8 класс
Входное тестирование
Variant 1
I Listening
Listen to the text “Three Black Umbrellas” and finish the following sentences.
At lunch time one day, a week before her mother’s birthday, she decided to have a quick ___________and a cup of __________.
She chose a black ___________ because you can carry that with clothes of any colour.
The next week, Sally heard from her __________.
II Reading
Read the text and do the tasks below.
A Wonderful Discovery
Sarah had a son of ten, who was called Jack. He did not like studying, but loved watching television. Sarah used to drive to school at half past four in the afternoon, bring Jack back home and give him some tea, but as soon as he got home, he always rushed to the television set and turned it on. “Haven’t you got any homework, Jack?” his mother always asked him as she began to make tea.
“Eh? Oh, yes, I have got a little,” he used to answer. “I’ll do it later when there’s nothing interesting on television.”
At first Sarah had allowed Jack to watch television instead of starting his homework first, but soon she discovered that he never had a little homework — it was always a great deal — and that there was never a time when there was nothing interesting on television, so that after putting off doing his homework for a couple of hours, Jack was too tired to do his homework properly, if at all.
Sarah then decided to make him do it first. This was always a battle, and often when Jack obeyed his mother, lie did his work quickly and carelessly as he wanted to finish it quickly and get back to his beloved television.
The result was the same as when he left his homework until last; bad work, which he was punished for the next day at school by getting low marks, either because his homework was full of mistakes, or because he did not know the work he was supposed to have prepared the night before.
One evening Jack’s science homework was about famous inventors like Thomas Edison, who made important discoveries and inventions in the field of electricity. When he had homework that consisted of learning facts, his mother began to test him when he finished, to try to make sure that he had really done the work properly and not left anything out, and this is what she did this time. She did not let him stop until she was sure that he knew what was in his book.
But this time, it was less of a battle than usual to make Jack sit down and go over what he had learnt carefully, because it had strong connection with television.
In class the next day, the teacher said to Jack, “What are some of the things that Thomas Edison did for science?”
“Well,” Jack answered happily, “first of all, if it were not for Edison, we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”
Write down whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
Jack had a lot of homework.
He did not do his homework well because he was not a clever boy.
Jack’s mother made him do his homework.
Jack enjoyed doing his homework about Thomas Edison.
II Use of English
Open the brackets and put the verbs into the proper tense form.
My mother ___________ TV in the evening.(watch)
The story ____________ three days ago. (read)
We ____________________ a nice holiday trip to Wales next year. (have)
A lot of questions _____ usually __________ at the English lesson by us. (ask)
The text ____________ with help of dictionary by students tomorrow. (translate)
8 класс
Входное тестирование
Variant 2
I Listening
Listen to the text “Three Black Umbrellas” and finish the following sentences.
She did not have much _____________.
Half an hour later, she came across a __________ that was selling ___________ cheap, and decided that one of those would solve her problem.
Her letter said, “Thank you very much for your lovely ______________, but why did you send me three black umbrellas?”
II Reading
Read the text and do the tasks below.
Purcell was a small man. He owned a pot shop. He sold cats, dogs, monkeys and birds. Each morning when he completed the routine of opening his shop, he sat down on a high stool behind the counter and read a morning newspaper.
It was a cold rainy day. Mr Purcell was reading a newspaper as usual when a customer appeared in the shop and said that he wanted something in a cage. “Something in a cage?” Mr Purcell was a bit confused. “You mean some sort of pet?”
“I mean what I said!” answered the man. “Something in a cage. Something alive that is in a cage.”
“I see,” said the shopkeeper not sure that he did.
He started to offer different pets, but it seemed that the price was too big for the customer. At last he decided to have two white doves for five dollars. Mr Purcell handed the cage to him.
“Listen,” the man said suddenly. “How long do you think it took me to make those five dollars?”
Mr Purcell was in a state of panic, but he asked, “Why, how long?”
The customer laughed. “Ten years! I’ve spent ten years in jail. Ten years! Fifty cents a year!”
He took his cage and left the shop. Mr Purcell came up to the shop window to look at the customer who was holding the cage and looking at his purchase. Then he opened the cage and took the birds out. Soon they disappeared in the grey sky.
Write down whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
Mr Purcell sold cats, dogs, horses and birds.
Each morning he had a cup of coffee.
The customer rejected all the offers because he could not afford the price.
He said that he had made those five dollars in jail.
II Use of English
Open the brackets and put the verbs into the proper tense form.
The German teenagers ___________ by golden medals yesterday. (award)
Where _______ you _________ holidays next summer? (spend)
A gold medal _________ always _________ by the winners of the International Olympiad. (collect)
__________ this computer game ___________ in four days? (play)
Bob often ______________ in the park in the morning. (run)
8 класс
Входное тестирование
Variant 3
I Listening
Listen to the text “Three Black Umbrellas” and finish the following sentences.
Sally had been studying at an art __________ for a year.
It was going to be her mother’s ______________ soon.
On her way home she felt hungry and went to the ____________ leaving her _____________ behind in the compartment of the train.
II Reading
Read the text and do the tasks below.
This happened more than fifty years ago, in a little American town called Springfield. The newspaper “The Springfield Voice” had a very difficult life. The newspaper hadn’t enough money and could not pay its workers. But it had one difficulty that was even worse. Whenever some interesting news appeared in “The Springfield Voice”, the rest of the newspapers in the town at once published the same news as their own. At last “The Springfield Voice” decided to teach their enemies a lesson.
In the morning, April 1, “The Springfield Voice” published the news that a coffee king whose name was Lirpa Loof had come from abroad and was going to visit Springfield. Of course, this was tremendous news in such a little town. That same afternoon all the other newspapers in the town wrote about Mr Lirpa Loof. One of the newspapers published an interview with the rich businessman, another newspaper told its readers that Mr Lirpa Loof had had a meeting with the businessmen of the town, who were planning to buy coffee from him.
The next day, April 2, “The Springfield Voice” wrote: “Of course, we are proud that the other newspapers believed our story about the rich foreign businessman Lirpa Loof. But they must not forget what the date was yesterday. Read the first, then the second word — Lirpa Loof — from the end to the beginning and you will see why they must not forget that date.”
Write down whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
It happened fifteen years ago in America.
The newspaper had financial problems.
The newspaper wrote about a coffee king who came to Springfield.
Other newspapers published information about him too.
II Use of English
Open the brackets and put the verbs into the proper tense form.
Ice cream _____________ from milk by my grandma last weekend. (make)
Her friends ______________ interesting games after school. (play)
The computers ___________ in the shop next month. (buy)
She __________ ice cream yesterday. (eat)
The homework _____________ every day. (do)
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