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Раздел 1. Аудирование

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A. Human activities do not benefit nature.
B. To save animals save their habitats.
C. Pollution now is dangerous
D. Set to protect wild life
E. Aware of the danger.
F. Killed for the sake of people’s needs

А1    Mrs. Jackson finds American Indians’ culture most interesting.
1) True    2) False    3) Not stated

A2    Indians culture was studied by Shakespeare.
1) True    2) False    3) Not stated

A3    Both the reporter and the lecturer agree that children all over the world like to play Indians.
1) True    2) False    3) Not stated

A4    Indians know how to adapt traditional culture to modern environment.
1) True    2) False    3) Not stated

Раздел 2. Чтение

B2
A. There are lots of achievements to proud of.
B. Different actions were taken for one reason.
C. A lot of time was lost in protecting nature.
D. Nature protection has to struggle against industries.
E. The two aimed to help wildlife.
F. There was no time to lose.

1. More than a hundred years ago, two men who barely knew each other climbed up into the Sierra Nevada wilderness and spent four days exploring mountains and tracking wildlife. They saw elk and black bear, wild iris and larkspur. They drank from streams, slept on beds of pine needles, and awoke from a night camping on Glacier point to find four feet of sunrise snow. When they came down from the mountains, President Theodor Roosevelt and Sierra Club founder John Muir were good friends. Over their parting handshake they made a pact: They would work together to save America’s wilderness. And they did.

2. The United States had already lost most of its buffalo, tallgrass prairies, Eastern old-growth forests, and grizzly bears. Bold, immediate action was called for—and taken. Between 1901 and 1909, President Roosevelt and Congress created five national parks, established more than fifty wildlife reserves, and set aside 100 million acres of forest for protection. During the decade, the Sierra Club grew from a hiking club to a political force.

3. John Muir and the growing membership of his Sierra Club conducted guided tours to wild areas to win allies and public support for the preservation efforts, wrote letters and articles in newspapers, pioneered the use of public education, political accountability and lobbing, and legislation to protect the health of our environment. It was the Sierra Club that fled lawsuits to stop pollution in Lake Superior and developments in Everglades, and created books, films, photographs, and advertising for wilderness and wildlife protection.

4. Since its founding in 1892, the Sierra Club has also helped bring about the establishment of Yosemite and more than a score of other national parks; an end to government plans to dam the Colorado River and flood the Grand Canyon; the enactment of the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act; the granting of national movement status for Utah’s Grand Staircase — Escalante, the giant sequoias of California’s Serra Nevada and many more national treasures in different parts of the country, including Alaska.

5. More than a century of national and local conservation campaigns has taught the Sierra Club that no place—despite its official designation, environmental value, or storied past—is ever completely protected. The oil companies, the logging industry, and developers never give up. And as the nation grows, the pressures to drill, log, and build in special places will also grow.

Jim lived with his parents until he was twenty-one years old, and then he got a job in the office of a big factory in another town, so he left home. He found a comfortable little flat which had two rooms, a small kitchen and a bathroom, and he lived there on his own.

At first he cleaned it himself, but he did not like it, so he determined to find someone else to do it instead of him. He asked a lot of his fellow workers at the factory what they did about this, and at last one of the men said, «Oh, Mrs. Roper comes and cleans my flat regularly. She washes the dishes, irons my shirts and keeps the place neat and tidy and so on. I’ll introduce her to you, if you like. She’s a charming old lady. She does her best, but she hasn’t got much energy».

«Well, you’d better ask her to come and see me, please,» Jim answered. So the next evening Mrs. Roper came to see him, and she agreed to come to his flat every morning for an hour.

After she had been working for Jim for two weeks, he looked at the mirror in his bedroom and thought, «That mirror looks very dusty. Mrs. Roper’s forgotten to clean it. I can write on it with my finger.» He wrote a message in the dust: «I’m coughing whenever I breathe because everything in this room is very dusty.»
He came home at 7 o’clock that evening, and when he had eaten his supper, he went into his bedroom and looked at the mirror. «That silly woman still hasn’t cleaned it!» he said to himself. «All it needs is a cloth!»

But then he bent down and saw a bottle in front of the mirror. «I didn’t put that bottle there,» he thought. «Mrs. Roper must have left it.» He picked the bottle up and looked at it carefully.

«She’s written some words on it», he said to himself. He read the words. They were: «Cough-medicine».

A5    Jim left home city to continue his education.
1) True    2) False    3) Not stated

A6    Jim could not clean his house because he was allergic to dust.
1) True    2) False    3) Not stated

A7    Mrs. Roper did not have enough time to dust the room.
1) True    2) False    3) Not stated

A8    Jim was not happy with Mrs. Roper as a cleaner.
1) True    2) False    3) Not stated

Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика

Раздел 4. Письмо

С1
You have 30 minutes to do this task.
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Liz.

Write him a letter and answer his 3 questions.
Write 80–100 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.

Раздел 5. Говорение

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