ENGLISH PROGRESS TEST-FIRST LEVEL-SEPTERMBER2,011 PUPIL’S NAME _ _ A) V O C A B U L A R Y A-1) WRITE THESE NUMBERS AS WORDS 5th _ 2,011(date) _ 8,573 733 4/5 _ 9th _ 3rd _ 13-6 _ 4+4 10 5.35 _ _ 11 mark for each correct answer /10 12 A-2)-ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS What is your date of birth? I was born _ Where you live? 13 14 marks for each correct answer 15 0,5 marks for each correct answer 16 /6 A-3)label as many parts of the body as you can /17 17 18 19 20 21 Richard Outcault, an American artist, started to write his Yellow Kid stories in 1896 These were the first comics They were funny stories and they had a lot of pictures They appeared in a New York newspaper every week 22 Other artists copied this style At first, they wrote funny stories about children and animals Later, adventure and science fiction 26 stories became popular, with characters like Tarzan and Flash Gordon.Then, in 1931, teenagers Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster met at school and invented SUPERMAN the first “ superhero” From 1939 to 1945 there were nearly 400 new superheroes, including Batman and Wonderwoman 23 There were also a lot of horror and detective comics in the 1940s Adults usually bought these comics, but children also read them This was a problem Parents and teachers didn’t like the violent stories in the 1950s, the American government prohibited a lot of comics 24 In the 1960s, superheroes and detective stories became popular again 25 .The X-Men and Spider-Man were the readers ‘ favourite , and millions of people bought, the first Spider-Man comic After that, comics didn’t change much until the 1990s, when something new and exciting came to bookshops and newsagents “The Manga Invasion” 27 10 28 B)ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TEXT- FULL answers Who was the writer of the first comic? _ When did he write the “Yellow Kid” stories? _ How often did the first comics appear? _ How old were Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster when they “invented” Superman? _ What was the reason why American government forbade a lot of comics? _ How many “superheroes” were there from 1930 to 1945? _ How many people bought the first Spider-Man comic? _ When did “The Manga invasion” come? _ Where did Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster meet? _ When did the American government forbid a lot of comics? _ mark for each correct answers /10 29 30 C) IF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES ARE TRUE PUT “T”; IN CASE THEY ARE WRONG PUT “F” AND CORRECT THEM- /6 Richard Outcault started to write comics in 1986 The first comics were about superheroes Superman was the favourite superhero in the 1960s Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster met at University Parents and teachers didn’t like horror comics The first Spider-Man comic wasn’t popular