Arriving home after her part-time job at Burger King, Lykesia Lilly planned to shoot some hoops. It was late afternoon on a Sunday. Maybe she’d even play some one-on-one with her little nephew Adrian before supper. But when Lilly asked her sister where the boy was, her casual question was met with concern. ‘I was outside looking for him because his dad and I realized we hadn’t seen him in a while,’ recalls Adrian’s mother, Stephanie Crump. ‘He was supposed to be playing at a house down the street, but when we called, he wasn’t there.’
In their tiny, rural community of Burnsville, North Carolina, kids still run freely from yard to yard, popping in and out of single-story brick houses with tree-lined lawns. Even traffic poses little threat. The hamlet’s centre consists of a single blinking caution light and two stores. But on that sunny May afternoon, six-year-old Adrian Clark seemed to have simply vanished. Much of his close and extended family joined in a frantic search, combing the neighbourhood and the energetic first grader’s usual play spots.
Finally, they heard faint cries coming from below a mound of rocks piled on his grandmother’s lawn. ‘We could hear him, but we couldn’t see him,’ recalls Lilly. ‘It was like he was invisible.’ Following his voice, they stumbled on an abandoned well covered with landscaping shale that had been forgotten for years. Somehow Adrian had pushed the slabs aside and slipped into the ragged hole in the ground. There, down the dark, narrow shaft, they saw him — a small figure 15 feet below, suspended over water. Exhausted and shivering, he’d been clinging to pieces of craggy rock and concrete for nearly an hour.
From the lip of the well, the family tried to reassure the child. But they had no idea how to get him out. The well was only 14 inches wide at the top, ‘the size of a five-gallon bucket,’ says Crump. ‘We realized none of the adults could fit through it.’ They lowered a long orange extension cord, but Adrian — who’d slipped into the murky, freezing water three times by now — was too afraid to let go of the wall to wrap the lifeline around himself.
Fighting hysteria, Crump made two calls to 911. One reached the local volunteer fire department, and the other, the Anson County EMS dispatcher, 13 miles away. But Crump still worried that Adrian would lose his grip before they got there. That’s when Lilly decided she had to go down — despite her inability to swim. ‘Everyone was panicking and crying, and I knew I couldn’t wait any longer,’ she recalls. ‘I just had to get my nephew.’
Crump and Adrian’s father, Dale Clark, lowered Lilly down the shaft as far as they could, then let go. The well got wider part of the way down, and she slid past her nephew and into the water below. Fortunately, Lilly instinctively pushed off the bottom, 12 feet underwater, and surfaced just under Adrian. ‘I got focused,* she says. With the water level just under her nose, Lilly then bolstered her 100-pound nephew, who was shaking in his soaking clothes. With one arm, she grabbed the cord that Adrian’s father was dangling from above and tied it around Adrian’s waist. ‘I was pushing him and holding on with my legs while they were pulling,’ Lilly says. ‘Somehow they got him out.’
Lilly herself was pulled out just as the rescue squad arrived. Both Adrian and Lilly were taken to the hospital, where he was blanketed with heat packs to ward off hypothermia and she was treated for bruises and lacerations. County workers sealed the well for good a few days later.
The next week, Crump threw a surprise party to honour the gentle-natured teen, who in the past had expressed fear of even the tamer rides at a nearby amusement park. *1 think if my baby had drowned, if he hadn’t been able to hold on …’ Crump says. ‘I can’t thank Lykesia enough.’ Now working in a day-care centre, Lilly is hoping for a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina, where she wants to study forensics. ‘She’s more serious and responsible now,’ observes Crump. ‘I don’t think she knew she had it in her.’
Lilly and Adrian have been uniquely close since the rescue. ‘He reminds me all the time,’ she says fondly. ‘He’ll say, ‘Thank you, Auntie, for saving me.’ And he’ll hug me. Just out of the blue.
ВОПРОС 1 Arriving home, Lykesia Lilly intended
1) to take some photographs.
2) to shoot a gun with her nephew.
3) to play with a hula hoop.
4) to play basketball.
ВОПРОС 2 Burnsville is
1) a hamlet with almost no traffic.
2) a tiny village with no shops.
3) a small town in North Carolina.
4) a city with dangerous traffic.
ВОПРОС 3 Finally the family found Adrian
1) in a pile on his grandmother’s lawn.
2) in a deep hole under the stones.
3) in the river deep below the ground.
4) behind a mound of rocks.
ВОПРОС 4 Lilly decided she had to go down to Adrian because
1) she could swim very well.
2) the rescuers could arrive too late.
3) everyone was crying for help.
4) there were no other volunteers.
ВОПРОС 5 A few days later county workers
1) found a lot of goods in the well.
2) searched the well for goods.
3) closed the entrance of the well for ever.
4) fenced the well for good.
ВОПРОС 6 After the accident Lilly
1) got a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina.
2) sees less of her nephew.
3) is as serious and responsible as she was before.
4) has changed for the better.
ВОПРОС 7 In the last paragraph ‘Just out of the blue’ means
1) heartily.
2) tightly.
3) unexpectedly.
4) energetically.
ВОПРОС 1: – 4
ВОПРОС 2: – 1
ВОПРОС 3: – 2
ВОПРОС 4: – 2
ВОПРОС 5: – 3
ВОПРОС 6: – 4
ВОПРОС 7: – 3
1) Установите соответствие между заголовками 1 — 8 и текстами A — G. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
1. Changing Habits
2. Eating Out
3. Foreign Food
4. Diet Dangers
5. Popular but Useless
6. Plan Your Diet Carefully
7. Eating Together
8. Food Safety
A. A quick look at junk food facts tells us junk food and diets do not go hand in hand. Junk foods are also called ‘empty calorie’ foods and have no nutritional value. Nevertheless, they are enjoyed by lots of people because of their simplicity to manufacture, consume and, of course, their taste. Chocolates, burgers, pizzas, potato wafers and fries will surely find their way into everyone’s heart.
B. Thai cuisine is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. In fact, several Thai dishes, such as Tom Yum Soup, are currently under scientific study for their incredible health benefits. Of course, it’s already known that many of the fresh herbs and spices used in Thai cooking — such as turmeric, galangal, coriander, lemongrass, and fresh chillies — have immune-boosting and disease-fighting power.
C. Vegetarian diets can be very healthy, but eating a balanced diet when you are vegetarian usually requires a little extra attention. Because vegetarians eliminate certain foods from their diets, they often need to work to add foods into their diet that will provide the nutrients found in meat products. If properly planned, vegetarian diets can provide all the nutrients you need.
D. It’s actually easy to make good choices at a fast-food restaurant or the cafeteria. Most cafeterias and fast-food places offer healthy choices that are also tasty, like grilled chicken or salads. Be mindful of portion sizes and high fat add-ons, like dressings, sauces or cheese. Most restaurant portions are larger than the average serving of food at home. Ask for half portions or take half of your dish home.
E. Family meals are making a comeback. Shared family meals are more likely to be nutritious, and kids who eat regularly with their families are less likely to snack on unhealthy foods and more likely to eat fruits and vegetables. Teens who take part in regular family meals are less likely to smoke, drink alcohol, or use drugs. Beyond health and nutrition, family meals provide a valuable opportunity to reconnect.
F. Families are cooking more meals at home, cutting back on take away in the face of the economic downturn. In addition to cutting back on take away and eating out, families have begun cooking more vegetarian meals and are adding vegetables, lentils and baked beans to allow them to cut back on meat quantity. Consumers also indicate that they are likely to prepare meals that can be spread across more than one mealtime.
G. In recent years it has become common practice for celebrities and stars to publicize food products. Businesses take advantage of consumers’ mentality of ‘following the stars’ and invite celebrities and stars to perform ‘false advertising’ so as to mislead or even deceive consumers. The law stipulates that those who publicize ‘faulty food products’ will share responsibility with food producers and sellers.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G |
2) Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A — F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1 — 7. Одна из частей в списке 1—7 лишняя.
On the whole, Cambridge is a much quieter than Oxford, although what really sets it apart from its scholarly rival is ‘the Backs’, providing exquisite views over the backs of the old colleges. At the front, the handsome facades of these same colleges dominate the layout of the town centre, lining up along the main streets. Most of the colleges date back to the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Many of the buildings are extraordinarily beautiful, but the most famous is King’s College, ___ (A). There are thirty-one university colleges in total. Each one is an independent, self-governing body, proud of its achievements and attracting a close loyalty from its students, ___ (B).
During the nineteenth century, the university finally lost its ancient privileges over the town, ___ (C). The university expanded too, with the number of students increasing dramatically. More recently, change has been much slower, ___ (D). The first two women’s colleges were founded in the 1870s, but it was only in 1947 that women were actually awarded degrees. In the meantime, the city and university had been acquiring a reputation as a high-tech centre of excellence. Cambridge, ___ (E), has always been in the vanguard of scientific research.
Cambridge is an extremely compact place, and you can walk round the centre, visiting the most interesting colleges, in an afternoon. A more thorough exploration covering more of the colleges and a leisurely afternoon on a punt will, however, take at least a couple of days. If possible you should avoid coming in high summer, ___ (F). Faced with such crowds, the more popular colleges have restricted their opening times and have introduced admission charges.
1. whose alumni have received no less than ninety Nobel prizes
2. amongst whom privately educated boys remain over-represented
3. because of the development of industry
4. whose magnificent chapel is one of the greatest statements of late Gothic architecture
5. which was expanding rapidly thanks to the arrival of the railway
6. particularly when it comes to equality of sexes
7. when the students are replaced by crowds of sightseers
| A | B | C | D | E | F |
3) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Показать текст. ⇓
Arriving home, Lykesia Lilly intended
1) to take some photographs.
2) to shoot a gun with her nephew.
3) to play with a hula hoop.
4) to play basketball.
4) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Показать текст. ⇓
Burnsville is
1) a hamlet with almost no traffic.
2) a tiny village with no shops.
3) a small town in North Carolina.
4) a city with dangerous traffic.
5) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Показать текст. ⇓
Finally the family found Adrian
1) in a pile on his grandmother’s lawn.
2) in a deep hole under the stones.
3) in the river deep below the ground.
4) behind a mound of rocks.
6) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Показать текст. ⇓
Lilly decided she had to go down to Adrian because
1) she could swim very well.
2) the rescuers could arrive too late.
3) everyone was crying for help.
4) there were no other volunteers.
7) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Показать текст. ⇓
A few days later county workers
1) found a lot of goods in the well.
2) searched the well for goods.
3) closed the entrance of the well for ever.
4) fenced the well for good.
Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Показать текст. ⇓
After the accident Lilly
1) got a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina.
2) sees less of her nephew.
3) is as serious and responsible as she was before.
4) has changed for the better.
9) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Показать текст. ⇓
In the last paragraph ‘Just out of the blue’ means
1) heartily.
2) tightly.
3) unexpectedly.
4) energetically.
Установите соответствие тем 1 — 8 текстам A — G. Занесите свои ответы в соответствующее поле справа. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании одна тема лишняя.
Arriving home after her part-time job at Burger King, Lykesia Lilly planned to shoot some hoops. It was late afternoon on a Sunday. Maybe she’d even play some one-on-one with her little nephew Adrian before supper. But when Lilly asked her sister where the boy was, her casual question was met with concern. ‘I was outside looking for him because his dad and I realized we hadn’t seen him in a while,’ recalls Adrian’s mother, Stephanie Crump. ‘He was supposed to be playing at a house down the street, but when we called, he wasn’t there.’
In their tiny, rural community of Burnsville, North Carolina, kids still run freely from yard to yard, popping in and out of single-story brick houses with tree-lined lawns. Even traffic poses little threat. The hamlet’s centre consists of a single blinking caution light and two stores. But on that sunny May afternoon, six-year-old Adrian Clark seemed to have simply vanished. Much of his close and extended family joined in a frantic search, combing the neighbourhood and the energetic first grader’s usual play spots.
Finally, they heard faint cries coming from below a mound of rocks piled on his grandmother’s lawn. ‘We could hear him, but we couldn’t see him,’ recalls Lilly. ‘It was like he was invisible.’ Following his voice, they stumbled on an abandoned well covered with landscaping shale that had been forgotten for years. Somehow Adrian had pushed the slabs aside and slipped into the ragged hole in the ground. There, down the dark, narrow shaft, they saw him — a small figure 15 feet below, suspended over water. Exhausted and shivering, he’d been clinging to pieces of craggy rock and concrete for nearly an hour.
From the lip of the well, the family tried to reassure the child. But they had no idea how to get him out. The well was only 14 inches wide at the top, ‘the size of a five-gallon bucket,’ says Crump. ‘We realized none of the adults could fit through it.’ They lowered a long orange extension cord, but Adrian — who’d slipped into the murky, freezing water three times by now — was too afraid to let go of the wall to wrap the lifeline around himself.
Fighting hysteria, Crump made two calls to 911. One reached the local volunteer fire department, and the other, the Anson County EMS dispatcher, 13 miles away. But Crump still worried that Adrian would lose his grip before they got there. That’s when Lilly decided she had to go down — despite her inability to swim. ‘Everyone was panicking and crying, and I knew I couldn’t wait any longer,’ she recalls. ‘I just had to get my nephew.’
Crump and Adrian’s father, Dale Clark, lowered Lilly down the shaft as far as they could, then let go. The well got wider part of the way down, and she slid past her nephew and into the water below. Fortunately, Lilly instinctively pushed off the bottom, 12 feet underwater, and surfaced just under Adrian. ‘I got focused,* she says. With the water level just under her nose, Lilly then bolstered her 100-pound nephew, who was shaking in his soaking clothes. With one arm, she grabbed the cord that Adrian’s father was dangling from above and tied it around Adrian’s waist. ‘I was pushing him and holding on with my legs while they were pulling,’ Lilly says. ‘Somehow they got him out.’
Lilly herself was pulled out just as the rescue squad arrived. Both Adrian and Lilly were taken to the hospital, where he was blanketed with heat packs to ward off hypothermia and she was treated for bruises and lacerations. County workers sealed the well for good a few days later.
The next week, Crump threw a surprise party to honour the gentle-natured teen, who in the past had expressed fear of even the tamer rides at a nearby amusement park. *1 think if my baby had drowned, if he hadn’t been able to hold on …’ Crump says. ‘I can’t thank Lykesia enough.’ Now working in a day-care centre, Lilly is hoping for a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina, where she wants to study forensics. ‘She’s more serious and responsible now,’ observes Crump. ‘I don’t think she knew she had it in her.’
Lilly and Adrian have been uniquely close since the rescue. ‘He reminds me all the time,’ she says fondly. ‘He’ll say, ‘Thank you, Auntie, for saving me.’ And he’ll hug me. Just out of the blue.
ВОПРОС 1 Arriving home, Lykesia Lilly intended
1) to take some photographs.
2) to shoot a gun with her nephew.
3) to play with a hula hoop.
4) to play basketball.
ВОПРОС 2 Burnsville is
1) a hamlet with almost no traffic.
2) a tiny village with no shops.
3) a small town in North Carolina.
4) a city with dangerous traffic.
ВОПРОС 3 Finally the family found Adrian
1) in a pile on his grandmother’s lawn.
2) in a deep hole under the stones.
3) in the river deep below the ground.
4) behind a mound of rocks.
ВОПРОС 4 Lilly decided she had to go down to Adrian because
1) she could swim very well.
2) the rescuers could arrive too late.
3) everyone was crying for help.
4) there were no other volunteers.
ВОПРОС 5 A few days later county workers
1) found a lot of goods in the well.
2) searched the well for goods.
3) closed the entrance of the well for ever.
4) fenced the well for good.
ВОПРОС 6 After the accident Lilly
1) got a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina.
2) sees less of her nephew.
3) is as serious and responsible as she was before.
4) has changed for the better.
ВОПРОС 7 In the last paragraph ‘Just out of the blue’ means
1) heartily.
2) tightly.
3) unexpectedly.
4) energetically.
ВОПРОС 1: – 4
ВОПРОС 2: – 1
ВОПРОС 3: – 2
ВОПРОС 4: – 2
ВОПРОС 5: – 3
ВОПРОС 6: – 4
ВОПРОС 7: – 3
Раздел 1. Аудирование.
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Задание 1
Now we are ready to start.
Speaker A
My idea of a perfect friend is that it’s a person who stays with you in ups and downs. A true friend is someone who’s always with you whether you need money or a shoulder to cry on. He or she is always there to support and help you without being asked. You’d really know your true friends when you are having a bad time in life. I think a perfect friend is also patient and doesn’t get angry too quickly… in short an ideal friend should be perfect with his or her friend. I have only two friends that I can really call ‘close friends’. Others are just acquaintances.
Speaker B
I would like to have a friend of the same height as myself because usually all my friends are shorter than me. Of course my best friend has to be fun to talk to and she must be a good listener as well. But most importantly, a perfect friend is someone who tells me I have something on my face if I do and doesn’t just let me walk around with it there. A perfect friend is someone that I can trust, someone who is always with me. Unfortunately, I’ve never had a perfect friend. All my previous ‘friends’ used to lie to me. But I think my family are my best friends.
Speaker C
An ideal friend is a person who knows everything about you and shares all the happy and depressing moments of your life. When I cry, they simply cry with me. They are the ones who are totally caring and really understanding and they could help us in solving our problems. They cheer us up when we feel sad. They joke when we need to laugh. That’s what I call ‘perfect friends’. Nowadays, I don’t know whether I have a perfect friend or not because people are changing. But that’s OK as long as I am the one who is a perfect friend for my friends.
Speaker D
A true friend is someone who is loyal, and brings out the best in you. They never hesitate and tell the truth no matter whether you’ve done a good or a bad thing and try to improve you because they love you and care for you and would never ever let you down as they are your true friends. A true friend would never go behind your back and do something shady. In short, a perfect friend is someone who never talks behind your back no matter what … that hurts me most!!
Speaker E
Well, my best friend doesn’t really comfort me when I’m upset over bad grades at school … she takes an easier way out and tickles me instead. She’s rather short-tempered and often fights over little things, storms away … but returns an hour later with a chocolate cake and an apology. She appears visibly bored with my constant chatter but surprisingly, recalls even the most insignificant detail of what I’ve said. She has a weird way of showing that she cares for me, but the bottom line is, she does care a lot! I think that my best friend is my perfect friend for that simple reason that she’s ‘not-so-perfect’!!
Speaker F
It’s great to have true friends! They love and care for you, they will always listen to you and stand by you. True friends are honest and loyal; they will never betray you or hurt you. What really matters is that a close friend is there for you no matter what. Friends come and go, but a true one will never leave you in any situation. A perfect friend is someone who is always there to catch you when you fall, someone who you can have fun with. Well, as for my experience, all my friends leave me because they migrate to different places where it is hard to stay in touch.
You have 15 seconds to complete the task. (Pause 15 seconds.)
Now you will hear the texts again. (Repeat.)
This is the end of the task. You now have 15 seconds to check your answers. (Pause 15 seconds.)
1. Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего A-F и утверждениями, данными в списке 1-7. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей цифрой, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.
1) A perfect friend is not always ideal.
2) True friends always share everything with us.
3) A perfect friend never gossips.
4) A friend in need is a friend indeed.
5) A perfect friend is always honest.
6) A true friend will never abandon you.
7) A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.
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Задание 2
Now we are ready to start.
Fred: Well, James, I’ve got to admit you have a beautiful backyard. How do you do it?
James: Oh, it does take time and patience. But I’ve also got a few secrets…
Fred: OK, OK, what do I have to do to make you reveal your secrets? You know if I had the money, I’d just hire a gardener.
James: No, Fred, you needn’t do that. I’d never hire a gardener. Working in the yard is the greatest form of relaxation that I know of. It’s so relaxing to hear birds singing!
Fred: You’re kidding, right?! I don’t have any birds in my backyard.
James: That’s not a problem. If you want the birds to stay in your backyard, then you must provide shelter for them. A birdhouse can be a cheap and easy way to do this.
Fred: I don’t think I’ll be able to make a birdhouse myself and there are no shops selling them either.
James: Then you can try limiting the amount of grass you have in your backyard. Most song birds don’t like grass, but prefer shrubs and trees. It’s good that you’ve got so many trees!
Fred: I would have never planted so many trees if I had known how much work they’d require.
James: You see, that’s your problem. Your attitude is all wrong.
Fred: Excuse me. My attitude is wrong? What does attitude have to do with gardening?
James: You’ve got to love working in the backyard — that’s my secret!
Fred: Love working in the backyard? What! What kind of secret is that? I expected some special lawn mower, or a special type of gardening tools.
James: No, any lawn mower or tool will do the job. It’s all in the mind.
Fred: So you think that if I had a better feeling about my work in the garden, everything would be wonderful and I’d have a beautiful lawn and healthy plants like yours, right?
James: … yes, yes that’s it. You’ve got it!
Fred: To tell you the truth, I think you’re crazy!! On second thoughts, I think I’ll just pay a gardener.
James: Ha-ha, that won’t work.
Fred: Why not?
James: Because he has to enjoy his gardening…
Fred: Please, James, thank you very much for your advice. But, don’t start it again!
You have 15 seconds to complete the task. (Pause 15 seconds.)
Now you will hear the text again. (Repeat.)
This is the end of the task. You now have 15 seconds to check your answers. (Pause 15 seconds.)
2. Вы услышите диалог. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений A-G соответствуют содержанию текста (1 — True), какие не соответствуют (2 — False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 — Not stated). Занесите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.
A James has got a big backyard.
B Fred has got enough money to hire a gardener.
C It doesn’t take much effort and money to make a birdhouse.
D Fred regrets having planted so many trees.
E Fred will need a special lawn mower to limit the amount of grass in his backyard.
F James has got lots of gardening tools.
G Fred didn’t take James’s advice seriously.
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Задание 3-9
Now we are ready to start.
When I’m stopped on the street, people often want to tell me that they’ve never forgotten my match against Bobby Riggs in 1973. Every single day of my life, people come up to me and say, ‘I remember watching you play that match, and win.’ Men, especially, tell me this. It’s amazing. They say, ‘I have a daughter now, and she’s ten years old. I’m raising my daughter differently because of seeing you play that match.’ They really insist that their daughters and sons have equal opportunities. It’s been a huge shift in attitude. These men are so different from their fathers and grandfathers.
My parents have always been the biggest inspiration in my life. They worked three jobs so that my brother, Randy, and I could pursue our athletic dreams as kids. They taught us great lessons, which are particularly relevant today, with the economy the way it is. My parents always said, ‘If you don’t have it, don’t spend it.” When I was eleven and wanted to buy my first tennis racket, they didn’t buy it for me. I had to work odd jobs to earn it. Their attitude was, ‘Let’s see if you’re really interested.
Let’s see if you have the focus.’ I guess I solved that one!
Actually, I don’t have much free time but when I do have a spare minute, I enjoy reading. My favourite book is Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus, the economist who won the Nobel Prize in 2006. It’s great. He explains how he developed the Grameen Bank and how, through the concept of micro-financing, he was able to change a lot of people’s lives. As soon as he gave out a small loan to different people, he began to visualize what that could lead to. He saw the potential. He is one of my heroes. That’s what I try to do for tennis and other things.
The person I admire most of all is Julie Foudy, former Olympic soccer star. She walks into a room and just lights it up. We see each other every October at the Women’s Sports Foundation dinner in New York, which brings together athletes from over 130 sports. She’s energetic, bright, and possesses all of the qualities that go into leadership, which sports is a great venue for. Sometimes she’ll just call me and say, ‘Help!’ We should all ask for help when we need it, particularly when we’re young-and, you know, when you need help. It takes courage to ask for it. With her energy and her leadership qualities, Julie can do just about anything. That’s great!
People always think that being a great sportsman doesn’t require any effort. They believe that success is easy. Absolutely wrong! Athletes must have a daily discipline of mind, body, and soul. They have to do it all as physical exertion teaches tenacity and will power. But you cannot just be ‘dead from the neck up.’ It is also a way of thinking, the mental side that often spells the difference between an average hitter and a good hitter and between a good hitter and a great hitter. Life is difficult sometimes. But every time I see a ball bounce, I think about bouncing back myself. It’s a philosophy.
I don’t only think about winning tennis matches. I also think about what I’ve done off the court. Everything I’ve done is trying to push the envelope, whether it’s on or off the court, to create a more level playing field for others and to help people have a better quality of life. That’s what I care about.
You have 15 seconds to complete the task. (Pause 15 seconds.)
Now you will hear the text again. (Repeat.)
This is the end of the task. You now have 15 seconds to check your answers. (Pause 15 seconds.)
This is the end of the Listening Test.
Вы услышите интервью с учёным. В заданиях 3-9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.
3. The narrator says she is amazed because
1. people recognize her on the street.2. people haven’t forgotten her.3. people’s attitudes changed after watching her play the match.
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4. The narrator’s parents taught her
1. great lessons in economy.2. how to earn money for her first tennis racket.3. to achieve her goals.
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5. The economist Muhammad Yunus is the narrator’s hero because
1. he explained how he developed the Grameen Bank2. he was able to change people’s lives3. he won the Nobel Prize
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6. The narrator particularly admires Julie Foudy because
1. she lights everything up around her.2. she has the courage to ask for help.3. she is energetic and has leadership qualities.
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7. According to the narrator,
1. athletes must have daily training programmes.2. success in sport is thought to be easy.3. sport doesn’t require any effort.
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8. The narrator believes that a great tennis player
1. has great will power.2. is clever.
3. trains a lot.
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9. The narrator concentrates on
1. what she does off the court.2. winning tennis matches.3. trying her best both on and off the court.
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Раздел 2. Чтение.
10. Установите соответствие между заголовками 1-8 и текстами A-G. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
1) Special Attitude is Required
2) Lack of Challenge May Cause Problems
3) Gifted Children Always Become Famous
4) Awareness of Giftedness
5) Gifted Children Have no Support
6) Contrary to Popular Belief
7) Being Gifted Is not Always Easy
Identifying the Gifted Child
A. Gifted children’s behaviour differs from that of their age-mates. Many gifted children learn to read early, with better comprehension of the nuances of language. As much as half of the gifted and talented population has learned to read before entering school. They can work independently at an earlier age and can concentrate for longer periods. They like to learn new things, are willing to examine the unusual, and are highly inquisitive.
B. Being academically gifted is a topic laced with myths and fears, many of which are unfounded. Moreover, academically gifted children often face special problems. So do their parents. Schools treat those children differently from those whose talents lie in other areas, like music, art, and sports. Gifted children may also be learning disabled, or have another disability while being highly intelligent.
C. Social and emotional difficulties are not directly linked to giftedness. Rather, they result from a lack of understanding by the child of the nature of their intellectual differ- ence. Parents and teachers don’t usually discuss this difference with them because of the concern that they may get a ‘swelled head’. The risk is that gifted children may view their differences as ‘weird’ or ‘bad’ or try to ignore or deny them.
D. Most of the athletes are allowed to develop their special skills at whatever rate best suits them. No one tries to stop them from becoming much better baseball players or swimmers than their classmates. Yet if an academically gifted child tries to do two years of work in one, that’s viewed as potentially harmful. Much of the concern focuses on the non-academic areas of these gifted children’s development.
E. Researchers emphasize that for the vast majority of academically gifted children those concerns are groundless. In fact, these children are more likely to develop social and even academic problems if they don’t feel intellectually challenged. If gifted children don’t go to challenging programs, they may not learn how to learn. Eventually, in college or graduate school, they feel emotionally overwhelmed when they can’t just coast through their courses anymore.
F. Gifted children represent both a challenge and a resource for schools. Educators have a responsibility to provide programs to meet the educational needs of gifted students who are capable of learning at advanced levels. Ideally, schools should have specifically trained teachers for gifted students to create a challenging and supportive learning environment for these children.
G. Gifted children are often viewed as ‘the smart ones’ who should know everything. Yet, being gifted does not mean they possess great abilities in every area. Albert Einstein was 4 years old before he spoke a word. Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade, and Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. What do these three famous people have in common? In fact, they are all considered gifted, and in some cases, geniuses.
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11. Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A-F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1-7. Одна из частей в списке 1-7 лишняя. Занесите цифру, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.
Solar panels on the roof aren’t just providing clean power; they are cooling the house. Using thermal imaging, researchers determined that during the day, a building’s ceiling was 5 degrees Fahrenheit cooler under solar panels than under an exposed roof. At night, the panels help hold heat in, A___________.
As solar panels sprout on an increasing number of residential and commercial roofs, it becomes more important to consider their impact on buildings’ total energy costs. Data for the study was gathered over three days on the roof of the San Diego School of Engineering with a thermal infrared camera. The building is equipped with tilted solar panels and solar panels B___________. Some portions of the roof are not covered by panels.
The panels essentially act as roof shades. Rather than the sun beating down onto the roof, C___________, photovoltaic panels take the solar beating. Then much of the heat is removed by wind blowing between the panels and the roof. The benefits are greater if there is an open gap D___________, so tilted panels provide more cooling. Also, the more efficient the solar panels, the bigger the cooling effect. For the building researchers analyzed, the panels reduced the amount of heat reaching the roof by about 38 percent.
Although the measurements took place over a limited period of time, the team developed a model that allows them to extrapolate their findings to predict cooling effects throughout the year.
For example, in winter, the panels would keep the sun from heating up the building. But at night, they would also keep in E___________.
There are more efficient ways to passively cool buildings F___________. But, if you are considering installing solar photovoltaic, depending on your roof thermal properties, you can expect a large reduction in the amount of energy you use to cool your residence or business.
1) that are flush with the roof
2) such as reflective roof membranes
3) which causes heat to be pushed through the roof
4) where air can circulate between the building and the solar panel
5) that was not covered with panels
6) reducing heating costs in the winter
7) whatever heat accumulated inside
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Прочитайте текст и выполните задания 12-18. В каждом задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Arriving home after her part-time job at Burger King, Lykesia Lilly planned to shoot some hoops. It was late afternoon on a Sunday. Maybe she’d even play some one-on-one with her little nephew Adrian before supper. But when Lilly asked her sister where the boy was, her casual question was met with concern. ‘I was outside looking for him because his dad and I realized we hadn’t seen him in a while, ’ recalls Adrian’s mother, Stephanie Crump. ‘He was supposed to be playing at a house down the street, but when we called, he wasn’t there.’
In their tiny, rural community of Burnsville, North Carolina, kids still run freely from yard to yard, popping in and out of single-story brick houses with tree-lined lawns. Even traffic poses little threat. The hamlet’s centre consists of a single blinking caution light and two stores. But on that sunny May afternoon, six-year-old Adrian Clark seemed to have simply vanished. Much of his close and extended family joined in a frantic search, combing the neighbourhood and the energetic first grader’s usual play spots.
Finally, they heard faint cries coming from below a mound of rocks piled on his grandmother’s lawn. ‘We could hear him, but we couldn’t see him, ’ recalls Lilly. ‘It was like he was invisible.’ Following his voice, they stumbled on an abandoned well covered with landscaping shale that had been forgotten for years. Somehow Adrian had pushed the slabs aside and slipped into the ragged hole in the ground. There, down the dark, narrow shaft, they saw him — a small figure 15 feet below, suspended over water. Exhausted and shivering, he’d been clinging to pieces of craggy rock and concrete for nearly an hour.
From the lip of the well, the family tried to reassure the child. But they had no idea how to get him out. The well was only 14 inches wide at the top, ‘the size of a five-gallon bucket, ’ says Crump. ‘We realized none of the adults could fit through it.’ They lowered a long orange extension cord, but Adrian — who’d slipped into the murky, freezing water three times by now — was too afraid to let go of the wall to wrap the lifeline around himself.
Fighting hysteria, Crump made two calls to 911. One reached the local volunteer fire department, and the other, the Anson County EMS dispatcher, 13 miles away. But Crump still worried that Adrian would lose his grip before they got there. That’s when Lilly decided she had to go down — despite her inability to swim. ‘Everyone was panicking and crying, and I knew I couldn’t wait any longer, ’ she recalls. ‘I just had to get my nephew.’
Crump and Adrian’s father, Dale Clark, lowered Lilly down the shaft as far as they could, then let go. The well got wider part of the way down, and she slid past her nephew and into the water below. Fortunately, Lilly instinctively pushed off the bottom, 12 feet underwater, and surfaced just under Adrian. ‘I got focused, ’ she says. With the water level just under her nose, Lilly then bolstered her 100-pound nephew, who was shaking in his soaking clothes. With one arm, she grabbed the cord that Adrian’s father was dangling from above and tied it around Adrian’s waist. ‘I was pushing him and holding on with my legs while they were pulling, ’ Lilly says. ‘Somehow they got him out.’
Lilly herself was pulled out just as the rescue squad arrived. Both Adrian and Lilly were taken to the hospital, where he was blanketed with heat packs to ward off hypothermia and she was treated for bruises and lacerations. County workers sealed the well for good a few days later.
The next week, Crump threw a surprise party to honour the gentle-natured teen, who in the past had expressed fear of even the tamer rides at a nearby amusement park. ‘I think if my baby had drowned, if he hadn’t been able to hold on …’ Crump says. ‘I can’t thank Lykesia enough.’ Now working in a day-care centre, Lilly is hoping for a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina, where she wants to study forensics. ‘She’s more serious and responsible now, ’ observes Crump. ‘I don’t think she knew she had it in her.’
Lilly and Adrian have been uniquely close since the rescue. ‘He reminds me all the time, ’ she says fondly. ‘He’ll say, ‘Thank you, Auntie, for saving me.’ And he’ll hug me. Just out of the blue.
(Adapted from ‘Leaps of Faith’ by Joanna Powell)
12. Arriving home, Lykesia Lilly intended
1. to shoot a gun with her nephew.2. to play basketball.
3. to take some photographs.4. to play with a hula hoop.
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13. Burnsville is
1. a tiny village with no shops.2. a hamlet with almost no traffic.3. a city with dangerous traffic.4. a small town in North Carolina.
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14. Finally the family found Adrian
1. in the river deep below the ground.2. behind a mound of rocks.3. in a pile on his grandmother’s lawn.4. in a deep hole under the stones.
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15. Lilly decided she had to go down to Adrian because
1. the rescuers could arrive too late.2. she could swim very well.3. there were no other volunteers.
4. everyone was crying for help.
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16. A few days later county workers
1. closed the entrance of the well for ever.2. fenced the well for good.3. found a lot of goods in the well.4. searched the well for goods.
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17. After the accident Lilly
1. sees less of her nephew.2. has changed for the better.
3. got a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina.4. is as serious and responsible as she was before.
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18. In the last paragraph ‘Just out of the blue’ means
1. tightly.2. heartily.3. energetically.
4. unexpectedly.
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Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика.
Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст, предложения которого распределены по заданиям 19-25. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текстов. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.
19. Traffic Problems
In January 2003, the Congestion Charge ____________(INTRODUCE) in London to help solve the city’s traffic problems.
Верный ответ: Wasintroduced
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20. However, London’s motorists still have traffic problems, ____________(CRAWL)through the city’s streets. London is just as congested with cars as it was before the introduction of the traffic charging scheme.
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21. ‘Without the Congestion Charge the traffic problems in London would be much ____________(BAD) now, ’ said the TfL’s Managing Director.
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22. ‘It already ____________(PROVE) successful in cutting traffic coming into London.’
Верный ответ: Hasproved;Hasalreadyproved
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23. However, on its own, the traffic charging scheme ____________(NOT RESOLVE) the problem of congestion in the city. London streets remain clogged by RESOLVE road works and other measures designed to help pedestrians, buses and cyclists.
Верный ответ: Doesnotresolve
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24. Mayor of London Boris Johnson says he now ____________(WORK) with TfL on a ‘comprehensive approach’ to ease the congestion problem.
Верный ответ: Isnowworking;Isworking
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25. He believes that the government soon ____________(IMPOSE) new measures to eliminate traffic congestion.
Верный ответ: Willsoonimpose;Willimpose
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Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст, распределенный по заданиям 26-31. Образуйте от слов, напечатанных заглавными буквами, однокоренные слова так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.
26. Television Viewing
Television viewing has always been the main leisure activity for American teenagers. According to the ____________(FIND) of a Nielsen study, US teens spend more time watching television than on the computer.
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27. The study found that teenagers were more engaged than ____________(POPULAR) believed with traditional media such as live television, radio and newspapers.
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28. The amount of television watched by the ____________(TYPE) American teenager has increased by six percent over the past five years, which is rather alarming.
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29. Television is a passive ‘non-activity’, which often detracts from ____________(PERSONAL) and community-oriented activities.
Верный ответ: Interpersonal
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30. Time in front of the television cuts into family time and is a leading cause of ____________(OBESE) in both adults and children.
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31. Excessive TV use leads to a more sedentary lifestyle which is ____________(HEALTH) for all of us, both mentally and physically.
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Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 32-38. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 32-38, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов вместе с предложениями из текста ниже.
Dolphin Cove
The day is hot and humid; uncomfortable, so we move to sit in a shaded area. Waiting for the coach to pick us 32___________, I read my book but unfortunately I feel unwell. Hoping that it will pass before we arrive 33___________ dolphin cove I read to take my mind elsewhere.
Rebecca sits next to her Dad on the journey. A young couple sit close by and chat to us along the way. I notice how much the boy reminds me of my nephew, just an older version of him. Having got off the coach, we 34___________ off towards the beach and Rebecca enjoys a paddle in the sea.
A while later it is time for me to join my group at the edge of the cove. Rebecca is reluctant to let me go, becoming miserable and wanting to go home. She is upset at the 35___________ of having to wait.
As for me, I can’t wait to get into the water. Swimming over to the far side, refreshing cool water washes over me. Two dolphins appear in the cove weaving through the water. We form a line and they come up in front of us balancing on their tails, fins flapping. It’s amazing being so close. I am overwhelmed, smiling and laughing at the performance they are displaying for us. Now it’s my 36___________ to swim. I latch my hands on to their fins feeling their strength as they pull me with force through the water, 37___________ on a great ride with intensity.
To experience this was something I only dreamt of and never in my wildest dreams did I think it would become a fantastic opportunity. I feel so honoured to be with these magnificent creatures in the sea. We are all asked if we would like to participate in the next encounter of being lifted by our feet out of the water. Definitely, I’ll give that a 38___________! (A phenomenal privilege: an hour of my life which I will never forget.)
32. Выберите пропущенное слово
The day is hot and humid; uncomfortable, so we move to sit in a shaded area. Waiting for the coach to pick us 32___________, I read my book but unfortunately I feel unwell.
1. over2. on3. up4. out
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33. Выберите пропущенное слово
Hoping that it will pass before we arrive 33___________ dolphin cove I read to take my mind elsewhere.
1. on2. at3. to4. in
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34. Выберите пропущенное слово
Having got off the coach, we 34___________ off towards the beach and Rebecca enjoys a paddle in the sea.
1. turn2. head3. carry4. take
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35. Выберите пропущенное слово
She is upset at the 35___________ of having to wait.
1. perspective2. prospect3. prospectus4. prospective
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36. Выберите пропущенное слово
Now it’s my 36___________ to swim.
1. turn2. try3. trial4. queue
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37. Выберите пропущенное слово
I latch my hands on to their fins feeling their strength as they pull me with force through the water, 37___________ on a great ride with intensity.
1. embarking2. embracing3. entertaining4. encountering
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38. Выберите пропущенное слово
Definitely, I’ll give that a 38___________! (A phenomenal privilege: an hour of my life which I will never forget.)
1. make2. turn3. go4. do
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Раздел 4. Письмо.
Обратите внимание на необходимость соблюдения указанного объёма текста. Тексты недостаточного объёма, а также часть текста, превышающая требуемый объём, не оцениваются. Запишите сначала номер задания (39, 40), а затем ответ на него.
39. You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend George who writes:
…At school we are doing projects on famous singers from different countries. Could you tell me about any famous Russian singer? What is he or she famous for? How long has he/she been singing? Do you enjoy his/her songs? Have you ever been to his/her concerts?
As for my school trip to Edinburgh last week, it was really wonderful…
Write a letter to George.
In your letter
— tell him about the singer you admire most of all
— ask 3 questions about his trip to Edinburgh
Write 100 — 140 words.
Remember the rules of letter writing.
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40. Comment on the following statement.
Fast food is not harmful to our health.
What is your opinion? Do you agree with this statement?
Write 200 — 250 words.
Use the following plan:
— make an introduction (state the problem paraphrasing the given statement)
— express your personal opinion and give 2-3 reasons for your opinion
— express an opposing opinion and give 1-2 reasons for this opposing opinion
— explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion
— make a conclusion restating your position
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Задание 12. Чтение № 12-18
Arriving home after her part-time job at Burger King, Lykesia Lilly planned to shoot some hoops. It was late afternoon on a Sunday. Maybe she’d even play some one-on-one with her little nephew Adrian before supper. But when Lilly asked her sister where the boy was, her casual question was met with concern. ‘I was outside looking for him because his dad and I realized we hadn’t seen him in a while,’ recalls Adrian’s mother, Stephanie Crump. ‘He was supposed to be playing at a house down the street, but when we called, he wasn’t there.’
In their tiny, rural community of Burnsville, North Carolina, kids still run freely from yard to yard, popping in and out of single-story brick houses with tree-lined lawns. Even traffic poses little threat. The hamlet’s centre consists of a single blinking caution light and two stores. But on that sunny May afternoon, six-year-old Adrian Clark seemed to have simply vanished. Much of his close and extended family joined in a frantic search, combing the neighbourhood and the energetic first grader’s usual play spots.
Finally, they heard faint cries coming from below a mound of rocks piled on his grandmother’s lawn. ‘We could hear him, but we couldn’t see him,’ recalls Lilly. ‘It was like he was invisible.’ Following his voice, they stumbled on an abandoned well covered with landscaping shale that had been forgotten for years. Somehow Adrian had pushed the slabs aside and slipped into the ragged hole in the ground. There, down the dark, narrow shaft, they saw him — a small figure 15 feet below, suspended over water. Exhausted and shivering, he’d been clinging to pieces of craggy rock and concrete for nearly an hour.
From the lip of the well, the family tried to reassure the child. But they had no idea how to get him out. The well was only 14 inches wide at the top, ‘the size of a five-gallon bucket,’ says Crump. ‘We realized none of the adults could fit through it.’ They lowered a long orange extension cord, but Adrian — who’d slipped into the murky, freezing water three times by now — was too afraid to let go of the wall to wrap the lifeline around himself.
Fighting hysteria, Crump made two calls to 911. One reached the local volunteer fire department, and the other, the Anson County EMS dispatcher, 13 miles away. But Crump still worried that Adrian would lose his grip before they got there. That’s when Lilly decided she had to go down — despite her inability to swim. ‘Everyone was panicking and crying, and I knew I couldn’t wait any longer,’ she recalls. ‘I just had to get my nephew.’
Crump and Adrian’s father, Dale Clark, lowered Lilly down the shaft as far as they could, then let go. The well got wider part of the way down, and she slid past her nephew and into the water below. Fortunately, Lilly instinctively pushed off the bottom, 12 feet underwater, and surfaced just under Adrian. ‘I got focused,* she says. With the water level just under her nose, Lilly then bolstered her 100-pound nephew, who was shaking in his soaking clothes. With one arm, she grabbed the cord that Adrian’s father was dangling from above and tied it around Adrian’s waist. ‘I was pushing him and holding on with my legs while they were pulling,’ Lilly says. ‘Somehow they got him out.’
Lilly herself was pulled out just as the rescue squad arrived. Both Adrian and Lilly were taken to the hospital, where he was blanketed with heat packs to ward off hypothermia and she was treated for bruises and lacerations. County workers sealed the well for good a few days later.
The next week, Crump threw a surprise party to honour the gentle-natured teen, who in the past had expressed fear of even the tamer rides at a nearby amusement park. “I think if my baby had drowned, if he hadn’t been able to hold on …’ Crump says. ‘I can’t thank Lykesia enough.’ Now working in a day-care centre, Lilly is hoping for a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina, where she wants to study forensics. ‘She’s more serious and responsible now,’ observes Crump. ‘I don’t think she knew she had it in her.’
Lilly and Adrian have been uniquely close since the rescue. ‘He reminds me all the time,’ she says fondly. ‘He’ll say, ‘Thank you, Auntie, for saving me.’ And he’ll hug me. Just out of the blue.
Arriving home, Lykesia Lilly intended
1) to take some photographs.
2) to shoot a gun with her nephew.
3) to play with a hula hoop.
4) to play basketball.
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Задание 12. Чтение № 12-18
The History of the detective novel
Numerous detective and crime-related stories are highly popular nowadays. They are a major part of television programming. There is plenty of subgenres and works of detective fiction and half of contemporary series are based on them.
As we know it today Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t originate the detective story. It truly began in 1841 when another author of the 19th century, Edgar Allan Poe, introduced Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin in the short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. Two women were violently murdered in a mysterious manner. The police have a hard time solving the case. And Dupin leads his own investigation. By the way, the word “detective” didn’t exist at the time.
Many of Dupin’s characteristics such as his logical method of solving problems and ability of reading clues greatly influenced character portrayals of detectives throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Later detectives, especially well-known Sherlock Holmes, became even more eccentric, and Poe’s nameless narrator had his counterpart in the amiable Dr. Watson.
Charles Dickens’ novel “Bleak House” is the first story that begins to truly resemble the modern conception of detective fiction. The story is about Detective Bucket who investigates the murder of the disgusting lawyer, Tulkinghorn. The work of Dickens in this novel developed some of the commons of detective fiction. Some of them were robberies at an English country house, professional investigators, useless local police, false suspects to throw off the reader, the villain is the least suspected, exciting plot twist and many other details.
If Poe was the inventor of the detective novel, it was Arthur Conan Doyle who truly fastened it as a popular literary genre. Unlike Poe, who only created three stories with the same character, Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle initially hoped to publish some of his Holmes. Stories in order to earn some money. But he had no idea that the Sherlock Holmes would become such a well-known adorable character. First of all, Doyle adopted Poe’s formulae, cut his complex introductions and restated them in conversational exchanges between his two main characters, and emphasized the “deduction” of astonishing conclusions from trifling clues. These special features made the stories so remarkable and impressive that they have since inspired hundreds of Plays, movies, television series, and other adaptations.
The Golden Era of detective fiction spanned from 1920 to 1940. During this period authors like Freeman Wills Crofts, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and, of course, Agatha Christie introduced their first detective works. Many more new detectives also appeared. Thanks to them the genre continued to grow. Some of thе more popular detectives were Endeavor Morse and Gervaise Fen, who were made by Edmund Crispin. By the way, Crispin is believed to take the detective genre into a more contemporary direction.
By the end of the 20th century the place of detective fiction was well established. And it’s obvious that the importance of this kind of literature in general and in the 19th-century is undeniable.
When did the word “detective” appear?
1) It appeared long before Edgar Poe wrote his stories.
2) Edgar Poe invented it in 1841.
3) It appeared at the time when Edgar Poe wrote his stories.
4) It was made up some time later after Poe’s stories
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Задание 12. Чтение № 12-18
When I grow up
When I was in kindergarten, my class was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Colourful crayons danced across sheets of paper to illustrate our dream occupations and cherished jobs. Our drawings were hung in the school hallway for our parents to see at Back to School Night. I remember looking down the line and seeing pictures of pretty ballerinas dancing, brave firefighters putting out a blaze, and fearless astronauts leaping across the moon — admirable careers that were seen as typical dreams of five-year-old kids.
My picture showed a stick figure with brown disheveled hair holding a carton of orange juice over a large rectangle that was supposed to be a counter. Underneath was my barely legible handwriting: “When I grow up, I want to work at the Market Basket because it would be fun to swipe orange juice across the scanner and talk to customers.” To this day my parents won’t let me forget that out of everything I could have aspired to be, my five-year-old self wished to work at the local grocery store.
When we are young, questions of what we want to be when we grow up are common. Yet we are not expected to respond with an answer that is likely to come true. However, when we become teenagers, we are asked the very same question twice as often. The difference is, now we are supposed to answer with confidence.
Teenagers are expected to know exactly what they want to be and how they are going to achieve that goal. Not all of us can be so sure at this age. Even though I am in high school, I cannot answer convincingly. But I don’t consider that a bad thing. How am I supposed to know what I will want to spend my time doing at the age of thirty or forty?
When I think about the future, I definitely don’t see myself working at the counter of the Market Basket, but in reality, if that was what would make me happy, I would do it. So, the next time someone asks me what I want to be when I grow up, I will simply say, “I want to be happy.” And it is hope that drives us in this direction.
“Hope is not a grain of sand,” the Gambian poet, Lenrie Peters, echoes, but no matter how tiny it is, it would still be sufficient to keep the youth alive and sane in most extreme circumstances. It is hope that spurs the youth on, to be up and doing. It is hope that keeps the youth going no matter how hard it is. Nelson Mandela as a youth hoped against all hope for the liberation of his people and he actually lived to see his hope being fulfilled. Robinson Crusoe, cast away on an uninhabited island, hoped against all hope for survival and this propelled him to start from scratch and build a compound and large farm single-handedly.
Far away in “Another Country: the Land of Literature,” Sister Eileen Sweeney sums up through her writings that Hope is the anchor that keeps “the ship” called “youth” steadfastly held together no matter the high and stormy sea of passion, pain, distress or tribulation that batter against it.
Happiness is a destination for everyone. We may want to walk different paths in life, narrow or wide, crooked or straight, but we all want to be happy wherever we end up. Choose your path, but don’t worry too much about choosing wisely. Make a mistake or two and try new things. But always remember, if you’re not happy, you’re not at the end of your journey yet.
In what way did the children in the kindergarten answer the question about their dream occupation?
1) They described their parents’ actual occupation.
2) They took pictures of parents at the Back to School Night.
3) They drew people of their dream careers in action.
4) They made up a list of the most common and wide-spread professions.
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Задание 12. Чтение № 12-18
Making the difference
Mу life is the same as millions of others’. I’m a wife and mother to two great kids. I work as a sales advisor and spend my weekends pottering about in the kitchen or garden. But eight years ago, my «normal», Liverpool-centred life changed forever.
I’ve always donated money to various charities. But rather than just giving money, I also wanted to help people face to face, so I decided to look for a project abroad. On the Internet I read about an Indian organization called the Rural Development Society. I knew very little about India, but I discovered that people in Tamil Nadu, the poorest state in Southern India, were in dire need of help.
I talked it through with my husband Paul, but I don’t think he expected me to go through with it.
Still, I sent a letter offering my services and within a few weeks received a reply from Manhoran, the chief of Ananandal village. In broken English, he explained how excited they were to think that someone would want to come to help them. My decision was made.
My husband was not enthusiastic about my going there, but he also knew how important it was to me. And, though my sons said they’d miss their mum, they knew it’d only be for a few months. I booked a flight and wrote to Chief Manhoran that I was coming.
Nothing could have prepared me for my arrival at Chennai airport. The noise, the heat and the bustle was totally alien — as were the surroundings. I got to work straight away teaching at the small local school funded by the Rural Development Society, for six days a week.
Day-to-day life was a total culture shock. With no electricity or running water, everything was exceedingly basic. But despite the shockingly simple life, not for one moment did I regret going. The kindness of the villagers was all-encompassing. In return for me showing them respect for their culture, they gave me their all. My Hindi was awful, but we communicated with smiles, laughter and hugs.
From arriving in a desolate village full of strangers, they’d become my friends. I started to look at the place with the utmost affection. And despite looking forward to my trip back to Liverpool, it felt like home.
I started teaching the village children the alphabet under the tree by the hut. Every day more and more children turned up. It was soon impossible for me to manage on my own. I found a local teacher and we started to share evening classes. We settled into a routine, splitting them into groups of older and younger children — named my Little and Big Darlings.
The day before the end of my three-month stay, I was overwhelmed when 2,000 villagers begged me to stay and continue with the school. There was no way I could remain there — I missed my husband and children. But I promised to be back.
My husband was incredibly proud of how far we’d come, but never felt the urge to visit Ananandal. He and our sons prefer to stay at home and help raise money for the school over here.
Since then the school has got bigger and bigger and now we have 500 pupils. The best thing is that the school recently came second in the annual exams of the whole of Southern India. I’ve thought about going to live there, but my life, my job and family are in England so I’m happy just visiting.
When I’m back in Liverpool people say how proud I must be of myself. To a certain extent I am. But I’m more proud of my Little and Big Darlings who come to school every day with a smile, desperate to learn. They’re the inspiration, not me.
The author decided to go to work abroad because…
1) she felt bored with her life in Liverpool.
2) she needed to earn money for charity.
3) she was eager to help people directly.
4) she wanted to see India.
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In a certain city there lived a physician who sold yellow paint. This was of so singular a virtue that whoso was painted With it from head to heel was set free from the dangers of life, and the bondage of sin, and the fear of death for ever. So the physician said in his prospectus; and so said all the citizens in the city; and there was nothing more urgent in men’s hearts than to be properly painted themselves, and nothing they took more delight in than to see others painted.
There was in the same city a young man of a very good family but of a somewhat reckless life, who had reached the age of manhood, and would have nothing to say to the paint. ‘Tomorrow was soon enough,’ said he; and when the morrow came he would still put it off. He might have continued to do until his death; only, he had a friend of about his own age and much of his own manners; and this youth, taking a walk in the public street, with not one fleck of paint upon his body, was suddenly run down by a water-cart and cut off in the heyday of his nakedness; This shook the other to the soul; so that I never beheld a man more earnest to be painted; and on the very same evening, in the presence of all his family, to appropriate music, and himself weeping aloud, he received three complete coats and a touch of varnish on the top. The physician (who was himself affected even to tears) protested he had never done a job so thorough.
Some two months afterwards, the young man was carried on a stretcher to the physician’s house. ‘What is the meaning of this?’ he cried, as soon as the door was opened. T was to be set free from all the dangers of life; and here have I been run down by that self-same water-cart, and my leg is bro— Кер,’ tJ>par me!’ said, the physician. ‘This, is very sad. But I perceive Γ must explain to you the action of my paint. A broken bone is a mighty small affair at the worst of it; and it belongs To a class of accident to which my paint is quite inapplicable. Sin, my dear young friend, sin is the sole calamity that a wise man should apprehend; it is against sin that 1 have fitted you out; and when you come to be tempted, you will give me news of my paint.’
‘Oh!’ said the young man, ‘1 did not understand that, and it seems rather disappointing. But I have no doubt all is for the best; and in the meanwhile, I shall be obliged to you if you will set my leg.’ ‘That is none of my business,’ Said the physician; ‘but if your bearers carry you round the comer to the surgeon’s, 1 feel sure he will afford relief.’
Some three years later, the young man came running to the physician’s house in a great perturbation. ‘What is the meaning of this?’ he cried. ‘Here was I to be set free from the bondage of sin; and 1 have just committed forgery, arson and murder.’ ‘Dear me,’ said the physician. ‘This is very serious. Off with your clothes at once.’ And as soon as the young man had stripped, he examined him from head to foot. ‘No,’ he cried with great relief, ‘there is not a flake broken. Cheer up, my young friend, your paint is as good as new.’
‘Good God!’ cried the young man, ‘and what then can be the use of it?’ ‘Why,’ said the physician, ‘I perceive I must explain to you the nature of the action of my paint. It does not exactly prevent sin; it extenuates instead the painful consequences. It is not so much for this world, as for the next; it is not against life; in short, it is against death that I have fitted you out. And when you come to die, you will give me news of my paint.’
‘Oh!’ cried the young man, ‘I had not understood that, and it seems a little disappointing. But there is no doubt all is for the best: and in the meanwhile, I shall be obliged if you will help me to undo the evil I have brought on innocent persons.’ ‘That is none of my business,’ said the physician; ‘but if you go round the comer to the police office, I feel sure it will afford you relief to give yourself up.’
Six weeks later, the physician was called to the town gaol. ‘What is the meaning of this?’ cried the young man. ‘Here am 1 literally crusted with your paint; and I have broken my leg, and committed all the crimes in the calendar, and must be hanged tomorrow; and I am in the meanwhile in a fear so extreme that I lack words to picture it.’ ‘Dear me,’ said the physician. ‘This is really amazing. Well, well; perhaps, if you had not been painted, you would have been more frightened still.’
(Adapted from The Yellow Paint By Robert Louis Stevenson)
∣A15∣ The person who sold yellow paint was l)a priest.
2) A painter.
— 3) A scientist.
4) A doctor.
}A¾⅜>{ in paragraph 2 the word ‘reckless’ means
1) Unhappy.
2) Meaningless.
3) Careless.
4) Dangerous.
∣ A⅛T] The young man agreed to be painted because
1) his family had convinced him to do it.
2) he had been run down by a water-cart 3) his friend was injured by a water-cart.
4) His friend had died in an accident.
LAlβ I The paint didn’t protect the young man from an injury because
1) It could only be applied to sins.
2) A broken leg was a serious accident;
3) His legs were not painted.
4) He had committed a terrible sin. 1
∣A19∣ The paint didn’t prevent the young man from committing Crimesbecause ςι. . . ■
1) Some of its flakes were Broken.
2) Its aim was to smooth over the effect of the sin.
3) It could be applied only to dead people.
4) The consequences could be painful.
JA2O∣ Six weeks later, the physician was called
5) To the town hall
6) To the town prison.
7) To the town hospital.
To the town court.
IA21 [The story teaches the readers that
1) they can be set free from the dangers of life.
2) they should only use top quality paint.
3) they should not believe everything they read in the prospectus.
4) nothing can prevent them from committing crimes.
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Задание 3.7
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That summer an army of crickets started a war with my father. They picked a fight the minute they invaded our cellar. Dad didn’t care for bugs much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few spiders and assorted creepy crawlers living in the basement. Every farm house had them. A part of rustic living, and something you needed to put up with if you wanted the simple life.
He told Mamma: ‘Now that we’re living out here, you can’t be jerking your head and swallowing your gum over what’s plain natural, Ellen.’ But she was a city girl through and through and had no ears when it came to defending vermin. She said a cricket was just a noisy cockroach, just a dumb homy bug that wouldn’t shut up. No way could she sleep with all that chirping going on! Then to prove her point she wouldn’t go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father’s cigarettes and she paced between the couch and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the hardware store and hurried back. He squirted poison from a jug with a spray nozzle. He sprayed the basement and all around the founda — Tioπ of the house. When he had finished, he told us that was the end of it.
But what he should have said was: ‘This is the beginning.’ The beginning of our war, the beginning of our destruction. For the next fourteen days Mamma kept finding dead Crickets in the clean laundry. Shed shake out a towel or a sheet and a dead black cricket would roll across the linoleum. Sometimes the cat would corner one, and swat it around like he was playing hockey, then carry it away in his mouth. Dad said swallowing a few dead crickets wouldn’t hurt as long as the cat didn’t eat too many.
Soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma freaked because she thought they were the dead crickets come back to haunt, but Dad said these was definitely a new batch, probably coming up on the pipes. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed beneath the sink and behind the toilet and all along the baseboard until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the cellar again, and then he went outside and sprayed all around the foundation leaving a foot-wide moat of poison.
For a couple of weeks we went back to finding dead crickets in the laundry. Dad told us to keep a sharp look out. He suggested that we’d all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn’t like because he scratched and bit for no reason. I hoped the poison might kill him so we could get a puppy. Once in a while we. found a dead cricket in the bathroom or beneath the kitchen sink A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, Dad emptied — the cellar of junk He boσowed Uncle Burt’s pickup and hauled a load to the dump. Then he burned a lot of bundled newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.
He stood over that fire with a rake in one hand and a garden hose in the other. He wouldn’t leave it even whert Mamma sent me out to fetch him for supper. He wouldn’t leave the fire, and she wouldn’t put supper on the table. Both my brothers were crying. Finally she went out and got
Him herself. And while we ate, the wind lifted some embers onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower’s fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn’t much anyone could do.
After the fire trucks left I made the mistake of volunteering to stay behind while Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail’s. 1 helped Dad and Uncle Burt and two men Γd never seen before carry things out of the house and stack them by the road. In the morning we’d come back in Burt’s truck and haul everything away. We worked into the night and we didn’t talk much, hardly a word about anything that mattered, and Dad didn’t offer any plan that he might have for us now. Uncle Burt passed a bottle around, but I shook my head when it came to me. 1 kicked and picked through the mess, dumb struck at how little there was to salvage, while all around the roar of crickets magnified our silence.
(Adapted from The Cricket War by Bob Thurber)
A cricket is
1) a small animal.
2) a spider.
3) an insect.
4) a game.
Mamma threatened to pack up and leave because
1) she had smoked all cigarettes.
2) she had not got used to rustic living.
3) she could not put up with crickets.
4) she was a city girl through and through.
After Dad had sprayed the basement and all around the foundation of the house,
1) the family were constantly coming across dead crickets.
2) the family kept seeing live crickets everywhere.
3) the dead crickets came back to haunt.
4) all crickets disappeared.
I A⅛8∣ The narrator fed the cat with crickets because
1) The cat was hungry.
2) He would like to have another pet.
3) He wanted to hide crickets from Mamma.
4) Dad told him to do it.
(A¾9∣ Dad borrowed Uncle Burt’s pickup
1) To fight with crickets. <
2) To bring new furniture to the cellar.
3) To throw away newspapers and magazines.
4) To get rid of rubbish.
∣A20∣ The house caught fire because l
1) Dad left a garden hosenear the fire.
2) The wind lifted some papers onto the wood pile.
3) The fuel tank had gone off.
4) There wasn’t much anyone could do.
[A21⅜ The narrator was surprised
1) That Dad didn’t offer any plan.
2) When the bottle came to lrim.
3) That crickets were all around.
4) That there was not much to save from the fire.
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Arriving home after her part-time job at Burger King, Lykesia Lilly planned to shoot some hoops. It was late afternoon on a Sunday. Maybe she’d even play some one-on — one with her little nephew Adrian before supper. But when
Lilly asked her sister where the boy was, her casual question was met with concern. ‘I was outside looking for him be — , cause his dad and 1 realized we hadn’t seen him in a while,’ recalls Adrian’s mother, Stephanie Crump. ‘He was supposed to be playing at a house down the street, but when we called, he wasn’t there.’
In their tiny, rural community of Bumsvdle, North CaroUna,.kids still run freely from yard to yard, popping in and out of single-story brick houses with tree-lined lawns. Even traffic poses little threat. The hamlet’s centre consists of a single blinking caution light and two stores. But on that sunny May afternoon, six-year-old Adrian Clark seemed to have simply vanished. Much of his close and extended family joined in a frantic search, combing the neighbourhood and the eneιgetic first grader’s usual play spots.
Finally, they heard faint cries coming fr⅛ below a mound of rocks piled on his grandmother’s lawn. ‘We could hear him, but we couldn’t see him/ recalls Lilly, ‘It was like he was invisible.’ Following his voice, they stumbled on an abandoned well covered with landscaping shale that had been forgotten for years. Somehow Adrian had pushed the slabs aside and slipped into the ragged hole in die ground, There, down the dark, narrow shaft, they saw him — a small figure 15 feet below, suspended over water. Exhausted and shivering, he’d been clinging to pieces of craggy rock and concrete Jbr nearly an hour.
From the lip of the well, the family tried to reassure the child. Bttt they had no idea how to get him out. The well was only 14 inches wide at the top, ‘the size of a five-gallon bucket,’ says Crump. tWe realized none of ffi½i ⅛⅛βU⅛buld fit through iL’ They Towered a long orange extension cord, but Adrian — who’d slipped into the murky, freezing water t three times by now —- was too afraid to let go of the wall to wrap the lifeline around himself.
Fighting hysteria, Crump made two calls toz 911. 0ne reached the local volunteer fire department, and the other, the Arison County EMS dispatcher, 13 miles away. But Crump still worried that Adrian would lose his grip before they got there. That’s when Lilly decided she had to go down — despite her inability to swim. ‘Everyone was panicking and crying, and I knew I couldn’t wait any longer,* she recalls, ‘I Just had to get my nephew?
Crump and Adrian’s father, Dale Clark, lowered Lilly down the shaft as Iar as they could, then let go. The well got wider part of the way down, and she slid past her nephew and into the water below. Fortunately, Lilly instinctively pushed off the bottom^ 12 feet underwater, and surfaced just under Adrian. *! got focused,’ she says. With the water level just under her nose, Lilly then bolstered her 100-pound nephew, who was shaking in his soaking clothes. With one arm, she grabbed the cord that Adrian’s father was dangling from above and tied it around Adrian’s waist. tI was pushing him and holding on with my legs while they were pulling,* Lilly says. ‘Somehow they got him out. I believe God was with us that day?
Lilly herself was pulled out just — as the rescue squad arrived. Both Adrian and Lilly were taken to the hospital, where he was blanketed with heat packs to ward oft hypothermia and she was treated for bruises and lacerations. County workers sealed the well for good a few days later.
The next week, Crump threw a surprise party to honour the geπtle-natuted teen, who in the past had expressed fear of even ti⅛e tamer rides at a nearby amusement park. T think, Lord, if my baby had drowned, if he hadn’t been able to hold on ..? Crump says. ‘I can’t thank Lylresia. enough? Now working in a day-care centre, UUy is hoping for a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina, where she wants to study forensics. ‘She’s more serious and responsible now,* observes Cruπq>.?! don’t think she knew she had it in her?
Lilly and Adrian have been uniquely close since the rescue. ‘He reminds me all the time,* she says fondly. He’ll say, ‘Thank you, Auntie, for saving me? And he’ll hug me. Just out of the Ыне.
(Adapted from Leaps of Faith by Joanna Powell)
I A⅞5 [ Arriving home, Lykesia Lilly intended
1) To take some photographs.
2) To shoot a gun with her nephew.
3) To play with a hula hoop. .
4) To play basketball.
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Bumsville is 1) a hamlet with almost no traffic. 2) a tiny village with no shops. 3) a small town in North Carolina. 4) a city with dangerous traffic. |
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Finally the family found Adrian 1) in a pile on his grandmother’s lawn. 2) in a deep hole under the stones. 3) in the river deep below the ground. 4) behind a mound of rocks. |
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Lilly decided she had to go down to Adrian because 1) she could swim very well. 2) the rescuers could arrive too late. 3) everyone was crying for help. 4) there were no other volunteers. |
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A few days later county workers 1) found a lot of goods in the well. 2) searched the well for goods. 3) closed the entrance of the well for ever. 4) fenced the well for good. |
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After the accident Lilly L)got a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina. 2) sees less of her nephew. 3) is as serious and responsible as she was before. 4) has changed for the better. |
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In the last paragraph ‘Just out of the blue’ Means 1) heartily. 2) tightly. 3) unexpectedly. 4) energetically |
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Во имя любви
после прибытия домой свою работу на неполный рабочий день в Burger King, Lykesia ЛИЛЛИ планировал снимать некоторые обручи. Это было поздно вечером в воскресенье. Может быть , она даже играть с некоторыми HER ONE на один племянник Адриан Маленькая Dinner раньше.
Но когда Lilly, 18, спросил , где сестра Мальчик был ее, ее озабоченность Повседневный вопрос был встречен. «Я был вне глядя на него , потому что его отец , и я понял , что мы не видели его в какое — то время,» вспоминает мать Адриана, Стефани Крамп, 29, страховой агент. «Он должен был играть в доме по улице, когда мы позвонили , но он не был там.»
В своем крошечном, сельской общине BURNSVILLE, штат Северная Каролина (POP. У 1644), дети из неподвижного двора свободно бежать двор, подключившийся и из одноэтажных кирпичных домов с усаженный деревьями газоны. Даже трафик представляет незначительную угрозу. центр Гамлета состоит из одного мигающего света осторожность и двух магазинов. Но в тот солнечный день мая, шесть-летний Адриан Кларк , казалось, просто ива. Регистрация в семье его НАМНОГО Do hysterial поиск Закрыть и расширен, и обычно играют соседской первоклассника в поисках пятнах. И,
наконец, они услышали крики , доносящиеся из далекой ниже кучи камней , сложенных на лужайке своей бабушки. «Мы могли слышать его, но мы не могли видеть его,» вспоминает Лилли. «Это было так, как Он был невидим.»
После его голос, они наткнулись на заброшенную сланец хорошо покрыты озеленения , которые были забыты в течение многих лет. Там, вниз темный, узкий вал, они SAW Hima небольшой рисунок ниже 15 футов, подвешенная воды над.
От губой Ну, семья пыталась успокоить ребенка. Но они имели представление , как уплотнительное получить его. Хорошо было всего 14 дюймов в ширину в верхней части, «размером с пять галлонов ведро,» говорит Крамп. «Мы поняли , что ни один из взрослых не может проходить через него.» Они опустили удлинитель длинный оранжевый, но Adrian─who’d поскользнулся в темноте, замерзающей воды трижды now─was слишком напуганы , чтобы отпустить стены , чтобы обернуть сам LIFELINE вокруг.
Борьба с истерией, Крамп звонки на 911. Один ДВА ДЕПАРТАМЕНТА достигла местного добровольных пожарных, а с другой стороны , EMS диспетчером ANSON County, 13 миль. Городские завыли сирены через, предупреждая добровольцев, но потеряет свою власть Адриан Crump Тем не менее Обеспокоенный тем, что , прежде чем они получили там.
Вот решила она должна была пойти downdespite когда ее ЛИЛЛИ неспособность плавать. «Все были паниковать и плакать, и я знал , что я не мог больше ждать,» она вспоминает. «Мой племянник я просто должен был получить.»
Крамп и отец Адриан, Дейл Кларк, опускают вал, насколько они могли Lilly, затем отпустить. Ну получил широкую часть пути вниз, и она скользила по прошлому и в воду ниже HER племянника. К
счастью, Лилли инстинктивно оттолкнулся дно, 12 футов под водой, под и всплыли Просто Адриан. «Я получил целенаправленный характер ,» говорит она. «Мои ноги так долго, так что я положил одну ногу на стену по обе стороны от колодца и держал себя вверх.» С уровня воды как раз под ее носом, Лилли затем укрепило ее 100-фунтовый племянник, который был встряхивания в его замачивания одежды.
с одной рукой, она схватила отца Адриана , который был свисающую из пуповины выше и вокруг него связали талии Адриана. «Я толкал его и держась моих ног , пока они отходили,» говорит Лилли. «Каким — то образом они получили его. ДЕНЬ Я считаю , что Бог был с нами. »
Так же , как спасательный отряд прибыл ЛИЛЛИ сама вырвалась. «В 20 лет я был фельдшером, мы никогда не должны были спасти ребенка из колодца,» говорит Энсон Каунти EMS руководитель Линда Yow, добавив: «Я удивлен , что эта молодая девушка не имела абсолютно никакого отношения к Безопасность самостоятельно. »
и Адриан и были доставлены в больницу Lilly, отогнать туда , где он был застилала с тепловыми пакетами для ушибами и переохлаждением ОБРАБОТАННЫХ Травмы и она была. Графство Рабочие SEALED несколько дней спустя Ну навсегда.
На следующей неделе, Крамп бросили вечеринку — сюрприз в честь нежную добродушного подростка, который по прошлому выразивших в страхе даже укротитель парк аттракционов в соседнем развлечением.
«Думаю , Господи, если мой ребенок утонул, если бы он не был в состоянии удержать … «говорит Крамп. «Я не могу не поблагодарить Lykesia достаточно.» В настоящее время работает в центре дневного ухода за детьми, Лилли надеется на получение стипендии для участия в Университете Северной Каролины, где она хочет изучить судебно — медицинской экспертизы. «Сейчас она более серьезно и ответственно,» отмечает Крамп. «Я не думаю , что она знала , что она имела ее в нем.»
Лилли и Адриан с тех пор были однозначно Закройте resue.
«Он напоминает мне все время,» говорит она нежно. «Он скажет:» Спасибо, тетушка, за спасение меня. И он обнял меня. Просто на ровном месте .
«Или», добавляет она со смехом, «Он хочет , когда что — то.»
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