МИНИСТЕРСТВО НА ОБРАЗОВАНИЕТО, МЛАДЕЖТА И НАУКАТА ЦЕНТЪР ЗА КОНТРОЛ И ОЦЕНКА НА КАЧЕСТВОТО НА УЧИЛИЩНОТО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ ТЕСТ ПО АНГЛИЙСКИ ЕЗИК ЗА VII КЛАС PART ONE: LISTENING COMPREHENSION Listening A Directions: You will hear a text about the game of chess twice. Before you listen to it, you have 1 minute to read the questions 1 5. While listening for the first time, you can look at the statements, but you are not allowed to take notes. After you hear the whole text, you will have 1 minute to answer the questions, choosing the answer A, B, or C. Then you will hear the text again and will have 2 minutes to check your answers. 1. The word chess comes from A) Indian. B) Persian. C) Chinese. 2. brought chess to Europe. A) The Arabs B) The Persians C) The Spanish 3. Chess has been a popular game for about A) a decade. B) a century. C) a thousand years. 4. In the course of time, the Persian names of the chess pieces A) were changed. B) weren t changed. C) became popular. 5. The chessboard with the chess pieces on it reminds of A) a castle. B) old times. C) a church. Външно оценяване май, 2012 г. 1
Listening B Directions: You will hear a story about a journalist twice. Before you listen to it, you have 1 minute to read the questions 6 10. While listening for the first time, you can look at the statements, but you are not allowed to take notes. After you hear the whole text, you will have 1 minute to answer the questions, choosing the answer A, B, or C. Then you will hear the text again and will have 2 minutes to check your answers. 6. When the article arrived, the editor of the magazine A) refused to read it. B) didn t like it the way it was. C) re-wrote it all. 7. The journalist had to A) count the steps leading to the surrounding wall. B) find out exactly how big the palace was. C) measure the height of the palace wall. 8. How many e-mails did the editor send before he published the article? A) One. B) Two. C) Тhree. 9. The editor was getting nervous because A) he had to send the magazine to press. B) the article was too long. C) he had no information about the president. 10. Why didn t the journalist answer the editor?` A) He wanted to relax in the palace. B) He was thrown into prison. C) He was too busy to count the steps. PART TWO: READING COMPREHENSION Read the following text and circle the correct answer A, B or C. Joan was very good at science when she was at school, and she was especially interested in computers, so when she finished her education she decided to start work at an office. She very much liked her work and soon she could do thousands of things with computers. They are really like friends to me nowadays, Joan told her mother one evening. I can ask them questions, and they answer just like people, but more politely and they do not argue. And they never lie! I hope not! her mother answered. It sounds like the computer is a perfect companion, doesn t it? They both laughed. But can any of them think for themselves? Външно оценяване май, 2012 г. 2
I m afraid not, Joan said. You can get out of them only what you have put in. It s called programming. But it s wonderful what you can make computers do. Well, Joan s mother said, I m curious to know if you can programme one of them to give me some advice. I hope so, answered Joan. I ll try. What do you want advice about? Well, her mother answered, you know my two watches, don t you? Yes, Joan answered doubtfully. What advice can a computer give you about them? Well, her mother answered, one of them is fast and it gains one second every hour, and the other has stopped and won t start again. I would like to know which one to keep. Do you mind asking one of your computers? Joan laughed and answered, That s a strange thing to ask a computer, but I ll do so. I ll ask Donald. He is my best friend. When she got home the next evening, her mother had forgotten all about her request for advice. You remember what you asked about your two watches, Mum? Joan said. Eh? My two watches? Oh, yes. I don t suppose your computer could give me any advice. Oh, yes, he could! Joan replied. Donald advised you to keep the watch that has stopped. Why did he advise that? Joan s mother asked. Because he said that that watch will be right once every twelve hours, but the other one will be right only once every five years. 11. Joan enjoyed her work in the office because she A) met computer experts there. B) could work with computers there. C) she liked the office room. 12. Joan thought computers A) always tell the truth. B) never agree with you. C) can ask clever questions. 13. The sentence Computers can t think for themselves means that computers A) can t take care about themselves. B) can t think about their owners. C) can t think on their own. 14. The first watch mentioned in the text A) was fast. B) was slow. C) didn t work. 15. What was wrong with the other watch? A) It was old enough to work. B) It could not go again. C) It rarely worked. Външно оценяване май, 2012 г. 3
16. Joan s mother wanted advice on A) which watch to keep. B) what new watch to buy. C) how to repair the watches. 17. Donald was one of Joan s A) ex-classmates. B) colleagues. C) computers. 18. Joan s mother knew the answer to her request A) right away. B) in two days. C) on the next day. 19. Joan s mother thought that the computer A) couldn t give her any advice. B) could advise her well. C) couldn t repair the watches. 20. The computer advised Joan s mother to keep the watch that A) was fast. B) didn t work. C) was slow. PART THREE: USE OF ENGLISH Circle the correct answer A, B or C. 21. When Kate was a teenager, she preferred.. pop music. A) listen to B) listening to C) to listen 22. I m not usually interested.. fantasy films, but this one is really cool. A) of B) from C) in 23. My parents say I. eat sweet things because it s not good for my health. A) don t need to B) don t have to C) shouldn t Външно оценяване май, 2012 г. 4
24. I don t think they ve got the shoes you want here. Are there any.. shoe shops nearby? A) another B) other C) others 25. While we.. the mountain, the rain turned into snow. A) were climbing B) are climbing C) climbed 26. The discovery...the Nobel Prize last year. A) is given B) was given C) gave 27. you ever written a letter to a magazine or a newspaper? A) Did B) Were C) Have TATTOOS The (28) of tattooing has a very long history. It was known in ancient Egypt. We find tattoos on Egyptian mummies. It was also known in Greece and (29) the Romans and ancient Britons. Tattooing has had a place in the (30)... of many primitive people. The word tattoo comes from Tahitian. The custom was (31) to the Western countries mainly by sailors. Today many young people think it fun to get tattooed. It can be done quite (32) in a tattoo parlor with an electric drill and a special dye. However, before you decide to have a snake, a dragon, or a face of your girlfriend tattooed on your body, remember that a tattoo, (33)..done, is very difficult to (34). Think (35) before you enter a tattoo parlor. And remember AIDS. 28. A) art B) paint C) draw 29. A) along B) among C) with 30. A) world B) time C) culture 31. A) transported B) brought C) sent 32. A) easily B) easy C) easier 33. A) ones B) once C) one s 34. A) transfer B) move C) remove 35. A) twice B) two C) double Външно оценяване май, 2012 г. 5
МИНИСТЕРСТВО НА ОБРАЗОВАНИЕТО, МЛАДЕЖТА И НАУКАТА ЦЕНТЪР ЗА КОНТРОЛ И ОЦЕНКА НА КАЧЕСТВОТО НА УЧИЛИЩНОТО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ ТЕСТ ПО АНГЛИЙСКИ ЕЗИК ЗА VII КЛАС LISTENING COMPREHENSION TRANSCRIPTS Listening A Directions: You will hear a text about the game of chess twice. Before you listen to it, you have 1 minute to read the questions 1 5. While listening for the first time, you can look at the statements, but you are not allowed to take notes. After you hear the whole text, you will have 1 minute to answer the questions, choosing the answer A, B, or C. Then you will hear the text again and will have 2 minutes to check your answers. The game of chess was first played many centuries ago in China, India and Persia. The name chess comes from the Persian word shah, which means king. Later, the Arabs learned chess from the Persians and brought the game with them when they invaded Spain. From Spain, chess quickly spread all over Europe. This was about one thousand years ago. The Europeans gave the names of the chess pieces we know today, which are Castle, Knight, Bishop, King, Queen and Pawn. It was probably difficult to pronounce and spell the original Persian names for the chess pieces, so they modernized them to fit in the way they lived in Europe. Today, they do not sound like very modern names but imagine for а moment that we were living several hundred years ago. From the castle window we might see pawns the servants working in the field, or a bishop coming out from a nearby church, and a king and queen might appear somewhere. The way the chess pieces look, where they are placed on the chessboard, the way in which they move, even their names, all look like a very old picture. Външно оценяване май, 2012 г. 1
Listening B Directions: You will hear a story about a journalist twice. Before you listen to it, you have 1 minute to read the questions 6 10. While listening for the first time, you can look at the statements, but you are not allowed to take notes. After you hear the whole text, you will have 1 minute to answer the questions, choosing the answer A, B, or C. Then you will hear the text again and will have 2 minutes to check your answers. Last year a well-known magazine asked a journalist to write an article about the president s palace in a foreign country. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president s palace. The editor at once sent the journalist an e-mail to instruct him to find out the exact number of the steps. The journalist immediately started to collect these important facts, but it took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient about the waiting, because the magazine had to go to press soon. He sent the journalist two more urgent e-mails, but received no answer. So the editor published the article as it was. A week later, the editor at last received an e-mail from the journalist. The poor journalist was arrested and was sent to prison while he was counting the 1084 steps leading to the president s palace. Външно оценяване май, 2012 г. 2
МИНИСТЕРСТВО НА ОБРАЗОВАНИЕТО, МЛАДЕЖТА И НАУКАТА ЦЕНТЪР ЗА КОНТРОЛ И ОЦЕНКА НА КАЧЕСТВОТО НА УЧИЛИЩНОТО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ ТЕСТ ПО АНГЛИЙСКИ ЕЗИК ЗА VII КЛАС Ключ с верните отговори Всеки верен отговор се оценява с 1 точка Максимален брой точки 35 1. В 2. А 3. С 4. А 5. В 6. В 7. А 8. С 9. А 10. В 11. В 12. А 13. С 14. А 15. В 16. А 17. С 18. C 19. A 20. B 21. В 22. С 23. С 24. В 25. А 26. В 27. С 28. А 29. В 30. С 31. В 32. А 33. В 34. С 35. А Външно оценяване май, 2012 г. 1