Entry Test Form 9

Entry Test

Form 9

1. READING COMPREHENSION (10 minutes)

 Read the text and answer the following questions, сhoosing the correct variant

 The Christmas Tree

 No one knows for sure who decorated the first Christmas tree. The custom of bringing an evergreen tree indoors and decorating it at Christmas started in Germany. One legend says that Martin Luther started the practice. Luther was an important Christian leader. According to the story, he noticed the starlit sky as he walked home one Christmas Eve about the year 1513. He thought the stars looked as if they were shining on the branches. When he arrived home, Martin Luther placed a small fir tree inside his house. He decorated it with lighted candles.

 Decorating Christmas trees became popular in Germany. Prince Albert of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, the German husband of Queen Victoria, took the tradition to England. Both German and English people brought it to America. And now nearly every family in Great Britain and the USA has a Christmas tree.

 The biggest Christmas tree in Britain is put up in Trafalgar Square in London. The people of Norway still give this tree every year to the British people to thank them for helping Norway against Hitler in the Second World War.

 1. … started the practice of decorating the Christmas tree.

 a) Nobody knows who

 b) Queen Victoria

 c) Martin Luther King

 d) Prince Albert

 2. The first Christmas trees in Britain were introduced and popularized by …

 a) Prince Albert and Queen Victoria

 b) Martin Luther King

 c) The Norwegians

 d) The Germans

 3. What follows from the text?

 a) Martin Luther decorated the Christmas tree with toys.

 b) American people do no decorate Christmas trees.

 c) Every year the people of Norway give the city of London a present – a big Christmas tree.

 d) Queen Elisabeth I took the tradition to decorate Christmas tree to England.

 2. USE OF ENGLISH (20 minutes)

Task 1. Active or passive? Choose the correct verb form.

1.       The book (wrote/was written) by Hardy.

2.       Four people (have killed/have been killed) in а train crash.

3.       А famous architect (was built/built) the bridge.

Task 2.  Choose the correct modal verb.

4.       Mike _________ play the piano very well. And what about you?

a) can    b) should      c) must

5.       _________ you help me with this task?

a) Could      b) Must    c) May

6.       It’s raining. You _________ take an umbrella.

a) can’t     b) don’t have to      c) should

Task 3. Choose the right preposition (of, to, by,off, in).

7.       It contains the largest display… toy dolls.

8.       The most successful men and women of that period showed … their wealth wearing silk, woolen and linen clothes.

9.       If  I was invited …my friends dinner party, I would think twice what to wear.

10.    It was … fashion to wear  their hair long with lots of colour threads in it.

11.    We'd recommend you to travel... bus.

Task 4. Match the sentences  from column A with the replies from column B.

Task 5. Choose the necessary word.

18.    My friend, who/ which is very talented, is arriving today.

19.    She’s bought the book who/ that she was looking for.

20.    Tom’s father has been building his house for/since two years.

21.    Alice wanted a bicycle for/since her last birthday.

3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ. (5 minutes)

 Match the name of the city on the left with the sights on the right.

1. London                            a) Royal Shakespeare Theatre

2. Liverpool                         b) St. Paul's Cathedral

3. Stratford-upon-Avon       c) Prestigious University

4. Cambridge                       d) The Beatles Story Museum

Keys

1.      READING COMPREHENSION

 1 с 2 a 3 c

2.      USE OF ENGLISH

Task 1

1 was written 2 have been killed 3 built

Task 2

 4a  5a  6c

Task 3

 7of  8off  9to  10 in  11 by

Task 4

12c  13a  14f  15b  16d  17e

Task 5

 18 who  19that  20 for  21for

3.      GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ.

1 b 2 d 3 a 4 c

Критерии оценивания (каждый вопрос 1 балл)

              28-26 – “5”

25-22 – “4”

 21-14 – “3”

Меньше 14 – “2’’