DRŽAVNO NATJECANJE IZ ENGLESKOG JEZIKA

za 8. razred osnovne škole

ŠKOLSKA GODINA 2018. / 2019.

Zaporka: ______________________________________
(zadana riječ)

TEST

Slušanje s razumijevanjem: 6 bodova

Čitanje s razumijevanjem: 6 bodova
Uporaba jezika: 48 bodova

Ukupno: 60 bodova

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Task 1 – Listening Comprehension.
You will hear the recording about the Crater of Diamonds Park. You will have time to look through the
sentences before you listen. Write your answers on the test first but don't forget to copy your answers onto
the answer sheet when you finish. The recording will be played twice, and there will be a short pause
between the two listenings. You can write your answers during both the first and the second listening.

Decide whether statements 1 – 6 are true or false. Write T for true, or F for false. There is an example at the
beginning (0). Copy your answers onto the Answer Sheet.

John Wesley Huddleston was called the Diamond King. (0) __F__

Wesley Huddleston couldn't read. (1) _____

He sent the rocks to the jeweler in Little Rock in order to sell them. (2) _____
Carbon crystallized into diamonds due to an explosion of gas. (3) _____
Huddleston had bought his farm with some money and an animal. (4) _____
After being owned by many different people, it was eventually sold to the state in the 1980s. (5) _____
The exact number of diamonds found per day is unknown. (6) _____

(6 points)

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Task 2 – Reading comprehension.
Read the text. Decide whether statements 1 – 6 are true or false. Write T for true, or F for false. There is an
example at the beginning (0). Copy your answers onto the Answer Sheet.

The children of the future may have to lean on different crayons. According to a recent study, over
the past five years, America’s lakes have been steadily turning from “blue” to greenish-brown, a state
officially known as “murky.” The study, which is based on the data from the National Lakes Assessment
(NLA), found that between 2007 and 2012 the proportion of blue lakes in a representative set plummeted
from 46 percent to 28 percent. At the same time, the percentage of murky lakes rose from 24 percent to 35.4
percent.
“I grew up on a lake,” says Dina Leech, the study’s lead author and a professor at Longwood
University in Virginia. “The first thing that you notice about a body of water is its colour.” It’s not just a
question of beauty, each shade means something specific. Green lakes are full of nutrients, which encourage
the growth of algae. Brown lakes are full of organic matter, such as dirt and dead plants. Blue lakes are clear
because they don’t have much of either of these things. And murky lakes “which are sort of greenish brown
or brownish green, depending on your worldview,” Leech says, have a lot of both.
During the NLA, which happens every five years, volunteers head out to over a thousand lakes
across the United States and gather information about them, including size, depth, and water temperature.
This new study focused on two parameters: amount of phosphorus, and “true colour.”
To get a true colour measurement, volunteers take samples, filter them out, and visually compare the
filtered water to a colour wheel. Taken together, this “nutrient-colour paradigm” allows experts to divide
lakes into the four categories in question.
Besides “murky”, which tends to indicate poor water quality, none of these colours are really
troublesome. Brown lakes, for example, are common near wetlands, which provide lots of organic matter.
But a lake high up in the mountains will probably be clear and blue, because there’s not a lot of runoff to
absorb. “Lakes could naturally exist in any one of these states,” says Leech. “What we’re concerned about is
over five years, this short period of time, we see lakes shifting to murky.”
No one is quite sure why this murkification is occurring. Climate change, which can increase
temperature and rain fall, is one possibility. Another is the success of the Clean Air Act, which has reduced
acid rain, and therefore soil acidity. Land use may be another factor. When the authors compared their lake
colour data set with one indicating land use, they found that “green lakes and murky lakes tend to have more
agriculture increase in their watersheds”, the areas from which they receive runoff, says Leech.

The word “murky“, when referring to the colour of the lakes, means greenish-brown. (0) _T_

The colour of the lakes can tell you what other matter the water contains. (1) _____
The National Lakes Assessment takes place every year. (2) _____
People who get samples for analysis don't get paid for their work. (3) _____
Brown lakes are poorer in quality than murky lakes. (4) _____
The colour changing process cannot be accurately explained. (5) _____
Agriculture has been completely ruled out as one of the factors. (6) _____
(6 points)

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Task 3 – Open Cloze.
Read the text. For numbers 1 – 6 write any word which fits the best. Write one word only. There is an
example at the beginning (0). Write the questions on the Answer Sheet.

Archaeologists in Russia (0) have recently stumbled upon a 1699 coin issued to mark compliance
with the “Beard Tax,” which Tsar Peter the Great had introduced the year before.
The beard tax policy required men, who wished to keep their beards, to pay up or (1) _______________
shaved by the police. (2) _______________ return they received tokens like the one recently found, which
got them a pass from authorities. The coin, engraved with lips, a curving mustache and a groomed beard, as
(3) _______________ as “money paid” in Russian—was one of 5,000 historic coins found in the remains of
a 17th-century building in the western Russian city of Pskov in 2016. The archaeologists only recently
identified the beard tax token, and it is one of the oldest (4) _______________ found. Peter started the tax
upon his return from a tour of Western Europe, where he saw very few furry chins. Beards had fallen out of
favor in Europe over the (5) _______________ of the 17th century. For the young Tsar, shaving his
countrymen became an integral (6) _______________ of his efforts to remake Russia in the image of
Britain, Holland, and France.
(6 points)

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Task 4 – Error correction.
Read the text. For numbers 1 – 6 decide whether there are errors in the text. Each number refers to one line.
In some lines there is a word too many. Write  if you think there are no errors. If you find an error, write it
down. Use one word only. There are two examples at the beginning, (0) and (00). Write your answers on the
Answer Sheet.

The oldest words we have know of are building block words, reflecting (0) _have_

key elements in developing societies across humanity. (00) _____

Interestingly enough, black is another one of the earliest words in the (1) ________
English. Defined as “lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without (2) ________
reflecting any of the rays composing to it,” a simpler explanation might (3) ________
have explain why this word was created so long ago: “simply the absence (4) ________
of colour.” In any case, man (before the year 900) picked up on the fact that (5) ________
the sun sets on every night, and the sky becomes a dark, murky void. (6) ________

(6 points)

Task 5 – Verb Tenses.

Read the text. For numbers 1 – 6 put the verbs from the brackets into the correct tenses. There is an example
at the beginning (0). Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

In a world full of Kates and Sarahs, you might think it (0) ____'d be_____ (be) nice to have a unique name
to help me stand out in a crowd. Being named Stacia (pronounced stay-sha) is not all it's cracked up to be.
I'll get the occasional "Your name is so pretty" after introducing myself, but generally speaking, so far in my
life my name (1)_______________ (cause) me more distress than happiness.
Some common frustrations: Microsoft Word always (2)_______________ (try) to tell me my name isn't a
real word. Ordering at Starbucks is my worst nightmare. The Coke campaign (3)_______________ (leave)
me feeling best friendless. I was never able to buy a cheesy Mickey Mouse keychain from Disneyland as a
kid. In other words, I (4)_______________ (not have) a childhood.

Maybe if my parents were Hollywood celebrities the name Stacia (5)_______________ (seem) normal
among North West and Apple. Unfortunately, they aren't billionaires and we lived in your average suburb
where even I couldn't pronounce my own name correctly until I (6)_______________ (be) 5.
(6 points)

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Task 6 – Word formation.
Read the text. For numbers 1 – 6 use the correct forms of the words printed in capital letters. Write one word
only. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

I am quite sure I wouldn't like to have an (0) __occupation__ that has anything to do OCCUPY
with physics, chemistry or maths.

The chair umpire (1) ___________________ the linesman and called the ball out. RULE
He was very (2) ___________________ because the big day was drawing closer. ANXIETY
He isn't happy with his job because he feels he is (3) ___________________. PAY
Don't eat too much or you'll become (4) ___________________. WEIGH
Most people are willing to listen (5) ___________________. SYMPATHY
I’m a (6) ___________________ in the power of love. BELIEF
(6 points)

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Task 7 – Keyword transformations
Read the sentences. For numbers 1 – 6 transform the sentences by using the word printed in bold, in order to
keep the same meaning. Use no more than 5 words. Do not change the word given. There is an example at
the beginning (0). Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

(0) The last time John came to my house was in 1999.

since
John hasn't _____come to my house since______ 1999.

(1) Clothing costs the same as it did last year.

changed
Clothing prices ______________________________ last year.

(2) Steve can only go on holiday because his best friend will give him the money.
able
If Steve's best friend doesn't give him the money, he___________________________ to go on
holiday.

(3) We have never met anyone as famous as he is.

most
He ______________________________________ we have ever met.

(4) It's been three weeks since I last went out.

been
I _________________________________________ three weeks.

(5) There aren't any eggs left.

run
We _________________________________________ eggs.

(6) My mother insisted on my doing some chores every day.

made
My mother _________________________________________ some chores every day.

(6 points)

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Task 8 – Words beginning with B.
Read the sentences. For numbers 1 – 6 complete the missing words. All of the words begin with the letter B.
There is an example at the beginning (0). Write the complete words on the Answer Sheet.

(0) A ___b e d___ is a piece of furniture you sleep in.

(1) If you _______________ someone, you make an accusation that he or she is responsible for some misdeed.
(2) A _______________ person possesses or displays courage.
(3) A _______________ is a group or a number of similar things.
(4) To _______________ means to act in a certain manner.
(5) A _______________ is a place where bees live.
(6) A _______________ is a hostile meeting of opposing military forces.

(6 points)

Task 9 – Multiple choice test.

Read the text. For numbers 1 – 6, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D. There is an example at the
beginning (0). Write your answers (only the letters A, B, C, or D) on the Answer Sheet.

Thirty thousand years ago, give or take (0) __A__ few centuries, a ground squirrel burrowed out a spot for
(1) ____, about 10 inches in diameter at its widest, where it brought back seeds and other grassy and fruited
plants to nibble on. The place where the squirrel chose to make its burrow is now (2) ____ as Siberia, and
the burrow is close to 100 feet below the surface and in a layer of permafrost. The squirrel, of course, is long
gone. But tiny roundworms, that also made their home there have lasted those tens of thousands of years,
(3) ____ and immobile. Now, though, scientists in Russia have revived them, making these worms—all of
them female worms—the first multicellular organisms to have survived in Arctic permafrost. The permafrost
(4) ____ of the polar parts of the world contains all sorts of tiny creatures, including bacteria, algae, yeasts,
and amoebas, as well as moss spores and seeds. After spending thousands of years in deep freeze, these bits
of life are thawing out, as the poles heat (5) ____ and the permafrost softens. Previously, scientists found
that a giant virus that they named Pithovirus was still viable after 30,000 years. In a new paper the scientists
describe how they (6) ____ 300 samples of permafrost in 2018. Of those, only two samples had viable worm
species in them. One came from the squirrel burrow; another came from a different permafrost deposit, part
of a core drilling near the Alazeya River. That sample was about 42,000 years old.

(0) A a B an C the D-
(1) A herself B himself C itself D yourself
(2) A claimed B regarded C famous D known
(3) A frost B frozen C melt D melted
(4) A sheet B layer C coat D row
(5) A up B down C on D by
(6) A have analyzed B analyzed C will analyze D are going to analyze
(6 points)

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Task 10 – Culture quiz.
Read the sentences. For numbers 1 – 6 complete the sentences. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

(0) The capital of England is ______London______.

(1) _______________________ is the collective name for three waterfalls that are situated at the
international border between Canada and the USA.
(2) The capital of Australia is _______________________.
(3) The process of leaving the EU by the UK is called _____________________.
(4) Richard Bach wrote Jonathan Livingstone _______________________.
(5) Nessie is a creature believed to inhabit _______________________ in the Scottish Highlands.
(6) The world's largest office building, built in a 5-sided shape is called the _______________________ and
is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.

(6 points)

THIS IS THE END OF THE TEST