Examination Card # 6

Name, surname _________________________________ Class ________________

Examination Card № 6

I.  Reading

Read the text and decide if the statements (1-8) are true (T) or false (F).

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

         The Great Wall of China is the only man-made construction that can be seen from space. It is 6,000 kilometres long. It runs along China's northern border and has an unusual shape. It looks as if its architects did not have any specific plans. It looks like a snake or a long road. Nobody knows why its shape is like this but legend states that it was built to imitate the movements of a dragon - a popular religious symbol in China. The section of the Wall visited by most tourists is at Badaling Pass near Peking. Here, the building mate­rial is grey granite blocks, 6 metres high. On both sides of its roof, there are low walls which protect you from falling off the Wall. In the middle, there is a road which is wide enough for five horses running side by side. Other sections of the Great Wall are built of various materials, often of poor quality, for example of wood or sand depending on whether the wall crossed deserts, plains or the country. The people who were forced to build the Great Wall were often those who could not pay their taxes, prisoners of war and criminals. There were about one million slaves working on the Wall. They lived in poor conditions, in places called work camps. They worked without clothes during the summer and they wore only animal skins in the winter. They often died of disease and hunger. Those who died were often buried in its foundations, making the Wall the 'world's longest cemetery'. There are still many of the original 25,000 towers left. They are about 12 metres high and the distance between two neighbouring towers is over 200 metres. The army usually lived in these towers. In the period of the Wall's glory almost a million men stayed there. Today, the Great Wall is one of the China's tourist attractions. Where else in the world can you see something built by man over twenty-two centuries ago?

        

1. Astronauts can see the Great Wall of China from space.

2. The Great Wall of China was designed to look like a snake.

3. The Great Wall of China was built of one type of material.

4. Prisoners and criminals were not allowed to build the Wall.

5. The builders of the Great Wall of China wore poor clothes.

6. The builders of the Great Wall of China had enough food to live.

7. The Wall's towers are over two hundred metres from each other.

8. In the towers of the Great Wall there lived about one million slaves.

II. USE OF ENGLISH

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

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who (9) __ the World Wide Web. He received a knighthood from the British (10) __ for his efforts (so he is called «Sir»). He is director of W3C, which looks after the Web's development. A (11) __ British newspaper ranked him as the world's greatest living genius. Today's world would be very different (12) __ his discovery.

Berners-Lee was born in 1955 to parents who were mathematicians and computer scientists. He (13) __ with numbers and electronics and managed to build his own computer. He (14) __ to Oxford University and was banned from using the computers for hacking. Berners-Lee graduated with a degree in physics. His first (15) __ after graduating was as a computer programmer and software developer. Berners-Lee spent the 1980s on a (16) __ based on sharing and updating information online.

In 1991, he put the first website online. It explained what the World Wide(17) __was and how it was used. He gave his idea to the world for (18) __. In 1994, Berners-Lee founded W3C to set standards and improve the quality of the Web.

Berners-Lee now spends his (19) __ between W3C and as a professor of computer science in England. He also writes (20) __ the future of the Web. In 2004, he was named as the first ever winner of the Millennium Technology Prize. He has a string of other awards and is listed as one of Time magazine's 100 most important people of the 20^th century.

	A	B	C	D
9	settled	mended	improved	invented
10 11	King leading	Queen  key	President  crucial	Governor primary
12	with	of	out	without
13	grew up	brought up	adult	mature
14	attended	passed	went	entered
15	job	career	proficiency	occupation
16	idea	website	mission	project
17	Mesh	Trap	Web	Net
18	charge	free	charity	granted
19	money	schedule	time	period
20	about	on	off	at

 III. WRITING

Imagine that you are learning English at the language course in Great Britain and are living in a host family. Write a short letter of 80 – 120 words home. Tell your parents about:

• your accommodations;

• your host family members and their interests;

• your leisure time activities.