1.

Read the text attentively

Watching the Night Sky
What do you see when you look up at the sky at night? If you live in a city you can probably see the moon
and a few stars. But if you live out in the country, away from all the city lights, you can see a sky full of
stars! But stars aren’t the only things up there. The night sky is full of strange and wonderful things – if
you know what to look for.

School science teaches us that there are eight planets in the solar system. The closest to the sun is
Mercury, then Venus, Earth, and Mars. After Mars comes the asteroid belt; a ring of massive rocks of
floating in space. Beyond the asteroid belt there are the planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.

The other planets are incredibly far away. But as far away as the other planets are, we can see five of
them in the night sky. Mercury and Venus can be seen in the early evening; they look like really bright
stars. Venus is the brightest thing in the sky after the moon! Mars has a reddish color, and Jupiter is
almost as bright as Venus. Saturn often appears very large because if its rings, and with a simple
telescope, you can even spot some of its moons. Sometimes, you can see something that looks like a star
moving slowly and steadily across the sky. It’s not a UFO, it’s just one of the thousands of man made
things we put into space. It may be a satellite, or space shuttle, or even the International Space Station. Be
sure to wave at it – someone may be watching!

Nr Items

1. What does the abbreviation of UFO stand for? 0

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2. How many planets does our solar system consist of? List them. 0
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3. What do you know about the origin of life? 0
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4. What is The Milky Way? 0

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5. What is Big Bang? 0
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40 points
2. Grammar

Nr. A) Circle the correct item

1. John won’t go to the stadium next week, ____________________? 0

a) will he b) won’t he c) he will d) shall he 3
2. I wonder ___________________umbrella it is. 0
a) who b) that c) whose d) whom 3
3. They say the books on the shelf are ___________________________ 0
a) their b) theirs c) them d) they 3
4. Having no one to play with, he would often sit on the front steps talking to 0
_____________ or to an imaginary friend 3
a) herself b) themselves c) ourselves d) himself
5. You must find ___________who can help you 0
a) anyone b) no one c) everyone d) someone 3
15 points

Nr. B) Open the brackets using the verbs in the appropriate form

1. This edition (to sell) ___________________________ last summer 0

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2. Mary asked her friend if she (can) ________________________help with the 0
household duties. 3
3. Her eyes were red. It was evident she (to cry) _______________________ . 0
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4. If Nick (to understand) _____________________________ the topic well, he would 0
not have failed the test yesterday. 3
5. Mark wishes he (not / to have) _____________________ so much homework to do 0
every day. 3
15 points

3. Creativity. Outline in 10 sentences your opinion on the following topic:

If I Did not Live On Earth I Would Prefer To Live On…………
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30 points