(Копія) Reading Test (2nd term) Form 11 (2026)

Task 1. Complete the text with the missing sentences. There are two sentences you do not need. (fill in the gap marked in blue ____)
Доповнити текст реченнями за змістом. Заповнити виділений блакитним пропуск. Два речення є зайвими.

The Giant's Causeway

Stretching into the sea from Ireland in the direction of Scotland and composed of 40,000 individual columns of different heights, the Giant's Causeway certainly seems (1) __________. Could it perhaps have been an ancient pathway for a mythical colossus, or is it just what it seems, a strange geological phenomenon?

According to one version of the myth, once there were two giants, one of whom lived in Ireland and the other in Scotland. The people of each country boasted that they had the mightier giant. One day, the Irish giant, (2) _________, decided to cross the North Channel to Scotland to confront the Scottish titan Benandonner. He (3) ___. Finn MacCool worked all day to complete the task, and as night fell, he had managed to reach the coast of Scotland. However, he decided (4) ___ so he returned home to have a good night's sleep. In the meantime, the cunning Scottish giant noticed the newly built causeway and seized the opportunity to strike the Irish giant while he was resting. Benandonner arrived in Ireland and began searching immediately for Finn MacCool. When he found his rival's house, Finn MacCool's wife told the unwelcome guest that her husband wasn't home, and (5) _____ lest he wake her sleeping child. On seeing the child, who was in fact the slumbering Irish giant, Benandonner became so frightened at the thought of how big the father must be, that he turned tail and fled back to Scotland, (6) _________ so it couldn't be used again.

Today, most geologists agree (7) ___________ its formation occurred when layers of molten lava cooled over a flat bed of chalk and contracted. This, of course, took place around fifty million years ago, when much of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland were volcanically active. The topmost layer of lava cooled first and the rocks shrank and cracked into regular patterns like mud on a dry riverbed. The cracks on the surface moved downwards through the rock, splitting it and creating columns. Over thousands of years, sea erosion and other geological processes have taken place, giving the landscape the shape we see today.

Task 1. Complete the text with the missing sentences. There are two sentences you do not need. (fill in the gap marked in blue ____)
Доповнити текст реченнями за змістом. Заповнити виділений блакитним пропуск. Два речення є зайвими.

The Giant's Causeway

Stretching into the sea from Ireland in the direction of Scotland and composed of 40,000 individual columns of different heights, the Giant's Causeway certainly seems (1) __________. Could it perhaps have been an ancient pathway for a mythical colossus, or is it just what it seems, a strange geological phenomenon?

According to one version of the myth, once there were two giants, one of whom lived in Ireland and the other in Scotland. The people of each country boasted that they had the mightier giant. One day, the Irish giant, (2) _________, decided to cross the North Channel to Scotland to confront the Scottish titan Benandonner. He (3) ___. Finn MacCool worked all day to complete the task, and as night fell, he had managed to reach the coast of Scotland. However, he decided (4) ___ so he returned home to have a good night's sleep. In the meantime, the cunning Scottish giant noticed the newly built causeway and seized the opportunity to strike the Irish giant while he was resting. Benandonner arrived in Ireland and began searching immediately for Finn MacCool. When he found his rival's house, Finn MacCool's wife told the unwelcome guest that her husband wasn't home, and (5) _____ lest he wake her sleeping child. On seeing the child, who was in fact the slumbering Irish giant, Benandonner became so frightened at the thought of how big the father must be, that he turned tail and fled back to Scotland, (6) _________ so it couldn't be used again.

Today, most geologists agree (7) ___________ its formation occurred when layers of molten lava cooled over a flat bed of chalk and contracted. This, of course, took place around fifty million years ago, when much of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland were volcanically active. The topmost layer of lava cooled first and the rocks shrank and cracked into regular patterns like mud on a dry riverbed. The cracks on the surface moved downwards through the rock, splitting it and creating columns. Over thousands of years, sea erosion and other geological processes have taken place, giving the landscape the shape we see today.

Task 1. Complete the text with the missing sentences. There are two sentences you do not need. (fill in the gap marked in blue ____)
Доповнити текст реченнями за змістом. Заповнити виділений блакитним пропуск. Два речення є зайвими.

The Giant's Causeway

Stretching into the sea from Ireland in the direction of Scotland and composed of 40,000 individual columns of different heights, the Giant's Causeway certainly seems (1) __________. Could it perhaps have been an ancient pathway for a mythical colossus, or is it just what it seems, a strange geological phenomenon?

According to one version of the myth, once there were two giants, one of whom lived in Ireland and the other in Scotland. The people of each country boasted that they had the mightier giant. One day, the Irish giant, (2) _________, decided to cross the North Channel to Scotland to confront the Scottish titan Benandonner. He (3) ___. Finn MacCool worked all day to complete the task, and as night fell, he had managed to reach the coast of Scotland. However, he decided (4) ___ so he returned home to have a good night's sleep. In the meantime, the cunning Scottish giant noticed the newly built causeway and seized the opportunity to strike the Irish giant while he was resting. Benandonner arrived in Ireland and began searching immediately for Finn MacCool. When he found his rival's house, Finn MacCool's wife told the unwelcome guest that her husband wasn't home, and (5) _____ lest he wake her sleeping child. On seeing the child, who was in fact the slumbering Irish giant, Benandonner became so frightened at the thought of how big the father must be, that he turned tail and fled back to Scotland, (6) _________ so it couldn't be used again.

Today, most geologists agree (7) ___________ its formation occurred when layers of molten lava cooled over a flat bed of chalk and contracted. This, of course, took place around fifty million years ago, when much of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland were volcanically active. The topmost layer of lava cooled first and the rocks shrank and cracked into regular patterns like mud on a dry riverbed. The cracks on the surface moved downwards through the rock, splitting it and creating columns. Over thousands of years, sea erosion and other geological processes have taken place, giving the landscape the shape we see today.

Task 1. Complete the text with the missing sentences. There are two sentences you do not need. (fill in the gap marked in blue ____)
Доповнити текст реченнями за змістом. Заповнити виділений блакитним пропуск. Два речення є зайвими.

The Giant's Causeway

Stretching into the sea from Ireland in the direction of Scotland and composed of 40,000 individual columns of different heights, the Giant's Causeway certainly seems (1) __________. Could it perhaps have been an ancient pathway for a mythical colossus, or is it just what it seems, a strange geological phenomenon?

According to one version of the myth, once there were two giants, one of whom lived in Ireland and the other in Scotland. The people of each country boasted that they had the mightier giant. One day, the Irish giant, (2) _________, decided to cross the North Channel to Scotland to confront the Scottish titan Benandonner. He (3) ___. Finn MacCool worked all day to complete the task, and as night fell, he had managed to reach the coast of Scotland. However, he decided (4) ___ so he returned home to have a good night's sleep. In the meantime, the cunning Scottish giant noticed the newly built causeway and seized the opportunity to strike the Irish giant while he was resting. Benandonner arrived in Ireland and began searching immediately for Finn MacCool. When he found his rival's house, Finn MacCool's wife told the unwelcome guest that her husband wasn't home, and (5) _____ lest he wake her sleeping child. On seeing the child, who was in fact the slumbering Irish giant, Benandonner became so frightened at the thought of how big the father must be, that he turned tail and fled back to Scotland, (6) _________ so it couldn't be used again.

Today, most geologists agree (7) ___________ its formation occurred when layers of molten lava cooled over a flat bed of chalk and contracted. This, of course, took place around fifty million years ago, when much of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland were volcanically active. The topmost layer of lava cooled first and the rocks shrank and cracked into regular patterns like mud on a dry riverbed. The cracks on the surface moved downwards through the rock, splitting it and creating columns. Over thousands of years, sea erosion and other geological processes have taken place, giving the landscape the shape we see today.

Task 1. Complete the text with the missing sentences. There are two sentences you do not need. (fill in the gap marked in blue ____)
Доповнити текст реченнями за змістом. Заповнити виділений блакитним пропуск. Два речення є зайвими.

The Giant's Causeway

Stretching into the sea from Ireland in the direction of Scotland and composed of 40,000 individual columns of different heights, the Giant's Causeway certainly seems (1) __________. Could it perhaps have been an ancient pathway for a mythical colossus, or is it just what it seems, a strange geological phenomenon?

According to one version of the myth, once there were two giants, one of whom lived in Ireland and the other in Scotland. The people of each country boasted that they had the mightier giant. One day, the Irish giant, (2) _________, decided to cross the North Channel to Scotland to confront the Scottish titan Benandonner. He (3) ___. Finn MacCool worked all day to complete the task, and as night fell, he had managed to reach the coast of Scotland. However, he decided (4) ___ so he returned home to have a good night's sleep. In the meantime, the cunning Scottish giant noticed the newly built causeway and seized the opportunity to strike the Irish giant while he was resting. Benandonner arrived in Ireland and began searching immediately for Finn MacCool. When he found his rival's house, Finn MacCool's wife told the unwelcome guest that her husband wasn't home, and (5) _____ lest he wake her sleeping child. On seeing the child, who was in fact the slumbering Irish giant, Benandonner became so frightened at the thought of how big the father must be, that he turned tail and fled back to Scotland, (6) _________ so it couldn't be used again.

Today, most geologists agree (7) ___________ its formation occurred when layers of molten lava cooled over a flat bed of chalk and contracted. This, of course, took place around fifty million years ago, when much of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland were volcanically active. The topmost layer of lava cooled first and the rocks shrank and cracked into regular patterns like mud on a dry riverbed. The cracks on the surface moved downwards through the rock, splitting it and creating columns. Over thousands of years, sea erosion and other geological processes have taken place, giving the landscape the shape we see today.

Task 1. Complete the text with the missing sentences. There are two sentences you do not need. (fill in the gap marked in blue ____)
Доповнити текст реченнями за змістом. Заповнити виділений блакитним пропуск. Два речення є зайвими.

The Giant's Causeway

Stretching into the sea from Ireland in the direction of Scotland and composed of 40,000 individual columns of different heights, the Giant's Causeway certainly seems (1) __________. Could it perhaps have been an ancient pathway for a mythical colossus, or is it just what it seems, a strange geological phenomenon?

According to one version of the myth, once there were two giants, one of whom lived in Ireland and the other in Scotland. The people of each country boasted that they had the mightier giant. One day, the Irish giant, (2) _________, decided to cross the North Channel to Scotland to confront the Scottish titan Benandonner. He (3) ___. Finn MacCool worked all day to complete the task, and as night fell, he had managed to reach the coast of Scotland. However, he decided (4) ___ so he returned home to have a good night's sleep. In the meantime, the cunning Scottish giant noticed the newly built causeway and seized the opportunity to strike the Irish giant while he was resting. Benandonner arrived in Ireland and began searching immediately for Finn MacCool. When he found his rival's house, Finn MacCool's wife told the unwelcome guest that her husband wasn't home, and (5) _____ lest he wake her sleeping child. On seeing the child, who was in fact the slumbering Irish giant, Benandonner became so frightened at the thought of how big the father must be, that he turned tail and fled back to Scotland, (6) _________ so it couldn't be used again.

Today, most geologists agree (7) ___________ its formation occurred when layers of molten lava cooled over a flat bed of chalk and contracted. This, of course, took place around fifty million years ago, when much of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland were volcanically active. The topmost layer of lava cooled first and the rocks shrank and cracked into regular patterns like mud on a dry riverbed. The cracks on the surface moved downwards through the rock, splitting it and creating columns. Over thousands of years, sea erosion and other geological processes have taken place, giving the landscape the shape we see today.

Task 1. Complete the text with the missing sentences. There are two sentences you do not need. (fill in the gap marked in blue ____)
Доповнити текст реченнями за змістом. Заповнити виділений блакитним пропуск. Два речення є зайвими.

The Giant's Causeway

Stretching into the sea from Ireland in the direction of Scotland and composed of 40,000 individual columns of different heights, the Giant's Causeway certainly seems (1) __________. Could it perhaps have been an ancient pathway for a mythical colossus, or is it just what it seems, a strange geological phenomenon?

According to one version of the myth, once there were two giants, one of whom lived in Ireland and the other in Scotland. The people of each country boasted that they had the mightier giant. One day, the Irish giant, (2) _________, decided to cross the North Channel to Scotland to confront the Scottish titan Benandonner. He (3) ___. Finn MacCool worked all day to complete the task, and as night fell, he had managed to reach the coast of Scotland. However, he decided (4) ___ so he returned home to have a good night's sleep. In the meantime, the cunning Scottish giant noticed the newly built causeway and seized the opportunity to strike the Irish giant while he was resting. Benandonner arrived in Ireland and began searching immediately for Finn MacCool. When he found his rival's house, Finn MacCool's wife told the unwelcome guest that her husband wasn't home, and (5) _____ lest he wake her sleeping child. On seeing the child, who was in fact the slumbering Irish giant, Benandonner became so frightened at the thought of how big the father must be, that he turned tail and fled back to Scotland, (6) _________ so it couldn't be used again.

Today, most geologists agree (7) ___________ its formation occurred when layers of molten lava cooled over a flat bed of chalk and contracted. This, of course, took place around fifty million years ago, when much of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland were volcanically active. The topmost layer of lava cooled first and the rocks shrank and cracked into regular patterns like mud on a dry riverbed. The cracks on the surface moved downwards through the rock, splitting it and creating columns. Over thousands of years, sea erosion and other geological processes have taken place, giving the landscape the shape we see today.

Task 2. Read the text below. Answer the questions.

Here comes Mr Bean!

He's a comedian, he’s an actor, he’s British and the whole world knows him as the silent, black- haired, tweed-jacket-wearing character Mr Bean. That's right, he’s Rowan Atkinson.

Atkinson was born in Newcastle, England, and was educated at Newcastle University and Oxford.

While at Oxford, he met the writer Richard Curtis, who was studying there too, and they became friends. Curtis was the opposite of Atkinson. He had a great love for words while Atkinson enjoy non-verbal comedy. Together they began writing comedy reviews for the Oxford Playhouse. Shortly afterwards, Atkinson began appearing in smaller theatres in Edinburgh. After a show at the Hampstead Theatre in 1978, he was offered a part in the BBC series Not the Nine O'Clock News. This series got off to a slow start, but soon became a huge success, with Atkinson winning a BAFTA award for his work. While this series showed some of Atkinson's physical comedy, it also showed what he could do with the spoken word. However, being a very sensible man, Atkinson saw the whole acting job as a hobby, along with his growing interest in car racing.

His big-screen debut came in 1983's unofficial James Bond film, Never Say Never Again. That same year Atkinson appeared in a BBC series called The Black Adder. The main hero, a cowardly and cunning Tudor prince named Edmund Blackadder, tries unsuccessfully to become King of England after accidentals killing his uncle Richard III during a battle. The first series was followed by three hugely successful sequels, each set in a different era of England's history. The fourth and final Blackadder series was awarded the BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1990.

Atkinson then went on to create Mr Bean. A walking disaster, Bean was purely physical comedy, the opposite of Edmund Blackadder. This clumsy character was a huge success and became another national treasure. In 1997 Bean came to the big screen. A few years later, Scooby Doo became a box-office hit in the US, followed in 2003 Johnny English, a hilarious Parody of James Bond films.

In his spare time Atkinson collects classic cars and takes Part in races. He also writes for the British magazine CAR. He is a very shy man, and has managed to keep his private life private.

What is true about Richard Curtis?

What did the BBC series Not the Nine O’clock News for Atkinson?

What did Atkinson do at the beginning of his career?

What is true about Mr Bean?

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of Atkinson’s leisure activities?