Examination Card № 18

Name, surname _____________________________Class ________________

Examination Card № 18

I.  Reading

Read the extracts (A-D) and answer the questions (1-5).

HOW DO YOU USE THE NET?

         We asked members of one family to tell us what they use the Internet for and why. Here is what they told us.

         A Granddad Peter

         I might be over 80 but the Internet is invaluable to me. At my age it's not always so easy to get about and my friends and family are scattered all over the globe. It's difficult to visit and have face-to-face conversations very often. It's a bit pricy too! Phoning isn't convenient because of the different time zones. I don't think my brother in Australia would appreciate being woken up at three in the morning just for me to say hello! So I keep in touch by e-mail and it's very important to me. It took me a while to get the hang of it but now it's no problem at all.

         B Daughter Lynne

         I must admit that I'm a spendaholic and I'm on auction sites all the time. I can't resist a bargain and I love the excitement of bidding against other people and never being sure whether you're going to win or not. It's quite addictive so I have to be careful or else I would be completely broke! I think it's incredible that whatever you're looking to buy, someone out there has got it to sell.

         C Mum Karen

         I find the Net useful for downloading information for my students. You can also access sites that give you free lesson plans and good, imaginative ideas for making les­sons interesting. There's such a lot of knowledge out there too. To get the answers to the kind of questions I have, it would take hours with piles of books and I simply don't have the time. For me the Net is a lifeline!

         D Dad Oliver

         My big thing is news and sports and I'm always online checking the latest scores. I work shifts too, so I often miss the regular news slots and with the Net I can always watch news clips of programmes that were on earlier. It also brings you breaking news and with the more controversial issues if you want to, you can read people's comments and of course, make your own. I do that quite often. And there are also online newspa­pers. If I don't get a paper, I can always go online and click on to the newspapers web­site. It's easier to choose what you want to read rather than leafing through the papers which can be so big these days.

Which person says… 

 1. I see the Net as time saving.                             ____

2.        I sometimes share my opinions with others.        ____    

3.        I use it to get help with my work.                        ____

4.   I don't always get what I want.                         ____

5.        It took time to work out how to use the Net. ____

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II. USE OF ENGLISH

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

Native English Animals

By Nicola Jane Soen

         Now England has hardly any predatory animals in the wild, but has it always been that way? Not according to ancient rhymes. England was once a country where predatory animals freely roamed and so danger lurked.

         Many centuries ago bears, wolves, lynx, etc, ranged the forests and woodlands. Also wild boar, Elk and Aurochs (wild bulls) were (6) ___. However, although some of these species hung on till medieval times, most of these animals were long gone by that time. The last English wolf in England was (7) ___ killed and the population extinct by the 16th century, although in Wales it is thought to have lasted a few centuries (8) ____. The great Auroch herds did not last nearly as long and were sadly gone as early as the 9th Century, although on the continent it lasted for many, many (9) ____ centuries.

         There was an even bigger size herding animal in Britain in the early centuries. The Giant deer species called Megaloceros, with an antler span of up to 3 meters; it was possibly (10) ____ by the time Neolithic man was making wooden stockades. But the antlers were often found, and perhaps used for digging with.

         Lynx is thought to have gone by the 10th Century, in England at least. It is thought that the Neolithic settlers mingling with peoples already present or taking over, came from the continent and brought their own animals; cattle, (11) ____ dogs and cats, pigs and also goats with them and built the wooden stockades to protect them.

         In Saxon England land was cleared of the forest and a large communal area was used (12) _____ farming; this was divided into strips called furrows. However by Medieval times the rich landlords had claimed a lot of land and planted hedges (13) ____ their boundaries. This may have meant farming was easier, but for the poor it meant they were beggared and starving, (14) ____ the loss of their land meant the loss of their livelihoods.

         Land by the Thames was taken from the people in medieval times and given over to sheep farmers for the trading of wool, which by then had become an important industry that provided (15) ____ for the crown.

         So by now most of the original predatory or herding wild animals had been (16) _____ by non-native species. Thankfully there is now a program that is re-releasing our original, surviving animals back into their own natural habitat. We (17) ____ desperately that this is successful.

	A	B	C	D
6	rich	plentiful	many	brimful
7	credible	maybe	possible	probably
8	longer	later	more	earlier
9	more	past	less	last
10	dead	obsolete	extinct	vestigial
11	schooled	captured	educated	domesticated
12	to	for	out of	of
13	to mark	to show	to exhibit	to label
14	like	as	that	so
15	pay	fee	income	rent
16	survived	transferred	carried	replaced
17	dream	hope	think	sure

III. WRITING

Write a review (80 – 120 words) of your favourite book/film. Include the following:

• Who are the main characters?

• What main ideas do you take from this book/film?