Промежуточная аттестация по английскому языку за курс 8 класса. УМК "Rainbow English"

Промежуточная аттестация по английскому языку. 8 класс.

1. Лексико-грамматический тест

1. Figure skating is a very beautiful (sport/game).

2. The plane (team/crew) were very friendly.

3. It’s a great (advantage/disadvantage) to be short if you play basketball.

4. I don’t like the place. Let’s go (nowhere/somewhere) else.

5. The soup was watery and (tasty/tasteless) and the children didn’t like it.

6. How much is a plane ticket (to/for) London?

7. In the theatre the least expensive (seats/places) are in the gallery.

8. A (documentary/science fiction) is a film about space travels or life in an imaginary future.

9. The main character of the play was a (cruel/thrilling) young man who hated his neighbours.

10. James (learnt/studied) history at the university.

11. Where did you (learn/study) to drive a car?

12. I don’t have any (farther/further) questions.

13. “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” is an interesting (horror/crime) film.

14. I had just finished writing my essay, when Laura (phoned/had phoned).

15. Steven is a very gifted film director. What is the name of his (last/latest) film?

16. December is the (last/latest) month of the year.

17. Susan is three years (older/elder) than her sister.

18. Newton discovered the (law/theory) of gravity.

19. We explained that we (will go/would go) on an excursion soon.

20. The less junk food we eat, the (healthier/healthiest) we become.

21. Mr. Black (closed/had closed) the zoo gates by the time it got dark

22. When I got to the party, it (has already started/had already started) raining.

23. Tim said he (lived/lives) in Scotland.

24. Butter and cheese (were made/are made) from milk.

25. America (discovered/was discovered) in 1492.

2. Чтение

Соедините утверждения с текстами. Одно утверждение лишнее.

A. This person was a famous politician.

B. This person had many great talents.

C. This person is a royal celebrity.

D. This famous person never existed.

E. This person was a no less talented pupil than his teachers.

F. This person’s dream came true.

26. ______ Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician and writer. He was born and raised in Vinci. His mother was a peasant woman (крестьянка), his father was a notary (нотариус). His name is famous primarily thanks to his painted works. Two of his works the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper are regarded as masterpieces all over the world.

27. ______ Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born in 1874 in the family of Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill and an American mother. He was educated in Harrow, one of the most prestigious secondary schools in Britain. He had a very brief career (короткая карьера) in the army and became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. He occupied many high positions in Liberal and Conservative governments during the first decades (десятилетия) of the previous century.

28. ______ Sherlock Holmes, one of the greatest detectives of all times, as we know came from Britain. His address is also well-known to the admirers of this fiction (вымысел, фантастика) genre: number 221 B, Baker Street, London. Letters addressed to him continue to arrive at Baker Street. Many people write to this great detective asking him for help. Sometimes they mention that the police cannot do anything or add such words as “please hurry”. As there is no 221 B Baker Street, the postmen bring letters to number 221. They say they get no less than one letter a week.

29. ______ Isaac Ilyich Levitan. This name is known to all lovers of landscape (пейзаж) paintings. In 1870 he entered Moscow school of painting where his elder brother Avel had already studied for two years. Levitan’s instructors were famous Savrasov, Perov and Polenov. The boy’s success at school was evident (очевидный). In 1880 his painting “Autumn Day. Sokolniki” was bought by Russian collector Pavel Tretyakov.

30. ______ Robert Louis Stevenson is a famous British writer and a great traveller too. From his early days he was filled with a desire (желание) to travel. He wanted love and adventure, and found them both. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. At the age of seventeen he became a student of Edinburgh University. He studied engineering but his heart and thoughts were somewhere else. He wanted to become a writer. In 1883 he published the story of the Treasure Island. The book brought him literary fame and made him an adventure classic.

3. Словообразование.

Дополните предложения словами, образованными от слов, данных в скобках.

Tickets for this 31. (MUSIC) _______________ are not very expensive.

The Japanese spectators like 32. (RUSSIA)_______________ cartoons.

Who is the 33. (DIRECT) _______________ of the 34. (FAME) _______________ children’s film “Cinderella”?

Charles Darwin was a 35. (TALENT) _______________ scientist.

Maria Callas was an opera 36. (SING) _______________.

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