Номер 11, страница 101 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс рабочая тетрадь Комарова, Ларионова

Unified State Exam in English Language Practice test. Раздел 2. Чтение - номер 11, страница 101.

Условие.

11 Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A–F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1–7. Одна из частей в списке 1–7 лишняя. Занесите цифры, обозначающие соответствующие части предложений, в таблицу.

Shopping centre?

The first online shops were started in 1994, A _____________. At first consumers were a bit suspicious of shopping online. For hundreds of years, people had gone to shops and touched, looked at, tried on or sniffed the goods before they bought them. Customers had a relationship with their local shopkeepers. Sales assistants were trained to make sure customers left their shops satisfied B_____________.

The idea of buying something you hadn’t even seen was not one that caught on quickly. But in time it became incredibly popular. A recent study showed that 60% of adults in Britain now shop online. Among other things, they buy films, music, sports equipment, food, clothes and holidays C_____________.

There are definite advantages to online shopping. It’s easy and convenient – you can shop at any time of the day or night; someone else does all the work and you can compare prices at the touch of a button. On the other hand, buyers don’t see the goods before they pay for them D_____________. On top of that, there are postage or shipping costs for delivery. And, worryingly, customers send their private financial information over the Internet so there is always the risk of someone stealing the information and using it falsely.

One of the big concerns for shop-owners right now is whether online shopping is killing their businesses. Certainly there are some cases where the Internet has a bad effect on shops. For example, shops selling CDs and DVDs are not doing as well on the high streets these days E_____________. But other shopkeepers are suffering as well. In Britain, one in seven shops has closed down and is no longer trading. This is partly due to new shopping centres, located on the edges of cities and full of superstores. But online shopping has played a part, too.

Nobody can say for sure F_____________. But one thing seems certain:

online shopping is not likely to go out of fashion anytime soon.

1. without ever leaving the comfort of their own home
2. what the future holds for our high-street traders
3. where they do a large proportion of their shopping
4. and, hopefully, with a bag full of purchases
5. as many people buy music and films online
6. when the ‘World Wide Web’ was only a few years old
7. and it’s inconvenient for them to have to return items

Ответ:

A	B	C	D	E	F

11–18. В каждом задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному вами варианту ответа.

A mistake

‘But you’re making a mistake,’ I repeated, for what felt like the hundredth time. It seemed nobody was listening. I looked deep into the eyes of the people sitting opposite me, searching for some hint of compassion, or at least comprehension. There was nothing, only steely cold eyes staring at me dispassionately. This was a nightmare.

It had all started an hour earlier when I left the office at lunchtime to pick up a few things from the shops for supper. I hurried round the supermarket as quickly as possible and was at the checkout in no time, but as usual there was quite a long queue. As I was waiting, a young woman tried to push past. There really isn’t enough room for two people side by side at a checkout so it was a bit of a tight squeeze. However, the woman elbowed her way through, bumping into me as she passed. I didn’t think much of it at the time although I did think it was a strange way to leave the supermarket.

After a few minutes I paid, popped my shopping in my bag and walked towards the exit. The next thing I knew, two men were standing in front of me … and they didn’t look friendly.

‘Excuse me, miss. We have reason to believe you’re in possession of stolen goods.’ At first I was calm. I knew I’d paid for my shopping so how could I possibly have anything stolen? The man asked me to go with them into an office. I went, still feeling sure this was a genuine mistake and that I’d soon be on my way back to work.

In the office, one of the men asked if I had anything that didn’t belong to me. ‘No,’ I assured them, ‘I don’t. I’m no shoplifter.’

I said I was happy for them to look in my bag. No stolen goods there. Then they asked if I had anything in my coat pockets. ‘No!’ As I slipped my hands into my coat pockets, my heart froze. I could feel something hard … something that was definitely not mine. I closed the fingers of my right hand round the object and pulled it out of my pocket – a gold watch.

‘Look, this isn’t mine.’

‘Yes, miss, we know it isn’t yours. It’s from the jeweller’s in Rowan Street. A young woman stole it from there less than half an hour ago.’

‘No! I’ve never seen this before in my life. I didn’t steal it if that’s what you think!’

‘I’m sorry, miss. We need to ask you to accompany us to the police station. You can explain everything there.’

Think! What should I do? Panic had set in and I had no idea how to react. I knew I hadn’t stolen anything so I assumed it would be okay to go to the police station. The police would soon realise there had been a mistake. But there I was at the police station, and they hadn’t realised that at all.

Then, to my eternal relief, a detective entered the room and said they’d examined the CCTV footage from the jeweller’s shop and from the supermarket and they now knew I had not stolen the watch. We understand what happened now. The woman who stole the watch went into the supermarket but for whatever reason must have decided to get rid of the watch. She put it in your coat pocket as she pushed passed you at the checkout. You can go now. We’re dreadfully sorry about what’s happened.’

Finally, they had realised they’d made a mistake!

Решение.