Демонстрационный вариант
контрольных измерительных материалов для проведения промежуточной аттестации по
английскому языку обучающихся 8 класса
Раздел 1. Чтение
Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами и заголовками: к каждому
тексту, обозначенному буквами A-F, подберите соответствующий заголовок, обозначенный цифрами.
Используйте каждую цифру один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок.
Titles
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7.
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B.
C.
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A New Invention Connecting People
The Era of New Technologies
The Age of Space Exploration
An Alternative Source of Energy
A New Medicine
Computer Entertainment
Breakthrough in Biology
In the atomic age scientists have been experimenting with solar power. A great solar power invention
that came into existence in 1996 is the Solar. Two power plants that began operation in the Mojave
Desert in California generated enough electricity for 10,000 homes. On a 38-hectare site, nearly 2000
huge mirrors pint toward a 90-meter “power tower” that heats molten salt, which flows to a stream
generator that turns a turbine. The molten salt heat more effectively than water, so scientists believe that
this innovation can make large commercial plants economical in areas with plenty of sun.
There are heated debates over human cloning. Scientists are already talking about using for medical
purpose the technique that produced the sheep called Dolly. Cloning might help patients with
Parkinson’s and other brain diseases by providing them with neutral tissue that is genetically identical to
their own. Burn victims could receive new skin which would be grown in a laboratory and wrapped
around injured areas like a bandage.
An American invention that barely noticed in 1947 went on to introduce a new age of information
sharing. In that year the Bell Laboratories drew upon highly sophisticated principles of theoretical
physics to invent the transistor, a small substitute for the bulky vacuum tube. This and the device
invented 10 years later made it possible to package enormous amounts of electronic circuits in tiny
containers. As a result book-sized computers of today can outperform room-sized computers of the
1960s and there has been a revolution in the way people live, in how they work, study, conduct business
and engage in research.
A mobile phone made from paper is about to go on the market in the USA and should be available
around the world six month later. Costing only 10$, it is the size of three credit cards put on top of each
other. The phone allows 50 minutes of calls and is thrown away when the calls are used up. A more
expensive model will be able to accept incoming calls. The phone uses the Super Thin Technology with
the electronics printed onto paper.
In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, and the USA followed with Explorer I in
1958. The first manned space flight was made in the spring of 1961 by Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin.
From those first steps to the 1969 moon landing to today’s reusable shuttle, the program has brought
forth a breathtaking display of applied sciences. Communication satellites transmit computer data,
telephone calls, radio and television broadcasts. Space technology has generated thousands of products
for everyday use – from light materials in running shoes to respiratory monitors used in hospitals.
F. The Hip-Hop Sessions is an Internet-based game for those of you who are too cool for fantasy games.
The game revolves around DJing Hip-Hop music. You have to practise your mixing skills, shop for
records and play at parties with occasional breaks to sleep and build up energy for more partying. If you
earn enough “respect points”, you can work your way up the club hierarchy. The aim of the game to
become a fantastic Hip-Hop DJ.
texts
titles
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B
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D
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F
Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведенных утверждений соответствуют содержанию
текста (1- True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False) и о чем в тексте не сказано, то есть на
основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3- Not stated).
Problem and Advice
My name is James and I live in a beautiful seaside town called Hastings. The main tourist attraction in
my town is our picturesque coastline and beach. Recently, however, our beach has become more polluted with
litter left by tourists and locals. Litter is damaging for wildlife, especially birds. Our polluted beach has now
become the main environmental problem in Hastings and immediate action must be taken.
I think that our local government should display signs saying “Take your rubbish home please”. People
should be fined for dropping litter and rubbish collections should be made more often along our beach. What is
also important is that our teachers should broaden or ecological education and children should be taught more
about protecting the environment.
8. He thinks that parents should broaden the children’s ecological education.
A) True
B) False
C) Not stated
9. The boy asks some committees to take an active part in solving the problem in their environment.
A) True
B) False
C) Not stated
10. The polluted beach has become the main environmental problem in the town.
A) True
B) False
C) Not stated
11. Jack says that the main attraction in his town is a picturesque coastline.
A) True
B) False
C) Not stated
12. Litter is damaging for animals, especially birds.
A) True
B) False
C) Not stated
13. People in the town organize days of collecting the litter.
A) True
B) False
C) Not stated
14. James thinks that government should display signs reminding about the rubbish.
A) True
B) False
C) Not stated
15. He says that rubbish collections should not be made more often along their beach.
A) True
B) False
C) Not stated
Раздел 2. Грамматика и Лексика
Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце
строк, обозначенных цифрами 16-23, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию
текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному
заданию 16-23.
16. We don’t know when men began to dream of ___________ in space.
17. The first story that we know about a space flight ____________ in
the year 150.
18. The author described how during a great storm a big wave raised a ship up
to the Moon and the men in the ship ________ themselves in a new world.
19. But the dream of ________ into space became true only in the 20th century.
20. It __________ in November 1957.
21. The ________ animal in space was Laika, a dog from Russia, it travelled
around the Earth for 7 days in the satellite.
22. Then in 1961 all people around the world ___________ about the first
man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
23. Since that time the 12th of April ________ in Russia as Space Day.
TRAVEL
BE WRITTEN
FIND
TRAVEL
HAPPEN
ONE
LEARN
BE CELEBRATED
Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце
строк, обозначенных номерами 24-31 , так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали
содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует
отдельному заданию 24-31.
24. A lot of different weather __________ happen on the Earth every year.
25. All of them can be very __________ for people.
26. The greatest _________ disasters can cause a lot of damage,
injure and kill people.
DISASTER
DANGER
NATURE
27. When the famous Galveston Hurricane struck the United States in 1900,
the whole city ___________ and about 6,000 people were killed.
BE DESTROYED
28. The Hurricane Agnes was not a strong one but it _________ rainfalls
that caused floods and the deaths of 122 people.
29. A more awful flood __________in China in 1998.
30. It __________ by heavy rainfall.
31. The flood destroyed houses and left millions of people ________,
a lot of farmland was damaged.
BRING
HAPPEN
BE CAUSED
HOME
Раздел 3. Письмо
При выполнении задания 32 обратите особое внимание на необходимость соблюдения указанного
объема письма. Письма недостаточного объема, а также письма, превышающие требуемый объем, не
оцениваются.
32. What can you do to protect the environment? Here is a part of a British boy’s letter who answers this
question:
…To save the energy I try not to watch TV much. And I use the computer only if I need it to do my homework.
What do you do to protect the environment?
Write your answer to the question (100-120 words):


answer his question;
ask two questions about the environment problems in Britain.
Ключи к заданиям
Тексты
тексты
заголовки
A
4
B
7
C
1
D
2
E
3
F
6
The Earth
question
answer
8. False
9. Not stated
10. True
11. False
12. True
13. Not stated
14. True
15. False
A
6
B
8
C
5
16. travelling
17. was written
18. found
19. travelling
20. happened
21. first
22. learned
23. has been celebrated
D
3
24. disasters
25. dangerous
26. natural
27. was destroyed
28. brought
29. happened
30. was caused
31. homeless
E
7