Examination Card № 10

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Examination Card № 10

I.  Reading

Read the text and decide if the statements (1-5) are true (T) or false (F).

OSCAR

         It's been called 'the Academy statuette', 'the golden trophy' and 'the statue of merit'. The entertainment trade paper. Weekly Variety, even attempted to popularize 'the iron man'. Thankfully, the term never stuck. Born in 1928, the Academy Award of Merit -which we know as simply 'the Oscar' - depicts a knight holding a crusader's sword, stand­ing on a reel of film with five spokes, signifying the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers and Technicians.

         Weighing 3.5 pounds and standing 13.5 inches tall, the statuette was designed by a chief art director Cedric Gibbons. Frederic Hope, the Gibbons' assistant, created the original Belgian black marble base; an artist George Stanley sculpted the design; and the California Bronze Foundry hand cast the first statuette in bronze plated with 24-karat gold.

         A popular story has been that the nickname caught on after the Academy librarian and eventual executive director Margaret Herrick said that the statuette resembled her uncle Oscar. Its first documented mention came after the sixth Awards Presentation in 1934 when the Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in reference to Katharine Hepburn's first Best Actress win. The Academy itself didn't use the nickname officially until 1939.

         Oscar has changed his look on occasion. From the 1930s through the 1950s, juvenile players received miniature replicas of the statuette: the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen was presented with a wooden statuette with a movable mouth; and Walt Disney was honoured with one full-size and seven miniature statuettes on behalf of his animated feature Snow White and Seven Dwarfs.

         In support of the World War II effort between 1942 and 1944, Oscars were made of plaster, to be traded in for golden statuettes after the war. Additionally, the base was raised and changed from marble to metal in 1945. And in 1949, the Academy Award statuettes began to be numbered, starting with No. 501.

1.Five spokes of the Merit signify the original branches of the Academy.

2.The first statuette was made of gold.

3.The Academy did not use the nickname Oscar officially until 1939.

4.Wait Disney was honoured with seven miniature statuettes on behalf of his ani­
mated film Snow White and Seven Dwarfs,

5.Oscars were made of plaster between 1942 and 1944 in support of the World War II.

1	2	3	4	5

II. USE OF ENGLISH

Read the text below. For questions (6—17) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

THE FROG IN THE WELL

There was a frog that (6) __ in a shallow well.

«Look how well off I am here! » he (7) __ a big turtle from the Eastern Ocean. «I can (8) __ along the coping of the well when I go (9) __, and rest by a crevice in the bricks on my return. I can wallow to my heart's content with only my head above water, or (10) __ankle deep through soft mud. No crabs or tadpoles can compare with me. I am the master of the water and the lord of this shallow well. (11) __ more can a fellow ask? Why don't you come here more often to have a good time? ».

Before the turtle from the Eastern Ocean could get his left foot into the well, (12) __, he (13) __ his right claw on something. So he halted and stepped back, then began (14) __ the ocean to the frog.

«It's more than a thousand miles across and more than ten thousand feet deep. In ancient times there were floods nine years out of ten, yet the water in the ocean (15) __».      

         And later there were droughts seven years out of eight, yet the water in the ocean has never grown less. It remained quite constant throughout the ages. That is why I'd (16) __ live in the Eastern Ocean».

Then the frog in the shallow well was silent and felt a little (17) __.

	A	B	C	D
6	live	lived	living	lives
7	tell	told	telling	has told
8	hop	to hop	hopping	hopped
9	in	out	from	behind
10	to stroll	stroll	strolling	strolled
11	Which	Who	Why	What
12	however	furthermore	moreover	thus
13	catch	catched	caught	caughted
14	describe	description	to describe	described
15	have never increased	has never increased	is never increased	never increased
16	rather	rather to	prefer	like
17	shame	ashame	ashamed	ashaming

III. WRITING

Write a personal profile of a member of your family (80 – 120 words). Include:

• appearance and character;

• interests and activities;

• achievements and future hopes.