ANGLØ KALBA
Klausymo, skaitymo, kalbos vartojimo, raymo testai
2006 m. valstybinio brandos egzamino u.duotis
(pagrindine sesija)
TRUKME
Klausymo testas
25 min.
Skaitymo testas
50 min.
Kalbos vartojimo testas
35 min.
Ra.ymo testas
90 min.
I. viso
3 val. 20 min.
LISTENING PAPER
Time: 25 min. Points: 25
Task 1. DESIGNING RACING CARS
You are going to hear a narration about Sam, a designer of racing cars. The statements A-H below summarize the
text but they are in the wrong order. While listening, number the statements in the right order. The beginning has
been given to you as an example (0).
You have half a minute to read the statements.
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Now listen to the narration. You will hear it twice. Do as much as you can the first time and finish your work the
second time. Listen carefully.
7 points (1 point per item)
A ____ Criteria for designing a car.
B The earnings.
C ____ Importance of education.
D ____ Length of the working day.
E ____ Personal achievements in the job.
F ____ Process of designing.
G ____ Sams motivation.
H _0__ Sams professional ambitions.
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Task 2. SCHOOL IN THE 1940s
You are going to hear an interview between Mel, a newspaper reporter, and Corinne Cox, who was at school in the
1940s. While listening, decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) and tick [!] the appropriate box. The
first has been done for you as an example (0).
You have one minute to read the statements.
Now listen to the interview. You will hear it twice. Do as much as you can the first time and finish your work the
second time. Listen carefully.
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Corinne went to a commercial college.
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There were lots of other colleges she could choose.
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The curriculum included the subjects for business.
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In those days learning required a lot of memorizing.
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There were best teachers working at the college at that time.
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Women teachers had to be single.
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Each misbehaviour of a student could be easily disclosed.
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The lessons started and finished at exact hours.
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Corinne studied very hard because she liked all the subjects.
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She started her career as a book-keeper.
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Corinne felt good and self-assured among the staff.
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She earned very little money.
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In the 1940s most women left their jobs after marriage.
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Task 3. LONDON: CAPITAL OF COOL
You are going to hear a report on fashion in London. While listening, choose the right ending and tick [!] the
appropriate box. The first has been done for you as an example (0).
You have one minute to read the statements.
Now listen to the report. You will hear it twice. Do as much as you can the first time and finish your work the
second time. Listen carefully.
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0. London is the high fashion capital of
A couture. "
B classic. "
C cool. "
1. The number of designer shops in London is going to
A decrease. "
B double. "
C increase. "
2. The price in most designer shops is
A extremely high. "
B funny. "
C reasonable. "
3. Londons youngest shoppers
A are not interested in fashion. "
B design clothes themselves. "
C talk about fashion. "
4. Children under fifteen care very much about clothes
A colour. "
B labels. "
C texture. "
5. Londons Fashion Week tries to find
A the best fashion writer. "
B the best model. "
C the newest talent. "
6. Londons Fashion Week presents
A a variety of styles. "
B only classic chic*. "
C only cool high fashion. "
Glossary: classic chic* smart clothes based on traditional designs.
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READING PAPER
Time: 50 min. Points: 25
Read the text and do the tasks.
WILKIE COLLINS (1824 . 1889)
William Wilkie Collins was born in London, the son of a painter. He worked for a tea importer, and later studied law, but
never worked as a lawyer. He was a close friend and colleague of Charles Dickens from 1851 to Dickens death. He wrote
numerous articles and short stories for magazines edited by Dickens, but is best known for his novels. Although he lived in
London, he travelled widely in France and Italy, often with Dickens.
In his writing Wilkie Collins was an expert at mystery, suspense and crime. He wrote the first full-length detective stories in
English, and many modern detective-story writers base their technique on his. The Woman in White and The Moonstone are his
most famous novels. The poet T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone the first, the longest and the best of modern detective novels.
Collins specialized in constructing clever, detailed plots, and he always checked his facts meticulously*.
THE MOONSTONE
The Moonstone is a beautiful, priceless diamond, which was originally stolen from a religious temple in India,
and brought to England. Its Indian guardians have followed it and are intent on taking it back. It is now in the
possession of an English family, and is soon to be given to Miss Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday.
The Verinders live in a large country house, and their old butler, Gabriel, is telling the story. His daughter,
Penelope, also a servant in the house, has recently seen some Indian jugglers* in the village, performing
tricks with a bottle of ink. Gabriel wants to make sure that no thieves enter the house.
Towards midnight I went round the house to lock up, accompanied by my second in command
(Samuel, the footman), as usual. When all the doors were made fast, except the side door that opened on
the terrace, I sent Samuel to bed and stepped out for a breath of fresh air before I too went to bed in my
turn.
The night was still and close, and the moon was at the full in the heavens. It was so silent out of
doors that I heard from time to time, very faint and low, the fall of the sea, as the ground-swell heaved it
in on the sand-bank near the mouth of our little bay. As the house stood, the terrace side was the dark
side, but the broad moonlight showed fair on the gravel* walk that ran along the next side to the terrace.
Looking this way, after looking up at the sky, I saw the shadow of a person in the moonlight thrown
forward from behind the corner of the house.
Being old and sly, I forbore to call out but being also, unfortunately, old and heavy, my feet
betrayed me on the gravel. Before I could steal suddenly round the corner, as I had proposed, I heard
lighter feet than mine and more than one pair of them as I thought retreating in a hurry. By the time I
had got to the corner, the trespassers, whoever they were, had run into the shrubbery at the off side of the
walk, and were hidden from sight among the thick trees and bushes in that part of the grounds. From the
shrubbery, they could easily make their way, over our fence, into the road. If I had been forty years
younger, I might have had a chance of catching them before they got clear of our premises. As it was, I
went back to set a-going a younger pair of legs than mine. Without disturbing anybody, Samuel and I got
a couple of guns, and went all round the house and through the shrubbery. Having made sure that no
persons were lurking about anywhere in our grounds, we turned back. Passing over the walk where I had
seen the shadow, I now noticed, for the first time, a little bright object lying on the clean gravel under the
light of the moon. Picking the object up, I discovered it was a small bottle, containing a thick sweet-
smelling liquor, as black as ink.
I said nothing to Samuel. But, remembering what Penelope had told me about the juggler, and the
pouring of the little pool of ink into the palm of the boys hand, I instantly suspected that I had disturbed
the three Indians, lurking about the house, and bent, in their heathenish way, on discovering the
whereabouts of the Diamond that night.
Glossary: meticulously precisely, carefully; juggler magician, performer; gravel - small stones.
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Task 1. Choose the right ending. Tick [!] one of the boxes to show your choice.
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1. Young Wilkie Collins work was connected with
A painting. "
B tea import. "
C law. "
2. Wilkie Collins is best known for his
A short stories. "
B magazine articles. "
C detective novels. "
3. Collins plots focused on
A detail. "
B main facts. "
C detectives personalities. "
4. At the moment of narration the valuable diamond was
A in India. "
B in England. "
C on the way to England. "
5. After locking the doors the person telling the story (the narrator) decided to
A go to bed. "
B to stay out. "
C to have a swim. "
6. The narrator was
A heavy. "
B slim. "
C light. "
7. The narrator was
A young. "
B middle aged. "
C old. "
8. Samuel was
A older than the narrator. "
B younger than the narrator. "
C of the same age as the narrator. "
9. The three Indians ran away because
A they heard the narrators steps. "
B they saw the narrator. "
C they sensed the narrator breathing. "
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Task 2. Read the statements and tick the box [!] to show which statements are true (T) and which are
false (F).
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The night was very dark.
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The figure outside could be seen in the light coming from the window.
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The narrator intended to rob the house and escape round the corner.
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The trespassers hid in the bushes.
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The narrator asked for a younger servants help.
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The passage implies that the main purpose of the Indians was to fool people
with their tricks.
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Read the text and complete its summary below.
SOLAR CONSTANT
Even the most sceptical of scientists now accepts the fact that the earth is heating up. The polar
ice caps are melting, and floods and droughts are becoming increasingly common. But what causes
this global warming?
While there are many theories, over the past 20 years astronomers have made a rather
astonishing discovery about the sun.
Professor Mike Lockwood from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England explains: The
brightness of the sun does actually change. For a long time we thought it didnt. We called the
brightness of the sun the solar constant. We were so sure that the sun didnt change.
Professor Lockwood continues by explaining that the sun can have a significant effect on our
planet, depending on how many sunspots or darker areas are on its surface. At sunspot maximum,
when there are more spots on the sun, it is actually brighter than at sunspot minimum by a very
small amount about a tenth of one percent, however earths climate systems are so sensitive to the
power output of the sun that this is a significant change.
Task 3. Fill in the gaps (1 6) in the summary with the proper words that suit the content of the text. The words
should not necessarily be taken from the text. Use one or two words only.
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Summary
The changes in the brightness of the sun, which was thought to be (1) ,
can affect the earths (2) and
lead to (3) . This effect depends on the number of (4)
on the surface of the sun. Even though they look like
darker areas, the sun is brighter when their number is (5) .
The researchers have come to this conclusion after (6) years of
investigations.
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Task 4. Four sentences have been removed from the article. From the sentences (A- E) below choose the one which
fits the appropriate gap. Write the letter of the sentence next to the number (1 4) of the gap. There is one extra
sentence.
4 points (1 point per item)
SCHOOLS OUT
You dont need to go near the campus* to get top grades
Learning by video conferences can be just as effective as attending classes. Researchers in
Californias Silicon Valley have compared the exam performance of students who met face-to-face with
others who interacted only by video conference.
There were no differences between the two groups final grades.
A growing number of universities offer courses to students who live too far away to attend
classes on campus. (1)
But this distributed learning has raised concerns that students miss out on the benefits* of classroom
discussion. James Gibbons of SERA Learning Technologies in Palo Alto and Bert Sutherland of Sun
Microsystems in Mountain View now say that video conferencing provides a solution.
Before he founded SERA, Gibbons pioneered a teaching method known as tutored video
instruction (TVI) at Stanford university. (2)
Their tutor stops the tape frequently and encourages discussion among the students, who may also
interrupt the tape with questions. Research has shown that TVI students outscore those who attend the
lecture and study on their own.
Gibbons, Sutherland and their colleagues have devised a video conference version of TVI. Each
participant can see the face of everyone else involved on a monitor divided into three rows of three. The
recorded lecture, which the tutor controls, appears in the bottom right window. We wanted it to be as
much like a real TVI session as possible, says Rob Pannoni of SERA, who worked on the project.
Some 900 undergraduates taking five different courses at two Californian universities took part
in a trial of the system. Half attended the lectures, while the other half took part in TVI sessions or their
video conference equivalent. (3)
A number of universities have already expressed interest in the video conference system,
perhaps using cable or satellite television connections. But that would require each student to join the
conference from a small studio dedicated to the purpose. For the system to take off*, it will probably
have to work over the Net. The problem is that Internet connections cant handle the volume of data
needed for nine simultaneous video channels. The Internet is not now capable of doing what we did,
Gibbons says.
(4) Then
anyone with a computer and a digital camera could take part from home. This is a plausible* way in the
near future to pick up a class, says Randy Smith, a researcher at Sun Microsystems. You could go home
in the evening and attend class over the Internet.
Glossary: campus grounds and buildings of a university or college; benefit - advantage, profit, gain;
to take off to become suddenly very successful and popular; plausible seeming to be right or reasonable;
believable.
A But the researchers are confident that these problems can be solved.
B In TVI, several students watch a videotape of a lecture together.
C Students of Californian universities initiated a project to solve the problem.
D Videotaped lectures are broadcast or mailed, and students can take tests over the Internet.
E While the average grade of the lecture students was 2.8 out of a possible 4, the TVI and the video
conference students both averaged 3.1.
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READING PAPER:Total
USE OF ENGLISH PAPER
Time: 30 min. Points: 50:2=25
Task 1. Read the passage and tick [!] the word which will make the sentence grammatically correct.
Mind the meaning of the whole text. The first has been done for you as an example.
10 points (1 point per item)
DISCOVER THE SCOTTISH BORDERS
The ideal holiday is waiting to be discovered. The A7 runs through the heart of Midlothians
varied and interesting countryside. 0 you drive you will pass by historic castles, grand
country houses and fascinating churches. The road you 1 will lead you in the footsteps of
Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scot who 2 explored this rich, historic landscape.
The route will lead you through thick forest along the 3 of the River Esk.
4 the Scottish Borders and Scotlands capital the A7 passes through Midlothian, an
area that has been at the heart of Scotlands history and culture 5 the centuries.
6 this is lost on those who speed through, their eyes fixed on the big cities.
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Tourist information centres are staffed by local people who 7 the area well and will be
able to answer all your questions where to visit, what to 8 , how to 9 your chosen
place and where to 10 .
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Task 2. Read the passage. Fill in the blanks with the grammatically correct form of the
word in bold according to the meaning of the whole text. Mind the word order. The first
has been done for you as an example (0).
Points: 30 (1 point per item)
LUCY MAUD OF GREEN GABLES
Writer Lucy Maud Montgomery is famous for her novels, stories, semi-
(0. autobiograpy) autobiographical novels, serials for a Sunday-school paper.
Her first book Anne of Green Gables was enough (1. bring)
______________ Lucy Maud international fame. For more than 80 years this
heroine (2. run)__________________ away with the hearts of young girls the
world over. Her (3. glory)___________________ adolescent life and courageous
adventures around the farmstead in Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, have
made her the best-loved character ever (4. create) _______________________
by a (5. Canada)________________________ author. Those adventures have
been translated into 60 languages. Three Hollywood films (6. take up)
_________________ her story. The musical Anne of Green Gables (7. also
create)__________________________ .
Anne might (8. lose easily)______________________ in a cupboard in a
modest (9. wood)____________________ house in Cavendish, Prince Edward
Island. But one autumn afternoon in 1906, while she
(10. look)_____________________ through the things in her hatbox, Lucy Maud
found a manuscript that she (11. write)_______________________ two winters
previously. After five publishers had rejected it, she had hidden it away.
Anne of Green Gables tells of a determined and (12. imagine)
____________________ orphan who finds a home and happiness on a farm with
a kind woman and her brother. She arrives from an orphanage
(13. expect)_____________________ nothing. When she sees Green Gables she
(14. tell)___________________ herself that this is the place where she would
like to spend her (15. live)____________________.
As Lucy Maud read her manuscript she (16. move)________________ to
both tears and (17. laugh)__________________. Anne, she decided, deserved
another chance. So she (18. send)_________________ her story off to a sixth
publisher, who (19. accept) _________________ Anne and asked Lucy Maud for
more.
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in the Prince Edward Island town of
Clinton on November 30, 1874. When she was two, her mother (20. die)
____________ and her father left to seek a new life. Lucy spent her childhood at
the Cavendish home of her grandparents, Alexander Macneill, a
(21. farm)__________________, and his wife Lucy. She attended university,
later worked as a teacher and a reporter.
When her grandfather died in 1898, she returned to Cavendish to look
after her grandmother. I wish I (22. be)__________ not so lonely here on the
old farm but I found here an ideal place for Anne to live, Lucy Maud wrote
later. Cavendish people recognized Lucy Mauds characters as people who
lived in the (23. neighbour)______________________.
Her plots seemed (24. base)_____________________ on truth; since her
(25. ten)_____________________ birthday
she (26. take)_____________________ notes on ideas and happenings which,
she thought, she might use one day for fiction. Lucy Maud, it is said, created a
character whom she knew and loved. Others said that she created her Anne to
speak to the world of her own childhood (27. lonely)____________________. I
had in my (28. imagine)______________________, she once said, a passport to
fairyland. (29. Fortune)_________________________,
she (30. be able)________________ to take millions of readers on that journey.
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Task 3. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. The lines have a word missing. Use a stroke
(/) to show where a word has been left out and write the missing word next to the number on the right.
Use each word from the bank only once.
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and from has is other presented the you which with
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The White House
The first room that enter on the State
Floor is the East Room, is the largest
in the White House. It used for receptions,
ceremonies, and events.
It been the scene of several weddings.
Glass chandeliers that date 1902 hang
from ceiling. The concert grand piano,
decorated folk dancing scenes,
was by the Steinway company in
1938 is used here or in the Cross Hall.
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USE OF ENGLISH PAPER: Total
WRITING PAPER
Time: 90 min. Points: 25
You have 90 minutes to do Task 1 and Task 2.
Task 1
You have to write a paragraph of about 100130 words. Use one of the two suggested sentences (A or B)
as the first (topic) sentence of your paragraph.
A People keep pets for different reasons.
B It is truly important to learn languages.
Rough Draft of the Paragraph
Final Copy of the Paragraph
Task 2
You have to write a letter. Choose one of the two suggested tasks (A or B).
A
You have come across the following advertisement in Lietuvos rytas:
5,000 JOBS
ON CRUISE SHIPS
Owned by prestigious cruise lines!!
Positions available:
Administrative Staff/
Pool Attendants/Bellboys/
Shop Staff/Hostesses/
Dining Room Staff/
Cleaners/GP-Repairmen/
Room Stewards/Seamen/
Cruise Staff/Electricians/Receptionists/
and many other positions!
Excellent Salaries!
(US$ 15,000 US$ 45,000/ annually)
Many new job vacancies on board cruise ships in the
Caribbean for qualified individuals between 18-40 years
old. Inexperienced applicants may also apply for trainee
positions. Round trip air-fare, free accommodation and free
on-the-job training provided.
SEA CRUISE ENTERPRISES O.V.V.
1930 Yonge Street Suite 1020 Toronto, Ontario CANADA M4S 1Z4
Write a letter of between 100120 words giving relevant information about yourself and asking about the
marked points. For the sake of fair marking, write under the name of Jonas Petraitis/Jone Petraityte.
Your address is Geliu g. 3-10, Lt-2001 Vilnius.
Rounded Rectangular Callout: How should I apply?Rounded Rectangular Callout: What sort of accommodation?Rounded Rectangular Callout: What level of English is required?Rounded Rectangular Callout: Are there vacancies on ships in other seas?Rounded Rectangular Callout: How physically fit should I be?
B
You are looking for a job and you have come across the following advertisement in Lietuvos rytas:
FIGHT AGAINST HIV / AIDS IN AFRICA!
Total control of the epidemic!
11-month programme.
Immediate starts available.
Involves 4 months
intensive training in Norway.
Scholarships available.
For more information contact:
Annerudwegen 12, 2040 Oslo, Norway
www.oneworldvolunteers.org,
e-mail: oneworld@online.no
You are interested in the programme and would like to obtain the following information:
shall I have to undergo a medical examination
when would I start
what about the accommodations in Norway and later in Africa
in what countries will I have to work
what will the working hours be
Write a letter of between 100-120 words. Use your own relevant personal details. For the sake of fair
marking, write under the name of Jonas Petraitis/Jone Petraityte. Your address is Geliu g. 3-10,
Lt-2001 Vilnius.
Rough Draft of the Letter
Final Copy of the Letter
WRITING PAPER: Total