliances work. But, it isn’t always healthy to use them for a long time. Sitting long hours in front of the computer is bad for the eyes and causes back problems. They say cell phones contain negative vibes that influence human organism.
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In conclusion, I’d like to say that technological progress can be dangerous to some extent for humankind and for surrounding nature too. So it's necessary to make modern devices safer and cheaper for people to use them and make the people's life happier and more pleasant.
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