Who wanted to climb Mount Everest “because it’s there”?

  A) George Mallory    C) Tenzing Norgay

  B) Edmund Hillary     D) Junko Tabei

5. The first team to successfully reach the summit was.......

A )George Mallory and Andrew Irvine

  B) Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

  C) George Mallory and Edmund Hillary

  D) Tenzing Norgay and Andrew Irvine

Since 1953, how many people have reached the summit?

  A) about 20  B) fewer than 600  C) exactly 600   D) more than 600

 

Use of English

Choose the correct answer.

My friend Mary and I were chatting __1____ and she was saying how terrible she was at cooking. I __2____ to go round to her house to make a couple of dishes. The __3____ week I went over to her place and we made a couple of really nice dishes. While we were eating, I __4____ smell something burning. We went into the kitchen and there was a pan on fire. I had __5____ turned up the gas instead of turning it off! We put the fire out quite __6____, but the kitchen was a mess! I apologized, __7____ Mary was really annoyed and she didn’t speak to me for __8____ !

 

1	A then	B while	C one day	D when
2	A invited	B said	C asked	D offered
3	A new	B previous	C after	D following
4	A quickly	B suddenly	C hardly	D slowly
5	A hardly	B really	C falsely	D stupidly
6	A quickly	B suddenly	C immediately	D importantly
7	A but	B however	C though	D although
8	A weeks	B months	C long	D now

 

 

Writing

Share your opinion (write not less than 35 words) on the topic: “No one ever said growing up was easy”. Use the prompts given below.

 • Is it easy to be a teenager?

 • What problems do you usually face with?

 • Do you think students your age experience the same incidents?

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Examination card N 21

 

 I. Reading

Read the text. Choose the correct item A, B, C or D to complete the sentences (1-5).

It was just after midnight when Stephen Richards heard a strange, melodious whistle amid the patter of rain in the Papau New Guinea cloud forest. Papau New Guinea is a country on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, which lies north of Australia. Richards, 44, knows the terrain and its creatures well, but the sound he heard was completely new. “When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic,” he says.

Richards moved carefully through thorny vines toward the sound. After an hour of searching, he found the source: a “warty brown blob¹.” When he gently took hold of the blob, it bit him on the hand. “I was shocked,” he says. “Frogs don’t normally bite you.” The animal’s bite along with its unique cry and strange appearance, told Richards he had discovered a new species. It was an exhilarating moment. But to Richards, who is a zoologist with the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, Australia, it was also another day at work.

 Richards believes he has discovered almost 100 frogs. He has managed to scientifically classify and name 30. Another 70 must be studied carefully before they can be classified as new species.

Frogs are threatened by habitat destruction, disease, and predators². Richards believes recording the amphibians is vitally important. As for the blob that bit him, Richards has not classified and named it yet. But you can bet it will have a name that fits its snappy temperament. “I like a frog with attitude,” he says.

                       Taken from “The Frog Finder” by Rory Callinan,

                                Time for Kids: World Report Edition.

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1 blob – крапля, кольорова цяточка

2 predator –хижак

How did Stephen Richards discover this new species of frogs?

  A) He accidentally stepped on it.       B) He followed the sound of its whistle.

C) The frog jumped on him.           D )Another zoologist brought it to him.

What happened when Richards gently picked up the frog?

A) The frog bit him.            C) The frog jumped at him.

  B) The frog tried to run away.    D) Richards put the frog in his pocket.

Which did NOT contribute to Richards’s belief that he had discovered a new

species?

  A) the frog’s bite.       C )the frog’s jump.

  B) the frog’s whistle.     D) the frog’s appearance.

How many frogs has Richards already classified and named?

  A) 100      B) 30     C) 70      D) None

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