Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 62 стр.

gaining renewed popularity in state schools, helped along by image-            5. The word ‘excel’ (Passage 1) means in the text:
conscious parents.                                                                 A exaggerate.
       The school uniform in this country has its roots in the public school       B do better than others.
traditions. Rightly or wrongly, state schools have tended to look to the in-       C display strong character.
dependent sector for models, and the notion of wearing a uniform has be-           D be worse than others.
come associated with many people’s idea of a good education.

1. – Which of the following is not true?                                                                          Text 9
   – The passages deal with
   A school clothing and differences in achievement between boys and
                                                                                Part B. Directions:     Questions 1 through 5 are based on the text below.
       girls.                                                                   (Questions 1 – 5)       Choose the one best answer to each question on
   B achievement classes and the state sector fighting against anathema                                 the basis of what is stated or implied in the text.
       school uniforms.
                                                                                                        Mark the answer in your answer sheet.
   C wearing uniforms and organising achievement lessons.
   D some aspects of lifestyle in British schools: school uniforms and
                                                                                      When people sit back and take stock of their lives, do they regret the
       innovations.
                                                                               things that failed, such as a romance that foundered, the wrong career path
                                                                               chosen, bad grades in school? Or do they most regret what they failed to
2. Where did the idea of wearing school uniforms originate?
                                                                               try?
   A In public schools.
                                                                                      A small but growing body of research points to inaction as the lead-
   B In state schools.
                                                                               ing cause of regret in people’s lives over the long term. These findings are
   C In the image of conscious parents.
                                                                               painting a new portrait of regret, an emotion proving to be far more com-
   D In France and Germany.
                                                                               plex than once thought.
                                                                                      “As a culture, we are so afraid of regret, so allergic to it, often we
3. What headline would you give to Passage 1?
                                                                               don’t even want to talk about it”, says psychologist Janet Landman, author
   A The National Curriculum against the odds.
                                                                               of several studies and a book on regret. “The fear is that it will pull us
   B Footballers to the rescue.
                                                                               down the slippery slope of depression and despair”.
   C Curriculum vitae for British footballers.
                                                                                      But psychologists say that regret is an inevitable fact of life. “In to-
   D A scheme of top twelve.
                                                                               day’s world, in which people arguably exercise more choice than ever be-
                                                                               fore in human history, it is exceedingly difficult to choose so consistently
4. What headline would you give to Passage 2?
                                                                               well that regret is avoided entirely”, say Cornell University psychologists.
   A School uniforms out of fashion.
                                                                                      Regret involves two distinct types of emotion, what psychologists
   B Why uniforms are back in vogue?
                                                                               call ‘hot’ and ‘wistful’. Hot regret is quick anger felt after discovering that
   C Vogie vogue.
                                                                               you have made a mistake, like accidentally dropping a prized vase and see-
   D Tendencies out of fashion.
                                                                               ing it smash into a thousand pieces, or buying a share that suddenly plum-
                                                                               meted in price. Wistful regret comes from having a longer range perspec-
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