рубежное тестирование к УМК Афанасьевой, Михеевой 8 класс, углубленный уровень
тест по английскому языку (8 класс) на тему

Cрезовая контрольная работа для 8а класса (февраль 2014).

TEST

I

Прочитайте текст и вставьте предложения (A-D) в правильное место (1-4).

        Henry Ford was a man whose ideas changed the world.

        Ford came from a down-to-earth family. He was born in 1863 on a farm near Detroit, USA. But when he was a boy, he didn’t want to live on the farm because (1) _________. When he was 16, he went to Detroit to work in a machine shop. He changed different jobs and learned how to use different machines. He began his experiments with machines at home. (2)_____________

        In 1903, when H.Ford was 40, he started the Ford Motor Company. At that time the automobile was a toy of rich people. Henry Ford decided to change the situation. The company made the Model T Ford in 1908. It was because he was the first to use an assembly line. (3)__________________ .Ford also paid his workers 5 US dollars per day. It was a large sum in 1914. Ford attracted both national and international attention.

        Henry Ford had more than one billion US dollars. (4) _______________.He started the Ford Foundation that supported different programmes in education and culture.

A – The assembly line was a revolution in cars making.

B  - He spent more than 40 million dollars on charities.

C -  he hated farming and he adored machines.

D – In 1896 he built his first automobile.

Определите какие предложения соответствуют содержанию текста (True), какие не соответствуют ( False ) и о чем в тексте не сказано (Not stated).

1. Henry Ford liked to live on the farm.

2. Little Henry was bad at farming.

3. At first the automobile was a toy of rich people.

4. He spent more than 40 billion dollars on charities.

II

Прочитайте текст и преобразуйте слова так, чтобы они лексически и грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста.

        How do people learn the news?

About a century ago people got _______________ from newspapers    INFORM

since they were the only mass media that existed in those times. Radio

and television seemed  ______________ as they broadcasted audio      WONDER

and visual images. The Internet has changed the situation dramatically.

Now the audience has an opportunity to create the news, share their    

_______________ and express their opinions. The Internet  supposes   KNOW

interaction, which makes it very _______________ to people. And      ATTRACT

what about the newspapers? Will they ___________ in the near            APPEAR

future? I wish they wouldn’t as I like starting my day with a cup of

coffee and a ____________   newspaper.                                            TRADITION

III

Прочитайте текст и преобразуйте слова так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста.

        Kitty lived next door to me and we’d been friends since

childhood. We learnt at the same school and _________ there           WALK

together. I was sixteen and she was four years ________ than            YOUNG

me but we had a lot in common and enjoyed chatting on _____          WE

way to school. Every morning Kitty knocked on my door and I

had to be ready by that time – she ___________ waiting for me.         NOT LIKE

One day she didn’t knock.. When I caught up with her at the

bus stop, she __________ a magazine and didn’t even look at me.      READ

I __________ understand what was going on. “Hey, Kitty, what’s      NOT CAN

wrong? Why aren’t you talking to ___________ ?” “You yourself      I

know why,” Kitty said angrily. “No, I don’t. I wouldn’t ask you if

I ________.” “You went to the cinema with Lisa Parker yesterday,”    KNOW

Kitty was almost crying. I felt puzzled and didn’t know what to say.

The two _________ at the bus stop looked amused at our conversa-    WOMAN

tion and didn’t hide their smiles.

KEYS.

I

1 – C

2 – D

3 – A

4 – B

1 – False

2 – Not stated

3 – True

4 – False

II

-information

-wonderful

-knowledge

-attractive

-disappear

-traditional

III

-walked

-younger

-our

-didn’t like

-was reading

-couldn’t

-me

-knew

-women