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Английский язык. Практикум по культуре речевого общения (дополнитеьный курс)

Вопрос id:1367438
Выберите правильный ответ. After looking around in St. Paul's Cathedral, you can climb 263 steps to ___, above the library, which runs round the dome.
?) the Whisper Gallery
?) the Silent Gallery
?) the Whispering Gallery
?) the Sleeping Gallery
Вопрос id:1367439
Выберите правильный ответ. Art, culture and literature flowered during the reign of ___; it was the period of English domination of the oceans.
?) Elizabeth I
?) Edward II
?) Henry III
?) Elizabeth II
Вопрос id:1367440
Выберите правильный ответ. Basil Blackwell commissioned belles-lettres including a complete version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and well-known ___such as the Pilgrim's Progress and the works of the Brontes.
?) classic’s
?) classics
?) classic
?) classics’
Вопрос id:1367441
Выберите правильный ответ. Because so many major news and media companies as well as publishing giants have their head­quarters in ___, it has also been an important center for photo-journalists.
?) the Broadway
?) Washington
?) Chicago
?) New York City
Вопрос id:1367442
Выберите правильный ответ. Blackwell's pioneered a series of cheaper books, for example, (a) ___.
?) one-volume’s Shakespeare
?) two-volumes Shakespeare
?) two-volume Shakespeare’s
?) one-volume Shakespeare
Вопрос id:1367443
Выберите правильный ответ. Built to impress and dominate the people of London, ___ has been a severe symbol of power throughout its 900-year history.
?) the Houses of Parliament
?) the Tower of London
?) the British Museum
?) Westminster Abbey
Вопрос id:1367444
Выберите правильный ответ. But at a time when other nations are forced ___ on government spending for the arts, the Americans, with their tradition of private and voluntary funding, have often had less difficulties.
?) to cut in
?) to cut back
?) to cut off
?) to cut away
Вопрос id:1367445
Выберите правильный ответ. By the 1960s, Blackwell's had built an international reputation ___ bookselling excellence with links to academic institutions and libraries around the globe.
?) at
?) on
?) in
?) for
Вопрос id:1367446
Выберите правильный ответ. Children___ four years old are generally not admitted into Broadway theatres.
?) under
?) at
?) over
?) of
Вопрос id:1367447
Выберите правильный ответ. During the colonial times the aristocracy and rich merchants filled their houses and castles with valuable ___.
?) paintings
?) jewellery
?) tapestry
?) sculptures
Вопрос id:1367448
Выберите правильный ответ. England isn’t world famous for its___.
?) theatre
?) great composers
?) painting
?) literature
Вопрос id:1367449
Выберите правильный ответ. For theatres and opera houses during the period of the Industrial Revolution the theatrical ___ was often most suitable.
?) Gothic style
?) British style
?) Greek style
?) Baroque style
Вопрос id:1367450
Выберите правильный ответ. In 1998, Blackwell's opened its central London ___ in the book-lovers Mecca, Charing Cross Road.
?) company store
?) variety store
?) convenience store
?) flagship store
Вопрос id:1367451
Выберите правильный ответ. In December, as Christmas gets closer, ___ (usually, but not always, with a religious theme) are sung in churches and schools, often at special concerts.
?) limericks
?) folk songs
?) carols
?) pop-songs
Вопрос id:1367452
Выберите правильный ответ. In its long history the Tower hasn’t been ___.
?) a royal residence
?) the Royal Mint
?) a gallery
?) a state prison
Вопрос id:1367453
Выберите правильный ответ. It is ___ skyline in the USA that is for many people the symbol the modern big city.
?) the Manhattan
?) the Broadway
?) the 5th Avenue
?) the City
Вопрос id:1367454
Выберите правильный ответ. Madame Tussaud's figures were extremely realistic, and their costumes could be characterized by great ___.
?) improvement
?) perfection
?) elegance
?) accuracy
Вопрос id:1367455
Выберите правильный ответ. Many Broadway theatres offer seating in an additional level above the mezzanine called ___.
?) the stalls
?) the box
?) the balcony
?) the pit
Вопрос id:1367456
Выберите правильный ответ. Many famous writers had ___ at Blackwell's.
?) cut their teeth
?) cut their fingers
?) cut their hair
?) cut their nails
Вопрос id:1367457
Выберите правильный ответ. Many private art collections in historic family mansions, including those owned by ___, are open to the public.
?) the National Wealth
?) the National Treasury
?) the National Trust
?) the National Unit
Вопрос id:1367458
Выберите правильный ответ. Many ___ consider the center part of the orchestra, or ground-floor level, the best seats.
?) theatreadmires
?) theatrefans
?) theatrewalkers
?) theatergoers
Вопрос id:1367459
Выберите правильный ответ. Met’s annual budget of around $100 million, and the 95 percent is ___ by individual contributions, ticket sales, and so on.
?) made for
?) made out
?) made up
?) made in
Вопрос id:1367460
Выберите правильный ответ. Most shows___between 90 minutes and slightly under three hours.
?) run
?) walk
?) go
?) jog
Вопрос id:1367461
Выберите правильный ответ. Nationwide radio and television shows, new movies, and filmed versions of books have often helped to create spectacular ___.
?) hook sales
?) clearance sales
?) jumble sales
?) rummage sales
Вопрос id:1367462
Выберите правильный ответ. New York City's art offerings are so many and varied that authors of guidebooks ___.
?) often don’t mention them
?) often give up and list numbers
?) always give the full alphabetical list
?) often don’t know their numbers
Вопрос id:1367463
Выберите правильный ответ. New Yorkers ___ that their city is the financial, business, as well as news and communications center of the world.
?) take for sure
?) take for granted
?) take for all in all
?) take for a ride
Вопрос id:1367464
Выберите правильный ответ. Only a few shows ___- on Monday, and Sunday evening performances are rare.
?) play
?) perform
?) stage
?) act
Вопрос id:1367465
Выберите правильный ответ. Photography (with or without flash) and recording devices of any kind are prohibited ___law in Broadway theatres.
?) according
?) on
?) by
?) to
Вопрос id:1367466
Выберите правильный ответ. Several important movements spread from ___ into international art, are Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting, Pop-art, Minimal art, and Photorealism.
?) Paris
?) Chicago
?) London
?) New York
Вопрос id:1367467
Выберите правильный ответ. The argument, the so-called ___, was that republican America - the new democracy of the common man, that "mob of mixed races" - could not possibly support the finer things in life.
?) ludicrous position
?) embarrassing position
?) official position
?) aristocratic position
Вопрос id:1367468
Выберите правильный ответ. The best-known buildings designed by Christopher Wren are ___.
?) the Sheldonion Theatre and the Buckingham Palace in London
?) Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral in London
?) St. Paul's Cathedral in London and Lincoln Memorial in Washington
?) St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the Sheldonion Theatre in Oxford
Вопрос id:1367469
Выберите правильный ответ. The British Museum includes also the British Library, which is the national library of the United Kingdom and ranks among the greatest libraries in ___.
?) the USA
?) Europe
?) Britain
?) the world
Вопрос id:1367470
Выберите правильный ответ. The British seem to be the most sensitive to the ___ of their former colonies.
?) moral influence
?) strong influence
?) unwholesome influence
?) weak influence
Вопрос id:1367471
Выберите правильный ответ. The center of theatrical activity in Britain is ___.
?) Broadway
?) East End
?) West End
?) the City
Вопрос id:1367472
Выберите правильный ответ. The Chicago Sym­phony, in fact, ___ strike in the 1980s to dramatize their demands for better pay.
?) started on
?) walked on
?) went on
?) matched on
Вопрос id:1367473
Выберите правильный ответ. The elitist argument obviously ___ the artist in society with his patron.
?) clarifies
?) reassures
?) confuses
?) encourages
Вопрос id:1367474
Выберите правильный ответ. The empire, which was very powerful under ___, saw a cultural and artistic heyday as a result of industrialization and the expansion of international trade.
?) Queen Victoria
?) Henry VIII
?) Elizabeth I
?) James I
Вопрос id:1367475
Выберите правильный ответ. The European scholar of the arts George Steiner has described this present stage of American cultural life as a (an) ___.
?) "Eliz­abethan phase"
?) "Thatcher’s phase"
?) "Victorian phase"
?) "Blair’s phase"
Вопрос id:1367476
Выберите правильный ответ. The fame attached to American modern dance does not___ government back­ing and money.
?) depend upon
?) depend in
?) depend at
?) depend up
Вопрос id:1367477
Выберите правильный ответ. The first American to be honored by a Nobel Prize in literature was ___, in 1930.
?) Eugene O'Neill
?) Sin­clair Lewis
?) John Steinbeck
?) Ernest Hemingway
Вопрос id:1367478
Выберите правильный ответ. The great music of the past in other countries has always been built on ___.
?) rock-music
?) pop-music
?) folk-music
?) classical music
Вопрос id:1367479
Выберите правильный ответ. The Magna Charta is kept in ___.
?) the British Museum
?) the Science Museum
?) the National Gallery
?) the Tate Gallery
Вопрос id:1367480
Выберите правильный ответ. The Promenade concerts take place every night for about three months in the ___, and the programmes include new and contemporary works, as well as classics.
?) spring
?) summer
?) autumn
?) winter
Вопрос id:1367481
Выберите правильный ответ. The spread of musical interest in Britain owes much to the ___ with its daily music programme and its partial financing of the Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.
?) CBS
?) BBC
?) CNN
?) NBC
Вопрос id:1367482
Выберите правильный ответ. The Tower of London was founded by ___ in 1066 on the north bank of the Thames, from which he could govern and control the capital of his new kingdom.
?) Alfred the Great
?) Henry II
?) William the Conqueror
?) Edward the Confessor
Вопрос id:1367483
Выберите правильный ответ. The University of Wisconsin at Madison offers around 300 musical ___ each year in the community.
?) plays
?) concerts
?) recitals
?) evenings
Вопрос id:1367484
Выберите правильный ответ. The ___promotes knowledge of British culture and literature overseas and encourages professional interchange in all cultural fields between Britain and other countries.
?) British Council
?) British Broadcasting Corporation
?) British Fund
?) British Corporation
Вопрос id:1367485
Выберите правильный ответ. The ___ of Gershwin and Bernstein has become a standard part of most orchestras’ repertoires.
?) soul - music
?) classical music
?) pop - music
?) rock - music
Вопрос id:1367486
Выберите правильный ответ. There are thousands of Americans who prefer the music and ___ of musicals.
?) libretto
?) words
?) texts
?) lyrics
Вопрос id:1367487
Выберите правильный ответ. There is___, in its range comparable only with the British Museum and the Louvre.
?) the National Museum of Design
?) the Brooklyn Museum
?) the Museum of Modern Art
?) the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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