For questions (1 -6), fill in the missing sentences (A-G).

A Over the years, I watched the event grow into the biggest of its kind in the world.

B Three weeks later, I received my acceptance letter and was over the moon.

C The London Marathon is the most challenging marathon in the world.

D Out of the over 46,000 starters, on average, only 33,000 actually crossed the finishing line.

E It was the most difficult and the most exciting and rewarding experience of my life.

F I began walking for a few minutes at a time, increasing my intensity until I was able to walk for 10 minutes a session.

G The biggest problem would be dehydration, as it would be with all of the competitors.

II. Writing

Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or Present Continuous.

1. A: I… (see) you’re wearing a new suit. You look very professional.

B: Thank you. I… (see) a client after work.

2. A: Why…you… (smell) the soap?

B: It … (smell) fantastic, just like flowers.

3. A: … you … (enjoy) your new job?

B: Yes. I… (enjoy) working with children.

4. A: Kim… (be) such an easy-going' person.

B: Not today. It seems she… (be) really moody with everyone.

5. A: I… (think) of going on holiday to Egypt.

B: I… (not / think) it's a very good idea.

6. A: I … (have) problems with my kitchen sink. Can you help me?

B: Not really, but I… (have) the phone number of a good plumber who can.

Recently there have been a lot of discussions about saving water and electricity. Write an advertisement to your school newspaper. Include the following points:

× whether we need to save water and electricity;

× reasons for saving water and/or electricity;

× possible ways of saving them in our everyday life.

III. Speaking

Most people agree that eating junk food such as chips, cookies, and candy is not healthy, yet almost everyone eats these things anyway.

× Do you eat junk food? Why? Which are your favourites?

× What other eating habits have a negative effect on the people’s health?

× What would life be like if we always did what was best for us and never made poor decisions?

× What kinds of food are good for your health?

Examination Card №11

I. Reading

Read the text given below.

THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH

How can the truth be discovered? Is there a reliable and safe way to make sure others are telling the truth?

(0) … According to the story, King Solomon, who was renowned for his wisdom, was once faced with two women both claiming to be the mother of the same baby. He threatened to cut the baby in half in order to settle the disagreement. The truth was revealed instantly when the real mother offered to give up her baby rather than see it die. Of course, inter­rogators who lack Solomon’s legendary wisdom have to rely on other methods to discover the truth.

(1) … In the past, the basic techniques used to get prisoners to reveal the truth varied. They included physical torture, depriving prisoners of sleep, making them stand for hours with their arms stretched above their heads, and putting them in solitary confinement, a practice which is still employed today.

In modern times the techniques commonly used cause psychological rather than physi­cal suffering. These methods may be effective in making prisoners or suspects talk, but when people are forced to confess do they always tell the truth? (2) … Obviously, the problem of distinguishing between lies and truth remains.

(3) … Stress creates physical symptoms which can be recorded when trying to decide whether a person is telling the truth or not. The device used to record these symptoms is called a lie-detector or polygraph. It is widely used by police and other agencies. It indi­cates whether the person questioned is being honest as it records changes in the heart rate, blood pressure and other physical factors during questioning.

Most polygraph experts now admit that the method is not perfect: even an innocent person will feel under stress when faced with a serious accusation. As a result, a more accurate technique has been developed.

(4) … Since most people would be guilty of this to some extent, the polygraph will show some stress caused by the denial of the truth. For innocent people, this will be the highest stress they show, while a murderer will become even more stressed when denying a question about his or her involvement in the murder.

Recently, it has been shown that people can be trained to trick lie-detecting machines. (5) … The fact remains, however, that some people make better liars than others.

(6) … The basic problem with all methods is that if the person is in control, they can easily mislead their questioners, while if the person is not in control due to pain or drugs, what they say may not be true at all.

Choose from the sentences (A-H) the one which fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

A Perhaps the best-known scientific method relies on the fact that lying causes stress.

B The questions remains: is there really a foolproof way of finding the truth?

C With this technique, the person being questioned is instructed to deny questions like “Before 1990, did you ever do anything dishonest?”

D Pain is no longer used to make people talk.

E Even clues like body language, tone of voice and eye contact can be controlled by a good deceiver.

F One of the best-known and cleverest solutions was that used by a king in ancient times.

G By biting their tongues or counting backwards, guilty people can make themselves appear under stress when answering innocent questions, and this often makes the results inaccurate.

H If a prisoner, for example, is made to suffer a lot, it seems obvious that false confessions may be given just to satisfy the interrogator.

II. Writing

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