Контрольная работа. 8 класс
тест по английскому языку (8 класс) на тему

     Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений соответствуют содержанию текста T (True), какие не соответствуют F  (False).

     Purcell was a small man. He owned a pet 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 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.

1. Mr. Purcell sold cats, dogs, horses and birds.

2) Each morning he had a cup of coffee.

3. The customer rejected all the offers because he could not afford the price.
4. He said that he had made those five dollars in jail.

     Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений соответствуют содержанию текста T (True), какие не соответствуют F  (False).

     One cold winter afternoon, the postman was slowly pushing the bicycle up the hill that led out of the village. He was walking very carefully because there was a lot of ice on the ground. He had only one more letter to deliver: this was for an old lady who lived at the top of the hill. Everyone called her “grandmother”. She had lived alone ever since her daughter had immigrated to Australia many years before. She always used to invite the postman in for a cup of tea.

     Just as the postman approached the gate, a small boy came running down the hill. Suddenly he slipped and fell down. The postman left his bicycle and hurried across the road to help the boy. After a quick examination, he found that the boy had hurt his leg very badly. In fact he thought that the boy’s leg might be broken. He stopped a passing driver and asked him to take the boy to Dr. Stone, who lived in the village. Dr. Stone looked after the boy until they could get an ambulance to take him to hospital.

1. The postman had almost finished his day’s work.
2. “Grandmother’s” daughter was on holidays in Australia.
3. The postman understood that the boy had hurt his leg.
4. Dr. Stone helped the boy.

     Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений соответствуют содержанию текста T (True), какие не соответствуют F  (False).

     One day Mr. and Mrs. Brown went to London to do some shopping. They had a busy day, though in the end and they did not buy very much, and by about four o’clock they were both looking forward to having a cup of tea. They found a restaurant, but just before they went in, Mrs. Brown remember that she had to  buy some medicine for their son who had a bad cough.

     While she was in the chemist’s, her husband noticed a bookshop on the other side of the street. He went across to have a look in the window and saw a copy of a novel which had wanted to buy for a long time. So he went in and bought the book.

     After they had had their cup of tea, they caught the train back to the seaside town where they lived. When they were in their compartment they met their neighbor who noticed the book that Mr. Brown had bought. As he opened the book his eyes lit up. He asked Mr. Brown how much he had paid for the book. Mr. Brown told him: only a few shillings. The man said that he was very lucky: the book was a rare edition and was worth several pounds.

1. The Browns bough a lot of things in London.
2. Mr. Brown bought his book by chance.
3. Mr. Brown showed his neighbor the book he had bought.
4. The book was worth much more than Mr. Brown had paid for it.

Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений соответствуют содержанию текста T (True), какие не соответствуют F  (False).

      Last year three friends decided to spend their holiday in the mountains. They set off by car early in the morning and by late afternoon they had almost reached the village where they were going to stay. After stopping for a quick cup of tea at a wayside café, set off again along the winding road that led to the mountains. They had a map with them and according to it the village they were going to stay in was only about fifteen miles away.

     It got dark and it began to rain soon, which of course made it more difficult to see the road clearly. After they had driven for about fifteen miles, there was still no sigh of the village.

     They went on for another five miles and then car suddenly stopped. At first they thought that they had run out of petrol, but then they found out that it was not the reason. Since they could not start the car they decide to spend the night in the car, though they had very little food with them and there was not much room for three people in the car.

     Early in the morning a car came along the road. They stopped the driver and asked him where the village was. It turned out that it was on the other side of the hill. They tied their car to his and he pulled them to the top of the hill just right to the nearest hotel in the village, which they had failed to find the night before.

1. They drove all day without stopping until the car broke down.
2. Their map was not good.
3. They spent a comfortable night in the car.
4. They had to push the car to the top of the hill.