Переводной экзамен по английскому языку 8 класс

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1. Вы два раза услышите четыре коротких диалога, обозначенных буквами А, B, C, D. Установите

соответствие между диалогами и местами, где они происходят

1. At a concert 2. In a gym 3. At home 4. On a street 5. In a classroom

Запишите в таблицу выбранные цифры под соответствующими буквами. Перенесите цифры в бланк

ответов.

2. Вы два раза услышите пять высказываний, обозначенных буквами А, В, С, D, Е. Установите

соответствие между высказываниями и утверждениями из следующего списка

1. The speaker recommends a place to go for a holiday.

2. The speaker explains how to avoid quarrels.

3. The speaker talks about his/her pet.

4. The speaker reports the results of his/her project work.

5. The speaker describes his/her school friend.

6. The speaker disapproves of his/her friend’s behaviour.

Запишите в таблицу выбранные цифры под соответствующими буквами. Перенесите цифры в бланк

ответов.

Вы услышите разговор двух друзей: Ника и Анны. В заданиях 3–8 в поле ответа запишите одну

цифру, которая соответствует номеру правильного ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

3. Where are Nick and Anna talking?

1) In the cinema. 2) In the school canteen. 3) In a swimming pool.

4. What does Nick do?

1) Nick is a schoolboy. 2) Nick is a university student. 3) Nick is a newspaper reporter.

5. What attracts Nick to the career most of all? – The opportunity

1) to travel. 2) to become famous. 3) to learn new things.

6. What sport does Nick do?

1) Cycling. 2) Windsurfing. 3) Football.

7. What are Nick’s plans for the summer holidays?

1) To do a summer job. 2) To go abroad. 3) To learn a new language.

8. What country has Nick recently been to?

1) Italy. 2) Spain. 3) France.

9. Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами и их заголовками: к каждому

тексту, обозначенному буквами А– F, подберите соответствующий заголовок, обозначенный

цифрами 1–7. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании есть один лишний

заголовок.

1. Traditional delivery

2. Money above privacy

3. The best-known newspapers

4. Focus on different readers

5. The successful competitor

6. Size makes a difference

7. Weekend reading

A. As in many other European countries, Britain’s main newspapers are losing their readers. Fewer and

fewer people are buying broadsheets and tabloids at the newsagent’s. In the last quarter of the twentieth century

people became richer and now they can choose other forms of leisure activity. Also, there is the Internet which is

a convenient and inexpensive alternative source of news.

B. The ‘Sunday papers’ are so called because that is the only day on which they are published. Sunday

papers are usually thicker than the dailies and many of them have six or more sections. Some of them are ‘sisters’

of the daily newspapers. It means they are published by the same company but not on week days.

C. Another proof of the importance of ‘the papers’ is the morning ‘paper round’. Most newsagents organise

these. It has become common that more than half of the country’s readers get their morning paper brought to

their door by a teenager. The boy or girl usually gets up at around 5:30 a.m. every day including Sunday to earn a

bit of pocket money.

D. Not so long ago in Britain if you saw someone reading a newspaper you could tell what kind it was

without even checking the name. It was because the quality papers were printed on very large pages called

‘broadsheet’. You had to have expert turning skills to be able to read more than one page. The tabloids were

printed on much smaller pages which were much easier to turn.

E. The desire to attract more readers has meant that in the twentieth century sometimes even the broadsheets

in Britain look rather ‘popular’. They give a lot of coverage to scandal and details of people’s private lives. The

reason is simple. What matters most for all newspaper publishers is making a profit. They would do anything to

sell more copies.

F. If you go into any newsagent’s shop in Britain you will not find only newspapers. You will also see rows

and rows of magazines for almost every imaginable taste. There are specialist magazines for many popular

pastimes. There are around 3,000 of them published in the country and they are widely read, especially by

women. Magazines usually list all the TV and radio programmes for the coming week and many British readers

prefer them to newspapers.

Запишите в таблицу выбранные цифры под соответствующими буквами. Перенесите цифры в бланк

ответов.

Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений соответствуют содержанию текста,

какие не соответствуют и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни

положительного, ни отрицательного ответа.

Sports in Great Britain

It is interesting how many of today’s sports games originated in Britain – football, rugby, tennis, boxing, rowing

and horse racing among them. Of course, horse racing was popular with the Greeks and Arabs long before the

British began to put them into practice; and people had been playing football in one form or another for

thousands of years all over the world. But it was the British who created special rules for these sports and sports

games.

Football is a good example. In the Middle Ages people in Europe, Japan and Asia all played some forms of the

game. A sort of football was also very popular in England, especially as a contest between villages. But at that

time there were very few rules. When the students of English schools started to play football, rules then became

necessary. They were changed several times and by the middle of the 19th century football had become very

much the game that we know and like today. By the way, the first serious football rules were written at

Cambridge University.

A similar story can be told about some other sports. Why did this happen in Britain before other countries? There

are some possible explanations: after the Norman invasion of 1066, Britain was quite a peaceful country. As a

result people had time to develop sports. Later, after Britain’s industrial revolution, English factories were based

on highly organized work and strict time keeping. The same discipline was applied to sport. So uniforms,

referees and punishments were introduced to football and other games. British authorities thought that team

games were good training for future military and industrial careers.

Every country has its own list of favourite sports. What is the British list? There are lots of games apart from

football. Schoolgirls, for example, play a game which seems a lot like basketball. It is called netball. Netball is

different from basketball in many details: for example, the ball is lighter, the court is bigger and netball has seven

players in each team (not five). There is something very strange about netball – it is never played by boys. There

is no biological reason for this, it is simply a tradition. It is popular throughout the English-speaking world, and

the Australians and New Zealanders usually win the competitions.

But the most famous and popular British sport is cricket. Cricket is an important part of English summer life.

You can watch it all day on TV or even listen to it on the radio. News programmes keep you up-to-date with the

score. Men, when they meet, always exchange a few words about the state of the game.

One of cricket’s distinguishing features is that the games are very long. In an ordinary game at a boys’ school it

takes up to a whole afternoon. But the big international games are up to five days long.

10. Football was the most popular game in the Ancient World.