SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION

COLEGIO CIUDADELA EDUCATIVA DE BOSA

INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA DISTRITAL
Educación en Pre-escolar – Básica – Secundaria y Media Académica
DANE 111001107875
Resolución No. 155 de 24 de Enero de 2008

PRUEBA COMPETENCIA
GRADO OCTAVO- AREA INGLES-2do BIMESTRE

Seleccione la respuesta correcta. c. There is was Transmilenio in

Bogota.
In this place you can…..
a. You can borrow
books to read.
1. Grocery store b. You can buy
food.
c. You can buy
notebooks and Responde las siguientes preguntas,
paper. escogiendo la mejor opción.

6.
a. You can buy
your medicine. :
2. Drugstore b. You can do
aerobics.

c. you can see

movies.
a. Picasso were a famous artist.
3. Art gallery a. you can buy b. Picasso was a famous artist
gallery c. Is was Picasso.

b. You can see

antique
collections
c. You can dance.

Observe los siguientes dibujos y

relaciónelos con una frase in past tense.
7.
4.
a. They was not a rock starts
b. They were famous singers.
c. They is famous singers.

a. Tom and Katy was in the bakery
b. Tom and Kati were in the drugstore
c. Tom and Kati was not in the bakery.
5.
Lee el texto y responde las preguntas.
Taxcla 8._________ a small town.
There 9.___________ 30.000 people in
1940. There 10.__________ a church,
a big restaurant and a police station.

Taxcla was a very beautiful town.

8. a. were
a. There was not Transmilenio in b. was not
Bogota in 1950. c.was
b. There is Transmilenio in Bogota in
1950.
9. a. is was.
b. were. a. burning fuels
c.were not. b. nuclear energy
c. sewerage systems
10. a. was.
b. were not
c. was is Lee el texto y conteste las preguntas.

Food-born illnesses are an ever

present threat that can be prevented
with proper care and handling of food
products. It is estimated that 24 to 81
million cases of food–born diarrhea
occur each year in the United States,
costing between US$5 billion and
US$17 million in medical care and
productivity.
Escoge la frase gramaticalmente
correcta y lógica de acuerdo a la Food-born illnesses are caused by
situación.
chemicals, viruses, fungi, parasites,
4. heavy metals and bacteria.
POLLUTION IN BIG CITIES IS
ONE OF THE WORLD’S 7. Food-born illnesses are very
expensive in
MAJOR PROBLEMS. terms of
a. medical care costs
b. productivity lost
a. Oil spills really affect wildlife c. both a and b
b. Governments are trying to help
endangered species. 8. Experts say that ....................cases of
c. Smog is a dangerous form of food-
pollution produced by cars and born occur each year in USA.
factories.
a. More than a hundred million
4. b. a hundred million
RECENTLY RECYCLING c. more than fifty million

Cambia las siguientes frases en voz

a. is become important activa a voz pasiva.
b. is another pollution factor.
c. Was implemented by different 9. Seafood processing companies
organizations. produce
canned fish
Escoge las palabras que completan
mejor la frase. a. Canned fish is produced
b. Companies process seafood
5.____________ is caused by a c. Seafood is processed
bacteria in
the food. 10. Americans consumed more than
twenty
a. food poisoning. billion hot dogs in 2000.
b. Organic food
c. Junk food a. More than twenty billion hot
dogs were consumed in 2000.
6. _____________ are one of the main b. Americans are consuming
twenty billion hot dogs.
causes
c. Hot dogs are consumed.
of air pollution.
 Lea el siguiente texto y conteste las
preguntas.
A big 8.8 magnitude seismic activity killed
hundreds of people in Chile. Experts say it
was 500 times bigger than the one that hit
Haiti in January. More than 700 people
died in the terrible natural disaster. Aid
agencies say over 2 million have been
affected. Half a million homes have been
damaged or destroyed.
7. The text talks about:

A. a tsunami
B. an earthquake
C. a seaquake

8. Experts estimate that at least

……….. residences were destroyed.

A. 1.000.000
B. 1.500.000
C. 500.000

9. According to the picture, only one of

these sentences is true.

The following headline refers to:

TEN DEAD IN
FACTORY BLAST a. There was a hurricane. Many
houses were destroyed.
A. a volcano eruption b. There was a volcanic eruption and
B. a hurricane everybody run away.
C. an explosion c. There were wildfires, and as a
consequence, all the people die.
5. The following headline refers to:

It caused buildings and bridges to collapse

and fires throughout the city. About 200.000
people died.
A. A Hurricane
B. An Earthquake
C. A volcano eruption
6. The following headline refers to:

TROPICAL STORM HITS

NEW ORLEANS
A. a tornado
B. an avalanche
C. a hurricane