All-Russian test work (class 7). Grammar, vocabulary and reading. Variant 8

Read the text and fill in the gap with the correct grammatical form, choosing it from the four suggested options. My mother goes to the theatre whenever she can. When a new play is on, she usually reads the review on the Internet to find out about the play. Last week a new comedy was staged at the city theatre. The reviews on the Internet it was very good. My father comedies. So, my mom and I the theatre without him. Unfortunately, we were a little late. We missed the beginning, but the rest of the play very funny. The actors were very good. The reviews on the Internet were right. We enjoyed every minute of the performance.

Read the text and fill in the gap with the correct grammatical form, choosing it from the four suggested options. The wind and the sun argued one day over which one was the strongest. They saw a man walking along the road and they wanted to see which one could take the coat from the back the quickest. The wind to blow. He blew strong gusts of air, but the man kept the coat tight against . The wind blew still but the man held his coat tightly. The wind could not take the coat from the man. It was now the sun's turn. The sun did very little, just quietly shone upon the man until he became so warm that he off his coat.

Read the text and fill in the gap with a suitable word from the list. Two words in the list are odd. Gustavo is taking part in the important match today. He is really good at soccer. Gustavo's brother Martin taught him to play soccer when he was 4 years old. He Gustavo would be a champion one day. They have practiced a lot since then. The match starts. The fans are ready for an game. Gustavo plays the forward position and is always trying to score a goal. Gustavo always feels when he plays soccer and tonight he is playing even better than usual. He steals the ball from the other team and runs with it as fast as he . In a moment Gustavo kicks the ball with his lucky left foot and it flies through the sky into the goal. Gustavo feels like he is the king of the soccer field; this goal has made him really .

Read the text and fill in the gap with a suitable word from the list. Two words in the list are odd. The girls at school were nice to Laura, but she was a shy person. In class, she always knew the answer, but never raised her hand. When she was with the other girls, she was like that too. Even when she knew the right thing to , her mouth would freeze. She couldn't at all. In fact, Laura was funny, charming and smart. She just didn't know how to show it. Perhaps, it would happen at her party. This would be the finest birthday party of the season. There would be colourful balloons. The games would be fresh and . And the cupcakes would be delicious. Her mom would bake cupcakes instead of a traditional birthday cake. Laura that cupcakes were fun and popular. And her mom to help her make the best party ever.

Read the text and choose the correct topic from the list. This text deals with … Your name is extremely significant. It’s how you identify yourself. It’s how other people identify you. Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Can you imagine someone famous with a name like that? He had to change it. Marilyn Monroe sounds so much more glamorous than Norma Jean Baker. So parents make one of the most important decisions in the lives of their children - giving them a name.

Read the text and choose the correct topic from the list. This text deals with … Some people choose names because they are fashionable. Other parents do the opposite and call their children strange names, or they even invent names. People who choose strange names for their children want to show how special they are. However, the children are not always happy with their parents’ choice. David Bowie’s son found the name Zowie so embarrassing that he changed it to Joe.

Read the text and choose the correct topic from the list. This text deals with … These days it’s fashionable to give your child the name of a place that is important to you: Victoria and David Beckham decided to call their son Brooklyn because they were in New York when they discovered that Victoria was going to have a baby. Madonna named her daughter Lourdes after the town in France, the ex-US-President Bill Clinton named his daughter Chelsea after a part of London that he and his wife liked.

Read the text and choose the correct topic from the list. This text deals with … A woman, Mrs Bennet, was in hospital after the birth of her son. She was trying to decide what to call her son, when she walked past a door. It had the name ‘KING’ on it. That’s a good name, she thought. A little later, she walked past another door, and this time she saw the name ‘NOSMO’. Interesting, she thought. But she liked it, too, and so her son was named Nosmo King Bennet. It was only six months later that she discovered her terrible mistake.

Read the text and choose the correct topic from the list. This text deals with … A.L.I.C.E. is an award-winning chat robot at www.alicebot.org. She’s intelligent and funny and has won prizes for being the most human-like computer. She was created by Dr Richard S. Wallace. Six thousand people a month chat to A.L.I.C.E. Some people spend up to four and a half hours a day chatting online with her, and some have even said they prefer her to their own girlfriends.

Look at the picture, read its description and choose the correct words or phrases. I'd like to describe this picture. The picture shows a in the . is and . I think is years old. The is . is . The has got hair and eyes. is wearing a and . I like this picture because I like too. That's all I wanted to say.