Игорь Евтишенков – 21—30-й тесты. Английский язык. ЕГЭ. На базе материалов ФИПИ (страница 7)
Noorthoek slid the forks under the Buick’s back bumper and then raised the car until its back end was two feet off the ground. After he crawled under the car, he saw that the forklift had bent the exhaust pipe. He gave the pipe a kick to bend it back into shape. «I’m always the first one to preach safety,» he says, thinking back on the one precaution he forgot to take. Noorthoek didn’t place blocks in front of the car’s front tires to keep it from rolling forward off the forks. Which is exactly what it did after he gave the exhaust pipe a couple more kicks.
Jason saw his dad’s feet sticking out from underneath the car. By now, Noorthoek had been trapped for almost an hour, with the crooked exhaust pipe pushing into his chest. Unable to take a full breath, he shivered in the cold and drifted in and out of consciousness. Jamie ran into the house and told her mother to call for help.
Jason knew that his mother and sister couldn’t lift the four-door sedan, but that didn’t stop them from trying. When it didn’t budge, the two started to panic. «Calm down. It’ll be okay,» Jason said softly.
The sixth grader had driven the forklift only once before, and he’d nearly smashed it into a parked car. At 90 pounds, he didn’t have the strength to depress the 10,000-pound vehicle’s brakes. Ever since, he’d been afraid to get back on. But now Jason couldn’t afford to be scared. He climbed on and started it up. «Every time he turned the ignition key, it pushed the car forward onto me,» his father says. «I kept saying, „Neutral! Neutral!“»
Jason figured out the machine’s complicated gearshift and moved it into neutral as he slid the forks under the car. He pulled a lever, and the Buick started to rise. Finally, the tires were off the ground and Noorthoek could breathe again – for a moment. Like his dad, Jason forgot to put blocks in front of the tires. As the back end of the car rose into the air, the car rolled forward again and crashed back onto Noorthoek.
Desperate now, Jason pulled the forklift’s lever once more. Again, the Buick started to come off the ground, but this time, for whatever reason, the front tires didn’t roll and the car remained suspended in the air.
Minutes later, Township’s fire chief, Mike Rexford, arrived. Noorthoek lay under the car, ashen but breathing. His internal injuries were minor, but, according to Rexford, his situation was perilous. «The outcome’s never been this good,» he now says. «How long could he have lasted like that?»
It wasn’t until his dad was loaded into an ambulance that the magnitude of the night’s events caught up with Jason. «I told him he probably saved his father,» says Rexford. Jason broke down and started to sob.
His father was released from the hospital early the next morning. «I didn’t stop shaking until I got home,» Noorthoek says. Jason says one happy change has come out of the accident: he gets to spend more time with his dad. Jason Sr., who hasn’t touched a car since the Buick fell on him, often spends evenings with Jason playing video games.
12. Jason Noorthoek Jr. had to go outside in the evening because…
1) his mother made him go.
2) his father asked him to help.
3) he was worried about his father.
4) he wanted to save his father’s life.
Ответ:
13. Noorthoek was trapped under the car because…
1) the fuel pump was out of order.
2) the forklift had bent the exhaust pipe
3) the car rolled off the forks.
4) the blocks were too small.
Ответ:
14. Jason was afraid to drive a forklift because…
1) he had never done it before.
2) he was not strong enough to depress the brakes.
3) he didn’t want to hurt his father.
4) he had barely had an accident.
Ответ:
15. Jason’s first attempt was unsuccessful because…
1) he hadn’t moved the machine’s gearshift into neutral.
2) he hadn’t taken the necessary precaution.
3) the back end of the car rose into the air.
4) he pulled a wrong lever.
Ответ:
16. In paragraph 10 «perilous’ means…
1) difficult.
2) unpredictable.
3) dangerous.
4) tricky.
Ответ:
17. After his father’s rescue Jason…
1) couldn’t sleep.
2) broke down the forklift.
3) couldn’t help crying.
4) was very tired.
Ответ:
18. After the accident Jason Sr…
1) works more carefully with cars.
2) wants to sell the Buick.
3) plays board games.
4) spends more time with his son.
Ответ:
Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика
Choosing a Career
19. Jane had always wanted to be a nurse and help people in need. Her father, however, thought that nursing ___________ a suitable profession for her in future.
NOR BE
20. When she left school, she ……………… a job as a doctor’s receptionist.
OFFER
21. Jane ……………… to take the job, so she decided to talk to her friend Ann about what she should do.
NOT WANT
22. When Jane came to Ann’s house, Ann met her in the garden. «Hello, Jane! I _________ some gardening. You look so unhappy! What are you thinking about?»
DO
23. While Jane ……………… her problem, Ann’s mother shouted to the girls to come over.
EXPLAIN