НМТ Англійська — Day 3 (формат реального НМТ-2026)

Task 1 · Matching Headings

5 завдань · matching · рівень B1

Прочитай п'ять абзаців. Підбери до кожного заголовок (A–F). Один заголовок зайвий.

Headings:
A) Move your body briefly
B) Plan tomorrow tonight
C) Skip the snooze button
D) Hydrate before caffeine
E) Avoid the morning scroll
F) Why breakfast still matters

Q1. Most fitness experts agree that you don't need a one-hour workout in the morning. Five minutes of gentle stretching or a short walk around the block can boost your energy more effectively than another half-hour of sleep.

Q2. Resist the temptation to reach for your phone in the first ten minutes after waking. The constant flood of notifications, news, and messages activates stress responses before your brain has even fully come online.

Q3. Your body loses moisture during sleep, and drinking a full glass of water before your first cup of coffee helps your metabolism start the day properly. Many specialists suggest leaving the glass on your bedside table the night before.

Q4. Sleep experts argue that pressing snooze fragments your sleep cycles, leaving you more tired than if you had simply got up at the first alarm. Set the alarm for the latest time you can actually leave the bed — and stick to it.

Q5. Writing down three priorities for the next day before going to sleep dramatically reduces morning decision-making. You start the day knowing exactly what matters, instead of wasting your sharpest hours figuring it out.

Task 2 · Matching People to Statements

6 завдань · matching · рівень B1+

Шість учнів розповідають, як вони готувалися до іспиту з англійської мови. Підбери до кожного учня (Q6–Q11) одне з висловлювань (A–H). Два висловлювання зайві.

Statements:
A) Films with subtitles in the same language helped me.
B) I learned by trying to explain things to someone else.
C) I prepared by reading newspapers in English daily.
D) I had to stop collecting materials and start using one.
E) Keeping a record of my errors helped most.
F) External accountability stopped me from giving up.
G) I made progress by using small bits of free time.
H) Travel abroad gave me the confidence I needed.

Q6. Olha: I never sat down for long sessions. I used the bus rides to and from school to revise vocabulary on my phone. Twenty minutes here, fifteen there — by the end of the month I had covered everything.

Q7. Andriy: Honestly, the most useful thing I did was teaching my younger brother. Explaining grammar rules out loud forced me to really understand them, not just recognise them.

Q8. Yana: I downloaded every prep app and watched dozens of YouTube videos in the first week. Then I realised I was just collecting resources without actually using any of them. Eventually I picked one book and stuck with it.

Q9. Maks: What worked for me was watching films in English with English subtitles. Not Ukrainian subtitles — English. After a month, I noticed I was understanding much more even in everyday conversations.

Q10. Sofia: I joined an online study group. Knowing that other people were waiting for me to show up at seven on Tuesdays kept me from skipping a single session for two months.

Q11. Roman: I tracked my mistakes in a separate notebook. Every time I got something wrong on a practice test, I copied the rule into the notebook. Reviewing that one notebook the night before the exam was more useful than any textbook.

Task 3 · Reading Comprehension

5 завдань · multiple choice · рівень B1+/B2

Прочитай текст і обери правильну відповідь на кожне з п'яти запитань (Q12–Q16).

When Sarah Mitchell was fourteen, she watched a documentary about communities in remote villages who had no access to clean drinking water. The images of children walking for hours to collect murky water from distant rivers stayed with her for weeks. While most of her classmates would have forgotten the film by the following Monday, Sarah began researching what science could do about the problem.

Her first attempts, built in her parents' garage, were almost comically unsuccessful. The early prototypes leaked, broke, or simply refused to filter anything. Her chemistry teacher, Mrs. Patel, became Sarah's unofficial advisor — staying after school twice a week to help her debug each new version. "I never told her she couldn't do it," Mrs. Patel later said in an interview. "But I also never pretended the problems she was working on were small ones."

By the time Sarah turned sixteen, she had produced a filter that could remove 99% of contaminants from river water using only materials that cost less than five dollars to manufacture. Her invention won a regional science fair, then a national one, and eventually attracted the attention of a charity that distributes low-cost water systems across Africa.

Sarah is now twenty-three and runs a non-profit organisation that has installed her filters in over four hundred villages. She remains, by her own admission, more comfortable in a workshop than in a boardroom. When asked what advice she would give to other young people with ambitious ideas, she usually says the same thing: find one teacher who will take you seriously, and work on the problem long enough to fail at least ten times before you start succeeding.

Task 4 · Gapped Text

6 завдань · gap-filling (sentences) · рівень B2

Прочитай текст. Шість речень видалено з тексту. Обери з варіантів (A–G) речення, яке найкраще пасує до кожного пропуску (Q17–Q22). Одне речення зайве.

Sentences:
A) He encourages young people not to wait for permission to dream big.
B) Temperatures dropped to minus fifty at times, and on day forty-two he nearly turned back.
C) Nothing in his childhood seemed to point to such an extraordinary achievement.
D) Even his closest friends thought he was being unrealistic.
E) He also started training with a former Olympic skier on weekends.
F) That single weekend convinced him that wild places were where he belonged.
G) The team had to be airlifted out after three days due to bad weather.

At the age of nineteen, Bohdan Petrov became the youngest person from Ukraine to reach the South Pole on foot. 17 His parents, both schoolteachers, had assumed he would follow them into education.

The first sign of his future passion came at the age of nine, when his grandfather took him hiking in the Carpathian Mountains. 18 Most children his age were focused on football or video games, but Bohdan started saving his pocket money to buy proper hiking boots.

By fifteen, he had completed several long-distance treks in Eastern Europe. 19 The combination, he later said, taught him that the body could endure far more than the mind initially believed possible.

His decision to attempt the Antarctic crossing surprised everyone. 20 Most polar explorers train for a decade before such a journey; Bohdan had only four years of serious experience.

The expedition itself took fifty-seven days. 21 Bohdan refused to give up, partly because of stubbornness and partly because a documentary crew was depending on him to finish.

Today, Bohdan gives talks in schools across Ukraine. 22 He insists that the most important quality for any adventure is not physical strength but the willingness to keep moving when everything inside you wants to stop.

Task 5 · Multiple Choice Cloze

5 завдань · gap-filling with options · рівень B1+

Прочитай текст. Обери для кожного пропуску (Q23–Q27) найкращий варіант з чотирьох запропонованих.

Last weekend, I finally 23 my old apartment after years of putting it off. Going through cupboards I hadn't opened in a decade, I 24 dozens of objects I didn't remember owning. There were birthday cards, broken electronics, and a collection of books that I had clearly meant to read but never 25 around to opening.

What surprised me most was how difficult it was to throw things 26. Each object seemed to carry a memory, and the thought of losing those memories was harder to deal with than I had expected. By the end of the day, I had managed to fill only two bags, 27 my original plan of clearing half the apartment.

Task 6 · Word Formation

5 завдань · gap-filling (word formation) · рівень B1+

У дужках наприкінці речення подано слово в основній формі (CAPS). Обери правильну похідну форму для пропуску (Q28–Q32).