Проверочные работы. Английский язык. 9 класс. УМК "Spotlight"
тест по английскому языку (9 класс) на тему

Module 1 “Celebrations”

What’s the Russian for:

to raise money for charity, cooking contest, to transform into a pirate town, to experience a pirate’s life, to blow out candles, to be a major event in a teenager’s life, the icing on the cake, to sell like hot cakes, to turn into, Remembrance Day, a solemn commemoration

What’s the English for:

задуть свечи, надеть маскарадные костюмы, главное событие в жизни подростка, самое лучшее, день памяти, торжественное празднование, хорошая (плохая) примета, суеверие, угощения, быть взволнованным.

English in Use:

1.Bob and Sue always exchange/receive gifts with each other on Christmas Eve.

2.Everyone at the party made/took a toast to Lisa and wished her a Happy Birthday.

3.Please remind/remember me to call Linda tonight. I forgot to tell her about the costume party on Saturday.

4.The Nice Carnival is a winter event which invites/attracts millions of festival-goers to France each year.

5.Annabel always makes a wish before she blows out/lets off the candles on her birthday cake.

6. … stunning costumes they’re wearing!

A What                   В How               C What a

7. My brother …  plays April Fool’s jokes on people because he doesn’t want to embarrass them.

A usually        В sometimes        C never

8. Kate has not walked under a ladder  … she heard it was bad luck.

A for                В since               C ago

Reading:

Put in:
a) coolest family celebration
b) for the mother of the family
c) a strong tradition of celebrating
d) a display of fireworks and open-air performances
e) wear masks and fancy dress costumes

Every country has its own celebrations and festivals. In Russia we celebrate New Year, Christmas, Maslenitsa, Victory Day and many others. We have … Women’s day on the 8th of March. That day all women receive presents, we have parties, cook special dishes. If you go to see your friends make sure you have beautiful flowers … . The national holiday of all the country is Victory day which we celebrate on the 9th of May. In the morning we can watch the parade on TV, in the evening we watch … , usually concerts, that take place in parks and main squares. There are many regional festivals in Russia, for example, Water melon day in Astrakhan, Cucumber Day in Suzdal. There are a lot of contests on these days, you can enter any of them and get a prize. Children’s favourite celebration is New Year. They decorate fir trees, pull crackers, throw streamers, … . Adults also like this holiday; they dress up, exchange gifts and take pictures. It’s the … .

Module 2 “Life and Living”

What`s the Russian for:

muscles go soft, lack of gravity, to bump into the computer, in the airless space, to take things without asking, to tidy up the house, to put smb. at risk, never get off the phone.

What’s the English for:

работать на космической станции, не­весомость, автобусная остановка нахо­дится на углу улицы, подружиться с кем-то, выключать свет, разговорчивый, высоко­мерный, эгоистичный, готовый по­мочь, забывчивый.

Choose the proper item:

1.Of all the housework/household chores, doing the dishes is the one Jenny hates most.

2.Ian isn’t a very sociable/silly person, as he’s not very comfortable with meeting new people.

3.Peter and Frank play football at their local football hall/pitch every day.

4.The astronauts who work on the International Space Station make/do a lot of experiments.

5.Mrs Finch is very arrogant/nosy; she always peeps at us from behind the curtains to see what we’re doing in the garden.

6.They are tired of live/living in the dirty, noisy city, so they've decided to move to the countryside.

7.Sarah made her sister promise/ promising never to take her things again.

8.Danny wants  become/becoming an astronaut when he grows up.

9.Mark’s parents never let him stay/staying out late on weeknights. The child let go of the balloon and watched it float/send away into the sky.

10.It's such a beautiful evening, let’s go and sit on the drive/porch for a bit.

11.It is important to cover/block your eyes with sunglasses when you look at the sun.

12.Please buy me a kilo of potatoes when you go to the grocer’s/newsagent’s.

13.There is not enough room for a cycle path on this street - it is too wide/narrow.

14.Is your new neighbour/ neighbourhood very crowded?

15.What I enjoy most about living at/in the suburbs is the peace and quiet they offer.

16.Stephen gave his sister a big bunch of roses to make for/of forgetting her birthday. 

Reading:

Replace the phrases in bold with the ones below.

Having a sister is great, but having a twin sister is fantastic! Suzan understands me completely, and 1)never leaves my side when I need her. This doesn't mean that we don’t have our share of problems, though. We may be very similar in character and appearance, but each of us still has habits that 2)really annoy the other. For example, Suzan 3) hates it very much when I play loud music. She also says that when I call someone, 4) I talk to them for hours and hours! As for me, I really don’t like the fact that Suzan 5) always leaves her side of our room messy. This means that I have to clean the whole room, which 6} makes me very angry. But ail these don't really matter. No matter how angry we sometimes make each other, we always forgive one another in the end!

A   never get off the phone            В   gets on my nerves                    C    is always there for me                           D    never tidies up                E    can’t stand it                                  F   drive each other crazy

Module 3 “See it to believe it”

What’s the English for:

Extinct species of animals,  reported sightings of the monster,  an oil painting, in the background of the picture, to come across smth., in search of smth.

What’s the English for:

сильный водоворот, человеческие следы, видеть сон (кошмар), жить в придуманном мире;  нарисовать яркую/мрачную картину происшествия, тусклые краски.

Put in the correct word: similar giant glimpse dull violent fantasy brain impact mind corridor human sighting whirlpools

1.This couldn’t be a(n) _________ print; it’s far too wide and half a metre long!

2.Sam has a brilliant ___________; he’s sure to become a famous scientist one day.

3.The strange creature disappeared before we managed to catch a ___________ of it.

4.According to Norwegian legend, the Kraken was a(n)_______ monster that lived in the sea.

5.This is the first _____________ of this particularly rare bird in this country.

6. I’m scared of _________  thunderstorms.  

Choose the proper word:

1.The moon was so bright that James could see his reflection/shadow in the lake.

2.Annie loves story books about dragons, giants and other extinct/mythical creatures.

3.Did the magician really make the man disappear or was it just an optical imagination/illusion?         

4.Although many people say they have seen Bigfoot, there are no fossil remains that prove the creature ever survived/existed

5.Annie loves story books about dragons, giants and other extinct/mythical creatures.

Put in the proper preposition

1. I haven’t heard … Tina lately.

2. Peter succeeded … passing his exams.

3. Many people go to Loch Ness in search … the monster.

4. We know … experience that it is not easy to organise a family holiday.

5. He was nervous … taking his driving test.

6. My nephew came across/down with chicken pox this weekend.

7. A great anger came up with/over him.

8. His new book comes out/across next month.

Put in: creature, exist, mysterious, height,  long, sightings

There are a lot of legends about various … monsters. People from different places of the world report … of them. Some see Snowman, Yates,  rising to two or two and a half meters in … with a man-like head, a short neck and very … arms. In 1966 for the first time people reported the sighting of Mothman, a brown man-sized … with giant moth-like wings. Several witnesses saw him flying over Charleston. Scientists doubt that these creatures … as unfortunately no one has found their prints or skeletons.

Module 4 “Technology”

What’s the Russian for:

To be divided to .., to perform a task, the screen has frozen, to pay  for the subscription to the Internet service provider, the printer  has run out of ink, the hard disk is full, to delete the file,  anti-virus software, an access to the Internet, to break down, to do a full scan with anti-virus software, to become outdated.

What’s the English for:

принимать решения, решить проблему, искусственный мозг, войти в Интернет, платить за соединение с Интернетом, загрузить музыку, сохранить документ, сидеть в Интернете, доступ в Интернет, получать электронную почту, выполнять приказы, зритель, устареть.

English in Use

Choose rhe proper word:

Each week, viewers/presenters of the show can enter a competition to win a new laptop,

We bought all our household software/ appliances at a local electrical shop.

Although the TV we bought is a well-known brand/ category, we're not really happy with it.

Currently/Gradually, 17% of the world’s population has access to the Internet.

Electronic waste is responsible for many of the toxic chemicals that ooze/leak into the ground.

There’s a ticket equipment/machine/device on the train platform; you can get your tickets from there

Presidents from all over the world have signed an environmental viewpoint/ challenge/treaty that agrees to reduce poisonous fumes worldwide.

Do you think there will ever come a time when robots can make/design/ create important decisions on their own?

A team of expert helpers/ assistants/judges will decide which invention is original enough to win first prize. The TV station broke in/down/off to report the tragic news.

Our car broke up/down/into at the side of the highway in the snowstorm.

A scientist discovered/invented a new type of birds.

James has to carry out research/experiment on animals in the wild.

Traffic was diverted until road repairs could be effected/affected.

I need to access/download the document.

Reading

 Complete the text using: figurative, emotional, home, household, artificial.

Do you think it is possible to have a{n) 1) …  response to a robot, such as love? Well, robot researchers do! In a few decades, some think we may have 2) … robots that look like humans, act like humans and even talk using 3) …  speech like humans! We will feel for these robots the way we feel about other humans and animals. However, scientists probably need to create a(n) 4) … brain before machines are able to think, and this is no easy task. But if you doubt that this will happen, stop and think: who could have predicted 100 years ago that 5) … computers and the Internet would exist?

Module 5 “Art and Literature”

What’s the Russian for:

Remain anonymous, learning difficulties, private property, colour in black and  white pictures, design a house, portray a famous sculptor, the second verse of the  song, hum a popular tune, a film with stunts and special effects, be a box office  success, be in the spotlight, face the music, run into a friend.

What’s the English for:

остаться неизвестным, трудности в обучении, частная собственность, раскрашивать черно-белые картинки, проектировать дом, написать портрет известного скульптора, второй куплет песни, напевать популярный мотив, фильм с трюками и спецэффектами, иметь кассовый успех, быть в центре внимания {идиом.), расхлебывать кашу (идиом.), случайно встреть друга.

English in Use

Choose the correct item:

The film is set/situated in late 19th century England.

The town where they’ll shoot the film is set/situated somewhere in the English countryside.

The film is playing/starring in cinemas all around the country,

The Dark Knight, playing/starring Christian Bale, is a fantastic film.

Mark took/made a short film about his experiences in South America.

Laura took/made some photographs of the beautiful scenery.

The speaker gave a presentation/performance about career opportunities in computer graphics.

A group of musicians gave a presentation/performance  of well-known classical pieces.

The gallery is planning to run a series of exhibits/exhibitions with works by local artists.

Most of the exhibits/exhibitions  in the gallery are paintings from the 20th century. 

All the people ran out/away of the burning building.

I’d rather/I prefer watch a DVD than play a video game. 

They wanted to buy a sculpture from the exhibition, but it was completely/rather expensive.

Reading

Complete the text using the word combinations: poppy seed, art collections, impress the spectators, three months, to shoe a  flea

Miniature art is as old as human civilization. The gift to work in this field is very  rare. The Russian Levsha, the character of Leskov’s story who managed … is known all over the world. Today there are people in Russia who have got in  their … similar real shoed fleas that has become the classics. They are  7 in Russia. Anatoly Konenko from Siberia, Omsk is one of them. His works  include the smallest book in the world – just 0,9 mm long. It has been registered in  the Guinness World Records. His portraits of famous people on rice grains strike  the imagination. It takes the artist … to paint such a miniature, his tool is  a hair from a butterfly wing. The visitors of his exhibition “Miracles under the microscope” are amazed by a lot of unique works, such as the smallest copy of the balalaika in the case carved from a …, the tiny violin 6 mm long, the chess board 6x6 mm with the chess pieces 0,6-1,8 mm. Anatoly Konenko is a world known miniature artist. His exhibitions … not only in  Russia but in Europe, Asia and America.

Module 6 “Town and Community”

What’s the English for:

To answer (телефонные звонки), to (разразиться) into tears, to help (почистить)the forest, animal (питомник), (штат) members, to cross the street at zebra (переход), (общественные) services, to open a (сберегательный) account in the bank, to (снять) some money, to (сообщить) a fire, to send a (посылка), to (зарегистрироваться) in the hotel, to (оплатить счет) the hotel, to meet the (мэр), to (запретить) transport in the city center.

Match the columns:

Ferry               boat

Detailed        café

exhaust          sites

Ancient           commentary

Trendy                hit

Huge              emissions

Get                 choice

Burst               a full recovery

Make              involved

Take                out with

Natural           care of

Hang               into tears 

Find the phrasal verbs related to the meaning and then use them in their correct form to complete the sentences: 

collect

think of

spend a lot of money

be powered by

get out of

travel from place to place

Pick up

Come up with

Splash out

Run on

Hop off

Get around

We need to … a great idea for our charity event next month.

To get to my house, take the train from the centre, and … at Preston Station. I live across the street.

The most convenient way to …        London is by tube.

For their anniversary, the Smiths decided to … on a trip to Paris.

Do you think cars will still be … petrol in 50 years’ time?

Can you … today’s paper as you’re coming home, please?

Use the correct item.

We found the puppy abandoned/neglected on the side of a motorway.

Our teacher has asked us to donate/report any books or toys we don’t need to the local children’s hospital.

Do you think you could spare a couple/plenty of hours each week to take Mrs Doe’s dog for a walk?

If a person cannot look after a pet extremely/ properly, they should not be allowed to own one.

The local council is asking for volunteers to plant/ feed trees in the city square.

You can support/encourage charities like the Red Cross by volunteering or donating money.

Module 7 “Staying Safe”

What`s the Russian for?

Enclosed space, scream loudly, avoid air-flights, be over the moon, get green with envy, go bright red, fight the fear of the dark, call the mountain rescue, hold the line, cut down on fatty food, common sense, keep off the wet floor.

What`s the English for?

 страх высо­ты, человеческие чувства, сделать ложный вызов, не кладите трубку, худеть, сесть на диету, начать посещать тренажерный зал, мясные продукты.

English in Use

Use the correct item:

People who are watching their weight prefer food which is low/ short in fat.

Did you know that spinach is rich/ full in iron?

Exercise helps us destroy/burn calories more easily.

A piece of fruit or some nuts are healthy desserts/snacks to have if you’re hungry between meals.

Jane is a vegetarian, and doesn’t eat any meat produce/products.

You’re looking so much healthier now that you’re eating sensibly; give/keep up the good work!

Drinking too little water can lead to/in headaches.

Don’t put any milk in Jason’s coffee; he’s allergic from/to all dairy products.

How do you manage to keep in/to such good shape?

Samantha still hasn’t recovered in/from her bad cold.

It is important to use sunblock on your skin to protect it from/to sunburn

She was walking so fast that I couldn’t keep up with/out/off her.

 All night long he kept up/off/on asking me questions about it.

We kept out/up/back some of the money for emergencies.

Put in: scream loudly, nervous system, public places, shake like a leaf, fight  our fears, fears come true, human emotion, heart beats faster

Ever time I see a mouse I … and run away.

When Jane went into the lift, she was so afraid that she began to … .

Fear is a natural … that warns us of danger.

When we are afraid, our … reacts.

If we want to … , we need to face them.

My … and I start to breathe quickly whenever I go into a lift.

Poor Sally, she has a fear of … and rarely goes out of the house.

After facing her fear of crowds, she realised her … .

Reading

Fill in: key, recipe, physical, balanced, treat, junk, habits.

My friend Katie is such a health nut! She goes jogging every day, and eats a 1)__ diet. She says the to 2)__ a healthy lifestyle is eating well and exercising regularly. But Katie thinks I don’t get enough activity because l prefer watching TV to exercising. She says my lifestyle is a(n) 4)__         for disaster and that I need to make some changes. Well, I agree that my eating 5) __ may not be the best but I could never do what she does. Avoid all 6) __food? No, thanks! I think it’s important to 7) __ yourself once in a while! But I see what she means about exercise. So I think I will make some changes in that department!

Module 8 “Challenges”

What’s the Russian for:

To signal for help, to protect oneself, to survive in the jungle on a remote island, antiseptic ointment, to put a bandage on smth, first aid kit, to have a sling put on the leg, an extreme dangerous sport, brain damage,

What’s the English for:

подавать сигнал о помощи, защищать себя, выжить в джунглях на необи­таемом острове, антисептическая мазь, наложить повязку, аптечка, на­ложить шину на ногу, экстремальный опасный спорт, черепно-мозговая травма, взять быка за рога (идиом.), иметь причуды (идиом.), раскрыть секрет (идиом.).

English in Use

Put in: motto, strapped, brain damage, spine, share, ripping, carefully, bumps, disability

She … removed the glasses from the top shelf.

Tim is … off all of the labels from his shirts.

Our school … says to be respectful to one another.

You must protect your … .

He couldn’t talk because of the … .

My sister and I … a computer.

All passengers must be … into their seats before take-off.

He was born with a … and couldn’t walk.

She has overcome many … along the way.

Choose the correct item:

The music was so cool that she was carried off/away/on.

You carry off/out/on painting this wall and I’ll go and get some more brushes.

They carried out/on/away some tests to see the effects on the new drug.

We all have certain duties and joins to carry through/away/out.

Complete the sentences using the vocabulary words: brain damage, seriously bruised,  faces challenges, perfectly still, burns her hand, come into sight

Everyone         ___ in life, but the trick is to keep smiling!

He was sitting  ___waiting for the photograph to be taken.

She ___ while she was cooking.

        ___ may occur due to an illness or an injury.

The  injured mountaineers shouted with joy when the rescue helicopter ___. 

Tom __ his spine in a car accident.