TEST "Reading... Why not?"

 TEST Reading... Why not? I. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents.   1) a plot                                                a) изобретательный 2) creative                                            b) образовательный 3) inventive                                           с) роман 4) educational                  d) художественная литература 5) autobiography                                  e) поощрять 6) a novel                                              f) автобиография 7) fiction                                               g) творческий 8) to encourage                                     h) сюжет 9) to explore                         i) проводить исследования   II. Выберите правильное обстоятельство времени, соответствующее данной видовременной форме. 1. She is watching TV. A) right now; b) for two days; c) every day. 2. She watches TV. A) since morning; b) now; c) every day. 3. She has been watching TV. A) every week; b) now; c) since 2 o’clock. Reading  III. Read the text and decide if the statements given below are true/false or not stated.   People can't imagine our life without books. They play a very important part in our life. Books are our friends. People meet them when we are very small and can't read, but we remember our mother read them for us. We learn very much from books. Books educate people in different spheres of life. They develop our imagination, make us think and analyse. They help to form our character and the world outlook. Books help us in self-education and in deciding problems of life. They make our life more interesting. People read both for knowledge and for pleasure. Different people read different books. They help us with our lessons and work. We read serious books which help us understand the life, give us answers to questions which worry us, they make us think. Many people enjoy so-called "easy reading"- detectives, amusing, humorous stories, fantastic. But so many people, so many tastes.   1) People read books both for knowledge and for pleasure. a) True b) False c) Not stated   2) Many people don't like «easy reading». a) True b) False c) Not stated   3) Many people like to read detective stories. a) True b) False c) Not stated 4) Books help people in self education and in deciding problems of their life. a) True b) False c) Not stated   5) Nowadays people don't like to go to library. a) True b) False c) Not stated   6) The electronic books are popular among young people now. a) True b) False c) Not stated III. Match three texts with the appropriate titles. One of the titles is extra.   1) An outstanding American writer 2) A famous children's story 3) The best gallery in the world 4) The teenage detectives A. The story about the adventures of little Alice became popular all over the world. “Alice in Wonderland” is primarily a children’s story, but adults have enjoyed the novel for over a century together with children. Many elements of “Alice” were not completely new. Talking animals, for instance, or the story idea in which a child or children are carried away from reality into a fantasy world. However, it was Carroll who established a new motif that would be used again and again in children’s literature: Peter Pan, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Narnia books, and the Harry Potter books. That is the possibility for the main characters to travel back and forth between the real world and wonderland.   B. Mark Twain wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in 1884. Since then, the book has been published in at least sixty languages, and some people say it is the best book ever created by an American writer. American students have “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” on their school reading list and parents, teachers and literary experts still debate the problems touched in the book. The writer’s real name was Samuel Clemens. Samuel was born in 1835. He grew up in the state of Missouri on the Mississippi River. After his father died, young Samuel went to work as an assistant to a publisher. Ten years later, he became a pilot on a steamboat that sailed on the Mississippi. He heard the riverboat workers call out the words “mark twain!” That was a measure for the depth of water. Later he used this word combination as a pen-name.   C. First introduced in 1927, The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories are a series of books about the adventures of brothers Frank and Joe Hardy. They are teenage detectives who solve one mystery after another.The Hardy Boys were so popular among young boys that in the 1930s a similar series was created for girls featuring a sixteen-year-old detective named Nancy Drew. The cover of each volume of The Hardy Boys states that the authorof the series is Frank Dixon. The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories for girls are supposedly written by Carol Keen. Over the years, though, many fans of both series have been surprised to find out that Frank Dixon and Carol Keen were only pen names. Nobody knew who was hiding behind those names or who actually wrote The Hardy Boys and The Nancy Drew Stories.