Initial Test 11 [PDF]

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Initial evaluation for 11th ___ form Name ______________________________ SECTION I. THE ASSESSMENT OF THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

(30 points)

Read the text and do the tasks below the text. Blue jeans are the most popular type of clothing in the world, but they are not modern! In fact, jeans have existed for 140 years. Jeans were the classic clothes of the American West. In 1853, a young tailor from Germany, called Levi Strauss, began working in San Francisco; Levi sold thick canvas to miners One day, a miner told Levi that he could not find trousers that were strong enough for work in the gold mines. Levi decided to make some trousers out of canvas. Very soon, he had sold all the canvas trousers he had made! They were just what miners wanted. However, the canvas was rather heavy and stiff. Levi therefore began to look for a different textile; soon he found a heavy textile from France; it was called serge de Nimes. Americans just called this de Nimes, and this name soon got reduced to denim. Denim was a bit lighter than canvas, but it was very strong. However, original denim was almost white, and miners did not like the colour! Their denim trousers got dirty as soon as they began working!   Levi Strauss therefore decided to use coloured denim, and he chose dark blue. This was a radical new idea: "Blue jeans" had arrived!   Levi's jeans were so popular, that his company got bigger and bigger; soon, other firms were making blue jeans too. Miners liked them, but so did cowboys and other working men. Blue jeans became classic American working trousers. After the Second World War, jeans became popular all over the world. Today, blue jeans are made over the world – most of them in Asia. Very few jeans are now made in the USA, because of the cost: but it is still possible to buy blue jeans that are made in San Francisco.... if you have a lot of money to spend. Today there are hundreds of different brands of jeans. Many top fashion brands, like Armani or Benetton, make their own blue jeans. But for real authentic jeans, "Levi's" are still the most popular brand.   In America, everyone wears jeans as leisure wear. Some people wear jeans all the time, even for work. But Americans are perhaps less formal than other nations. Some people still think that jeans are not respectable clothes! Not the young! Jeans are now the international uniform worn by young people. Why? That is a good question!  SECTION I. THE ASSESSMENT OF THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE (20 points)

No. 1.

Item Answer the questions according to the text. a) What were the first jeans made of? The first jeans were made of denim b) What is the most popular brand of jeans nowadays? The most popular brand of jeans nowadays is “Levi’s” c) What types of people wore jeans in the past? In the past, miners, cowboys and other working men wore jeans

Points A 0 1 2 A 0 1 2 A 0 1 2

2.

Write a synonym from the text for the following words: fashionable __________modern________________ price _____________cost__________________

3.

Write an antonym from the text for the following words: similar ____________different______________ to save ____________to spend______________

4.

Choose the correct variant (True/False). Justify your choice. a) Levi sold thick canvas to working people. T Levi sold thick canvas to miners ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ b) Blue jeans became classic American working trousers. T Blue jeans became classic American working trousers. ____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________

A 0 2 4 A 0 2 4 A 0 1 3 A 0 1 3

SECTION II. THE ASSESSMENT OF THE LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE (10 points) Fill in the gaps with the correct article or preposition. Write the correct form of the verb in brackets. Choose the right word.

Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. For thousands of years the owl has been a (0) creature which has had a special (1) ___meaning_____ for people. Primitive people had many superstitions about the owl, (2) _____mainly_________ because of the strange sound of the cries it makes. In many parts of Europe, the hooting of an owl is (3) _____thinking________ to be an omen of death.

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In Ancient Greece, the owl was a symbol of (4) ____wisdom__________ so it WISE was closely linked with the female (5)_______Goddess_______Athena. GOD The owl is a bird that really comes to life at night and its whole body is (6) SPECIAL ______specially_______ suited to this way of living. An owl has very (7) _______sensitive____________ hearing and a remarkable (8) _____ability__________ to see in the dark. If there are any other animals around at night, it will hear them (9)________immediately_____________, and because the owl is so (10) ______protective________ of its territory, it will frighten them away with some strange hoot.

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