Question

11. No letters again! ____ has written to me for a month.



A. Anybody

B. Somebody

C. Some

D. Nobod

12. Aunts, uncles and cousins are ____.  A. relatives B. parents C. families D. neighbours   Тест на понимание содержания текста: Mark Twain, who lived from 1835 to 1910, is one of America’s most famous authors. He wrote many books, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain’s own life was interesting enough to be a book. Twain was born in the state of Missouri, near the Mississippi River. He came from a poor family. His father died when he was twelve, so he had to leave school. While he was still a boy he worked as a river boat pilot. He steered boats up and down the long Mississippi River. The Civil War, which started in 1861, made travelling on the Mississippi impossible. Twain then went west to Nevada. There he worked on a newspaper. In 1864 he went to California in search of gold. Twain did not have much luck as a gold miner. He left California to travel in Europe. Twain wrote a book about his trips around Europe.  But the most important influence on Twain and his books was the Mississippi River. When Twain finally settled down, he lived in a house with a porch that looked like the deck of a riverboat. Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s greatest book, is about the adventures of a boy on the Mississippi River. Another of Twain’s books is called Life on the Mississippi. 

13. Choose the best title.  A. Mark Twain’s childhood; B. Mark Twain’s Books; C. Life in the USA; D. The Adventures of Mark Twain. 

14. What is the writer trying to do in the text?  A. to advertise Mark Twain’s books; B. to give information on the Civil War C. to recommend a trip to California; D. to tell a story about Mark Twain’s life. 

15. Complete the phrase: The greatest influence on Mark Twain and his books was____  A. his poor family. B. the Mississippi River. C. the Civil War. D. different jobs. 

16. Choose the sentence, which is not true.  A. Mark Twain settled down in Europe. B. Mark Twain worked as a river boat pilot. C. Mark Twain worked on a newspaper. D. Mark Twain was born in the state of Missouri. 

17. What do we learn from the text about Mark Twain?  A. His father was a rich man. B. He took part in the Civil War. C. He didn’t have much luck. D. He is one of America’s famous authors. 

18. In the United States Julia Howe suggested the idea of Mother’s Day in 1872. Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia is credited with bringing about the official observance of Mother’s Day. But when she died in 1948, at the age of 84, Jarvis had become a woman of great ironies. Never a mother herself, her maternal fortune dissipated by her efforts to stop the commercialization of the holiday she had founded. Jarvis told a reporter shortly before her death that she was sorry she had ever started Mother’s Day. She spoke these words in a nursing home where every Mother’s Day her room had been filled with cards from all over the world.  Перед смертью Анна Джарвис говорила о том, что она:   A. счастлива, что праздник “День Матери” существует. B. счастлива, что люди помнят о ней как об инициаторе празднования “Дня Матери”. C. сожалеет, что подала идею празднования “Дня Матери”. D. сожалеет, что ей самой не посчастливилось стать матерью.  ​

Answer 1

11.D

12.A

13.D

14.D

15.B

16.A

17.D

18.C

Answer 2

Ответ:

11. Д

12. С

13. Д

14. Г

15. Б

16. А

17. Д

18. С