Контрольные работы по английскому 10-11 классы Кузовлев, Лапа

“WHAT IS HOT WITH THE YOUNG GENERATION?” UNIT III TEST I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION You will hear five teenagers from different countries answering the questions: What is the lifestyle of a teenager in your home place like? How would you describe your style in dress? What kind of music do you like? Listen to the recording. For questions 1-5, choose from the list A-F what each speaker says. Write the corresponding letter next to the speaker. Use each letter only once. There is one extra sentence, which you do not need to use SPEAKER 1 _____ A. This person cannot often go to discos. SPEAKER 2 _____ B. This person dislikes being identified with a group according to the clothes. SPEAKER 3 _____C. This person likes listening to rap music. SPEAKER 4 _____ D. This person sometimes wears traditional clothes. SPEAKER 5 _____ E. This person likes wearing cool clothes. F. This person can’t wear all fashionable clothes because of the climate. II. READING COMPREHENSION You are going to read a newspaper article about a boy sold drugs. Five sentences have been removes from the article. Choose from the sentences A-F the one which fits each gap (1-5). Use each letter only once. There is one extra sentence, which you do not need to use SEVENTEEN­YEAR­OLD PUPIL PUSHES POT   to     A   selling   junior marijuana  sixth­former at Wendeles Secondary School, was arrested yesterday pupils. for (1)________________________.   "First   time   I   had   it   was   at   a   friend's house on a Saturday evening. It had been planned beforehand to get me stoned (unable to behave normally), which I was rather angry at first. (2)____________________. At first it was just like smoking a cigarette but   getting   a   pleasant   effect   as   well.   I   kept   laughing. (3)________________________________. Then I met somebody who said they could get the stuff real easy. My friends started coming to me for it. Then this person started getting heavy. He wanted me to start sniffing other things, but I refused. I know what other drugs do to people. No way would I inject anything. (4)_______________." Police inspector James said, "That's the way these kids often get hooked. The 'hard' drug pushers start them on something like marijuana and then say, "Why don't you just sniff a bit of this" or "Just put a bit of this in your drink," and before they know it, they're hooked on heroin, cocaine or amphetamines. (5)________________________________." A. I think that’s disgusting. B. Everybody does so. C. He blamed his friends for getting him hooked on it. D. It only takes two weeks of heroin, two or three times a week, to be addicted. E. I only smoked it when I was offered it at big parties. F. But in the end I was excited about taking it. III. USE OF ENGLISH (GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY) 1. For questions 1-10, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D fits best each space THE HISTORY OF ROCK’N’ROLL Rock’n’roll started in the USA (1) _____ the great black rhythm’n’blues players: Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Chuck Berry. Fifty years ago black and white music were two completely separate things. Chuck Berry was the first black musician (2) _____cross the barrier and sell records to (3) _____ black and white young people. His songs were about the lives of teenagers. Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly mixed black music with white ‘country’ music to create rock’n’roll. This was all happening in the United States. But people in Britain were listening to this music (4) _____. The black rhythm’n’blues singers and the best rock’n’roll stars (5) _____ Buddy Holly were (6) _____ popular in Britain than in the States. Then, in the 1960s the British invaded America, (7) _____ the Americans some years ago did. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who. There were concerts with tens of thousands of fans. The name of the music – rock’n’roll - changed to ‘rock’. In the 1960s the style of the musicians changed a lot. The clothes of the musicians became crazy and (8) _____ their hair. The guitar became as important as the voice. Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton were guitarists more than singers. In the 1970s rock went in two different directions. (9) _____ Elton John and Rod Steward, The Sex Pistols, The Stranglers, and a few other bands started to play loud, violent music called ‘punk’. Punk was also important (10) _____ a fashion in clothes. 1. A. with B. at C. from D. on 2. A. who B. to C. – D. that 3. A. – B. like C. both D. like 4. A. either B. so C. too D. – 5. A. and B. and C. as D. so 6. A. more B. much C. as D. so 7. A. so B. like C. as D. also 8. A. so was B. both was C. as did D. so did 9. A. Unlike B. Not as C. More than D. As not 10. A. – B. as C. like D. than 2. For questions 1-10, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D fits best each space YUPPIES: WHO THEY ARE The (1) _____ ‘yuppie’ is basically an invention of the mass media, yuppies do not indeed exist. On the one hand, yuppies are the result of the (2) _____ against the antiestablishment, against the free- minded 1960s’ (3) _____. But on the other hand they are a phenomenon much more complex, tied to the nation’s economy. What is a yuppie? A Young Urban Professional, making a (4) _____in business. Being a yuppie is a (5) _____ of life. Those who want to be yuppies choose the yuppie (6) _____ system. They conform (7) _____ the society standards. They believe that money cures all ills. Yuppies are young: in their late twenties or thirties. Yuppies are urban, and often disapprove (8) _____ suburban lifestyle. Most of all, yuppies are professional: they work hard, rise quickly, and stop (9) _____ nothing. Their behaviour does not (10) _____ social norms, but to most American intellectuals yuppie has negative connotation. 1. A. term 2. A. behaviour 3. A. generation 4. A. way 5. A. sense 6. A. fashionable 7. A. - 8. A. with 9. A. at B. phrase B. rebel B. youth B. career B. behaviour B. value B. for B. of B. on C. cliché C. rebellion C. adults C. culture C. way C. life C. to C. to C. in D. idiom D. react D. children D. life D. simply D. image D. with D. for D. to A. protest B. support C. differ from 10. against IV. CULTURAL AWARENESS Match the youth group and its most distinguishing feature. There is one extra feature you don’t need to use A member group/movement a youth D. conform Feature around the sides A. Brightly coloured hair B. Haircut: short on top and longer C. Love for all people D. Loyalty and responsibility E. Concern about nature F. 2 or 3 wheeled motorised vehicle G. Coats in the style of the beginning H. All-night dancing I. of the century ‘Wizards’ of the computer world of 1. Biker 2. Environmentalist 3. Hacker 4. Raver 5. Punk 6. Scout 7. Chelsea girl 8. Hippie V. WRITING (HOME TASK) VI. SPEAKING