The 8 th form Control Test on the subject “Books”
I.Complete the text with the following words : success, born, consisting,
themes, friendship, classical, birth, tragedies, famous, philosophical,
married, decade, local, appeared, continued, sonnets, play, writers.
William Shakespeare is one of the most 1) … and certainly the greatest
English 2) … . The author of “Hamlet and “Othello” was 3) … in 1564 in
Stratford-upon-Avon. Young Shakespeare got a 4) … education and got
5) … at the age of 18. His wife was a 6)... girl, Anne Hathaway, who gave
7) … to their 3 children.
Nobody knew William Shakespeare before 1592 when he 8) … in London
as a playwriter. His first 9) … was called «Titus Andronicus» after which he
10) … writing and created plays on historical 11) … , comedies and also
wrote his first tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”.
During the first 12) … of the XVII Shakespear turned to 13)… and created
his greatest ones: «Hamlet» «Othello» «Macbeth» and «King Lear». All of
them had a great 14) … . Moreover, William was an amazing poet known
for his 15) … which are the poems 16) … of 14 lines with a moral at the
end. All his works deal with themes of love, 17) … , death, change and
immortality and often contain great 18) … ideas.
II. Open the brackets , using Present , Past , Future Indefinite
Example: Mother ( to cook) a marvellous dinner yesterday.
Mother cooked a marvellous dinner yesterday.
1.In the evening he often ( to go) to see his friends.
2. She ( to study) English two years ago.
3. Next Sunday he ( to help) his mother about the house.
4.Kate ( to spend) her last summer in the country.
5.My sister ( to wash) dishes every evening.
6. Tomorrow Nick ( not to go) to school
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