Контроль аудирования 9 класс

Контрольная работа по иностранному языку (английский)

Контроль аудирования

по теме: Трудности. Преодоление жизненных трудностей.

9 класс

1. Agree or disagree «+», «-».

1 Jim Thorpe was the greatest athlete the United Kingdom has ever had.

2 He was born on June 28, 1888 in Oklahoma.

3 He didn’t have enough money to study full-time.

4 He had to interrupt his education only once as he had to earn his living.

5 The director of athletics at Carlisle, who began to train Jim, was John Warner.

6 Jim Thorpe became the best American coach.

1. Choose the correct answer.

1. Jim went to a public school…

1. for black people

2. for Indians

3. for poor people

1. Warner began to train Thorpe for…

1. handball and track

2. football and track

3. football, track and volleyball

1. In 1912 the Olympic Games were held in…

1. Sydney

2. Strasbourg

3. Stockholm

1. Thorpe competed at one meeting of the Olympic games in both pentathlon and decathlon and won…

1. the gold medals

2. the silver medal

3. the silver medal and the gold one

1. Thorpe had earned 25 $ a month playing … during two summer vacations some years before he won his medals.

1. football

2. baseball

3. basketball

1. Thorpe decided to give up amateur athletics because…

1. he wanted to become a professional football player

2. one of the reporters discovered that he hadn’t been an amateur athlete taking part in the Olympic Games

3. he wanted to become a basketball instructor

1. Fill in the gaps

1. Jim Thorpe perhaps the greatest athlete the United States…

2. James Francis Thorpe was born on May 28, 1888 in…

3. The director of athletics at Carlisle was Glenn Warner…

4. In 1912 the Olympic Games were held in…

5. Thorpe decided to give up amateur athletics, he became a professional…

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JIM THORPE

Jim Thorpe was perhaps the greatest athlete the United States has ever had.

James Francis Thorpe was born on May 28, 1888 in Oklahoma.

First he went to a public school for Indians near his home. In 1904 he entered the Carlisle Indian School. He did not have enough money to study full-time and had to interrupt his education several times as he had to earn his living.

The director of athletics at Carlisle was Glenn Warner, a famous athletic coach. Warner began to train Thorpe for football and track. Jim became the best American football player. He also competed in baseball, basketball, tennis and swimming.

In 1912 the Olympic Games were held in Stockholm. Never before in the history of the Modern Olympics had one man competed in both pentathlon and decathlon at one meeting of the Olympic Games. Thorpe did this and he won two gold medals.

According to the rules only amateur athletes can take part in the Olympic Games. One of the reporters discovered that Thorpe had earned 25 dollars a month playing baseball during two summer vacations some years before. He was not therefore an amateur athlete and he had to return his gold medals. The men who came second in the pentathlon and decathlon refused to take them saying they really belonged to Thorpe.

Thorpe decided to give up amateur athletics. He became a professional baseball and football player. He continued to play professional football and baseball until 1929.

Since 1929 Thorpe had odd jobs: he worked as a laborer in California, sometimes he played the part of an Indian in movies about the old West.

On March 28, 1953 Thorpe died in the town of Lomita, California, a poor lonely man not quite 65 years old.