Пробный ЕГЭ 2013. Лексика и грамматика А22-А28

Диагностическая работа №2

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами А22-А28. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям А22-А28, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. В каждом задании выберите один ответ.

John

John was born in a four-room shack in East Texas. The Fallen men for three generations back had been loggers. As a boy, John had A22 ______to his uncles and his grandfather recount tales of the hard labor they performed day after day. John’s father had been killed by a falling tree when John was three. As soon as he was old enough, as was expected of all the males in his family, John spent his summers working on the logging A23 ______ with his grandfather and three uncles. He hated every minute of it. There had to be something more to life.
The night John A24 ______from high school his grandfather presented him with a new pair of logger’s boots. He left the new boots at home.
He arrived A25 ______ Houston with thirty dollars in his jeans and his heart pounding with excitement. He loved everything about the city-the towering buildings, the bustle, the aura of power. To his naïve eighteen-year-old eyes, all the well-dressed men and women carrying briefcases looked successful and important. He A26 ______ up his mind on the spot that someday he would be one of them. Over the next year John held a variety of jobs, usually more than one at a time. He worked as a delivery boy, a meter reader, a waiter, a cab driver, a shoe salesman, a department store clerk. The jobs A27 ______ a roof over his head and his belly full, but he wanted more. The desperate yearning and fiery ambition that had made him flee from the East Texas woods still burned inside him. Then he began to A28 ______ in motion some ideas he’d been working on for the past year.

Пробный ЕГЭ 2013. Чтение А15-А21

Диагностическая работа №2

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания А15 - А21. В каждом задании выберите цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному вами варианту ответа.

Cruel Irony

When I was younger, I used to envy the children that grew up in one place, went to the same school, and had the same friends. I was also jealous that many of them had a mom and dad that were together and loved each other. My parents divorced when I was five years old and since then life has been chaotic.
I began living with my Dad. My mom had problems with depression – that’s what they told me, anyway. I have a feeling she just didn’t want to put up with me and so she dumped me off on my dad. “It’s not that I don’t love you, Teddy, I just don’t know how to deal with boys.” These were her parting words.
My dad is OK and he does the best he can, but he’s restless. He has itchy feet and can’t stay put anywhere more than a year. He’s a writer, but supports himself  by teaching English. He’s never really paid much attention to me, and I’ve been on my own ever since my parents split up and we hit the road. That was ten years ago. Now, that we’ve been to so many countries,  they are all a blur  in my head: Thailand, India, Russia, Mongolia, China, Uganda…
I never intended to become a polyglot, it happened out of boredom and the freedom my father gave me. Since then I have met a lot of kids who hate foreign languages. They were forced down their throats in childhood by parents or teachers who made them memorize rule after rule, and after all that torture, they still couldn't talk and ended up hating them. For me it was nothing like that at all.
I remember living in a tiny village in Uganda when I was about 6. I was surrounded by  a throng of black children, laughing and pointing at me, chanting “mzungu mzungu mzungu” over and over again.  It only dawned on me later that they were calling me whitey, the term used for foreigners, but at the time it was my  first foreign word. I pointed to myself and repeated it to their delight and laughter, and then I pointed at a skinny dog that happened to be nearby and they shouted out: “Mbwa, mzungu, mbwa!” That was my second word and so began my journey of pointing and repeating, that a few months later found me fluent in Swahili, my first foreign language.
After that, picking up languages became second nature. I would point and repeat everything I heard like a parrot. I swam in language. At first everything would sound strange and unfamiliar. But then after a while, it would begin to grow on me, like music which you don't like at first, sometimes does. And then I would begin to notice patterns and recognize words until I could participate in making the same music myself. Ever since those early experiences, music and language are one and the same to me.
And now after years of living abroad, I'm home again. My father has just gone to my school because I'm failing Spanish. He can't understand how I could pick up Swahili, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic, but can't cope with  simple textbook Spanish. Well, I'll tell you a secret. I never learned to write in any of those other languages. I can't memorize words by reading them in a textbook, my mind just doesn't work like that. I don't get grammar, either. I recognize patterns when I've been listening to a language for a long time, and when I say something wrong, for me it's like singing the wrong note, it sounds bad. In school, the teacher doesn't speak Spanish, she just teaches us rules. So there you go, I'm fluent in over eight languages, and yet I'm failing Spanish. Sometimes irony can be cruel.

    Инструкция

Пробный ЕГЭ 2013. Чтение В3

Диагностическая работа №2

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A- F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1- 7. Одна из частей в списке 1- 7 - лишняя.

Fleet Street

Fleet Street runs east from the Royal Courts of Justice as far as Ludgate Circus. It takes its name from the Fleet River, A ____________ where Farrington Road now stands. At that time traffic had to cross over the Fleet Bridge in order to reach the cathedral.
Fleet Street’s associations with printing go back to the end of the 15th century, when the pioneer publisher Wynkyn de Worde moved here from Westminster. Between 1500 and his death in 1535, from his premises he printed and published hundreds of books, B ___________ (the Inns of Court and Blackfriars Monastery were both nearby).
Other printers also working in the area included Richard Pynson, printer to the king after 1508, C ____________ of Fleet Street and Chancery Lane. In 1530 Sir Thomas More’s nephew William Rastell began printing and selling books from premises in St Bride’s churchyard, D ____________ in 1557.
It was clear that the publishing industry was here to stay. A key date in the history of Fleet Street was the year 1702 E ____________. Since then the street became home to hundreds of newspapers, and its name is still synonymous with British national journalism.
This state of affairs only came to an end in 1980’s, F ____________ caused by the changeover to the new technology, which necessitated relocating to gain more space. The Times led the way, to Docklands, and within a few years Fleet Street was stripped of its soul.

1. whose office was at the corner
2. which years ago followed the route
3. when the British press was going through a period of deep crisis
4. bringing out an edition of his uncle’s works
5. many on legal and religious subject
6. including the publishers of Thackeray and the Brontë sisters
7. when the first newspaper, the Daily Courant, appeared

Пробный ЕГЭ 2013. Чтение В2

Диагностическая работа №2

Установите соответствие между заголовками 1-8 и текстами A-G. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

A. One of the biggest problems in schools and universities is cheating. Cheating is a dishonest act in which students attempt to pass off somebody else's work as their own. Not only is it a form of stealing, it robs the students themselves of the knowledge they would have received from doing the work themselves. In addition, it is unfair to students who have done the work honestly and who may possibly get lower marks than those who have cheated. It is therefore in everyone's interest to solve this problem.

B. Students have always cheated. However, in recent years  this problem has increased tremendously. With the universal presence of computer technology, the Internet, and recently the wide availability of smart phones (more powerful than the fastest home computers 10 years ago) cheating has become simpler and more sophisticated in many ways. Using computer technology to cheat is often referred to as cyber-cheating and has made cheating not only easier and more widespread, but also more difficult to detect.

C. Before the Internet, students would copy the answers to homework from other children. In the era of cyber-cheating, however, there are special sites on  the net that have photocopied scans of school textbooks. Students can easily and  quickly find answers to homework problems for Chemistry, Algebra, History, English or any other subject. Even students who make good marks in school admit to using such sites when pressed for time. For those who have low marks, it is a temptation that they cannot help succumbing to.

D. Making cheat-sheets is an old tradition for many students. It has often been remarked that the time and effort it takes to make them often means that they are no longer necessary because the student has by that time already learned the material. With cyber-cheating,  even that excuse is no longer true. Children can download pre-made cheat- sheets from special websites that are ready to use. In addition, many children use their telephones as cheat-sheets. Since nothing is prepared, but simply copied and printed out, no learning takes place.

E. Another effect  of cyber-cheating is plagiarism. Students  have always cheated by copying from books. In the past, this was limited to what could be found in bookstores and libraries. With the Internet, however, vast resources of information are only a mouse click away. It is not surprising that plagiarism as a form of cheating has become commonplace. It has gone so far that there are even some students who mistakenly think this is the proper way to write an essay.

F. Another problem of cyber-cheating is the generation gap between students and teachers. Many teachers are simply not aware of the many ways in which students are cheating by using gadgets and the Internet. Many are also not aware of the numerous on-line sites and communities dedicated to cheating. Such sites exploit children by exposing them to spam, and even computer viruses. This is another dark side of cyber- cheating that many teachers and educators fail to see.

G. It is likely that the problem of cyber-cheating will only get worse if teachers and educators don't take steps to address it. Such steps as forbidding students to bring phones to class could help. Well-known cheating sites on the Internet could be blocked by parents at home and on school computers. Finally, students should be educated and informed as to why cheating is wrong and how it deprives them of knowledge. They need to understand that it defeats the whole purpose of going to school in the first place.

Образец письменного высказывания с элементами рассуждения (формат ЕГЭ)

Пример письменного высказывания с элементами рассуждения («Ваше мнение»), выполненного учащимся и оцененного в 14 баллов
(3 – содержание, 3 –организация текста, 3 – лексика, 3 – грамматика, 2 – орфография и пунктуация)

A lot of people, especially of older age, claim that life in their youth was much quieter and they were more sure of tomorrow than young people nowadays. But there are many things I do appreciate today. Among them is a great variety of opportunities we have in life.

Firstly, the life has cardinally changed and at present young people, using Internet and traveling abroad, are more and more informed about the world and other cultures. Secondly, there is a wide choice of activities in which we can take part now, starting from leisure clubs up to political and volunteer programmes. Another thing to mention is a different range of job vacancies offered to young people to earn their own money. This gives us more independence from our family but, on the other hand, it teaches us to be responsible for decisions we make.

However, our society now faces some serious problems such as high crime rate, drug, game and smoking addictions, AIDS, poor environment, etc. They say the society was kinder, the tempo of life was slower. They were not afraid of unemployment. These are the reasons for the parents’ concern about our future. And though I share their worries, I would rather risk than have uneventful, monotonous, predictable life.

To sum up, I believe, modern life gives more opportunities and challenges to the youth. There is more freedom, life is more exciting. That is why I hold an opinion that the way of life of today is more satisfying.

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Пишем эссе

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