Главная страница «Первого сентября»Главная страница журнала «Английский язык»Содержание №1/2007

TESTS

I

Nature

Elementary

1. Which animals feed their babies with milk?

a) birds
b) mammals
c) reptiles

2. Which of these birds cannot fly?

a) eagle
b) ostrich
c) parrot

3. How many parts does an insect’s body have?

a) one
b) two
c) three

4. How many legs do crabs have?

a) 5
b) 8
c) 10

5. How many legs do insects have?

a) 4
b) 6
c) 8

6. Which is the biggest bird?

a) penguin
b) ostrich
c) peacock

7. Why do insects visit flowers?

a) because they are pretty
b) to smell the scent
c) to drink nectar

8. What kind of animal is a whale?

a) a mammal
b) fish
c) a reptile

9. Why do plants have flowers?

a) to look pretty
b) to make seeds
c) to make food for insects

10. Which animals have fur?

a) reptiles
b) birds
c)mammals

Key: 1. b; 2. b; 3. c; 4. c; 5. b; 6. b; 7. c; 8. a; 9. b; 10. c

Intermediate

1. How much of the Earth’s land is covered by trees?

a) a third
b) half
c) a quarter

2. What is the name for a group of lions?

a) a herd
b) a pride
c) a pack

3. What are baby frogs called?

a) caterpillars
b) froglets
c) tadpoles

4. How many different kinds of birds are there?

a) 8,600
b) 86,000
c) 800

5. What is the tallest tree?

a) an oak tree
b) a fir tree
c) a redwood tree

6. How do fish breathe?

a) with lungs
b) through their noses
c) with their gills

7. What kind of tree was the oldest tree?

a) redwood
b) bristlecone pine
c) maple

8. Which gas do plants give off?

a) carbon dioxide
b) oxygen
c) nitrogen

9. How old is the oldest tree?

a) 400 years
b) 900 years
c) 4,900 years

10. What is a beaver’s home called?

a) a den
b) a lodge
c) a hive

Key: 1. a; 2. b; 3. c; 4. a; 5. c; 6. c; 7. b; 8. b; 9. c; 10. b

Advanced

1. Which animals have scaly skin?

a) reptiles
b) birds
c) mammals

2. Which of these are arachnids?

a) beetles
b) butterflies
c) spiders

3. What are male bees called?

a) workers
b) drones
c) honey bees

4. What is the name for trees that lose all their leaves?

a) evergreen trees
b) chestnut trees
c) deciduous trees

5. What is metamorphosis?

a) a kind of rock
b) an illness
c) the way the young insects become adults

6. How long do tadpoles take to become frogs?

a) 3 days
b) 3 weeks
c) 3 months

7. What are frog’s eggs called?

a) frogspawn
b) frog’s jelly
c) tadpoles

8. How do bees tell each other where to find nectar?

a) by dancing
b) by singing
c) by buzzing

9. How many bees live in a hive?

a) 80
b) 800
c) 80,000

10. What is a chrysalis?

a) a kind of butterfly
b) a caterpillar
c)a stage in the life of a caterpillar

Key: 1. a; 2. c; 3. b; 4. c; 5. c; 6. c; 7. a; 8. a; 9. c; 10. c

By Tatyana Makhrina