Zadania 1–10 — 40 punktów / 90 minut
Read the text below. For each statement, decide if it is True, False, or if there is No Information in the text.
Only one country on Earth is bigger than Canada, and that country is Russia. Canada covers almost ten million square kilometres — slightly more than its neighbour, the United States — yet fewer than 37 million people live there, while the United States has more than 324 million, nearly nine times as many. Canada is wider than it is tall: it measures 5,500 kilometres from east to west but 4,600 kilometres from north to south. A traveller crossing the country from coast to coast passes through six time zones.
The capital is Ottawa. Canada is a federal parliamentary state with two official languages, English and French, and its own currency, the Canadian dollar. It is divided into ten provinces and three territories; Nunavut is one of the territories.
Water is everywhere. Canada’s lakes and rivers hold about a fifth of all the fresh water on the planet. Across the north of the country stretches the Canadian Shield, a hilly region full of lakes and swamps. Two of its great rivers are the St. Lawrence and the Mackenzie, and its mountain ranges include the Rockies, the Coast Mountains and the Laurentians.
Animals are spread across the country according to the landscape. On the prairies live buffalo and pronghorn antelope. The forests of the north are home to moose and black bears, while the tundra belongs to reindeer and musk ox. Elsewhere you may meet wolves, deer, mountain lions, beavers, bighorn sheep, raccoons, otters and rabbits. To protect all this, Canada has created 41 national parks and three marine conservation areas — far fewer than the nearly 400 areas looked after by the National Park Service in the United States, although Canada’s parks are spread over the larger country.
A journey across Canada from coast to coast passes through more time zones than the country has territories.
Nunavut is the largest of Canada’s three territories.
Moose and black bears live on the tundra alongside reindeer and musk ox.
The United States has more than eight times as many people as Canada.
The St. Lawrence is the longest river in Canada.
Canada has more protected natural areas than the United States.
Read the text below. Four sentences have been removed. Choose from options A–G the one which best fits each gap. Three options are distractors and do not fit any gap.
The United States is a huge country. It covers 9,826,630 square kilometres, is divided into fifty states plus the District of Columbia, and stretches all the way from the tropical beaches of Florida to the snowy peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Its neighbour Canada, at 9,970,610 square kilometres, is larger still, but few countries can match such a range of landscapes. No single park could ever contain such variety, which is why the country has so many of them.
The job of looking after these places belongs to the National Park Service, which maintains nearly four hundred areas across the country. Among the best known are the Grand Canyon and Yosemite Valley. The land itself reaches from a very high point to a very low one. Mount McKinley, which is now officially called Denali, rises to 6,198 metres, more than four times the height of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the United Kingdom. Between the two, the difference in height is more than six kilometres.
Wild animals need room, and protected land gives it to them. Black bears and grizzly bears live in the United States, and in Alaska there are polar bears too. Outside them it can no longer be found at all. The country’s rivers are famous as well: the Mississippi, the Missouri and the Colorado, together with the Great Lakes, are among its best- known natural features.
The people, too, have a link with their wild land. More than 324 million of them live in the United States, a federal republic whose capital is Washington, D.C., and the languages they speak are English and Spanish. That is far more people than Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand have put together. Choosing a wild creature as the emblem of the whole nation says something about how Americans see their country.
Complete each sentence. Choose A, B or C.
One hard winter can ______ out a whole herd of caribou.
We’re not out of the ______ yet — the river is still rising.
The rangers ______ up a fence to keep the bison off the highway.
The weather ______ us down on the last day — it poured all afternoon.
Complete each mini-dialogue. Choose A, B or C.
X: Did you find the trail easily?
Y: No, we went round in ______ for an hour.
X: How did you know a storm was coming?
Y: I could feel it in my ______ — the birds went quiet.
X: Should we book the Yellowstone tour now?
Y: Yes, let’s not leave it to the ______ minute.
X: Was the grizzly bear dangerous?
Y: We kept our ______ open, but it walked away.
Read the text below. Complete each gap (5.1.–5.10.) with one word to create a coherent and grammatically correct text.
The Rocky Mountains stretch 5.1. _______ Canada in the north to New Mexico in the south, a distance 5.2. _______ more than 4,800 kilometres. They form the longest mountain range 5.3. _______ North America.
The Rockies were formed 5.4. _______ 80 and 55 million years ago, when huge plates of the Earth’s crust pushed 5.5. _______ each other. Since then, ice and water 5.6. _______ carved the sharp peaks and deep valleys we see today.
Many national parks lie 5.7. _______ the range, including Banff in Canada and Yellowstone in the United States. 5.8. _______ you visit in winter, you will find some roads closed by snow. Grizzly bears live here, though they are rarely seen, 5.9. _______ they avoid people. Visitors are advised 5.10. _______ to leave food outside their tents.
Complete each sentence with one word. The number of dashes corresponds to the number of missing letters. Some letters are already given.
Canada is the second-largest country in the world, but its population is _ _ l _ _ _ _ _ _ _ small.
Grizzly bears look slow and heavy, but they can _ _ _ u _ _ _ _ run faster than any human.
Never leave food outside your tent, _ _ h _ _ _ _ _ _ it will attract bears.
In winter some lakes freeze so hard that people can _ _ f _ _ _ walk across them.
Most Canadians live _ _ t _ _ _ 200 kilometres of the border with the United States.
Complete the mini-dialogues with the words given in brackets, in the correct form. Both gaps must be right to score the point. Full grammatical and spelling accuracy is required.
X: What (happen) if the buffalo hadn’t been protected?
Y: They (die) out completely.
X: Is Yellowstone still growing?
Y: The park (create) in 1872 and (expand) since then.
X: Did you see any bears?
Y: We (see) one while we (have) lunch.
X: Why is the trail so worn?
Y: It (use) by thousands of walkers every year, so it (need) constant repairs.
X: Would you move to Canada?
Y: If I (be) younger, I (consider) it seriously.
Match three items to each country. Write the correct letter (A–L) in the table. Three options are distractors and do not belong to any of the three countries.
| Country | Item 1 | Item 2 | Item 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United States | |||
| Canada | |||
| Australia |
| Country | Item 1 | Item 2 | Item 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United States | A | B | C |
| Canada | D | E | F |
| Australia | G | H | I |
Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
What is the national bird of the United States?
Which sentence is a false one?
You are planning a school trip to a national park with your class, and a friend from Canada has offered to help you choose one.
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