Проверьте словарный запас, знание грамматики, навыки чтения и аудирования.
На уровне Advanced студент отлично разбирается в нюансах грамматики и употребляет сложные конструкции, имеет обширный словарный запас и может говорить на любую тему, способен читать неадаптированную литературу и смотреть фильмы и видео в оригинале. Предлагаем проверить себя с помощью нашего теста, который состоит из четырех частей: грамматика, лексика, чтение и аудирование.
Часть 1: грамматика для Advanced
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The screenwriter Abi Morgan works in a small flat above a perfumery in Islington, north London. Its rooms are, for a writer, extraordinarily tidy. The casual visitor would not think for a single moment of fraught commissioning meetings and hurtling deadlines .... the little squares of paper that line one wall.
Morgan .... her first book, This Is Not a Pity Memoir. It begins on a day like any other. On this morning, her husband, who has MS*, doesn’t feel fantastic. When she arrives home, Jacob is lying on the bathroom floor. In hospital, he has a series of seizures and his behaviour grows so strange and erratic that he is soon transferred to the intensive therapy unit. .... before she learns that the withdrawal of a supposed wonder drug for MS has caused his collapse (he is one of just 22 patients .... this catastrophic response). Finally, it is decided: Jacob .... into an induced coma for seven months.
Morgan doesn’t, to put it mildly, go in for self-pity. .... huge her heart – her book, not without reason, is billed by its publisher as a love story — there’s no denying that it also contains an icy chip that makes pretty much everything fair game. “My sister was its first reader, then my children, then Jacob’s family; I knew before I took it to any publisher they all had to be comfortable. But I’m also a dramatist and Jacob is an actor. We .... fascinated not only with other people’s lives, but with our own, too.”
Writing the book was more than a creative act. “Primarily, I did it because I .... my mind and I was trying to hold on to my sanity,” she says. And then there was Jacob. Not only .... to write down what he’d missed, all the stuff he would never remember. She longed to be able to talk to him. “I grimace slightly when I see it called a love story. But it is. If it’s brutal, the person .... is me.”
*MS — multiple sclerosis
works made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
exclusively British art
classical artworks
It … to prove that the chandelier was genuine.
involved a lot of effort
didn’t take long
didn’t present any difficulties
The chandelier is considered to be … .
one of the sculptor’s greatest works
the only work featuring a suspended ball
mediocre when compared with other artworks
The chandelier ended up in the antiques shop … .
under unknown circumstances
by mistake
as a donation from Peter Watson
Alberto Giacometti … .
created only a few chandeliers in his lifetime
was particularly famous for his chandeliers
was never celebrated for his light fittings
Часть 4: аудирование для Advanced
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Лексика из видео
Слово/Словосочетание
Перевод
pair bonding
образование пар
sedentary
оседлый
adultery
измена
a concubine
младшая жена, наложница
a commoner
человек незнатного происхождения
the tables were turned
все было наоборот
deceased
умерший
(a) lineage
род, родственная линия
to appease
успокаивать, ублажать
at stake
на кону
Why was marriage important 10,000 years ago?
It was a way of establishing ownership of land.
It helped to divide tasks in agricultural societies.
Unmarried people weren’t allowed to have children.
When did marriage become an official institution?
Earlier than 2000 BC.
In 2100 AD.
10,000 years ago.
What was the attitude to polygamy in ancient times?
It was acceptable in many civilizations.
It was strictly prohibited.
There’s no data as to whether it was allowed or not.
How many wives could ancient elites afford?
They had numerous partners.
They were mostly monogamous.
They could have not more than two partners.
What was special about marriage in the Himalayan Mountains?
All men in a family could have the same wife.
There were mostly same-sex unions.
A woman could marry her brothers.
Why were ghost marriages conducted?
To pacify the wandering souls of the dead.
To prove the existence of love in the afterlife.
To discontinue family traditions.
What did most marriages of the past have in common?
Matches were practical and well thought-out.
People were tolerant of adultery.
Everybody could marry whoever they wanted.
What is the modern idea of marriage?
It is based on mutual affection.
It is an act of cold calculation.
It is a thing of the past.
How have familial relationships changed over time?
People don’t rush into starting a family.
People get divorced less these days.
People care more about the social status of their partners.
What influences the ideas of marriage?
Transformations in society’s beliefs and pursuits.
The economic and political situation in the world.
The standard of living in developed societies.
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