Control work for the 8th grade

Put the verbs in brackets in proper forms:

1. In autumn the weather (become)____ worse and worse each day.

2. What (be)____ your brother doing now?- He (be)____ reading.- And what (be)___ you doing? – I (be)___ going to prepare my lessons.

3. Either he or his parents (be)____ to go there.

4. Alec and his sister (be)____ sitting quietly waiting for their mother to come.

5. Bob with his sister (come)____ to see us every evening.

6. I as well as my brother (be)____ going to take English lessons.

7. What he told me yesterday (be)____ very interesting.

8. Neither he nor she (be)____ satisfied.

9. A secretary and a typist (be)____ needed at that office.

10. Never to be late (be)___ a rule for successful career.

Fill in the blanks with necessary prepositions:

1. The commission consisted ___ four members.

2. He did not want to depend ____ his parents.

3. My father insisted ____ my entering the university.

4. Please, listen ____ me!

5. Our discussion resulted ____ my remaining ____ home.

6. I waited ____ him half of an hour.

7. Only think ____ it!

8. The scientist lectures ____ physics.

9. Why don’t you participate ____ our work?

10. He never spoke ____ that subject.

11. Mark always boasts ____ his horse.

12. You don’t work enough ____ your English.

13. The old women were talking ____ low voices.

14. The lightening flashed ___ the horizon like a glittering blade. (вдоль)

15. He reported ____ an hour.

16. We were met ____ our close friends in the railway station.

17. ____ the battlefield the brave girl brought the wounded soldiers.

18. ____ the way home all of them were so happy.

19. She put ____ her mother’s dress.

20. There was a long stone wall ____ the old town.

21. He lived on the flat ____. (наверху)

22. It happened the night ____. (до)

23. They went to the lake ____ the forest. (внизу)

24. Anything wrong ____ you?

25. The night ___ the event we started the journey.(после)

26. The room____ was empty. (наверху)

27. That key was ____ our hotel room. (из, от)

28. The leg ____ the chair was broken.

29. The trees were covered ____ snow that week.

30. The coffee-table was ____ the armchairs.

Put questions to the sentences:

1. I called her attention to our orchard with flowers and vegetables.

2. Boys have generally excellent appetite.

3. Many years had passed since that day in the seashore.

4. I distinctly remember a hot afternoon at school.

5. He entered the large ball-room full of dear guests.

6. She has been looking for her letter in the drawer for five minutes.

7. My friend knows Spanish quite well.

8. The travelers stopped to rest near the river.

9. The swallows had flown to hot countries.

10. The wind was silent at last.