Man: You know, New York City. You are going to New York with us, aren't you? I wanted to show everybody around may old neighborhood.
Woman: Oh... sure! I wouldn't miss it – especially when the tour guide is a native New Yorker.
Man: I thought we could start at the Museum of Modern Art. Right now there's an exhibit on twentieth-century American painters.
Woman: Fine with me... but what were you saying about... a big apple?
Man: «The Big Apple.» It's a nickname for New York. I thing I heard once that it started with jazz musicians in the 20's.
Woman: Oh.
Man: Whenever they played a concert in city, they called that city an «apple». In those days, New York was the biggest city in the country, so they called it «The Big Apple».
Woman: Hey, I have an idea! Let's go to a jazz club while we're there.
Man: Sounds good.
1. Narrator: Where is the man planning to see?
Выберите нужный ответ:
A. An art exhibit.
B. A Broadway play.
C. A modern dance production.
D. An opera.
2. Narrator: What can be inferred about the man?
Выберите нужный ответ:
A. He is a jazz musician.
B. He want to join the woman's club.
C. He is in his twenties.
D. He was born in New York.
3. Narrator: What does the word «Apple» in the phrase «The Big Apple» refer to?
Выберите нужный ответ:
A. An instrument.
B. A city.
C. A theater.
D. A concert.
4. Narrator: Who gave New York its nickname?
Выберите нужный ответ:
A. Painters.
B. Tour guides.
C. Musicians.
D. Grocers.
Третий тип заданий – длинный текст:
Пример 1.
Narrator: Listen to a talk about animal behavior.
Woman: Today's discussion is about a common animal reaction – the yawn. The dictionary defines a yawn as «an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom.» That's certainly true for human yawns, but not necessarily for animal yawns. The same action can have quite different meanings in different species. For example, some animals yawn to intimidate intruders on their territory. Fish and lizards are examples of his. Hippos use yawns when they want to settle a quarret. Observers have seen two hippos yawns at each other for as long as two hours before they stop quarreling. As for social animals like baboons or lions – they yawns to establish the pecking order within social groups, and lions often yawns to calm social tensions. Sometimes these animals yawns for a strictly physiological reason – that it, to increase oxygen levels. And curiously enough, when they yawns for a physical reason like that, they do what humans do – they try to stifle the yawns by looking away or by covering their mounths.