DEMO TEST

GRADE 11
CONTENT
01 VOCABULARY 04 READING

02 GRAMMAR 05 SPEAKING

03 LISTENING
Task 1. Circle the correct answer. (2 points)
1. Instead of _____ someone by their appearance, you should get to know them
better.
a. swearing b. judging c. controlling d. talking
2. He is truly a reliable friend. He will always be with me and never let me down.
a. mean b. independent c. decisive d. dependable
3. When you have a romantic relationship, you’re having a relationship based on
love and ______ attraction.
a. emotional b. emotion c. emotionally d. emotions
4. She whispered a ___ that her sibling wouldn’t die.
a. sibling b. burden c. prayer d. god
5. My ______ for this girl grows daily.
a. admire b. admirer
c. admiration d. admiring
3. He is tired now. He ______ the gardening for
Task 2. Read and choose. (2 points) hours.
A. has done
B. is doing
1. I ______ the garden. No sooner had I finished C. did
watering it than it came down in torrent. D. has been doing
A. shouldn’t have watered
B. mustn’t have watered 4. Let me explain everything to you, ______?
C. can’t have watered A. shall we
D. needn’t have watered B. will you
C. will we
2. The scientists ________ on this project try to D. do you
find the solutions to air pollution.
A. working 5. If Nam had passed the GCSE examination, he
B. worked ______ to take the entrance examination to the
C. are working university.
D. who working A. would have been allowed
B. would have allowed
C. will have allowed
D. would allow
Task 3. Listen and match sentences A−F with speakers 1−5.
There is one extra sentence.(2 points)

4 A. The speaker mentions different things that visitors can do at an event.

1 B. The speaker recommends finding out about an artist.

- C. The speaker talks about the early days of their career.

2 D. The speaker talks about the history of a place.

5 E. The speaker talks about how a form of art began.

3 F. The speaker suggests reading the novels of an important writer.

TRANSCRIPT
1. Is Chinese artist Cai Guo-Quiang a painter, a sculptor or a 4. You’re listening to Early Evenings with Maria Barranca.
show director? Well, he’s all of these things. He makes huge Well, it’s September again − and next week is the start of
sculptures − and the amazing 2008 Beijing Olympic Games the Sausalito Arts Festival. Two hundred and sixty artists
opening show was organized by him too. But he’s probably have been chosen to be in this year’s festival, so you can
most famous for his fire paintings, which are made by see great painting, sculpture, clothes and even have your
explosions. There are exhibitions of his work all around the portrait drawn! Or why not sit by San Francisco Bay and
world, and galleries and museums have had a lot of books listen to the
written about him too. So if you’re interested in modern great musicians who have been invited to perform here
Chinese art, check him out. this year. The festival is on from 5–7 September, and you
2. Before you look around the museum, I want to tell you really should visit. It’s going to be great fun!
about the history of St Ives. St Ives was just a small fishing 5. I can’t believe it’s been 25 years since we started the
town on the Cornish coast until the 1950s. Then artists were band. We used to practise in my aunt’s house. She was
attracted to the town by its wild, natural beauty. The history of often visited by the neighbours when we made too much
modern British art was changed by some of these artists, but noise! People asked us to play at weddings and things like
life wasn’t easy for them. They lived in old stone cottages that, but we weren’t paid much money. Then, one day, a
which had been made for poor people – and they were very girl came up to us after a show and said, ‘Can I borrow
poor too! Today, they are famous, of course. The Tate Gallery your guitar?’ After
had this museum built just to show their work! she’d been given Jake’s guitar, she played a song that
3. Christopher Paolini’s first book was written when he was we’d never heard before. It had great harmonies and an
fifteen. That’s amazing, but it’s not why I like him. His books amazing beat. We invited Jenny to join the band that day.
are fantasy books, of course. His animals fly and people have And she made us famous.
amazing powers, and I don’t usually like things like that. But
Paolini’s books are really exciting, and he makes you believe in
the story. It has been said that Christopher Paolini’s books are
for younger children, but I don’t agree. I think both teenagers
and adults should read them − because they’re just amazing!
Task 4. Read the text and choose the correct answers. (2 points)

This month in Art Around the World, Fiona Hitchens visits China Of course, not all Chinese art is temporary − some of it has been around for a very long
My first introduction to Chinese art was an early morning walk in Beihai Park in Beijing. time! Near the city of Xi’an, I visited the amazing terracotta warriors, or soldiers. In 200
There, I saw elderly people writing on the pavement with paintbrushes which were a metre BCE, 8,000 statues of soldiers were made by sculptors out of a material called terracotta.
long! I soon learned that they were doing water calligraphy − writing in water. The words They are as big as real people and they all have different faces. An important king had the
have meanings, but they are also art. The calligraphy quickly disappears, of course. But statues produced to protect his body after he died. They stayed under the ground with the
tomorrow, the old people will be back. dead king for over 2,000 years, until they were discovered by a farmer in 1974.

Temporary art like this is very popular in China. Every winter, Harbin, in northern China, is At the China Art Museum, in Shanghai, I saw wonderful 16th-century Chinese paintings of
visited by sculptors and tourists from around the world. They come for the Harbin Ice tall mountains, trees and cliffs. The paintings were beautiful, but they didn’t look very
Festival, when the city has huge sculptures made out of ice. The sculptures are bigger than realistic to me at the time. ‘Mountains aren’t like that,’ I thought. But that was before the
houses, and they take weeks to make. Harbin’s freezing winter temperatures make it very last stop on my trip: the mountains of Zhangjiajie National Park.
difficult for the artists to work outside. But the weather also means that the sculptures will
be protected until the spring. These mountains were used by film director James Cameron in his sci-fi film Avatar because
they look like something from another planet. On my last weekend in China, I took a cable
A few days later in Tibet, western China, I watched artists make sand paintings. The pictures car up into the mountains there. Trees grew on the sides of hundred-metre cliffs, and
are full of symbols, and they have important religious meanings for Tibetan people. They strange towers of rock appeared out of the morning fog. It looked just like the pictures in
look amazing, but the paintings are soon destroyed by the artists who make them. It is the China Art Museum. For a moment, I felt like I was inside a Chinese painting!
important for Tibetan culture to make these paintings, then have them destroyed. Glossary
brush − you use this to paint

1. What does the writer say about the people she saw in Beihai 2. The cold weather in Harbin
Park?
A. helps the sculptors to work.
A. They only meet one morning a week.
B. makes it too cold to work outside.
B. They are all artists.
C. protects the sculptures.
C. They taught the writer Chinese calligraphy.
D. makes it difficult to visit the festival.
D. They are mostly old people.
This month in Art Around the World, Fiona Hitchens visits China
My first introduction to Chinese art was an early morning walk in Beihai Park in Beijing. There, I
saw elderly people writing on the pavement with paintbrushes which were a metre long! I soon 3. Which is true about Tibetan sand paintings?
learned that they were doing water calligraphy − writing in water. The words have meanings, but
they are also art. The calligraphy quickly disappears, of course. But tomorrow, the old people will A. They are made and destroyed by the same people.
be back.
B. They take months to make.
Temporary art like this is very popular in China. Every winter, Harbin, in northern China, is
visited by sculptors and tourists from around the world. They come for the Harbin Ice Festival, C. They aren’t easy to protect.
when the city has huge sculptures made out of ice. The sculptures are bigger than houses, and
they take weeks to make. Harbin’s freezing winter temperatures make it very difficult for the D. They are only understood by religious people.
artists to work outside. But the weather also means that the sculptures will be protected until
the spring.

A few days later in Tibet, western China, I watched artists make sand paintings. The pictures are
full of symbols, and they have important religious meanings for Tibetan people. They look 4. Why was the author’s visit to Zhangjiajie important?
amazing, but the paintings are soon destroyed by the artists who make them. It is important for
Tibetan culture to make these paintings, then have them destroyed. A. She wanted to visit the place where they filmed Avatar.
Of course, not all Chinese art is temporary − some of it has been around for a very long time! B. It is home to an important art museum.
Near the city of Xi’an, I visited the amazing terracotta warriors, or soldiers. In 200 BCE, 8,000
statues of soldiers were made by sculptors out of a material called terracotta. They are as big as C. It changed her ideas about Chinese painting.
real people and they all have different faces. An important king had the statues produced to
protect his body after he died. They stayed under the ground with the dead king for over 2,000 D. It was her favourite stop on her trip.
years, until they were discovered by a farmer in 1974.

At the China Art Museum, in Shanghai, I saw wonderful 16th-century Chinese paintings of tall
mountains, trees and cliffs. The paintings were beautiful, but they didn’t look very realistic to me 5. What overall message does the article give about Chinese
at the time. ‘Mountains aren’t like that,’ I thought. But that was before the last stop on my trip:
the mountains of Zhangjiajie National Park.
art?

These mountains were used by film director James Cameron in his sci-fi film Avatar because they
A. Most Chinese art is temporary.
look like something from another planet. On my last weekend in China, I took a cable car up into
the mountains there. Trees grew on the sides of hundred-metre cliffs, and strange towers of rock
B. There are many different forms of Chinese art.
appeared out of the morning fog. It looked just like the pictures in the China Art Museum. For a
moment, I felt like I was inside a Chinese painting!
C. A lot of Chinese art is very old.
Glossary
brush − you use this to paint
D. The best Chinese art was produced in the 16th century.
Task 5. SPEAKING.
Answer the question. (2 points)

In your opinion, what are advantages and

disadvantages of “studying online”?
(You have about one minute to represent your answer)
SEE YOU NEXT TIME!