Контроль чтения 8 класс

TEST R8-1

The parts of the following text are all mixed up. Put hem in the right order.

(A) It wasn’t strong because it was very hungry. But he didn’t let the people touch him and ate the food they gave him only after they had gone away.
(B) He got off the train at the next station, bought a piece of meat and caught the dog. He brought the dog home again.
(C) At home John tied him up with a rope for a week. At the end of the week he put a collar on the dog.
(D) When the dog was strong enough he ran away and the Smiths could not find him. A few months later when John was in a train he saw his dog running along the road.
(E) Once John Smith and his wife Mary, who lived in a small house in the mountains, found a dog. It was a very strange dog.
(F) There was a metal plate on the collar with the Smiths’ address. They thought people would bring him home when he ran away again.

TEST R8-2

The parts of the following text are all mixed up. Put hem in the right order.
(A) He often told his friends that he could tell anyone’s character exactly by his handwriting. So one lady friend decided to give it a test.
(B) The lady was surprised. She smiled and explained that this was Balzac’s own exercise book which he used when he was a little boy.
(C) She brought him a young boy’s exercise book. She said she wanted to know what Balzac thought of the boy’s character.
(D) Baizac, the famous French writer, was a man of great talent. He was very proud of his ability to tell a person’s character by his or her handwriting.
(E) He decided to tell the truth. The boy’s exercise book showed that it was written by a bad, lazy fellow with no respect to other people.
(F) She told him that the boy wasn’t her son and asked him to tell her the truth. Balzac studied the boy’s handwriting very carefully.

TEST R8-3

The parts of the following text are all mixed up. Put hem in the right order.
(A) Mark Twain realized that the conductor had forgotten to wake him up at Dijon. He ran up to him and said that he had never been so angry in his life.

(B) Then he went to sleep. But when he woke up he saw that he train was past Dijon and already in Paris.
(C) Mark Twain, the famous American writer, was travelling in France. Once he was going by a night train to Dijon.
(D) He warned the conductor that he was a heavy sleeper. He as afraid that the conductor wouldn’t be able to wake him up hen he wanted to.
(E) But the conductor was very calm. He said that the American that he had put off the train at Dijon was twice as angry.
(F) He was very tired, because he had worked all day. So he asked the conductor to wake him up when they came to Dijon.

TEST R8-4

The parts of the following text are all mixed up. Put them in the right order
(A) So captain threw a different cat into the water. The sailors told him that a ghost cat would be following him all his life because he had killed a black cat.
(B) Once he got into the captain’s cabin and killed the captain’s favourite bird that lived in the cage. When the captain found it out he was really angry.
(C) Satan was a friendly black cat who lived on the ship. All the sailors loved him very much although he was very naughty and lazy.
(D) He didn’t know it was Satan who had escaped from the place where the sailors hid him. The captain was scared to death he saw that his sailors’ words were true.
(E) Of course he didn’t believe them because captains rarely believe in ghosts. But one day when the captain was on deck he heard a mewing of a cat.
(F) He decided to throw the cat into the water. But when the sailors learned that, they hid Satan and caught another black cat which looked exactly the same.

TEST R8-5

The parts of the following text are all mixed up. Put them in the right order
(A) Once the king showed a new portion of his stories to a well-known critic. The critic decided to tell the truth and said that the stories were bad and poor.
(B) When the critic was brought to the palace the king asked him about the stories again. But the critic said he would rather get back to prison.
(C) Of course people were afraid to criticize the king so they had to lie. Everyone said the stories were extremely good, which wasn’t at all true.
(D) An old king liked to write stories which he thought were very good and professional. He showed his stories to everyone and asked what those people thought.
(E) After some time the king thought he had been too cruel and decided to set the critic free. He sent his men to the prison and told them to bring the man to the palace.
(F) The king got very angry with him and ordered his men to take him to prison. So the critic was sent to prison for telling the truth.