Examination Card № 15

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Examination Card № 15

I.  Reading

Read the text. For questions (1-5), choose the answer (A, B or C) which you think fits best according to the text.

HISTORY OF HAMBURGER

         The roots of the modern hamburger go back to the German city of Hamburg. According to historians, German immigrants to the United States brought the recipe for a dish of raw-chopped beef mixed with egg. The Germans learned about the dish, now called Steak Tartar, from the Russian sailors who visited Hamburg and brought along an appetite for food from their homeland. The Russians apparently learned about the dish from the Tartars.

         The first documented mention of hamburg steak in the United States was in the 1830s. In 1896, a hamburger was included in the famous cookbook of Boston chef Fannie Farmer for the first time.

         More than one person has claimed to be the creator of the modern hamburger sandwich. At various times in the late 1800s and early 1900s, cooks from Wisconsin, Connecticut, Ohio, and Texas boasted of inventing the hamburger.

         The most widely reported story about the origin of the hamburger comes from the 1904 World's Fair. Fletcher Davis and his wife from Athens set up a food counter and sold ham­burgers with hot mustard and a slice of onion. An article about the fair in St Louis was published in a New York newspaper, and it mentioned the sale of hamburgers but failed to include the name of the cook. Since then, the whole world has come to know the ham­burger, but no one will ever know with absolute certainty, who really created it!

1.      How did the dish, now called Steak Tartar, come to Germany?

     A It was brought by the Russian sailors.
      В It was brought by the Native Americans.
     С It was brought by the Tartars.

2.      Where was a hamburg steak recipe written down first?

      A In a menu

      В In a cookbook

      С In an encyclopaedia

3.      Who has claimed to be the creator of the modern hamburger sandwich?

      A Immigrants

       В Cooks

       С Sailors

4.      Where were hamburgers sold in 1904?

       A At the World's Fair
         В At a rodeo

       С At the Big Sky Games

5.       What did a New York newspaper fail to mention about the fair in St Louis?

       A The World Fair
       В Hamburgers

       С The name of the cook

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II. USE OF ENGLISH

Read the text below. For questions (6—15) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

FREEDOM PARROT

         A man, a great man, a fighter for freedom was travelling in the mountains. He stayed in a caravanserai for the night. He (6) __that in the caravanserai there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually (7) __'Freedom! Freedom!' And it was such a place that when the parrot repeated the word 'Freedom!' it would go on echoing in the valleys, in the mountains.

The man thought: 'I have seen many parrots, and I have thought they must want to be free from those cages... but I have never seen such a parrot whose whole day, from the morning to the evening when he (8) __to sleep, is spent in calling out for freedom.' He had an idea. In the middle of the night, when the owner was fast asleep, he got up and opened the door of the cage. He (9) __to the parrot, 'Now get out. ` But he was very surprised that the parrot was clinging to the bars of the cage. He said to him again and again,

'(10) __about freedom? Just get out! The door is open and the owner is fast asleep; nobody will ever know. You just fly into the sky; the whole sky is yours.'

But the parrot was clinging so deeply, so hard, that the man said, 'What is the matter? Are you mad?' He tried to take the parrot out with his own hands, but the parrot started (11) __ at him, and at the same time he was shouting 'Freedom! Freedom!' The valleys in the night echoed and re-echoed, but the man was (12) __stub­ born; he was a freedom fighter.

He pulled the parrot out and threw him into the sky; and he was very (13) __, although his hand was hurt. The parrot pecked him as forcefully as he could, but the man was immensely satisfied that he (14) __a soul free. He went to sleep.

In the morning, as the man was waking up, he heard the parrot (15) __, 'Freedom! Freedom!' He thought perhaps the parrot must be sitting on a tree or on a rock. But when he came out, the parrot was sitting in the cage. The door was open.

	A	B	C	D
6	was amazed	amazed	had been amazed	has been amazed
7	repeated	being repeated	repeating	repeat
8	go	goes	will go	is going
9	whisper	whispers	was whispering	whispered
10	Had you forgotten	Did you forget	Do you forget	Have you forgotten
11	have pecked	peck	pecking	pecked
12	also	either	even	almost
13	satisfying	satisfy	satisfactory	satisfied
14	had made	made	has made	was making
15	was shouting	shouting	has been shouting	had been shouting

  III. WRITING

Write a short article (80 - 120 words)on the topic: “Good friend is a great blessing”. Use prompts given below.

•       What characteristics make a good person?

•       Have you got a true friend?

•       What is he like?

•       What do you have in common?