TEST R8-6
Read the text and do the tasks that follow
There was a time in England when postage rates (3) were very high. Only rates for newspapers were low. People who had little money but a lot of time sent letters to their friends with newspapers. They made very small pin-pricks (4) under letters and wrote large letters in this way. Soldiers often used this kind of letter, too, to let their families know where they were. A soldier sent home a map with a pin-prick at the place of his dislocation. Their (1) mothers or wives held up those maps to the light and saw where the pin-prick was. The system was not very successful because the censors understood everything very quickly. They (2) let the maps go through but first (5) they made hundreds of pin-bricks on them to confuse the people who received them.
1. Choose the best title for the text:
a) Letters and newspapers
b) Cheap letters
c) Clever soldiers
d) Censors at war
2. According to the text the newspapers
a) were very expensive
b) were not very successful
c) were used to write letters
d) didn’t sell well
3.According to the text soldiers
a) could always tell where they were
b) were stopped by censors
c) couldn’t use maps
d) wrote letters to their families
4. “their” (point 1) stands for
a) soldiers’
b) censors’
c) mothers’
d) wives’
S. “they” (point 2) stands for
a) soldiers
b) pin-pricks
c) maps
d) censors
6. “rates” (point 3) means
a) changes
b) actions
c) prices
d) numbers
7. “pin-pricks” (point 4) means a) holes
b) letters
c) needles
d) lines
8. “first”(point 5)is
a) a noun
b) an adverb
c) an adjective
d) a preposition
TEST R8-7
Read the text and do the tasks that follow.
It was two thousand years ago. Two Viking leaders were going with their men (3) to Ireland in two big boats. The first leader’s name was O’Neill, the name of the other is not known to us. They (1) agreed that the first man who touched the Irish land would be the king of it. At last they were very near the Irish land. The two boats were going faster and faster. Unfortunately O’Neill’s boat was not as fast (5) as the other one (2). And O’Neill had an idea. Mc wanted to be the king so much that, when the boats were very near the land, he quickly cut off his right hand and threw it over to the land. He became the king of Ireland because his hand was the first which touched the land. This story explains (4) why there is a red right hand on Irish soldiers’ coats.
1. Choose the best title for the text:
a) Irish monarchy
b) How Ireland got its king
c) O’Neill and his army
d) A red right hand
2. According to the text O’Neill
a) was the King of England
b) cut off his hand as it hurt
c) was in the fastest boat
d) became the King of Ireland
3. According to the text the other Viking leader
a) was not as clever as O’Neill
b) cut off his left hand
c) didn’t want to become a king
d) touchedthe Irish land first
4. “they” (point 1) stands for
a) the two Viking boats
b) the Irish lands
c) the two Viking leaders
d) two thousand years
5. “one” (point 2) stands for
a) boat
b) land
c) leader
d)king
6. “men” (point 3) means
a) swimmers
b) Vikings
c) soldiers
d) children
7, “explains” (point 4) means
a) understands
b) tells
c) knows
d) suggests
8. “fast” (point 5) is
a) an adverb
b) a noun
c) a verb
d) an adjective
TEST R8-8
Read the text and do the tasks that follow
The economic activities of people are changing the climate of our planet day after day. As the result of burning a lot of fuel and cutting down forests the concentration of harmful gases is growing fast. They (1) let the sunlight go to the Earth but they prevent (3) heat from coming up from the ground. So more and more heat stays in the atmosphere. This is known as the greenhouse effect. Russian (5) and American scientists say that if nothing changes the temperature will rise by two degrees by the year 2025. The latest scientific works show that if the temperature grows (4) by three or four degrees life on earth will be impossible. To stop this we must stop the companies that (2) cut down trees and start the production of nature-friendly cars.
1. Choose the best title for the text:
a) Greenhouse effect
b) Latest scientific works
c) Atmosphere
d) Harmful gases
2. According to the text harmful gases
a) are produced by trees
b) warm the planet
c) keep the heat in the atmosphere
d) make life on earth impossible
3. According to the text scientists
a) produce nature-friendly cars
b) say we must change something
c) write scientific works
d) study the greenhouse effect
4. “they” (point 1) stands for
a) gases
b) activities
c) forest
d) people
5. “that” (point 2) stands for
a) degrees
b) trees
c) works
d) companies
6. “prevent” (point 3) means
a) don’t make
b) destroy
c) leave
d)stop
7. “grows” (point 4) means
a) get bigger
b) get stronger
c) get higher
d) get faster
8. “Russian”(point 5) is
a) an adjective
b) an adverb
c) a noun
d) a conjunction
TEST R8-9
Read the text and do the tasks that follow
English people like gardening. They talk about it in their offices, factories, shops and at home. In the evenings or on weekends everyone works in their gardens. They (1) can be large or small. You will see an Englishman working in his garden in any weather. They grow different flowers, vegetables and fruit there. But even if an Englishman lives in a flat in a big city he grows something in a window box outside (5) his kitchen. It seems that they can’t live without a garden. If you want to please (3) them, be very polite about their garden. Make some compliments and perhaps the Englishman will show you his garden and tell you everything about it. And you should listen carefully and say something to prove (4) that you like the garden and think it (2) is the best one in the world.
1. Choose the best title for the text:
a) Compliments
b) English character
c) Gardening in England
d) Living in a flat.
2. According to the text the English
a) hate to talk about their gardens
b) are proud of their gardens
c) never grow vegetables
d) don’t show their gardens to anyone
3. According to the text the gardens
a) can be found in every house
b) are kept in secret
c) are usually small
d) arc something the English dislike
4. “they” (point I) stands for
a) offices
b) English people
c)shops
d) gardens
5. “it” (point 2) stands for
a) something
b) garden
c) everything
d) compliment
6. “please” (point 3) means
a) do something nice
b) do something polite
c) do something bad
d) do something awful
7. “prove” (point 4) means
a) make loose
b) make sorry
c) make sure
d) make happy
8. “outside” (point 5) is
a) an adverb
b) a noun
c) a preposition
d) an adjective
TEST R8-lO
Read the text and do the tasks that follow
What do flies do in winter? They do not sit in corners or sleep all winter as some animals do. Most of them die when the cold winter comes. Different kinds of flies can walk on vertical walls and ceilings because their feet are sticky (3). They (1) can do it better in warm weather. In autumn flies arc not so strong as in summer and cannot fly very quickly. The wings of the fly are made of many little fragments (4). If you look at a fly when it opens its wings in the sun you will see that they are of different colours. Flies can see very well. When you look at the eye of a fly through (5)a microscope you will see a lot of small windows. Each of these little windows is an eye. There are about four thousand of them (2) in each big eye.
1. Choose the best title for the text:
a) Flies’ eyes
b) Flies in winter
c) Flies’ wings
d) About flies
2. According to the text in winter flies
a) sleep in corners
b) are less active
c) usually die
d) can’t see very well
3. According to the text the flies
a) can walk everywhere
b) see through microscope
c) never use their wings
d) have thousands of children
4. “they” (point I) stands for
a) feet
b) flies
c) walls
d) animals
5.“them” (point 2) stands for
a) windows
b) microscopes
c) flies
d) eyes
6. “sticky” (point 3) means
a) tricky
b) which keeps
c) which holds
d) which stays
7. “fragments” (point 4) means
a) pieces
b) parts
c) bits
d) drops
8. “through” (point 5) is
a) an adverb
b) a noun
c) a pronoun
d) a preposition