Контрольная работа по английскому языку 9 класс (I полугодие)
тест по английскому языку (9 класс) на тему

1.    Read the text and choose the right answer.

There is something about the English Channel that has always fascinated the human race and it has always played a special role in British history. The sea itself has always been important to mankind but the Channel often created a barrier between Great Britain and the Continent. This barrier has existed for more than 12,000 years and the desire to break it has occupied the minds of many people for almost two hundred years.
  The construction of the tunnel is perhaps the most incredible engineering project of the 20th century. In fact its completion was called a "technical triumph”.
  However, the first proposal to build a Channel Tunnel appeared in 1802, when a French engineer presented his project for two tunnels to cross it. Historians say Napoleon was interested in that plan. But Napoleon was more interested in fighting the British than in linking the two countries, and shortly afterwards a new war between England and France began. There were many other plans to build a tunnel but unfortunately all of them failed. It was not until after the last war that Britain and France began seriously considering the project. On the 12th February, 1986, Mrs. Thatcher and President Mitterrand signed the Franco-British Treaty which allowed the construction and the operation of the Channel Tunnel. The tunnel was completed eight years later.
  It is now very quick and easy to cross the Channel. You don’t have to book a ticket. The Channel Tunnel trains operate twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year. You can now cross the Channel in thirty-five minutes. At last the great barrier has been broken.
  In 1996, the American Society of Civil Engineers, with Popular Mechanics, selected the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. 

1. What has always been important to all people?
a. The English Channel.
b. The sea.
c. The tunnel.
2. What did Europeans want to do for many years?
a. To create a barrier between Great Britain and the Continent.
b. To sign a contract on the construction of the tunnel.
c. To connect Great Britain and the continent by train service.
3. When did the Channel Tunnel begin to function?
a. In 1994.
b. In 1986.
c. In 1996.
4. Who proposed the first plan to build a tunnel under the Channel?
a. Napoleon
b. A French engineer.
c. President Mitterrand.
5. When did the construction of the tunnel become possible?
a. After the treaty had been signed.
b. After the engineering project had been presented.
c. After many other plans had been discussed.
6. Why is it easy to cross the Channel at present?
a. The tickets are cheap.
b. The tickets are sold everywhere.
c. The trains go day and night.

7. What is the best title for the text?
a. Engineering Projects.

b. The Channel Tunnel.
c. Seven Wonders of the World.

II.  Read the text and complete it with the derivatives of the word on the right.

 Claud’s (8)_____________ (compose) was about his pet George. George was just a (9)__________ (skin) little (10)__________ (mew) kitten with a (11)________ (long) tail when my dad brought him home. A few months later he was the toughest cat on the block. When he came into the yard, other cats (12)____________ (sudden) ran off. George was gone for hours every day checking (13) ___________ (careful) his (14)_______ (extreme) vast territory. I was proud of my big, tough cat, full of (15)_____________ (strong) and (16)_________ (wise). After George had been living with us for about a year, he started acting (17)____________ (strange). He ate more and looked fatter than a big pig. My dad said he would (18)____________ (probable) end up the hugest cat in town.

III. Use the wright passive verb form.

               19. This book (write)______2 years ago.

20. Yesterday my favourite film (to broadcast) _______on TV.

21. Don’t forget. Your favourite TV show (to broadcast) _______ tomorrow.

22. Taste this apple. It (to grow) _______ in my garden.

23. Listen! My favourite music_______ (to play).

24. Hands up!  You are ________ (to arrest).

IV.  Complete the sentences with function words.

Don’t worry, I’ll do the job instead(25)____ you.  How long has the film been(26)_____. It was an old car which often broke (27) _____. Look (28)_______the pence and the pounds will look after themselves. At that moment we felt that someone  was spying(29) ____ us. Brought into the house, the snowman turned (30) _______ water. Tornados are real tread (31)_______some American state. I didn’t read this article, I just looked (32)________it. The young mother was holding the little boy (33) ______ the hand.

Ключи к заданиям

1)

1  2  3  4  5  6  7
b  c  a  b  a  c  b

2)

8)composition
9)skinny
10)mewing
11)long
12)suddenly
13)carefully
14)extremely
15)strength
16)wisdom  

17)strange
18)probably

3)

19)  was written

20) was broadcast

21) will be broadcast

22) has been grown

23) is being played

24) are arrested

4)

25) of

26) on

27) down

28)after

29)on

30) into

31) to

32) trough

33)by

1.    Read the text and choose the right answer.

There is something about the English Channel that has always fascinated the human race and it has always played a special role in British history. The sea itself has always been important to mankind but the Channel often created a barrier between Great Britain and the Continent. This barrier has existed for more than 12,000 years and the desire to break it has occupied the minds of many people for almost two hundred years.
  The construction of the tunnel is perhaps the most incredible engineering project of the 20th century. In fact its completion was called a "technical triumph”.
  However, the first proposal to build a Channel Tunnel appeared in 1802, when a French engineer presented his project for two tunnels to cross it. Historians say Napoleon was interested in that plan. But Napoleon was more interested in fighting the British than in linking the two countries, and shortly afterwards a new war between England and France began. There were many other plans to build a tunnel but unfortunately all of them failed. It was not until after the last war that Britain and France began seriously considering the project. On the 12th February, 1986, Mrs. Thatcher and President Mitterrand signed the Franco-British Treaty which allowed the construction and the operation of the Channel Tunnel. The tunnel was completed eight years later.
  It is now very quick and easy to cross the Channel. You don’t have to book a ticket. The Channel Tunnel trains operate twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year. You can now cross the Channel in thirty-five minutes. At last the great barrier has been broken.
  In 1996, the American Society of Civil Engineers, with Popular Mechanics, selected the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. 

1. What has always been important to all people?
a. The English Channel.
b. The sea.
c. The tunnel.
2. What did Europeans want to do for many years?
a. To create a barrier between Great Britain and the Continent.
b. To sign a contract on the construction of the tunnel.
c. To connect Great Britain and the continent by train service.
3. When did the Channel Tunnel begin to function?
a. In 1994.
b. In 1986.
c. In 1996.
4. Who proposed the first plan to build a tunnel under the Channel?
a. Napoleon
b. A French engineer.
c. President Mitterrand.
5. When did the construction of the tunnel become possible?
a. After the treaty had been signed.
b. After the engineering project had been presented.
c. After many other plans had been discussed.
6. Why is it easy to cross the Channel at present?
a. The tickets are cheap.
b. The tickets are sold everywhere.
c. The trains go day and night.

7. What is the best title for the text?
a. Engineering Projects.

b. The Channel Tunnel.
c. Seven Wonders of the World.

II.  Read the text and complete it with the derivatives of the word on the right.

 Claud’s (8)_____________ (compose) was about his pet George. George was just a (9)__________ (skin) little (10)__________ (mew) kitten with a (11)________ (long) tail when my dad brought him home. A few months later he was the toughest cat on the block. When he came into the yard, other cats (12)____________ (sudden) ran off. George was gone for hours every day checking (13) ___________ (careful) his (14)_______ (extreme) vast territory. I was proud of my big, tough cat, full of (15)_____________ (strong) and (16)_________ (wise). After George had been living with us for about a year, he started acting (17)____________ (strange). He ate more and looked fatter than a big pig. My dad said he would (18)____________ (probable) end up the hugest cat in town.

III. Use the wright passive verb form.

               19. This book (write)______2 years ago.

20. Yesterday my favourite film (to broadcast) _______on TV.

21. Don’t forget. Your favourite TV show (to broadcast) _______ tomorrow.

22. Taste this apple. It (to grow) _______ in my garden.

23. Listen! My favourite music_______ (to play).

24. Hands up!  You are ________ (to arrest).

IV.  Complete the sentences with function words.

Don’t worry, I’ll do the job instead(25)____ you.  How long has the film been(26)_____. It was an old car which often broke (27) _____. Look (28)_______the pence and the pounds will look after themselves. At that moment we felt that someone  was spying(29) ____ us. Brought into the house, the snowman turned (30) _______ water. Tornados are real tread (31)_______some American state. I didn’t read this article, I just looked (32)________it. The young mother was holding the little boy (33) ______ the hand.

Ключи к заданиям

1)

1  2  3  4  5  6  7
b  c  a  b  a  c  b

2)

8)composition
9)skinny
10)mewing
11)long
12)suddenly
13)carefully
14)extremely
15)strength
16)wisdom  

17)strange
18)probably

3)

19)  was written

20) was broadcast

21) will be broadcast

22) has been grown

23) is being played

24) are arrested

4)

25) of

26) on

27) down

28)after

29)on

30) into

31) to

32) trough

33)by