Katolickie Liceum Ogólnokształcące
im. Cypriana Norwida w Białej Podlaskiej
Wielki Konkurs Języka Angielskiego – V edycja
28 kwietnia 2015 r.
I.
Complete the missing letters:
a. I hate wearing _ _ g _ - _ e _ _ _ _ shoes. They’re really uncomfortable.
b. Don’t go to a job interview in _ a _ u _ _ clothes. Wear something smart, but comfortable.
c. I bought a new laptop last week, but I was _ _ s _ _ t _ _ _ i _ _ with it, so I took it back to the
shop.
d. The Professor is going to give a _ _ c _ _ r _ about the dangers of GMO.
e. The boy _ _ m _ _ _ _ his eye in an accident last year. He can hardly see now.
f. When we arrived, we _ _ _ c _ _ _ into the hotel and went straight to our room.
g. His uncle suffers from a _ _ n _ _ _ condition and he visits a psychiatrist regularly.
h. The _ l _ _ of the film was really exciting, but the acting was not very good.
i. My father is a _ _ w _ _ _ . He prepares legal documents and represents people in court.
j. Bread and rice are rich in _ _ r_ _ h_ _ _ _ _ _ s.
k. _ i _ _ _ drinks contain a lot of sugar.
l. Can you give me the _ _ c _ _ _ for your cheesecake? It’s delicious!
m. How many _ _ i _ _ _ of bread will you have for breakfast?
n. I hurt my leg during the training and now it’s _ w _ _ _ _ n and painful.
o. He _ _ w _ _ _ a _ _ _ Justin Bieber’s new album from the Internet.
p. You need a _ _ b _ _ _ to communicate with people on Skype.
q. Google is one of the most popular Internet _ _ _ w _ _ _ _ in the world.
II. Complete the text with the given words:
savings, suspiciously, involved, account, keypad, withdraw, transactions, users
It’s hard to imagine living without cash cards or ATMs these days. They allow us to
................................ money quickly and easily without entering a bank. Nowadays, they can often be
used to carry out other ............................... such as paying bills. However, there are risks
................................ in using cash cards and ATM ....................... should take steps to keep their
.............................. secure. Firstly, you should never give out your PIN number or .................................
details. When you use ATMs, remember to cover the .......................... when you enter the PIN and
look out for people acting .................................. close by.
III. Choose the correct words to fill in the blanks:
1. Manchester United .............................. four goals against Chelsea London yesterday.
a. won
b. scored
c. beat
2. I would like to go on a luxury ................................ round the Caribbean.
a. cruise
b. journey
c. voyage
3. You won’t be able to play golf in our town because we haven’t got a ........................ .
a. pitch
b. course
c. court
4. When you go on holiday, you should .............................. a travel insurance.
a.
take out
b. pay out
c. look out
5. You can’t be serious. Are you pulling my ............................ ?
a.
arm
b. finger
d. leg
IV. What would you say in the following situations:
a. Pytasz kolegę, gdzie spędził ostatnie wakacje.
b. Pytasz kolegę, jak zamierza spędzić najbliższy weekend.
c. Jesteś w restauracji. Zupa jest zimna, a łyżka brudna. Złóż reklamację.
d. Proponujesz koleżance wycieczkę rowerową w weekend.
e. Przepraszasz kolegę za spóźnienie. Podaj powód spóźnienia.
f.
Jesteś przeziębiony. Opisz lekarzowi swoje symptomy przeziębienia.
g. Pytasz o drogę do najbliższego centrum handlowego.
h. Rezerwujesz w hotelu podwójny pokój na 4 noce.
i.
Pytasz o cenę biletu do Nowego Yorku.
V. Find pairs connected with British or American culture:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
The Crown Jewels
Emma Watson
The House of Commons
‘God Save the Queen’
Plymouth
David Cameron
‘Othello’
‘Star Wars’
Mick Jagger
Trafalgar Square
1. ……..
6. ……..
2. …….
7. …….
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
3. …….
8. …….
Cornwall
MPs
William Shakespeare
“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’
10 Downing Street
George Lucas
British anthem
The Tower of London
Admiral Nelson
The Rolling Stones
4. …….
9. …….
5. …….
10. ……
VI. Choose the right option:
1. The patron saint of England is…
a) St. Patrick
b) St. David
c) St. George
2. The capital of Northern Ireland is
a) Cardiff b) Dublin c) Belfast
3. The emblem of Scotland is a
a) rose b) daffodil c) thistle
4. The highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis, is in
a) Scotland b) England c) Wales
5.The national flag of the UK is called
a) the Red Dragon b) the Union Black c) the Union Jack
6.Great Britain includes the following countries
a) England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland b) England, Scotland, Wales
c) England, Scotland, Northern Ireland
VII.Paraphrase the sentences:
a. I regret I invited him to my wedding.
I wish ...................................................................................... .
b. Please don’t make that noise. I can’t hear myself think!
Would you mind ............................................................. ? I can’t hear myself think.
c. ‘I didn’t take your camera, ‘ he said.
He denied ................................................................................. .
d. ‘Has the criminal been caught?’ she asked the police officer.
She asked the police officer ............................................................................. .
e. It was silly of you to offend the teacher.
You shouldn’t ..................................................................................... .
f. He overslept and missed his train.
If he .............................................. , .................................................... .
g. I advise you not to eat so many sweets and start doing some sports.
You’d .................................................................................................. .
h. It’s impossible that she failed the driving test.
She can’t ............................................................................................. .
i. I’d prefer to meet outside the cinema.
I’d rather ........................................................................................... .
j. They say she drives very carelessly.
She is said ......................................................................................... .
VIII. Circle the correct answer. In each case there is only one correct answer.
1. “Where have you been?”. “I ……………………… strawberries.”
a. pick
b. have picked c. have been picking d. picked
2. It’s high time he …………………. that he needs to study.
a. understood
b. understands
c. will understand
d. must understand
3. Call me at 10:00, I ……………… nothing then.
a. will do b. will have done
c. would do d. will be doing
4. We don’t have to buy a new washing machine. We ……………. by a mechanic.
a. will repair the old one b. will have the old one repaired
c. will have repaired the old one d. will be repairing the old one
5. Didn’t you…………. eating with chopsticks when you lived in Japan?
a. used to b. get used to c. use to
d. be use to
6. Don’t wash up! I’d rather you ……………. your room.
a. would clean
b. clean
c. had cleaned
d. cleaned
7. Let’s have some tea, ……………… ?
a. will we b. shall we
c. are we going to
d. do we
8. I regret ……………….. you that your contract has not been extended.
a. informing
b. having informed c. to have informed d. to inform
9. Harry …………………… back home when his neighbour popped in for a chat.
a. has just come
b. had just come
c. was just coming d. came
10. My father suggested ……………………. a sandwich course at the university to
supplement theory with practice.
a. me to take
b. taking
c. to take
d. not to take
IX. Read the text and complete the gaps in the text (1-7) with the sentences (A-H). There is one extra
sentence which you do not need to use.
A. Of course I’m uncomfortable with discussing what you call betrayal.
B. After reading the manuscript and cross-examining Irving about his meetings with the billionaire,
McCulloch became convinced that Irving was telling the truth, and that the telephone call he had
received from Hughes was a fake.
C. His wife, Edith, received a two-year jail sentence in Switzerland, although most of the sentence was
suspended and she served only two months.
D. He was a successful author, with a three-book contract; he owned a lovely Ibizan farmhouse, and
his own boat.
E. Speaking on the telephone from his Bahamian hotel, he held a bizarre televised press conference, in
which seven reporters sat around a table addressing questions to a voice coming from a speaker on a
stand.
F. I couldn’t believe it when McCulloch betrayed me telling Hughes what I’d done.
G. Especially if you still have the money to give back, as we did.
H. Swiss authorities had been making investigations into the Geneva bank account of ‘HR Hughes’,
establishing that it was actually Irving’s wife who was depositing the cheques and withdrawing the
money.
YOU COULDN’T MAKE IT UP
Never one to let the truth spoil a good story, Clifford Irving masterminded the great Howard Hughes
hoax autobiography in the 1970s, went to jail for fraud, and now spends his days living peacefully in
Aspen, Colorado. As a film based on the hoax is released, Mick Brown finds Irving unrepentant.
Clifford Irving was already a successful author when, in 1971, he hit upon the idea of faking the
autobiography of the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes – a man who had not been seen in public, or
broken silence for almost 15 years.
With forged letters and false promises, Irving convinced his publishers that Hughes had appointed him
as his biographer. He received cheques made out to Hughes for around $750,000, which Irving’s
wife - carefully disguised in wigs and dark glasses – deposited in a Swiss bank account. Irving now
says it was never about the money. His life was good. (1)______ What he was in search of was not the
good life, but ‘an adventure’.
Nor, he says, did he grasp that he would be committing a crime. ‘We thought it was just a hoax. They
can’t put you in jail for a hoax! (2) _______ ‘ He pauses. ‘It just seemed like such an elegant act. And
also an act from which I thought I could withdraw at any time I wanted.’ That, he acknowledges with
a rueful smile, was ‘the great fallacy’.
What is most astonishing, perhaps, is how Irving managed to convince so many people for so long that
the Hughes ‘autobiography’ was genuine. As news of its impending publication began to leak out,
Frank McCulloch, a Time-Life journalist, who had been the last person to interview Hughes 14 years
earlier, received a telephone call from a man purporting to be Hughes, stating that he had not
co-operated with Irving in any way. (3) ______ In fact, the call was genuine.
On January 7, 1972, just before scheduled publication, Hughes finally broke cover. (4) ______ Hughes
said he had never met Irving, calling the autobiography ‘totally fantastic fiction’.
The net was drawing tighter. (5) ______ In the face of this clinching piece of evidence, Irving
confessed to his lawyer: the whole thing was a hoax.
Did Irving feel any guilt or remorse? Irving gives a deep sigh. ‘As the hoax unravelled, a number of
people said to me, “How could you lie to me ?” My answer was, “How could I tell you the truth? If
you had known that the whole thing was made up you might have given it away. I couldn’t let you
know.” (6) ______ But it was more than 35 years ago and I paid the price.’
In June 1972 Irving was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment on charges of conspiracy to
defraud, forgery, using the federal mail to defraud and perjury. (7) ______ ‘I didn’t think of it as being
punished. It was just happening,’ says Irving, ‘but at the same time I never thought I didn’t deserve to
be there.’