Тест английски език - ДЗИ 2010 по желание

Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best answer to each question, marking your answers on your answer sheet.

Paul Hardy has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties. Everybody admires
him for his sense of humour – everybody except his own little daughter Julie.
Recently, one of his closest friends asked him to make a speech at his wedding reception.
This is the sort of thing that Paul really loves. He prepared his speech carefully and went to the wedding with Julie. He had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great success. As soon as he had finished, Julie told him that she wanted them to go home. Paul was a little shocked by this, but he loved his daughter very much and did what she asked. On the way home he asked Julie whether she had enjoyed his speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn’t. When he asked her why this was so, she replied that she did not like to see so many people laugh at him.

Paul Hardy is fun to be with because of his good sense of humour.

Paul is a single parent and he takes Julie with him wherever he goes.

Although Paul improvised his speech, it was very well received by everyone.

Paul and Julie left the wedding reception before it was over.

Julie failed to see the real reason why people laughed when her father spoke.

Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best answer to each question correspondingly, marking your answers on your answer sheet.

The next morning the ship was still in the same place so I went on board again. I did so every day, and by the time I had been thirteen days on the island, I had made eleven trips to the wreck and taken away everything that my one pair of hands could carry.
   As I was preparing to go to the wreck for the twelfth time, a strong wind started blowing.
But the tide was still low, so I took my clothes off, swam to the ship and got on board without difficulty. Again I found a number of useful things to take and among them a pipe and some tobacco, two or three razors, a pair of large scissors and about a dozen of good knives and forks.
Then, in one of the drawers which I thought I had completely emptied before, I found some gold and silver coins worth all together about ?36. At their sight I smiled and cried, “What are you good for?! One of those knives is worth more than all of you! I’ll just leave you here!” However, upon thinking about it again, I took all the coins and started making another raft for the new things I had collected.
   In a quarter of an hour the sky got dark, the wind was blowing stronger and stronger, and I had to get back to the shore before the tide started flowing in. It was very hard to swim to the shore, partly because of the weight of the things I had with me and partly because of the strong wind and the rough water. But, this time, I was lucky. I had got to my tent with all the things I had recovered just before a storm broke out.
    The wind blew very hard all night and in the morning, when I looked out, the ship was gone. I was sorry, but at the same time I was glad to think I had lost no time in getting out of the wreck all the things that could be useful to me.
I should also say that we had taken on board the ship two cats and a dog. Fortunately, these animals were saved from the wreck, too. When I first came on board, they heard me moving about and ran up to me showing signs of their joy at seeing me again. I was glad tosee them too and to have them as my companions. I took the cats on my first raft. I was going to take the dog later, but he jumped out of the ship and swam after me, getting to the shore with the raft. He was a faithful servant to me for a number of years. At times I was only so
very sorry that he could not talk.

As the story opens the narrator

The narrator gets to the ship by

On his twelfth trip to the wrecked ship the narrator did NOT take any

The ship disappeared

Which of the following statements is NOT true?