Clasa a VIII-a Initial Test [Type here]

1 Choose the correct words.

1 You ……………….. go shopping. There isn`t enough food in the fridge.
2 Your clothes are dirty. You …………. change them.
3 You ………… to pay now. You can pay when we get there.
4 He ……….. talk to her like that. It’s very rude.
5 During an exam you ……….. copy from other students.
2 Complete the story with the past simple or past continuous of the verbs in brachets.
It was a very cold day in winter. It 1 ………….(snow) and Greg 2………………...
(watch)a tennis match on TV when he 3 ………………..(hear) a noise upstairs. He 4
………………….. (go) to investigate. While he 5 ……………….(go) upstairs to see what
happened, his younger brother ……………..(come out of his room. He said, ‘The cat
6……………….. (jump) on my desk! It hit the computer and now … it’s on the floor!’
3 Correct the following sentences.
1 John and Mary just moved to the USA last.
2 Did you ever eaten Japanese food?
3 I have been waiting here for you for you called.
4 Sorry, I haven’t phoned you yesterday.
5 Julie has never rode a scooter.
6 Have you visited Agra when you were in India?
7. He hasn`t seen Anna for last Christmas.
4 Choose the correct words.
1 ‘What about the weather tomorrow?’ ‘I don’t know, it will / may rain.’
2 ‘Can you give Tom a message?’ ‘I don’t think I will / might see him tonight.’
3 ‘Are you coming to the party next Saturday?’ ‘I’m not sure. I will / might not be here.’
4 We’ll / We might be at home on Sunday. Come over in the afternoon and I’ll show you the
photos of my holiday.
5 I’m sure Mary will / might win the music competition – she’s been practising a lot and she
plays really well.
5 Reading
Kashy Keegan always wanted to be a pop star and spent years trying to make it happen.
In 2007, when he was 22, he wrote what he felt would finally be his big hit, a song called ‘This
Is My Dream’, but it never happened. As the years passed, he started to give up on his musical
career and found other jobs. In 2012, he decided to upload the song to a music sharing website
called Reverbnation. He hoped someone might hear it and like it. A few months later, he
received an email from Universal Music in Hong Kong. They were starting a new TV station and
they wanted to use ‘This Is My Dream’ as the theme tune to one of their shows. Kashy was really
excited and made a deal for $5,000 to allow the TV station to use his song. The TV station
invited Kashy to come over to Hong Kong and perform. He accepted the invitations and was met
by hundreds of fans. Everyone there thought he was a big star in the UK. He had to try and
explain that back home, no one knew who he was. A little later, Kashy was playing the song live
on stage to more than 30,000 screaming fans. After the show, he gave lots of interviews and
signed hundreds of autographs. The next day, he saw his face in all the local newspapers and the
song went to number one in the iTunes charts. Two days later, Kashy was back in his job in
London, but he is flying out to Hong Kong again soon to play his first live shows. His pop dream
is finally happening
Which was her first song? 2 How long after going online did did she perform on stage? Where
does he live?
Clasa a VIII-a Initial Test [Type here]

1 Choose the correct words.

1 You ……………….. go shopping. There isn`t enough food in the fridge.
2 Your clothes are dirty. You …………. change them.
3 You ………… to pay now. You can pay when we get there.
4 He ……….. talk to her like that. It’s very rude.
5 During an exam you ……….. copy from other students.
2 Complete the story with the past simple or past continuous of the verbs in brachets.
It was a very cold day in winter. It 1 ………….(snow) and Greg 2………………...
(watch)a tennis match on TV when he 3 ………………..(hear) a noise upstairs. He 4
………………….. (go) to investigate. While he 5 ……………….(go) upstairs to see what
happened, his younger brother ……………..(come out of his room. He said, ‘The cat
6……………….. (jump) on my desk! It hit the computer and now … it’s on the floor!’
3 Complete the dialogue with the verbs in brachets. Use the present perfect. When there is
not a verb use for or since.
ANTON I 1……………..(make) a lot of new friends 2 ..….I started youth club.
BEN Really? What do you do there?
ANTON Lots of different things. First, we 3 ………… (do) an ICT course and then 4
…………….(start) drama classes.
BEN That sounds really fun. 5 ………………….(you ever/try) the drama class?
ANTON No, but I want to. I 6………………. (not be) well 7………. the last two week weeks,
so I missed them.
4 Choose the correct words.
There are horrible predictions about the future on the Internet. If the population 1grows /
will grow too much, there 2isn’t / won’t be enough food for everybody. But I hope we 3‘ll try /
try to improve our living conditions. If we 4work / are working harder, things will get better. 5
When / Then we do this, there will be more hope for everybody.
5. Match the missing sentences (1–7) with the spaces A–G. There is one extra sentence.
Does anybody sit down and watch TV these days? When my parents were growing up,
they only had a few channels to choose from. If you missed your favourite programme, it was
just bad luck – [A] (unless you had a video recorder and remembered to programme it). The TV
was the centre point of the house. Families planned what show they wanted to see and cooked
their dinners so that they could finish eating in time to watch it. At school, children talked about
the shows [B] and because there weren’t many programmes for kids, they all watched the same
thing.
When I grew up, the TV was bigger and a lot thinner than the TVs of my parents’ time. It
had [C] a remote control to change between the many channels. But the TV was still an
important piece of furniture [D] and we all sat around it on a Saturday night to watch something
as a family. These days, TV just doesn’t seem to be so important, and [E] people can choose
what they want to watch and when they want to watch it. They don’t even need to watch it on a
TV. They can download programmes and watch them on their tablets and phones [F]. Watching
TV has become a much more individual activity and in many houses the TV set sits forgotten in
the corner of the living room, waiting for the day when the family sits down together again and
turns it on.
1 they watched the night before B 2 in the house 3 apart from things like live football
matches, 4 like they did when my parents were children 5 whenever and wherever they like
6 better sound and 7 you didn’t have a chance of seeing it again