Контрольная работа по английскому языку для 8 класса
по теме «Outstanding people»
приготовила учитель английского языка МАОУ СОШ №1 г. Салехарда
Сидорова А.С.
1 variant
Complete each sentence with one of the words or phrases below.
popular, rented, set up, school, nature, ideas, spent, born, outstanding, businessman, drawing
Walt Disney, an (1) American producer, is a creator of the world’s most magical films. A talented (2) he also created Disneyland, where children and their parents are entertained by Disney’s characters.
Walt Disney was (3) in 1901. He (4) most of his childhood on a farm, where he learned to study (5) andanimals. He wasn’t a good student at school because he always found things that interested him more than (6) such as a movie house and (7).
After the First World War he managed to (8) his own film company. He (9) an old camera and a garage. He loved cartoons and was full of (10).
Disney’s cartons became (11) all over the world.
2. Make the sentences from the words below
1) 21, the binomial, Newton, he, theorem, When, was, created
2) hungry, Leonardo da Vinci, was, knowledge, for
3) popular, the world, Disney’s cartoons, all, became, over
4)is , the world, Russia, The “Play-Makers group”, known, in, and
2 variant
Complete each sentence with one of the words or phrases below
created, monument, school, poetry, born, work, entered, poor, science, closed, stay
Isaac Newton is one of the greatest men in the history of (1). He was (2) in a small village in England. His father, a (3) farmer, died when Isaac was too young. Newton had to quit (4). Isaac had to (5) on a farm. However, Isaac didn’t like farming, he was fond of (6) and mathematics. He studied hard and (7) Cambridge University after school.
In autumn 1660 Cambridge University was (8) because of plague. Newton had to come back to his village and (9) there for a year and a half. He went on studying at home.
At the age of 21 Newton (10) the binomial theorem.
Isaac Newton was a man of great wisdom. There is a (11) to Isaac Newton in Cambridge with the words “Newton, Who Surpassed All Men of Science”.
2. Make the sentences from the words below
1) prize, In 1979, the greatest, Mother Teresa, got, in the world, the Nobel Peace Prize
2) studio, Disney’s, was, first, garage.
3) and, famous, is, a world, inventor, Leonardo da Vinci, painter
4)famous, mime, is, a world, Slava Polunin, actor
