Summative work for 8th form students

Summative work

8^th form , 1^st term

Name __________________________ Date ___________________________

1. Match the two parts of the sentence. ( 2 – 0.4 )

1. At last we were a. to go to London in June. ________________

2. Alan stayed with his cousin b. mustn't she ? ________________

3. She wasn't able c. in the summer holidays. ________________

4. I don't have a computer , d. at the bottom of thestairs. ________________

5. Lisa must solve the problem, e. but my friends do. ________________

2. Fill in the gaps using the words given below. ( 2,5 – 0.5)

reached, according , however, called , believed,

For many years, people ________________ that the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered America . But in fact others had _________________ America before him. Thousands of years ago , Asians crossed the Bering Strait to Alaska and moved through North America on to South America. _______________ to some people travelers from Europe and China also visited America. Irish explorers may have also visited America in the nineth and tenth centuries.

_________________, Christopher Columbus was the first western explorer who visited America . He left Spain on August 3, 1942, and arrived in Bahamas, but he thought that he had arrived in the Indies ( the name then used for Asia ). That is why he ___________________people Indians.

But why was America named so? It was named after another Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, who was a friend of Columbus and who later explored the coastline of the new world.

3 .Choose the correct tense. ( 2,5 – 0.5 )

1. I live / have lived here for five years.

2. How long do you know / have you known Mary?

3. Where have you had / did you have lunch yesterday ?

4. Do you know / are you knowing my friend Alex Carter?

5. '' Would you like a cigarette ?'' ''No, thanks, I don't smoke / I'm not smoking.''

4. Choose the right word : so /such ( 1.5 – 0.5 )

1. They were _____________ happy that they started singing.

2. She was ______________ a beautiful girl that everyone wanted to dance with her.

3. My brother visits me __________ rarely that I always miss him.

5. Choose the correct answers. ( 1.5 – 0.5 )

1. Run out of

a. have no more of something

b. run a long way

c. finish everything

2. Cost a fortune

a. be very cheap

b. be very expensive

c. be very smart

3. Future homes will be intelligent

a. there will be intelligent servants in them

b. developed technology will provide comfort

c. people will control them