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тест по английскому языку (8 класс) по теме

                                                                         Test

                                                                   (English – 8)                                                                 I четверть

1. Make all the changes and additions necessary to create sentences from the following sets of words and phrases.  Be careful with grammar tenses (the past continuous and the past simple).

Example: The children / play / tennis / for two hours / yesterday. — The children played tennis for two hours yesterday.

1. The little girl / cry / the whole evening / yesterday.

2. It / snow / all day long / yesterday.

3. What / you / do / at  4 p.m. / yesterday?

4. He / look / at the sky / when / the boy / touch / him.

5. The old lady / watch TV / when / the telephone / ring.

6. Where / you / stand / when / you / hear / this terrible sound?

2. Complete the sentences. Be careful with grammar tenses (the past perfect and the past simple).

Example: The girl... never (hear) his name before the concert. — The girl had never heard his name before the concert.

1. The terrible hurricane ... (destroy) all the houses by that time.

2. The pilot ... (finish) his flight by  3 p.m. yesterday.

3. When the professor ... (come) the students ... already ... (collect) their thoughts.

4. She ... already ... (read) the article when I ... (phone) her.

5.   ... (find) already you the documents when they ... (come)?

6. What ... (see) Steve ... before he ... (change) his mind?

3. Choose the correct answer.  Underline it.

1. He ... troubled yesterday.

     a) looked     b) is looking       c) had looked

2. They ... football from 2 p.m. till 5 p.m. yesterday.

     a) played     b) were playing    c) had played

3.  He ... his work by that time.

     a) finished   b) was finishing    c) had finished

4. What ... you ... at 7 p.m. yesterday?

      a) did ... do     b) were ... doing    c) had ... done

5. Where ... you ... your summer holidays?

      a) did ... spend   b) were ... spending     c) had ... spent

6. How many countries ... they ... by that time?

      a)did ... visit   b) were visiting    c) had visited

4. Read an article about Antarctica. For questions 1 -3, choose an answer (A, B, C, or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

                                                                 What is Antarctica?

   Antarctica is a continent that is right at the southern tip of the planet. If you try to find it on a globe, you will see that it is at the bottom.

    It takes up one-tenth of the Earth’s surface and is covered with a blanket of ice that can be 1500 thick metres. The South Pole is right in the mid die of Antarctica.

   Antarctica is the coldest continent, as well as the driest, the highest and the windiest. Very few people live there all year round. Scientists stay there for short periods, living in specially built research stations.

    Summer in Antarctica is between October and March. During this time there is non-stop daylight. In winter, April to September, the opposite happens and Antarctica is dropped into six months of constant darkness.

    In Antarctica it is colder than you can possibly imagine, even in the summer! The South Pole is the coldest part of Antarctica. The average temperature for January, the middle of the summer, is minus 28 degrees Celsius (-28 °C).

    In winter, April to September, the average temperature at the South Pole can be as cold as -89 °C. When it is that cold, a mug of boiling water thrown in the air would freeze before it hit the ice. Sometimes the scientists have to use fridges to keep their samples* warm.

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*samples — образцы

1. Antarctica is the coldest place on the Earth.  What other records does it hold?

A. driest and cloudiest

B. wettest and windiest

C. windiest and driest

D. cloudiest and highest

2. Why do most people who visit Antarctica choose not to go there between April and September?

A. because it is summer in Antarctica

B. because there is non-stop daylight during this time

C. because it is a period of constant darkness

D. because it is too dry and sunny

3. Why do the scientists have to use fridges to keep their samples warm?

A. because it is too hot outside

B. because of wild animals

C. because of constant darkness

D. because it is too cold outside

                                     Test

                              (8 form. U-3)

1) Listen to the list of some means of communication. Match them with their definitions:

“A” Television (satellite / cable)                “1” a paper printed and sold usually

                                                                               daily or weekly with news,      

                                                                               advertisements etc.  

“B” Newspaper (daily / weekly)                “2” the process of sending and      

                                                                               receiving  messages through the

                                                                               air; broadcasting programmes for

                                                                               people to listen to.

“C” Tabloid                                               “3” broadcasting programmes

                                                                               (the news, plays, advertisements,

                                                                                shows, etc.) for people to watch

                                                                                on their television sets.

“D” The Internet                                        “4” a newspaper with rather small

                                                                               pages, many pictures and litlle

                                                                               serious news.

 “E” Radio                                                   “5” a way communicate with your

                                                                                partner who might be a thousand

                                                                                miles away using the computer

                                                                                (by e-mail).

2) Read the text and answer the questions: What day was celebrated by G. Harris and his overseas friends at the turn of the Century?

    Celebrating the New Year with Television

Some of my overseas friends asked how I celebrated the turn of the Century in Los Angeles, Here is how I have done it. Don't be surprised! 1 stayed at home with my family. We had television reports from every major city's celebrations throughout New Year's Eve. We started with Wellington, New Zealand at 4:00 a.m. and moved to Sydney; then Bangkok, Bombay, Moscow (1:00 in the afternoon for us), and on and on to the west.
When we were finished with Rome and Paris and Prague at 3:00 and then London at 4:00, we were ready to quit. But we stayed with television until New York had managed to get to the New Year. It was surprising how many people in Los Angeles watched so many celebrations on television that we had no energy left for our own — 3 hours after New York.
I myself was in bed and asleep at 10:30. As such, it proved to be a terrific way to celebrate die New Year.
1. Whom does G. Harris call "my overseas friends"? Where possibly do they live?
2. Where is the New Year celebrated later-in Kome or in Sydney?
3. Why didn't die people of Los Angeles have any energy to watch their own New Year celebrations on TV?
4. What other holidays can be celebrated in the same way?
5. Is television a vital part of celebrating some holidays? Which holidays are they?
6. How did you celebrate the turn of the century?

3) There are some major cities named in G. Harris’s story. Say what coutries they belong to. Use the Linguistic and Cultural Guide if necessary.

      Example: Rome is the capital of  Italy. Bombay is one the biggest cities in India.

Sydney [‘sidni]                               Prague [pra:g]

Los Angeles [‘lɐs ‘ændзəli:z]         Bangkok [bæŋ’kak]

Wellington [‘weliŋtən]                    Bombay [,bɐm’bei]

Paris [‘pæris]

4) Read and remember.

            to quit doing something

to quit     (прекращать делать что-либо)

                to quit (some place)

                (покидать, удаляться)

                     to manage to do something                    

to manage     (удаваться)

                     to manage something

                      (управлять, ладить)

                  to prove something

to prove     (доказывать)

                  It proved to be...

                   (это оказалось)

Test

(English-8)

1. Answer the following questions. Use the present perfect.

Example: Do you see Linda often? – No, I haven’t seen her for two weeks.

1. Do you listen to music? – No, I … for a long time.
2. Do you still play football? – No, I … for ages.
3. Do you watch TV a lot? – No, I … since Monday.
4. Do you often go out? – No, I … for a long time.
5. Do you go to the disco every weekend? – No, I … for two months.
6. Do you often argue with your elder sister? – No, I … for ages.

2. Put the verbs into the correct form: the past continuous or the past simple.

Example: She … (cook) dinner when the earthquake … (shake) the town. – She was cooking dinner when the earthquake shook the town.

1. The fire … (destroy) most of the buildings while he … (sleep).
2. When they … (travel) around the country they … (see) a tornado.
3. The girl … (shake) with laughter when her mother … (come in).
4. It … (rain) heavily when she …(leave) the house.
5. Where … you … (stand) when you … (hear) a scream?
6. When we … (find) the puppy it … (shake) like a leaf.
7. He … (write) about disasters when I … phone him.

3. Read and translate.

1. I had returned by 10 o’clock yesterday.
2. She had never heard the song before the concert.
3. What had she translated before the film began?
4. He had written three invitation letters when I came.
5. Who had learnt the words by Friday?
6. It had finished snowing by 8 o’clock.
7. By 5 o’clock the rain had stopped and they went to the park.

4. Put the verbs in the past perfect.

1. She … … (go) home by 4 p. m. yesterday.
2. The pupils … … (translate) only one text by the end of the lesson when the teacher collected their tests.
3. The boy … … (change) his T-shirt by that time.
4. When they came, the party … already … (begin).
5. He couldn’t phone her because he … … (forget) her phone number.
6. … you … (receive) the fax message before you left the office?
7. … she … (do) her homework before she went to school?
8. What … Martin … (buy) before he took the bus?

5. Put the verbs in the past simple and past perfect.

PAST SIMPLE – PAST PERFECT:

We use these tenses in one sentence to say that something had already happened before a certain past action.

1. When they … (arrive) at the cinema, the film … (begin) already.
2. When she … (come) to the station, the train … (leave) already.
3. The girl … (do) her homework before she … (go) to the park.
4. Tim … (do) already his work when his mother … (phone) him.
5. We … (be) very pleased to see Alice again.

     We … not (see) her for three years.

6. Mike … (play) polo yesterday, he … (play) never play polo before.