Контрольная работа по проверке пройденного материала к 1-му уроку учебника В.
П. Кузовлева "Английский язык”.10-11 классы Цель: Закрепить активную лексику, проверить усвоение грамматической
структуры Cause and effect relations.
1. Read the text. In most lines of the text there is an extra word. Write the
extra word, or put a plus if the line is correct.
| England’s coastline has been helped to shape both the history of
the |
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| English nation and the psychology of the English character. The
knowledge |
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| that there was been a wide stretch of water between Englishmen
and |
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| "foreigners” encouraged a sense of security that could be easily
slide into |
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| one of superiority. And it was true that her physical isolation
will made England |
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| different. The long centuries during which the land was free from
the invaders |
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| will meant that there could be a continuity of tradition
impossible on the |
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| war-torn Continent. Englishmen have always been conscious of this
the history |
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| that will surrounds them, and, from traditional royal and
parliamentary |
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| ceremonies to Tudor-style villas in the suburbs, have been sought
at every |
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| level to revive and have remind themselves of that history. |
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| Some English characteristics upon which both natives and visitors
have been |
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| tended to agree have to do with a national psychology: egoism,
self-confidence, |
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| intolerance of outsiders, ostentatious wealth, independence, a
social mobility, |
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| love of comfort and a strong belief in private of property.
Others have to do with |
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| the physical is appearance of English town and country, and are
more easily |
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| illustrated than described: an urge to wander over on the earth
and bring |
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| back its products to make England a microcosm of the world; a
preoccupation |
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| with ”home” that has been led to the evolution of both the
English house – |
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| informal, relaxed and domestic – and its landscape will be
setting; a love of |
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| games in which (until the rise of spectator sports) competition
was less |
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| important than enjoyment; and that special feeling for the sea
that will |
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| made Englishmen not only great sailors and explorers but also the
inventors |
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| of the this seaside holiday. |
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| We come back to the clichй that the Britain is an island, a fact
that has |
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| been subtly decisive in so many aspects of her history: in the
Reformation, |
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| which determined the course of religion in England: in the
pattern of trade, |
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| which will led to the formation of the Empire; in the growth of a
navy at the |
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| expense of an army, with its repercussions on the political
system; … even |
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| in the well known "insularity” of English art and the English
music. The cultural |
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| moat has often been wider than the twenty-one miles of a water
that separate |
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| the Dover from a Calais. |
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Tudor-style – belonging to or connected with the period between 1485 and 1603
in
England.
Reformation – A period of religious change in Europe in the 16th
century, in
which the Protestant church was started.
Empire – a number of countries ruled by one government.
2. Which of the following would be the best title for the
passage?
English character
Geographical position of England
Englishness of England
History of England
3. Match the words with their definitions
A) Security - a) always trying to impress people with how rich, important,
skilful you are
B) Superiority - b) the ability to move from one place to another easily
C) Egoism - c) a feeling of confidence and safety
D) Self - confidence - d) the fact that one person or thing is better, more
powerful than another
E) Intolerance - e) a feeling that you are more important than other people
and need not care about them
F) Ostentatious - f) someone’s refusal to accept behavior, beliefs or
opinions that are different from their own
G) Mobility - g) not interested in meeting anyone outside your own group or
country
H) Insularity - h) a feeling that you can do things well and people respect
you
4. Are the following causes true or false?
- Englishmen don’t keep their customs
- England’s coastline affected the English character
- Englishman’s home is his castle
- They started the fashion for seaside holidays
- They considered traveling waste of time
- Englishman is occupied with his own affairs
- For Englishmen enjoyment was more important than competition
5. Используй подходящий союз и выражение
- … there was a wide stretch of water between Englishmen and foreigners they
felt confidence.
- … England was free from invaders, there was a continuity of the tradition
impossible on the war-torn continent.
- Englishmen had a special feeling for the sea, … they invented seaside
holiday.
- Englishmen wandered over the earth and brought back its products they made
England microcosm of the world.
Keys:
1.
- been
- +
- been
- be
- will
- the
- will
- this
- will
- been
- have
- been
- a
- a
- of
- is
- on
- +
- been
- will be
- +
- will
- +
- this
- the
- +
- +
- will
- +
- the
- a
- a
2. Englishness of England
3. A – c
B – d
C – e
D – h
E – f
F – a
G – b
H – g
4.
- false
- true
- true
- true
- false
- true
- false
5.
- Because…
- Thanks to the fact that…
- … so that …
- …so that
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