Test (the 7th form), I четверть
I. Read the text:
Florence Nightingale was born in 1820. She always wanted to be a nurse. Her parents didn’t like the idea at all, because in those days it wasn’t a job for a respectable woman. But Florence became a nurse and she went to work in a small hospital in London. In 1851, the Crimean War started. Newspaper reporters wrote about the terrible hospitals for the soldiers. They were very dirty and many more people were dying from diseases than from war wounds. The government sent Florence and a group of nurses to help. They cleaned the hospitals and looked after the soldiers. Every night Florence visited all the soldiers. They called her “the lady with the lamp”.
When she returned to Britain, she started a school for nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. Florence never married and she died in 1910.
Answer the following questions:
- When was Florence born?
- Did Florence’s parents like her idea to become a nurse? Why?
- When did the Crimean War start?
- Were the most soldiers dying from war wounds?
- Why was Florence called “the lady with the lamp”?
- When did she start a school for nurses?
- Did Florence have a husband?
II. Make the sentences. Be careful with grammar tenses.
- They / be in luck/ yesterday and/ win the game.
- He/ try his chance/ tomorrow?
- She/ not believe in/ superstitions.
III. Put the verb into the correct form:
- Peter likes (to swim) in the ocean.
- Stop (to talk)!
- She would like (to try) her chance.
- People usually don’t mind (to open) the window when it’s hot.
- My dad gave up (to smoke) last year.
IV. Form the correct adjective:
- Be (care)! Don’t kill a spider!
- He is very (friend).
- Say it in (Russia).
- Your friend is very (curiosity)!
V. Write the opposites:
- to be boring - …
- to win a game - …
- to agree - …
- to miss your chance - …
VI. What means of communication do you know? What is important for you? What is not?
Test (the 7th form), II четверть
I. Put the paragraphs in order:
A: This is because different companies built the railways, and they all had their own station in London. Victoria and Waterloo, for example, are the stations for trains to the south. If you want to go to the west, however, you have to go from Paddington. Today, Britain hasn’t got a national railway company. Instead, over 20 private companies run (управляют) trains.
B: Britain has got the oldest railway system in the world. It began in the 1840s. The main railways connect London to other cities in Britain. Like many large cities, London hasn’t got a central station.
C: You can also take a train from London through the Channel Tunnel to Paris and Brussels on a Eurostar train. These trains go from the Eurostar terminal in St Pancras.
II. Fill in the articles if necessary:
- … capital of … Canada is … Ottawa.
- … USA has the third largest population in … world.
- … Cubans speak … Spanish.
- … capital of … Netherlands is … Amsterdam.
III. Complete each sentence with one of the word combinations:
| was awarded, the only, the sky and the sea, languages, was successful, collected his thoughts, occupies |
- My sister can speak three … : English, French and Italian.
- Sally won the Olympiad and … a gold medal.
- Andrew is … friend she has.
- Australia … the whole continent.
- English is called the language of …. .
- He … and wrote an essay.
IV. Make up sentences in the Passive voice:
- The room/clean/yesterday.
- New Year/ celebrate/all over the world.
- The book/ publish/ next month.
- A lot of songs/ write/in English.
V. Form a word to fit the blank space:
1. MEET
They will discuss it at the … next week.
2. TRANSLATE
The boy was awarded a prize for his German … of the poem.
3. WIN
The … was happy to collect a gold medal.
VI. Why do you learn English? (Write 6-7 sentences)
Test (the 7th form), IV четверть
I. Complete the text with these words:
| advice go make optimistic patient pool sensible track |
To be a successful sportsperson, you need to be …. and always think positively. We asked Olympic veteran Sebastian Coe for some …. . “A triathlon is the most difficult event. The athletes spend hours training on the running … and in the swimming … . They also … cycling. Then they have to do all three events in the same race. Athletes have to be … because it can take a long time to improve race times. Triathlon athletes have to … a training plan and be very … about how much they can do.”
II. Choose the correct item:
- He left the room quiet/ quietly.
- Jane works hard/ hardly
- He smiled sad/sadly
- Get up! It’s (near/ nearly) nine.
- He is a slow/ slowly driver.
III. Complete the sentences. Use the second conditional form of the verbs in brackets:
- If I … (live) in an airport, I … (not be) happy.
- If the boy … (be) ready for the lesson, he … (get) a good mark.
- What … (you/ do) if you … (fly) to the Moon?
IV. Put the verbs given in brackets in the Passive voice:
- Ramadan … … (celebrate) by Muslims.
- His new book … … … (publish) next year.
- The game … … (lose) yesterday.
V. Choose the correct item:
- Have you seen (her, hers) watch?
- Mark is (their, theirs) cousin
- This house is (my, mine).
- That’s (our, ours) car. It’s (our, ours).
VI. What should/shouldn’t people do to keep fit? (write 6-7 sentences).
Test (the 8th form), I четверть
I. Read the text and match these titles with the paragraphs:
A: Women Scientists in History
B: The Discovery of DNA
C: No Famous Names
D: Problems for Women Scientists
Women in Science
- Can you name five famous scientists? You probably can: Einstein, Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Edison…. The list goes on. But how many women scientists can you name? Madame Curie and, er…. The list seems to stop before it starts. Why is this? Is it because there aren’t any women scientists? Is it because women aren’t as clever as men? Or because women aren’t interested in science? The answer to all of these questions is “no”.
- There have been women scientists since earliest times in history. Women took care of the sick and made medicine from plants. They invented early farming machines and machines to make clothes and pots. We know that in Ancient Egypt women were active in astronomy, medicine, and chemistry. There were women scientists in Ancient Greece, too, but we know little about them.
- In recent times, women, women have become involved in science in a big way, but there are reasons why so few are household names. Many designed things, but didn’t have enough money to see their inventions become a reality; others had ideas, but were not allowed to go to university, so asked men to convert their ideas into actual constructions; and some women’s ideas have been “borrowed” by men.
- The work of Rosalind Franklin is a good example. In 1951 she began analyzing the structure of DNA, the substance which carries the body’s genetic code. A year later, unknown to her, a copy of one of her papers and her best photograph of a form of DNA were shown to two men scientists, Watson and Crick. They were working in the same area. The photograph was extremely important. Rosalind began working on another project, and in 1958 she died. In 1962, Watson and Crick were given the Nobel Prize for their work on DNA, and today are believed to be the discoverers of its structure. But who first photographed the structure of DNA? Rosalind Who?
II. Fill in with the correct form:
- John …(drive) home when his car …(break down).
- She …(make) ten films since 2001.
- He …(watch) TV when his wife came home.
- My mother …(cook) for an hour. (She is still cooking)
- My parents …(come) by the time I …(do) my homework
- He …(walk) ten miles so far.
- I …(not see) him since last week.
- Alexander Fleming …(discover) penicillin in 1928.
- She …(type) letters since 3 o’clock.
- My brother …(write) a letter by 4 o’clock yesterday.
- He …(work) at 5 o’clock yesterday evening.
III. Make a suitable word:
1. NATURE
… disasters, such as tornadoes and hurricanes, can damage houses and hurt people.
2. DISASTER
The situation was … .
3. EXPLORE
Have you read anything about space … ?
4. BAD
He was … hurt during the earthquake.