Задания по чтению в формате ГИА для 11 класс

1. Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 13–18 словами. Каждое из этих слов может быть использовано только один раз. Два слова в этом списке 1–8 лишние.

1) visit

2) different

3) appeared

4) tired

5) become

6) computer

7) accurately

8) called

A robot

A robot is a machine that does work for people. The word ‘robot’ 13 ______ in the 1920s and it was first used in a science fiction story. In real life, the robot was invented later, in 1954. There are different kinds of robots which are used in 14 ______ industries. Most of them are operated with the help of a 15 ______ program. Instead of humans, robots do hard and boring work in unpleasant or dangerous environments. They usually work faster and more 16 ______ than people. They never get 17 ______ and do not make mistakes. Nowadays robots are often used for domestic needs – to clean houses or to look after sick and elderly people. Scientists say that soon robots will 18 ______ a normal part of our life, like mobiles and computers today.

1) expensive

2) wooden

3) see

4) expensive

5) imagine

6) keep

7) buy

8) similar

Refrigerator

Nowadays people can’t 13 ______ their kitchen without a refrigerator. The first refrigerators appeared at the end of the 18th century. They looked different: they were just iceboxes. The refrigerators of the past were just 14 ______ boxes, sometimes lined inside with metal. People put ice into the box and then placed the food inside to 15 ______ it cool. The refrigerator, 16 ______ to the one that we have now, was produced by General Electric in 1911, in France. It was very 17 ______. In those days, with the same money you could 18 ______ two cars. Today, in developed countries almost every family has enough money to buy a refrigerator for their kitchen. It’s hard to imagine how difficult and uncomfortable our lives would be without a refrigerator.

1) seems

2) tried

3) believed

4) round

5) enough

6) knows

7) farther

The Sun

Without the energy from the Sun, the Earth would have no life at all. Nowadays everyone 13 ______ that the Sun is a star. Like all stars, the Sun is a great burning ball of gases. To us, it 14 ______ large and red. The other stars look white or light blue because they are much 15 ______ from us than the Sun. In the past, many people 16 ______ that the Earth was the centre of the universe. They thought that the Sun and the stars went 17 ______ it. Only in 1543, a great Polish scientist published a book in which he 18 ______ to prove a different point of view. According to him, the Earth and the other planets moved round the Sun. Those people who supported the scientist were often imprisoned and even killed.

1) selected

2) root

3) tasted

4) boiled

5) eastern

6) natural

7) widely

8) brightest

The carrot

The carrot is a 13 ______ vegetable which consists mostly of water and sugar. The carrots that we eat today originated from the wild ones which grew in Europe and Asia. The vegetable 14 ______ sweet and the people began to use it as food.

There are two main types of carrots. There are 15 ______ carrots that have dark purple roots and western carrots with orange roots. In fact, orange carrots first appeared in Europe in 1721. Dutch farmers 16 ______ orange carrots because orange is the colour of the Dutch Royal Family. Now orange carrots are 17 ______ grown all over the world. In modern households carrots are cooked and eaten in different ways. The vegetable is 18 ______ , fried, baked and eaten raw. People also make juice from it.

1) made

2) common

3) loud

4) cover

5) greatly

6) make

7) thin

8) unofficial

High-speed trains

Since 2007 high-speed trains have become a 13 ______ type of transport in Europe. They 14 ______ it possible to cut travel times by hours. The trains travel at 350 kilometres an hour, and this is not the limit! The only problem for the engineers is the 15 ______ noise the trains produce. People living in the areas the trains travel through suffer from the noise 16 ______ . For the passengers, the situation is different. For their comfort, all the carriages are 17 ______ sound-proof from the inside. Travelling on high-speed trains is comfortable and pleasant. In the future, a high-speed railroad network could 18 ______ most of Europe. For example, a trip from Paris to Rome could take only 3 hours!

2. Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 13–18 словами. Каждое из этих слов может быть использовано только один раз. Два слова в этом списке 1–8 лишние.