Zadania 1–9 — 60 punktów / 90 minut
Read the text below. Five sentences have been removed. Choose from options A–H the one which best fits each gap. Three options are distractors and do not fit any gap.
When the United States Congress created the country’s first national park in 1872, it declared that the land was being set aside “for the benefit and enjoyment of the people”. That decision marked the birth of the National Park System, and in time it launched a worldwide movement to protect wild places and historic landmarks. From massive glaciers to sun-soaked beaches, the parks offer some of the wildest and most iconic landscapes in America. It is hard to think of a nineteenth-century idea that has proved more popular.
One man who knows the parks better than most is Jonathan Irish, a professional outdoor and adventure photographer. Inspired by the National Park Service, he set himself the task of seeing every national park in the country in the space of 52 weeks. “They are sacred and cherished places – our greatest personal and national treasures,” he says. “It’s a gift to spend a year adventuring and capturing images and stories in some of the most beautiful places on Earth.”
Since his journey, the Park Service has added four more parks to the list. Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, became the 60th national park; it commemorates Thomas Jefferson’s frontier and the expedition of Lewis and Clark. Sand of a very different kind is protected at White Sands in New Mexico: the largest gypsum dune field on Earth, a 275-square-mile basin that glitters white and stays cool to the touch, where people come to drive the eight-mile Dunes Drive, hike one of five trails or watch the sand glow under a full moon. New River Gorge in West Virginia, more than 72,000 acres of wooded hills and deep ravines, was named the newest park of all in 2020. There are now 63.
The four newcomers show how varied the parks have become. Others are as wild as ever: North Cascades, in Washington State, lies less than three hours by car from Seattle or Vancouver, yet it contains more than 300 glaciers and 500 or more lakes and ponds. They belong to everyone, exactly as Congress intended.
Read the text below. For questions 2.1–2.4, decide if each statement is True, False, or if there is No Information given in the text (4 pts). For questions 2.5–2.8, find the word in the text that matches the definition (4 pts).
Ask most people to name a Canadian national park and they will reach for the Rockies. Yet some of the country’s most rewarding parks lie far to the east, in Quebec and Nova Scotia, and two of them – Mont-Tremblant and Cape Breton Highlands – could hardly be more different from each other.
Mont-Tremblant sits in the Laurentian mountains, a couple of hours north-west of Montreal and north-east of Ottawa, which makes it an easy detour for anyone exploring eastern Canada. Its 1,510 square kilometres are celebrated for six rivers, 400 streams and lakes, sandy beaches and some 40 species of mammals. Eighteen hiking trails cover more than 82 kilometres between them, there are hundreds of camping spots, and canoeists can choose from a series of river routes – the Méandres de la Diable, from Lac Chat to Mont de la Vache Noire, is ideal if you have half a day to spare. Two of the beaches, at Crémaillère and Lac-Provost, are supervised and serviced in summer.
The park’s most unusual attraction is the Via Ferrata du Diable, on the rock wall of the Vache Noire at the park entrance. It is a one-of-a-kind trail that allows complete newcomers as well as experienced climbers to scale the mountain safely: you are clipped into a steel cable that runs the length of the cliff before tackling a sequence of built-in steps, beams, walkways and bridges high above the Diable River.
Cape Breton Highlands, at the northern end of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, is bordered by the Atlantic to the east and the Gulf of St Lawrence to the west. Its blend of boreal, taiga and Acadian habitats is found nowhere else in Canada. The park is defined by a high plateau with a tundra-like landscape, cut through by deep, forested river canyons that drop down towards the milder lowlands and the shore. The result is a haven for wildlife: moose, grouse and bald eagles on land, minke whales and harbour seals in the water and – for the lucky few – the rare lynx.
One third of the world-famous Cabot Trail winds its way through the park, and intrepid hikers can leave the car behind and follow it on foot through the highlands and along the shoreline, rewarded with sweeping panoramas over canyons, forests and the sea. Add a rich and lively cultural history, and it is easy to see why Cape Breton Highlands is so often described as one of the most beautiful parks in the country.
Neither park has the fame of Banff or Jasper, and neither seems in any hurry to get it. For the traveller who prefers a quiet canoe route or an empty plateau to a crowded viewpoint, that may be exactly the point.
Mont-Tremblant is the national park closest to Montreal.
The Via Ferrata du Diable is meant for experienced climbers only.
Cape Breton Highlands is the only place in Canada where three particular types of habitat exist side by side.
The whole of the Cabot Trail runs through Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
Find the word in the text that matches each definition.
a place that offers safety or peace
to deal with a difficult task or problem
fearless and adventurous; willing to take risks
to watch over people or an activity to make sure that everything is done safely and correctly
Uzupełnij poniższe dialogi (3.1.–3.6.), wybierając spośród podanych możliwości. Zakreśl literę A, B albo C.
X: We’re going up to the lookout at dawn – are you coming?
Y: I’ll take a ______ check this time; I’ve barely slept.
X: Is that generator at the next pitch still running all night?
Y: Every night. It’s been a ______ in my side all week.
X: Can we sneak back to the tents now?
Y: Not yet. I’ll tell you when the ______ is clear.
X: Well, about the cabin fee... it’s a little complicated, you see, because...
Y: Stop beating around the ______ and just tell me how much it is.
X: Do you think Dad will let us keep the raccoon as a pet?
Y: When ______ fly!
X: How did Tom get on at the climbing wall?
Y: Like a ______ out of water – he’d never done anything like it before.
Read the text below. Complete each gap (4.1.–4.10.) with one word to create a coherent and grammatically correct text.
4.1. _______ some of America’s famous mountain parks are in the Rockies. Great Smoky Mountains National Park spans the southern Appalachians, 4.2. _______ Tennessee meets North Carolina, and its 814 square miles place it among the twenty largest parks in the country. Its name 4.3. _______ from the fog that lingers among the forested hills: water and hydrocarbons given off by the trees produce a filmy “smoke”, and it is this, 4.4. _______ than the peaks themselves, that gives the mountains their name.
On the far side of the country, Olympic National Park in Washington State is 4.5. _______ famous for its shoreline as for its peaks. 4.6. _______ than seventy miles of it feature soaring cliffs, sea stacks, sandy beaches and rocky shores, not to 4.7. _______ tide pools teeming with life. And in Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park, with its jewel-like lakes and blue and white glaciers, drew more than 3.5 million people in 2024, many of 4.8. _______ came for the view of the Snake River and the Teton Range 4.9. _______ famous by the photographer Ansel Adams. 4.10. _______ matter how many pictures of it you have seen, the first sight of those bare granite pinnacles is hard to forget.
Complete each sentence with one word. The number of dashes corresponds to the number of missing letters. Some letters are already given.
The view from the top was absolutely _ _ _ g _ _ _ _ – worth every one of the two thousand steps.
No _ _ h _ _ _ _ _ are allowed past the car park; from here on, everyone continues on foot.
Bring a pair of _ _ _ _ c _ _ _ _ _ if you want a close look at the eagles nesting on the far side of the river.
The trail climbs _ _ _ d _ _ _ _ _ for the first mile and then rises steeply to the pass.
If you notice smoke rising from the forest, leave the trail _ _ m _ _ _ _ t _ _ _ and call the rangers.
The wind on the summit was so _ _ e _ _ _ that we could hardly stand up.
We caught only a brief _ _ _ m _ _ _ of the wolf before it vanished into the trees.
Two litres of water per person is not _ _ _ f _ _ _ e _ _ for a full day’s walking in the heat – take at least four.
Read the text. Complete each gap (6.1.–6.8.) with one word by transforming the words given in the box. Two words are extra.
Some of the wildest places in the United States are also the least 6.1. _______. Gates of the Arctic, which lies 6.2. _______ beyond the Arctic Circle in Alaska, is the 6.3. _______ national park in the country: there are no roads, no trails and no campsites, and mobile phones do not work. Planning ahead is essential – anyone who goes in has to be able to get out again without help – and that isolation is exactly what keeps the place as it is. In the north-west of the same state, Kobuk Valley spans a route used by more than half a million caribou on their annual 6.4. _______, while Katmai is famous for its brown bears – some 2,000 of them – which gather in July to catch sockeye salmon at the Brooks Camp waterfall, watched by 6.5. _______ from a safe distance. The bears come for the salmon, and the people come for the bears.
Elsewhere, protection means patient science. In Glacier Bay, the National Park Service has monitored the whale 6.6. _______ since 1985, recording the humpbacks that breach the waters of Icy Strait every summer. 6.7. _______, Pinnacles National Park in California, better known for its dramatic rock formations, its spring wildflowers and its 32 miles of trails through talus caves and shaded creeks, has become a stronghold for large groups of 6.8. _______ condors. And Congaree, in South Carolina, guards the largest intact tract of old-growth bottomland forest in North America, which can be explored by boardwalk or by canoe among the towering trees.
None of this happens by accident. The parks were set up “for the benefit and enjoyment of the people”, and that includes people who have not been born yet. A park is only as safe as the rules that govern it and the people who keep to them – and in Alaska, at least, distance still does most of the work.
6.1. ACCESS → accessible (adjective, -ible: 'the least accessible’)
6.2. ENTIRE → entirely (adverb: 'lies entirely beyond the Arctic Circle’)
6.3. NORTH → northernmost (superlative adjective: 'the northernmost national park’)
6.4. MIGRATE → migration (noun: 'their annual migration’)
6.5. TOUR → tourists (plural agent noun: 'watched by tourists’)
6.6. POPULATE → population (noun: 'the whale population’)
6.7. SIMILAR → Similarly (sentence adverb, capital letter: 'Similarly, Pinnacles ...')
6.8. DANGER → endangered (en- prefix + -ed participle as adjective: 'endangered condors’)
Distractors (not used): DISTANCE, THREAT
Using the word given in CAPITALS, complete each sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the original. Do not change the form of the given word. You may write a maximum of five words, including the word given.
“I’m sorry I left the gate open,” the farmer said.
Key word: APOLOGISED
The farmer ________ the gate open.
We met the ranger by chance near the falls.
Key word: RAN
We ________ near the falls.
I’d like to know how deep the lake is.
Key word: FIND
I’d like to ________ the lake is.
The park’s air quality has improved greatly since the 1990s.
Key word: IMPROVEMENT
There has been ________ the park’s air quality since the 1990s.
You can camp here as long as you take all your rubbish away with you.
Key word: PROVIDED
You can camp here ________ all your rubbish away with you.
I’m sure the bears found the food we left outside.
Key word: MUST
The bears ________ the food we left outside.
It’s a pity I didn’t take a photo of the moose.
Key word: WISH
I ________ a photo of the moose.
People say that the lake never freezes, even in January.
Key word: SAID
The lake ________ freeze, even in January.
Match each park (8.1.–8.6.) to one option (A–H). Two options are extra and match none of the parks.
| Park | Answer |
|---|---|
| Everglades | |
| Redwood | |
| Mammoth Cave | |
| Waterton Lakes | |
| Gaspésie | |
| Yoho |
| Park | Answer |
|---|---|
| Everglades | E |
| Redwood | H |
| Mammoth Cave | B |
| Waterton Lakes | G |
| Gaspésie | A |
| Yoho | D |
Rozwiąż zadania (9.1.–9.5.), udzielając odpowiedzi w języku angielskim. Wymagana jest pełna poprawność merytoryczna i językowa odpowiedzi.
Which scenic road, 227 km long and rated one of the best drives in the world, links the town of Jasper with Lake Louise – and after which icefield is it named?
In which year was the National Park Service, the agency that looks after all the national parks of the United States, created?
In which Californian national park can you see a 'moonbow’ – a rainbow formed at night by the light of a full moon – in the spray of its famous waterfall?
Which national park in the state of Maine is the place where the sun rises first in the United States?
Which national park in the Yukon Territory is home to Canada’s highest mountain and to the largest icefields in the country?