Question

1. Прочитайте тексты (1—5), установите соответствия между ними и утверждениями (a—f), отметьте каждый текст соответствующей буквой. В списке имеется одно лишнее утверждение. a) The text is about a person who didn’t like his/her training. b) The text is about sports equipment. c) The text is about some summer sport. d) The text is about a person who is fond of some winter sport. e) The text is about a person who doesn’t do any sport. f) The text is about how things used to be in sports. 1. A lot of things have changed in sports. Nowadays women often play football, but in the middle of the last century only men did it. These days athletes prefer metal tennis rackets, but they used only wooden rackets before. Modern footballers get a lot of money now, things were different before. 2. When you play chess, you move chessmen on a chessboard. But if you are a badminton player, you use a racket and a shuttlecock. Athletes in gyms use horses, rings, and bars. While boxing people wear boxing gloves. And certainly sportsmen and sportswomen use balls in all ball games. 3. I like sports. I mean to say that I like to watch different competitions and games on TV, but I don’t do any sport myself. I think you get a lot more excitement when you watch and see all the details than when you take part in the event but miss many things. 4. Last winter I spent a week at a skiing school. It was not much fun really. First of all, we had to get up at 6.30 every morning. That was terrible. Then we had to make our beds ourselves. At 8.30 the skiing began and it didn’t stop until 10.30, then we had a little break and skied till lunchtime. I was always tired. 5. The sport I like is skiing. I think it is the best sport of all. It is certainly more interesting and more fun to go skiing than to go swimming or do anything else. I also think that it’s great to do cross-country skiing. I’m not fond of downhill racing. It’s very dangerous.

Answer 1

Ответы:

• 1) F (The text is about how things used to be in sports)
• 2) B (The text is about sports equipment)
• 3) E (The text is about a person who doesn't do any sport)
• 4) A (The text is about a person who didn't like his/her training)
• 5) D (The text is about a person who is fond of some winter sport)

Лишний вариант: C (The text is about some summer sport).

Пояснения:

Ключевые моменты в текстах выделены.

1) F — The text is about how things used to be in sports (Текст о том, как раньше обстояли дела в спорте)

• A lot of things have changed in sports. Nowadays women often play football, but in the middle of the last century only men did it. These days athletes prefer metal tennis rackets, but they used only wooden rackets before. Modern footballers get a lot of money now, things were different before.

В тексте сравниваются современный спорт и тот, что был в прошлом ("сегодня женщины играют в футбол, в середине прошлого века это делали только мужчины"; "сейчас спортсмены предпочитают металлические теннисные ракетки, ранее они использовали только деревянные"; "современные футболисты получают много денег, ранее это было иначе").

2) B — The text is about sports equipment (Текст о спортивном снаряжении)

• When you play chess, you move chessmen on a chessboard. But if you are a badminton player, you use a racket and a shuttlecock. Athletes in gyms use horses, rings, and bars. While boxing people wear boxing gloves. And certainly sportsmen and sportswomen use balls in all ball games.

В тексте описывается снаряжение, необходимое для различных видов спорта ("когда вы играете в шахматы, вы перемещаете фигуры по шахматной доске"; "когда в играете в бадминтон, вы используете ракетку и воланчик"; "спортсмены в тренажерных залах используют гимнастического коня, кольца и брусья"; "спортсмены используют мячи во всех видах спорта, где требуется мяч").

3) E — The text is about a person who doesn't do any sport (Текст о человеке, который не занимается никаким спортом)

• I like sports. I mean to say that I like to watch different competitions and games on TV, but I don’t do any sport myself. I think you get a lot more excitement when you watch and see all the details than when you take part in the event but miss many things.

В тексте автор рассказывает о том, что он/а любит смотреть спортивные соревнования и игры по телевизору, но не занимается спортом самостоятельно.

4) A — The text is about a person who didn't like his/her training (Текст о человеке, которому не понравилось его/ее обучение)

• Last winter I spent a week at a skiing school. It was not much fun really. First of all, we had to get up at 6.30 every morning. That was terrible. Then we had to make our beds ourselves. At 8.30 the skiing began and it didn’t stop until 10.30, then we had a little break and skied till lunchtime. I was always tired.

В тексте автор рассказывает, что прошлой зимой он/а провел/а неделю в лыжной школе и ему/ей не понравилось ("я провел/а неделю в лыжной школе"; "это было не очень весело, на самом деле"; "это было ужасно"; также рассказывает о распорядке дня и о том, что они постоянно тренировались, из-за чего он/а был/а всегда очень уставшим/-ей).

5) D — The text is about a person who is fond of some winter sport (Текст о человеке, который увлекается каким-то зимним видом спорта)

• The sport I like is skiing. I think it is the best sport of all. It is certainly more interesting and more fun to go skiing than to go swimming or do anything else. I also think that it’s great to do cross-country skiing. I’m not fond of downhill racing. It’s very dangerous.

В тексте автор рассказывает, что он/а любит лыжный спорт ("спорт, который мне нравится, — это катание на лыжах"; "намного интереснее и веселее кататься на лыжах, чем плавать либо делать что-то еще").

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Answer 2

1. f) A lot of things have changed in sports. Nowadays women often play football, but in the middle of the last century only men did it. These days athletes prefer metal tennis rackets, but they used only wooden rackets before. Modern footballers get a lot of money now, things were different before. 2. b) When you play chess, you move chessmen on a chessboard. But if you are a badminton player, you use a racket and a shuttlecock. Athletes in gyms use horses, rings, and bars. While boxing people wear boxing gloves. And certainly sportsmen and sportswomen use balls in all ball games. 3. e) I like sports. I mean to say that I like to watch different competitions and games on TV, but I don’t do any sport myself. I think you get a lot more excitement when you watch and see all the details than when you take part in the event but miss many things. 4. a) Last winter I spent a week at a skiing school. It was not much fun really. First of all, we had to get up at 6.30 every morning. That was terrible. Then we had to make our beds ourselves. At 8.30 the skiing began and it didn’t stop until 10.30, then we had a little break and skied till lunchtime. I was always tired. 5. d) The sport I like is skiing. I think it is the best sport of all. It is certainly more interesting and more fun to go skiing than to go swimming or do anything else. I also think that it’s great to do cross-country skiing. I’m not fond of downhill racing. It’s very dangerous.