Name Kyrylyuk Dima___________________________ Class 8-C___________________________

Module 8 Test Student A

VOCABULARY
1 Complete the words.
0 the study of plants botany
1 an animal with one long horn rhinoceros _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2 the study of living things b iology_ _ _ _ _ _
3 a large extinct elephant m ammoth_ _ _ _ _ _
4 the study of stars and planets a stronomy_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
5 a person who studies animals z oologist_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
6 the study of light, movement, heat etc. p hysics_ _ _ _ _ _
7 a person who studies rocks g eologist_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
8 a person who studies plants b otanisst_ _ _ _ _ _ _
9 the study of the physical world s cientist_ _ _ _ _ _
10 the study of illnesses and diseases medicine _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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2 Choose the correct words.

Many people are trying to save the 0 plants on Earth. They are worried because many animals are
facing 1 extinction as their habitats 2 / discover and they are killed by hunters. But it won’t be the
first time that animals have disappeared from our planet. Millions of years ago 3 dinosaurs lived on
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Earth and then suddenly disappeared. Archaeologists have found / evidence of enormous
birds, many of which were bigger than mammals. We also know that not so long ago people hunted
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the sabre tiger. Scientists keep finding out new information about these
creatures all the time. In 2005 the Chinese made the 8 / importance of the fossil of an unknown
dinosaur the size of a cat!

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GRAMMAR
3 Complete the short dialogues with the correct verb forms.
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A: Would you live (live) on Mars if it 1 __was_____________ (be) possible?

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B: Yes, definitely. I 2 _______would try ________ (try) to build a new world where there was no
crime and no sickness.

C: How 3 ___would____________ you _______if you ________ (feel) if you 4

__________won_____ (win) the lottery?

D: I think I 5 _____would feel__________ (feel) amazing. I 6 ____would give___________ (give)

my family and friends some of the money and then I 7 ___would travel____________ (travel)
around the world with my two best friends.

E: What 8 ____would ___________ you _____do__________ (do) if you 9 ___were____________

(be) the president of your country?

F: I 10 ________would make_______ (make) a lot of changes. I would build better schools and
hospitals.

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4 Choose the correct words.

0 There aren’t many / tigers left in the world.
1 There are a lot of animals on the danger list.
2 They didn’t find / many fossils in that area.
3 Few / people understand this difficult subject.
4 She doesn’t speak much English.
5 He’s got very little money in his pocket.
6 The Earth’s temperature will probably get a lot hotter.
7 There are a few biscuits left. Do you want one?
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5 Each line has one mistake. Find the mistake and write the correct word or words on the
line.
0 Where I live there is a beach with a lot dinosaur fossils. When a lot of
1 I was a child, very a few people knew about the place. I have collected ___few__
2 much fossils over the years and I have learned a lot about them. I’m ___many,a lot of_

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3 only a poor student, but if I have a lot of money, I would spend all my ___much__
4 time studying them. Nowadays, too little people know about the _many____
5 beach and there is always people hunting for fossils there. ___few__
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COMMUNICATION
6 Match the sentence halves.
Sally Hi, Joel.
Joel Hi, Sally. 0 How’s / What’s the matter? Is there a problem?
Sally Not really, but 1 can l you 2 do me a favour, please?
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Joel / Sure, Sally. What is it?
Sally Well, I can’t go school tomorrow. / I’d like you to take notes for me.
Joel Okay, 5 / I’ll do that. / Do you like me to collect any handouts?
Sally Yes, that would be great. Thanks.
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Joel t / Shall I bring them round to your house after school?
Sally No, I won’t be back till later. I 8 will collect them from you around eight. Is that
okay?
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Joel / That’s fine.
Sally Thanks.
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Joel No way

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