МИНИСТЕРСТВО НА ОБРАЗОВАНИЕТО, МЛАДЕЖТА И НАУКАТА ДЪРЖАВЕН ЗРЕЛОСТЕН ИЗПИТ ПО АНГЛИЙСКИ ЕЗИК 29 май 2012 г., Вариант 2 PART ONE: LISTENING COMPREHENSION Directions: You will hear a text about the Royal kiss twice. Before you listen to it, you have 1 minute to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the whole text, you have 3 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing among A, B or C. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your answers. 1. The royal kiss was very long and passionate. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. 2. The royal wedding is said to have been watched worldwide. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. 3. The royal wedding took place in Canterbury Cathedral. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. 4. The queen herself publicly commented on the ceremony after returning to Buckingham Palace. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. 5. An admirer from the audience warned William to think his marriage over. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. Directions: You will hear a text about the Royal marriage twice. Before you listen to it, you have 2 minutes to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the whole text, you have 4 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing among A, B, C or D. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your answers. 6. The narrator believes Kate and William’s royal marriage will stand the test of time because A) Kate is more mature than Diana was. B) Kate has experience with the media. C) Kate has known William for years. D) All of the above. 7. Kate and William seem to be deeply in love despite A) their awareness of each other’s flaws. B) what they show in public. C) Prince William’s problems with publicity. D) the unsuccessful rehearsals of the wedding. 8. Kate and William’s separation in 2007 A) lasted for several months. B) started while vacationing together. C) was caused by mutual friend Sam Waley-Cohen. D) began after a serious argument. 9. The Queen A) initially disapproved of William’s choice. B) would rather call William’s wife Kate. C) highly appreciates Kate’s family background. D) None of the above. 10. Kate’s parents A) are millionaires by birth. B) have taught her what hard work means. C) were in the ground aviation business. D) are now in the entertainment business for adults. Directions: You will hear a text about some mysteries twice. Before you listen to it, you have 2 minutes to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the whole text, you have 4 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing among A, B, C or D. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your answers. 11. The Mars Face was first captured on camera in A)1976. B) 1975. C) 2003. D) None of the above. 12. The Mars Face was eventually identified for what it is by A) Viking 1 orbiter. B) some ET-believing organizations. C) the European space agency. D) a representative of NASA. 13. The mysterious Ica Stones were A) covered with paintings. B) sold to farmers. C) made by cavemen. D) never identified. 14. Among the rumors surrounding the discovery of the Mary Celeste were all EXCEPT A) the meals on her were still hot. B) all the sailors’ belongings were on her. C) there were burn circles on her deck. D) the crew left her because of a technical problem. 15. The most likely reason for the Mary Celeste abandonment A) was the invasion of aliens. B) was the unusual noises she produced. C) was her sinking under her weight. D) was the crew uprising against the captain. PART TWO: READING COMPREHENSION Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best answer to each question among A, B, C or D, marking your answers on your answer sheet. The Brontë Sisters A small building on the edge of beautiful, lonely fields is a place many thousands visit every year. Haworth Parsonage, in Yorkshire, Northern England, is the place where three remarkable sisters worked on their great love – writing poetry and romantic fiction. Their books stand out like true landmarks of English literature. The girls’ parents were not local, they came from Ireland and Cornwall and married and settled there, near the lively Yorkshire city of Leeds. Their father, the strict Reverend Patrick Brunty, took a post at the local church and he changed his name to Brontë to honour Lord Nelson whose title it was. From early childhood the countryside of heather-covered wild moors provided inspiration for the sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, who all had literary works published under pseudonyms. Publishing new work seems to have been as hard a road 150 years ago as it is today. The first of the sisters’ novels, Charlotte’s ‘Jane Eyre’, was published in October 1847 and it met with increasing success. Then came Emily’s chance for fame, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and Anne’s ‘Agnes Grey’ followed later the same year. In spite of their literary success, the Brontë sisters remained in Yorkshire, rarely travelled (even to London) and worked mostly in solitude, helping one another in their literary attempts. They had a routine of discussing their works together at the dining room table in the evening, planning the plot of their novels and the description of their main characters. It is difficult to focus on just one of these fascinating women. To speak of one is to bring in all three, for their fortunes were closely interrelated. Let’s take Charlotte, for example. She went to school at Roe Head, where she later worked as a teacher. She fell ill, suffering from melancholia, and gave up the post. Charlotte traveled a bit, going to London and also to work in Belgium twice (once with Emily) where she fell disastrously in love. Coming back to Yorkshire, she married her father’s assistant, the Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls. Her first love though was writing, creating an imaginary world as she had done since childhood. At the age of 21 she asked poet Robert Southey’s advice about her writing prospects. ‘Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life,’ he answered. So her first novel, ‘The Professor’, was not published in her lifetime but, not discouraged, she started on ‘Jane Eyre’, which immediately captivated Victorian readers. ‘Jane Eyre’ is a powerful novel about an educated but poor orphan and her love for her hero, Mr. Rochester, who turns out to have an insane wife hidden in the attic of his grand house. It remains popular today, both in film and TV versions, as well as in printed word. Many people wonder how such a dramatic work could have been written by a shy and reclusive woman. The answer must be that all three girls were gifted with colossal and unique imaginations and they sparked one anther on. 16. The girls’ father took the name of Brontë because A) he was a very strict priest. B) he had to have an aristocratic title. C) he deeply respected Lord Nelson. D) Lord Nelson was patron of the local church. 17. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë A) took their literary inspiration from their travels. B) used their real names when publishing their work. C) wrote only one novel each in their whole lifetime. D) exchanged ideas and shared opinion in the process of work. 18. Charlotte Brontë A) never had another job beside being a writer. B) was not put off by her colleague’s advice. C) became famous for her first novel. D) never achieved fame during her lifetime. 19. Charlotte A) married her first love. B) always travelled alone. C) enjoyed perfect health. D) was a rather shy person. 20. The novel ‘Jane Eyre’ A) is a typically romantic novel. B) is autobiographic in character. C) wasn’t very popular in its own time. D) has never been adapted into a screen-play. Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best answer to each question correspondingly among A, B, C or D, marking your answers on your answer sheet. A Short History of Google Nowadays we use computers every day. This piece of technology has become a huge part of our lives. The same can be said about Google, without which we could hardly find a simple website on the World Wide Web. But how exactly did it all start? Google began in 1996 as a project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both of whom were studying at Stanford University in California. In their PhD research project they came up with a plan to make a powerful search engine. Before creating Google, the two friends developed BackRub, a less refined version of the search engine that ran for over a year on the servers of Stanford University before it was closed down because it was using too much of the university’s band width. That setback did not make Larry and Sergey end their project. With the financial support of Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, the two friends bought their own servers and set up a shop in the garage of Susan Wojcicki, who was Sergey’s sister-in-law. They also changed the name of the search engine to Google. The name originated from a play on the mathematical term “googol”, which is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. This name was perfect for what Larry and Sergey had in their minds – a large-scale search engine with the ability to organize an unlimited amount of information on the internet. The domain google.com was registered on September 14, 1997 and Google Corporation was formed a year later in September 1998. Since then Google has come a long way from the garage office and the imperfect mechanism of BackRub. Today it has about a thousand employees, working in Googleplex in California, as well as in offices outside the US. The company has expanded globally by releasing Google in 26 languages and launching many additional applications and services for internet users. Google continues to develop and improve how people experience the internet – there’s no doubt that it will remain a very influential part of our lives in years to come. 21. Larry and Sergey knew each other before they came to Stanford University. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. 22. BackRub was discontinued because it couldn’t do what it was created for. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. 23. The two friends’ business project was initially funded by Sergey’s sister-in-law. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. 24. The new name Larry and Sergey chose for their search engine had a symbolic meaning for them. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. 25. Most of Google’s employees work in the Californian office of the company. A) True. B) False. C) No information in the text. Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best answer to each question correspondingly among A, B, C or D, marking your answers on your answer sheet. A 58-year-old grandmother in Massachusetts won one of the biggest prizes in U.S. history – $294 million. If she had taken the 26-year payout, Doris Stevens would have received $11 million a year for 26 years, before taxes. Mrs. Stevens decided to take the lump sum payment. People who take the lump sum get paid within 60 days, but their total payment is reduced by almost 40 percent. Mrs. Stevens’s lump sum was $168 million, but after the federal tax was applied, she received $110 million. That’s the amount that Mrs. Stevens got to put in her purse. Recently divorced, Stevens says that her ex-husband has already called her to ask about a “loan”. She laughed. “I wouldn’t lend him a quarter to call the police if he was getting robbed. Let him borrow money from his new young girlfriend who makes him so happy.” What is she going to do with her unexpected wealth? “Well, the first thing I'm going to do is to help out my children and grandchildren, of course. Next, I hope to revolutionize the housecleaning industry.” A housewife for her entire life, Mrs. Stevens says she’s going to establish a National Housecleaner Helper Corporation. Her corporation would focus on giving money to various individuals and research firms to develop more efficient and more powerful housecleaning solvents and tools. “When was the last time you saw something new in housecleaning?” Mrs. Stevens asked. “They keep claiming they’ve invented new products that remove any and all stains, but they still haven’t invented a product that removes an ordinary ballpoint ink stain from your ordinary white shirt. This industry needs some new products. I hope to revolutionize the cleaning world, so that my ‘sisters’ will have an easier time of it in the future. We’ve all spent too much time on our hands and knees. If men had to do housecleaning, you know that they’d be inventing more powerful products every week.” 26. The prize which Mrs Stevens won could have been paid A) in yearly sums, free from federal taxes. B) within 60 days with a tax of almost 40%. C) as a total payment, reduced by 40%, and no taxes. D) in at least 26 instalments, reduced by taxes. 27. Mrs Stevens was asked for money by A) her husband. B) her children. C) her grandchildren. D) All of the above. 28. Mrs Stevens intends to invest in A) her grandchildren’s education. B) various research projects. C) the housecleaning industry. D) trade with cleaning products. 29. Mrs Stevens claims that A) the cleaning industry is developing very slowly. B) new cleaning products should be invented every week. C) the cleaning industry is run entirely by men. D) there should be universal cleaning products. 30. Which of the following is NOT TRUE? A) Mrs Stevens has been working as a professional housecleaner all her life. B) Mrs Stevens is determined to relieve the heavy everyday duties of housewives. C) Mrs Stevens thinks that men don’t understand the problems of housecleaning. D) Mrs Stevens thinks she can contribute to the improvement of housecleaning products. PART THREE: USE OF ENGLISH Section One: Cloze Test Directions: Read the text below and for each numbered gap choose the letter (A, B, C or D) of the word or phrase that best suits the gap, marking your answers on your answer sheet. Photography In 1760, a man named Tiphaigne de la Roche made an (31) ……. prediction. In an imaginary story called “Giphanrtie”, mirror images of (32) …….. from nature could be captured permanently on a canvas covered with a sticky material. After the material dried in darkness, the image would (33) ……. on the canvas forever. At the time, the idea was unheard of. It was not until the following century that the (34) …….. of photography was born, starting with some (35) …….. conducted by Nicephore Niepce. Nicephore Niepce, who was a French inventor, was interested in lithography, which is a printmaking (36) …….. . He was working in his lab when he found a way of copying engravings onto glass plates using a chemical that changes when it is (37) …….. to light. He learned to burn images onto the plates and then print the images on paper. He shared his (38) …….. with Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, who improved the process and (39) ……. it to the French Academy of Sciences in 1839. The Daguerreotype, the photography method named (40) ……. Daguerre, met with great success. It was so successful, in fact, that French newspapers said the French (41) ……. had an illness called Daguerreotypomania! Daguerreotypes were inexpensive and were suitable for portraiture. People called the Daguerreotype a “mirror with a memory”. Some portrait artists went (42) …….. business when Daguerreotypes came into (43) ……. . Others became Daguerreotypists, now known as photographers. Photography (44) ……. and today includes You Tube fans, I-Reporters, and everybody with a cell phone camera. Today photography captures life around the globe. The prediction of Mr. de la Roche has come true. But how was de la Roche’s prediction of mirror-image pictures made in the first place? Was it just a lucky (45) …….? Or was the Daguerreotype a picture-perfect case of life imitating art? 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. A) abnormal A) scopes A) remain A) conviction A) experiments A) style A) uncovered A) finds A) announced A) to A) mass A) off A) vogue A) made off A) suspicion B) irregular B) scenes B) stand B) design B) experiences B) manner B) faced B) findings B) shared B) for B) public B) through B) popularity B) cleared off B) guess C) uneven C) sites C) rest C) concept C) examinations C) fashion C) exposed C) scores C) held C) after C) assembly C) without C) trend C) took off C) suggestion D) odd D) domains D) keep D) belief D) discoveries D) technique D) revealed D) outcomes D) pronounced D) on D) audience D) out of D) mania D) ran off D) hint Section Two: Sentence Completion Directions: For each of the sentences below, choose the letter A, B, C or D of the word or phrase that best completes its meaning, marking your answers on your answer sheet. 46. She’s not so young as she looks. She has a _____ son. A) twenty-year B) twenty-years C) twenty-years-old D) twenty-year-old 47. Are you going to eat at some roadside restaurant or _____ make you some sandwiches for lunch? A) I shall B) shall I C) will I D) I will 48. Do you believe that your father _____ all day yesterday? A) worked B) had been working C) has worked D) has been working 49. This cathedral may not be very stylish, but you must admit it looks _____. A) mostly impressive B) most impressively C) most impressive D) mostly impressively 50. _____ happened twenty years ago between us does in no way concern our children. A) That what B) That which C) What D) Which Section Three: Sentence Transformations Directions: On your sheet for open-ended answers complete the second sentence so that it is as close as possible in meaning to the first one. 51. I started working here three months ago. I _________________________________________________________ for three months. 52. Her father managed to persuade her to study medicine. Her father succeeded ______________________________________________________. 53. Jessica was the only one who did not enjoy the film. Everybody __________________________________________ apart _________ Jessica. 54. It wasn’t necessary for you to cook all this food! You needn’t _____________________________________________________________! 55. It’s a good thing you phoned me, or I wouldn’t have known about the meeting. If you __________________________________________________________________. 56. “Have you ever seen the Star Wars films?” I asked her. I asked her ______________________________________________________________. 57. Computer World are supplying our company with computers. Our company ______________________________________________ Computer World. 58. I’m pretty sure that she’s driving home – her car isn’t here. She ________________________________________________ home – her car isn’t here. (use a modal verb) 59. People think that three convicts have escaped from Dartmoor Prison. Three convicts ___________________________________________________________. 60. It is a long way to their house: we cannot walk there. Their house is so ______________________________________________________ . PART FOUR: WRITING Directions: On your sheet for open-ended answers write a composition in standard English of about 160-170 words on ONE of the following topics, marking the topic you have chosen on the sheet: 1.Tell about the last time you or your friend cheated at an exam. Why did you cheat? Was it worth it? How did you feel? 2. It is 2099. What is your prom dress like? How are you going to celebrate your graduation? Mind that in case of indecent language, plagiarism, identical texts or if your composition is under 80 words or totally irrelevant to the chosen topic it will get 0 points. МИНИСТЕРСТВО НА ОБРАЗОВАНИЕТО, МЛАДЕЖТА И НАУКАТА ДЪРЖАВЕН ЗРЕЛОСТЕН ИЗПИТ ПО АНГЛИЙСКИ ЕЗИК 29 05. 2012 г. ВАРИАНТ 2 Ползва се само от учителя-консултант при необходимост! Учителят-консултант изчита на глас и инструкцията, и съответния текст, според указанията в инструкцията! TRANSCRIPTS Directions: You will hear a text about the Royal kiss twice. Before you listen to it, you have 1 minute to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the whole text, you have 3 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing among A, B or C. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your answers. Britain's Prince William and his new bride Kate stepped onto the balcony of Buckingham Palace two hours after saying their vows in church and gave an estimated audience of two billion people what they had all waited for: a royal kiss. It was a very brief kiss – so conservative a touch on the lips that many in the crowd may have missed it. They followed it with a second, equally short kiss for the cameras. Some two billion people across the globe were believed to have tuned in as the future king and queen of England started their lives as husband and wife with the two simple words "I will." The couple looked nervous but happy and recited their vows without stumbling before Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. An hour and 9 minutes after the ceremony began, the royal couple came out from the Westminster Abbey and the crowds cheered the couple and waved British flags along the entire route, until the carriage disappeared within the walls of Buckingham Palace. Upon her arrival at the palace, the Queen herself expressed approval of her grandson's wedding, calling the ceremony "amazing", according to the BBC. A million well-wishers — as well as some protesters — flooded into the areas surrounding Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and other London landmarks. Crowds were up at dawn waving flags for television and erupted with excitement as huge television screens began broadcasting at Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park. However, right before the ceremony, an admirer dressed as a bride held a sign that said: "Will, it's not too late!" Directions: You will hear a text about the Royal marriage twice. Before you listen to it, you have 2 minute to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the whole text, you have 4 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing among A, B, C or D. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your answers. Only time will tell. But there is reason to be optimistic. At 28, Catherine Middleton, is much older than Diana was when she wed Prince Charles at only 20. Kate is an old bride by Royal standards. Kate also has already had practice dealing with the media. Prince William and Kate have dated on and off for years, so they know of each other’s flaws of character. Unlike Diana and Charles who only had a few dates before they married. And from all appearances they genuinely seem to adore and love each other. Even so William admits he is nervous and his knees were "knocking together" during a rehearsal, due to the thought of the world watching the event so closely. Prince William and Kate Middleton split up for several months in 2007. The two were brought together after going to the party of a mutual friend, Sam Waley-Cohen, at his wealthy family mansion. They talked intently at the party, and must have resolved their problems because soon after they were seen vacationing together. The royal family is said to approve of Middleton, the daughter of self-made millionaires. The Queen apparently approves of "Kate". However, the Queen prefers to address her by her full name "Catherine". Since Kate's parents are self-made millionaires, they have no doubt taught their daughter the value of hard work. Her father worked for an airline and her mother was a flight attendant before the family started a mail order business specializing in children's parties. Directions: You will hear a text about some mysteries twice. Before you listen to it, you have 2 minutes to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the whole text, you have 4 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing among A, B, C or D. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your answers. Sometimes there are rational explanations to the mysteries we love. For instance, the Cydonian region on Mars attracted a great deal of attention because one of its hills looked remarkably man-made. The region was first imaged in detail by the Viking 1 orbiter, which was launched in 1975. Several photos including one taken in 1976, showed for the first time that one of the Cydonian flat-topped hills had the appearance of face. Scientists dismissed the face as a trick of light and shadow. Then a second image also showed the face at a different sun-angle. This caught the attention of organizations interested in extraterrestrial intelligence and some talk-show hosts. They believed the face was a long-lost Martian civilization. In 2003, the European space agency launched Mars Express which was able to combine data from a high resolution stereo camera and create a 3D representation of the “Face on Mars”. It shows a round massif but no face in sight. Another mystery was the Ica Stones - stones discovered in a cave in Peru. The cave was never identified. The Stones have drawings on them such as Aztec men fighting dinosaurs, extinct fish, open heart surgery and other things that show an advanced civilization. A farmer was arrested for selling these stones to tourists. In his defence, he said he had been making them himself. To get that ancient look, he said he left the stones in his chicken coop, and let the chickens do the rest. Others have also made and sold Ica Stones. There is no evidence of a civilization in that area, no ruins, bones or anything. Last but not least is the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered floating in the sea minus her crew. Stories range from finding meals, still hot and ready to eat, to the ship being found abandoned but with no personal items taken, with strange circular burns on the deck – indicating people had been kidnapped by aliens. The truth is much more boring. The ship that discovered the Mary Celeste saw signs that the crew had left in a hurry. They also noted the ship was making strange noises. The captain probably thought his ship was sinking, so he left with the crew. МИНИСТЕРСТВО НА ОБРАЗОВАНИЕТО И НАУКАТА ДЪРЖАВЕН ЗРЕЛОСТЕН ИЗПИТ ПО АНГЛИЙСКИ ЕЗИК – 29 май 2012 г. ВАРИАНТ № 2 Ключ с верните отговори Въпрос № 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Верен отговор B A B A A D A A D B A C A D B C D B D A C B B A C Възможни варианти: Брой точки 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Въпрос № 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Верен отговор D A C A A D B A C A D C B A C B D A C B D B A C C Брой точки 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Задачите от 51 до 60 включително се оценяват с 0 – 2 точки. Не се санкционират правописни и пунктуационни грешки, които не водят до нарушаване на комуникацията. 51. I have been working / have worked here for three months. 52. Her father succeeded in persuading her to study medicine. 53. Everybody enjoyed the film apart from Jessica. 54. You needn’t have cooked all this food! 55. If you hadn’t phoned me, I wouldn’t have known about the meeting. 56. I asked her if she had ever seen the Star Wars films. 57. Our company is being supplied with computers by Computer World. 58. She must be driving home – her car isn’t here. 59. Three convicts are thought to have escaped from Dartmoor Prison. 60. Their house is so far (away) that we cannot / can’t walk there. Критерии за оценяване на писмения текст: 1. Съдържание и логическа последователност на изложението – 0 – 4т. 2. Спазване на зададения обем и формат – 0 – 3т. 3. Спазване на граматическите норми и правила – 0 – 9т. 4. Правилна и точна употреба на лексиката – 0 – 9т. 5. Богатство на изразните средства – 0 – 3 т. 6. Правопис – 0– 2т . 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