Óïð.1 Òåñò Unit 2 Ðàáî÷àÿ òåòðàäü ÃÄÇ English Ìèõååâà 9 êëàññ

TEXT 1

Geoffrey Chaucer was a great English poet. He was one of the first people to write in the English language rather than in Latin. His best-known work is “The Canterbury Tales”. It is a collection of stories told by an imaginary group of pilgrims as they travelled to Canterbury Cathedral.

TEXT 2

James Fenimore Cooper was one of the earliest American writers. He wrote a number of novels describing life on the American frontier in the 1700s. His most famous books describe a frontiersman named Natty Bumppo, or Leatherstocking, who, though a simple man, understood the wilderness in which he lived and the Indians who lived there, too. Cooper’s most famous book was “The Last of the Mohicans”.

TEXT 3

Emily Dickinson was one of America’s greatest poets and one of the most important of the 1800s. Her poems can be hard to understand. She wrote about the difficulty of understanding the world, and of how quickly and strangely life passes. She was a very reserved person, who refused to publish any of her poems during her life and who never married. She lived all her life at her parents’ home in Massachusetts. Few certain facts about her lonely life are known.

TEXT 4

Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the most important American writers of the 1800s. His most famous books are “The Scarlet Letter” and “The House of the Seven Gables”. He wrote many stories for children, too. His best stories can be hard to understand, but all have a strong sense of the world he lived in — the little towns of New England in the 1800s.

TEXT 5

Herman Melville lived in America in the 1800s. His most famous book is called “Moby Dick”. It tells of a whaling captain and his search for a great white whale. Though Melville was already famous when he wrote “Moby Dick”, few people liked it at the time. Most people preferred Melville’s earlier books. They described his life as a sailor.

Òåêñòû

Òåêñò 1. Äæåôôðè ×îñåð

Òåêñò 2. Äæåéìñ Ôåíèìîð Êóïåð

Òåêñò 3. Ýìèëè Äèêèíñîí

Òåêñò 4. Íàòàíèýëü Õîòîðí

Òåêñò 5. Ãåðìàí Ìåëâèëë

Óòâåðæäåíèÿ

a) Ýòîò àâòîð íå ïèñàë òîëüêî äëÿ âçðîñëûõ.

b) Ýòîò àâòîð ïèñàë îá îòíîøåíèÿõ ìåæäó áåëûì è êîðåííûì íàñåëåíèåì Àìåðèêè.

c) Ýòîò àâòîð ïèñàë î íåîáû÷íûõ ïðèêëþ÷åíèÿõ.

d) Ýòîò àâòîð íèêîãäà íå âèäåë, ÷òîáû åå ðàáîòû áûëè îïóáëèêîâàíû.

e) Ýòîò àâòîð íå æèë â Àìåðèêå.

f) Ýòîò àâòîð ïèñàë î æèçíè â ìîðå.

1 - e;

2 - b;

3 - d;

4 - a;

5 - f;

c — extra.