Чтение: понимание текста

Вопрос	Что искать в тексте
How long	отрезок времени: for two years, for decades, in one afternoon
How often	частоту: every spring, once a month
How many / How much	число или количество
Why	причину: because, so, that is why
Where	место: in, near, behind, above
What … the heaviest / biggest	сравнение: the heaviest, the largest, more than
According to the author	прямое мнение автора: I think, in my opinion

Что меняют	В тексте	В ложном утверждении
число	eleven tons of plastic	fifty tons of plastic
время	Two years ago … started a club	The club was founded ten years ago.
место	a factory in the neighbouring region	a factory in the same town
отношение	Anton does not think smartphones are evil	Anton believes smartphones are evil.
направление	flats have become more expensive	flats have become cheaper

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Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: How long did the object remain a mystery?

In 1901 divers near a Greek island found a lump of corroded bronze in an ancient shipwreck. For decades nobody understood what it was. Only when scientists used X-rays did they see more than thirty gear wheels inside. The device, now called the Antikythera mechanism, could predict the positions of the sun and the moon and the dates of eclipses. Nothing of similar complexity appeared in Europe again for another thousand years.

For one year.
For decades.
It was understood at once.
For a few weeks.

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Ответ: For decades.
Решение. В тексте: for decades nobody understood what it was.

Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: What was the heaviest thing found?

Every spring our town holds a river clean-up day. Volunteers of all ages meet at eight in the morning near the old bridge, where organisers hand out gloves and bags. Last year about three hundred people took part and collected almost two tonnes of rubbish. The heaviest item was an old bicycle pulled out of the shallow water near the bank. After the work everybody is invited to tea and pies in the town park.

A metal door.
A washing machine.
An old bicycle.
A car tyre.

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Ответ: An old bicycle.
Решение. В тексте прямо сказано: the heaviest item was an old bicycle.

Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: When did electric trains appear?

The first underground railway in the world opened in London in 1863. The carriages were pulled by steam engines, and the tunnels filled with smoke so quickly that many passengers complained of headaches. Electric trains appeared only thirty years later, and the air in the tunnels became much cleaner. Today the London Underground carries about five million passengers every working day, and its oldest lines still follow the routes drawn in the middle of the nineteenth century.

In the same year.
Ten years later.
A century later.
Thirty years later.

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Ответ: Thirty years later.
Решение. В тексте: electric trains appeared only thirty years later.

Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: What do the organisers consider the biggest difficulty?

Every year people throw away millions of tons of plastic, and a large part of it ends up in the ocean. Scientists say that a plastic bottle needs about four hundred and fifty years to disappear completely. Last autumn our town joined an international project against plastic waste. Three collecting points were opened near the market, and every family can bring bottles and bags there. In the first three months the town collected eleven tons of plastic. The waste is sent to a factory in the neighbouring region, where it is turned into benches for parks. The organisers admit that the biggest difficulty is not collecting the plastic but explaining to people why it is worth sorting rubbish at home.

Collecting the plastic itself.
Explaining to people why sorting rubbish is worth it.
Paying for the transport.
Finding a factory.

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Ответ: Explaining to people why sorting rubbish is worth it.
Решение. В тексте сказано: the biggest difficulty is not collecting the plastic but explaining to people why it is worth sorting rubbish.

Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: What is Marina going to study at university?

Two years ago a group of pupils from our school started a volunteer club. At first there were only six of them, but now the club has more than forty members. Every Saturday the volunteers visit a home for elderly people in the suburbs. They bring books and newspapers, read aloud and simply talk to the residents, because loneliness is the hardest problem there. Once a month the club organises a concert. The head of the club, Marina, says that the most difficult thing at the beginning was not the work itself but finding transport. Now the local council pays for a small bus. Marina is sure that volunteering has changed her plans for the future: she is going to study social work at university.

Music.
Foreign languages.
Social work.
Medicine.

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Ответ: Social work.
Решение. В тексте сказано: she is going to study social work at university.

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