10 клас контроль навичок читання ІІ семестр

TEXT 1

Read the text below, and chose the word which best fits each gap from the list .

TRINITY COLLEGE

Trinity College was          [founded, set, begin, starting]  by Sir Thomas Pope in 1555. A devout catholic with no surviving children, Thomas Pope saw the Foundation of an Oxford college as a means of            [securing, ensuring, clinching, verifying]  that he and his family would always be remembered in the prayers and masses of its members. He came from a family of small             [owers, landowners, freeholders, mistresses]  in Oxfordshire, trained as a lawyer, and rose rapidly to prominence         [with, on, under, because]  Henry VIII. As Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations he handled the estates of the monasteries               [dissolved, disintegrate, crumbled, withered]  at the Reformation, and amassed a considerable personal         [fortune, wealth, rich, money] . Pope was a discreet and trusted privy counsellor of Mary Tudor, and it was from Mary and Philip that he           [inherited, conferred, received, excepted]  Letters Patent and royal approval for his new foundation. Pope died in 1559. Although his religious          [ideals, examples, belief, value]  were never fully realised - Elizabeth I had succeeded her sister and England            [rejoined, repeated, returned, reinstated]   to the Protestant faith - nonetheless the memory of his name, like his college, has endured the fluctuating fortunes of over 400 years. His wife, Lady Elizabeth Pope, was a particularly influential         [outline, symbol, shape, figure]  in Trinity's early years. Pope's foundation was for a President, twelve Fellows and twelve scholars, all supported by the income from his            [generous, generosity, bounty, teeming]  endowment of lands, and for up to twenty undergraduates. The Fellows, all men, were required to take Holy Orders and remain unmarried. The College Statutes set out rules for a simple monastic life of religious observance and study. The Garden was an informal grove of trees, mainly elms, amongst which the members of the College could           [prowl, walk, promenade, yomp]  and meditate.

Text 2: (from Old Man at the Bridge by Ernest Hemingway)

Glossary     Stagger:  хитатись, вагатись                     herdsman: nacтyx

An old man with steel-rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road. There was a pontoon bridge across the river; and carts staggered up the steep bank from the bridge, with soldiers helping push against the spokes of the wheels. The trucks ground up and away, heading out of it all, and the peasants plodded along in the ankle-deep dust. But the old man sat there without moving. He was too tired to go any farther.

It was my business to cross the bridge, explore the bridgehead beyond, and find out to what point the enemy advanced. I did this and returned over the bridge. There were not so many carts now and very few people on foot, but the old man was still there.

"Where do you come from?" I asked, and smiled.

"From Santa Carlos," he said, and smiled.

That was his native town and so it gave him pleasure to mention it and he smiled.

"I was taking care of animals," he explained.

"Oh," I said not quite understanding.

"Yes," he said, "I stayed, you see, taking care of animals. I was the last one to leave the town of San Carlos."

He did not look like a shepherd or a herdsman, and I looked at his black dusty clothes and his gray dusty face and his steel-rimmed spectacles and said, " What animals were they?"

"Various animals," he said, and shook his head. " I had to leave them.

Questions (on your answer sheet put the correct letter A, B, C, or D)

1.   The old man's native village was:

2.The old man sat beside the road because: