РЕПУБЛИЧКО ТАКМИЧЕЊЕ ШИФРА / CODE _____

ЕНГЛЕСКИ ЈЕЗИК - 8. разред MAX. 8 points MIN. 6 points

10. мај 2008. године TIME 20 min.

READING COMPREHENSION TEST

Teenage Criminals

In September last year a high court in New York convicted three people of the savage
assault of a young woman. The three young men convicted were all under the age of sixteen
when the attack took place in New York's Central Park.
The sentencing of the three youths is just one more example of the frightening
increase in juvenile crime which Britain and the USA have been experiencing in the last
few years. In Britain, boys between the age of fourteen and eighteen are the country's worst
offenders. Many crimes are committed by boys and girls who are only twelve or thirteen years
old.
Crimes of murder and robbery among young people of school age show a perverse
side of modern-day young people, and experts working with young offenders are shocked
by the lack of remorse shown by today's "teenage criminals". Police find out about many of
the crimes simply because they boast about them.
Why are so many young people turning to violent crime? There may be many
different reasons for this increase in crime. Some people say that young people watch too
much television. Many people believe that parents should be using "old-fashioned
discipline" instead of indulging their children. While people try to decide who is to blame,
many states in the USA have started schemes to make parents more responsible for their
children.
In some states, parents of young criminals are ordered to attend weekend or evening
classes where they are taught how to control their children. They can be fined for not
attending. The authorities are also trying to wipe out drug abuse and truancy by stopping
welfare cheques if a child does not attend school. In the small town Dermott in the USA the
juvenile crime rate was cut in half after a curfew was introduced. The government in Britain
is hoping to introduce similar schemes to help solve this growing problem because a survey
conducted in Manchester has shown that 80 percent of people in prison have a history of
truancy or unemployment.

truancy - absence from school without permission.

welfare - money paid by the State to people in need.
curfew- a rule that everyone must stay at home between particular times, usually at night.
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ЕНГЛЕСКИ ЈЕЗИК - 8. разред MAX. 8 points MIN. 6 points
10. мај 2008. године TIME 20 min.

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS - Teenage Criminals

Circle the most appropriate option

1. In September last year three young people were sent to prison by a law court because
a) they were under the age of sixteen.
b) they were an example of modern-day young people.
c) they had cruelly attacked a young woman.
d) they had planned to assault a young woman in Central Park.

2. According to the text,

a) Britain and the USA have experienced a great success in fighting juvenile crime.
b) young criminals often offend their own country.
c) there are fewer and fewer young criminals every year.
d) the number of teenage criminals has arisen in recent years.

3. According to the text,

a) teenagers commit only non-violent crimes.
b) fourteen to eighteen year-olds commit the most violent crimes.
c) teenagers have been experiencing severe punishment
d) the assault in Central Park was only one example of such a crime.

4. Today's teenage criminals

a) usually feel sorry for their crimes.
b) are often shocked by the experts working with the young offenders.
c) are often ashamed of the crimes they have done.
d) show no feeling of regret for what they have done.

5. According to the text, young criminals

a) are always silent about their crimes.
b) usually find out about many of the crimes.
c) sometimes boast about the police and their work.
d) often speak proudly of the crimes they have done.

6. Many people believe that parents

a) should be more strict with their children.
b) should give their children everything they want.
c) should try to blame the state for their children's behaviour.
d) are too old-fashioned and severe with their children.

7. In some states in the USA, parents of young criminals have to

a) learn how to deal with their children.
b) teach their children how to take control.
c) pay a fine if their children do not attend evening classes.
d) teach school subjects to their own children.

8. The authorities in the USA have

a) solved the problem of juvenile crime.
b) made parents more responsible for their children.
c) stopped giving money to the poor or unemployed.
d) been fined for not solving the problem.
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ЕНГЛЕСКИ ЈЕЗИК - 8. разред

10. мај 2008. године

LISTENING COMPREHENSION TEST

The Abominable Snowman

He has been called the "missing link". Half-man, half-beast. He is huge,

maybe as much as eight feet tall. His body is covered with long brown hair. He
has a pointed head, and his face is hairless and looks rather like a man's face.
He walks upright. And he lives near the top of the highest mountain in the
world - Mount Everest.
He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The legend of the Snowman
has been around for many years. Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks
like those of human feet high up on the slopes of Mount Everest. The native
people said they knew of this creature and called it the "Yeti", and they claimed
that they had even captured Yetis on two occasions, though none has ever been
produced as evidence.
Over the years, the legend of the Yetis has continued. In 1951, the explorer
Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton
was convinced that they were not simply the tracks of a monkey or bear and felt
the Abominable Snowman might really exist.
Many expeditions, with photographers equipped with powerful
binoculars, have set out to locate Yetis. But the only things they have ever
found were still more footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more
than ordinary animal tracks, which had been greatly enlarged as they melted
and refroze in the snow. However, in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the
Abominable Snowman was real and was a surviving link with the prehistoric
ancestors of modern man. But, again, no evidence has ever actually been
produced.
These days, only a few people continue to take the legend of the
Abominable Snowman seriously. But if they ever succeed in catching one, they
may face a real problem: Would they put it in a zoo or give it a room in a hotel?
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ЕНГЛЕСКИ ЈЕЗИК - 8. разред MAX. 7 points MIN. 4 points
10. мај 2008. године TIME 15 min.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS The

Abominable Snowman

Circle the most appropriate option

1. The Snowman is believed

a) to be a man that lives in the Himalayas.
b) to look like the man in the face but walk on four legs.
c) to be a creature that is not an animal but not a man either.
d) to look like a man with hairless body and face.

2. The Yeti is
a) another name for the Abominable Snowman.
b) a creature different from the Abominable Snowman.
c) larger than the Abominable Snowman.
d) another name for a monkey.

3. According to the text, the native people

a) have produced a lot of evidence about the Yeti.
b) have shown two Yetis to the scientists.
c) have been known to the Yetis for many years.
d) claim they have captured two of the Yetis.

4. In 1951, the explorer Eric Shipton

a) got a picture of a Snowman in the snow of Mount Everest.
b) convinced other scientists that the Snowman really lived on the slopes of Mount Everest.
c) photographed some footprints in the snow of Mount Everest.
d) captured a Snowman in the snow of Mount Everest.

5. Since 1951 many expeditions

a) have tried to find the Yetis in the snow of Mount Everest.
b) have found frozen remains of the Yetis in the snow of Mount Everest.
c) have photographed only one Yeti in the snow of Mount Everest.
d) have located the tracks of the Yetis in the snow of Mount Everest.

6. A Russian scientist
a) proved that the Snowman was real.
b) had no evidence for his statement that the Snowman existed.
c) claimed that the Snowman was in fact real modern man.
d) believed that the Snowman was a survivor of a plane crash.

7. Most people believe

a) Yetis really exist.
b) Yetis are not real.
c) Yetis are ancestors of modern man.
d) Yetis are the extinct species.
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ЕНГЛЕСКИ ЈЕЗИК - 8. разред MAX. 30 points MIN. 24 points
10. мај 2008. године TIME 45 min.

GRAMMAR TEST

I Circle the most appropriate option.

1. Machines do a lot of jobs that used to____________by hand.

a) do b) be done c) doing d) have done

2. I____________to press the button and sound the alarm.

a) could b) managed c) might d) succeeded

3. The shops have so many facilities, that there is no need to go ______________for anything.

a) elsewhere b) nowhere c) somewhere d) everywhere

4. I won't be able to do it_________you help me.

a) beside b) only c) but d) unless

5. I couldn't find________ about the trip.

a) any information b) many informations c) no informations d) an information

6. Celebrities are regarded as heroes,______________they are not.

a) whom b) who c) which d) what

7. Have you got the time, please?

a) It's ten to three, b) Yes, but very little, c) Not enough, I'm afraid, d) Sure. How much?

8. You look tired. You___________to go to bed.

a) ought b) can c) should d) must

9. I am interested in the fashion.

a) last b) later c) latest d) late

10. Each of the_________of Africa has many different customs and traditions.

a) peoples b) people c) nation d) nationality

II Use the Present Simple Tense of the most appropriate verbs (say, tell, ask) to report these sentences.

Sue: "Jim, what does your father do? He wasn't very friendly when I called."
Jim: "He was probably tired."
Sue: "Mine is the same when he is tired."
 1. Sue _____ Jim_________________________________ 2 She_______________him___________

3. Jim_____________________________________________________________________________.

4. Sue_________him_________________________________________________________________.

III Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form/tense (Active or Passive) of the verbs you have chosen from
the list below. Each verb should be used only once.

move, wear, do, say, shoot, tell work, carry

It was about 10 o'clock. This couple came in with stocking over their heads, and one of them

1)_____________________a gun. The first thing they (2}_____________________ was: 'If anybody

(3)_____________________, we (4)________________________! Get your hand up!"

And we (5)_____________________as we (6)_______________________.

fascinate, skill, taste, lay, taste

Samples of the vast amount of tea go to the London Tea Trade Centre. At each week's sate over a

hundred of samples (1)____________________in a line on long tables, and then they

(2}______________________by professional tea tasters. It is (3)_______________________to see them at

work. The tasters move down the line (4)_____________________each sample from a spoon.

I V Fill in the blanks with the appropriate verbs.

1. I think PC___________for "personal computer".

2. The event___________place here, didn't it?

V Correct these sentences. Rewrite the corrected sentences.

This house is around for over 200 years. 1._________________________________________.

Well, I think it looks pretty well. 2.____________________________________________.

But, there are no electricity! 3._______________________________________!

And no water, too. 4.________________________________________.

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ЕНГЛЕСКИ ЈЕЗИК - 8. разред максимално 45 поена

10. мај 2008. године

KEY

READING COMPREHENSION TOTAL 8 points

1.c; 2. d; 3. b; 4. d; 5. d; 6. a; 7. a; 8. b

LISTENING COMPREHENSION TOTAL 7 points

1.c; 2. a; 3. d; 4. c; 5. a; 6. b; 7. b

GRAMMAR TEST

I Circle the most appropriate option.

1.b; 2. b; 3. a; 4. d; 5. a; 6. c; 7. a; 8. a; 9. c; 10. a TOTAL 10 points

IIUse the Present Simple Tense of the most appropriate verbs (say, tell, ask) to report these
sentences.

1. Sue asks Jim what his father does. 2. She tells him that he wasn't very friendly when she called. 3. Jim says that he was

probably tired. 4. Sue tells him that hers is the same when he is tired.

TOTAL 4 points

III Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form/tense (Active or Passive) of the verbs given
below. Each verb should be used only once.

A
1. was carrying/carried ; 2. said; 3. moves; 4. will /'II shoot; 5. did; 6. were told;

B
1. are laid; 2. are tasted; 3. fascinating; 4. tasting
TOTAL 10 points

I V Fill in the blanks with the appropriate verbs.

1. stands; 2. took; TOTAL 2 points

V Correct these sentences. Rewrite the corrected sentences.

1. This house has been around for over 200 years. 2. Well, I think it look pretty good. 3. But there

is no electricity! 4. And no water either.

TOTAL 4 points