Czytanie z angielskiego, egzamin ósmoklasisty — zestaw 1

THE BASKET WORKSHOP AT LOW GREEN

Every spring and every autumn we open our old workshop to visitors. You will see how baskets have been made here for more than a hundred years, and then you will sit down and try it yourself. A two-hour visit costs eight pounds and you take home the small basket that you have made. Children under ten must come with an adult. The workshop is cold in the morning, so bring a jumper. We do not sell food, but there is a café in the village, five minutes away.

• undefined. The text says that visitors to the workshop A. can buy lunch there. B. have to book their visit in advance. C. take home something they have made.

THE SCHOOL BELL IS CHANGING

From Monday our loud bell will be switched off. The beginning and the end of every lesson will be announced by thirty seconds of music instead. Each week a different class chooses the song. Class 8a starts, and their song will be played in the first week of October. If you want your class on the list, write your names on the sheet outside the music room. Please remember: no song longer than thirty seconds.

• undefined. The notice informs students that A. they can choose the music for the bell. B. lessons will start at a different time. C. the music room will be closed.

From: lena@mail.com To: tymek@mail.com Subject: A small change

Hi Tymek! I am really sorry, but I cannot go to the cinema with you on Saturday after all. My cousin from Gdańsk is coming for the weekend and my parents want me to show her the town. I know we have had the tickets for two weeks, so please do not be angry with me. Could we go on Sunday afternoon instead? The same film is on at four o'clock. Let me know tonight, because I have to book new seats. Lena

• undefined. Lena is writing to Tymek A. to invite him to meet her cousin. B. to change the day of their meeting. C. to complain about her cousin's visit.

Friday, 6th March

Three months ago Dad brought home a jigsaw puzzle with a thousand pieces. We put it on the small table in the living room and promised each other that we would finish it before spring. Some evenings we put in five pieces, some evenings none at all. Mum kept saying we should throw it away, because nobody could use the table. Tonight at nine o'clock we put in the last piece, the sky in the top corner. Tomorrow we are starting a new one.

• undefined. This note is about A. a present the writer got for a birthday. B. a long project the writer did at home. C. a competition at the writer's school.

WHY OLD BOOKS SMELL SO GOOD

Walk into a second-hand bookshop and you will notice it at once: that warm, sweet smell of old paper. Many people love it, and today scientists know exactly where it comes from. Paper is made of wood, and wood contains hundreds of natural substances. 8.1. _____ Some of them smell of vanilla, some of almonds and some of cut grass. Together they make the smell that we simply call old book. Every book smells a little different. 8.2. _____ That is why a book printed in 1950 does not smell like a book printed last year. Museums have started to use this. In the Netherlands a team of scientists collected the smell of an old library and closed it in a bottle. 8.3. _____ Visitors close their eyes, smell it, and suddenly they are standing between the shelves of a library that no longer exists.

Zdania do wyboru

• A. The kind of paper, the ink and even the room where the book was kept all change it.
• B. Most of these substances disappear while the paper is still new.
• C. As the paper slowly breaks down, these substances escape into the air.
• D. Now people can smell it in an exhibition, hundreds of kilometres away.

Tekst A

MORTON LAKE ROWING CLUB. We meet every Saturday at eight in the morning at Morton Lake, eight kilometres from the town. A club bus leaves from the market square at half past seven and brings everybody back at noon. Your first three sessions are free, so you can decide without paying anything. After that it is six pounds a month. Bring warm clothes, because it is always windy on the water.

Tekst B

BADMINTON GROUP. Our group trains in the school sports hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from four to six in the afternoon. Everybody is welcome, from complete beginners to players who go to competitions. Each session costs two pounds and we pay this money to the school. You only need trainers and a T-shirt, because we have plenty of rackets and shuttlecocks.

Tekst C

CITY CLIMBING WALL CLUB. Come to the town sports centre on Wednesday evenings and try climbing. You do not have to buy anything at all: shoes, a helmet and a rope are already waiting for you here, and an instructor shows you what to do. The price is five pounds for two hours. Please write to us first, because we can only take twelve people.

• 9.1. Which club trains more than once a week?
• 9.2. Which club meets outside the town?
• 9.3. Which club lets you try it without paying at the beginning?
• 9.4. Which club gives you all the equipment you need?

Tekst 1

TOWN LIBRARY — AUTUMN PHOTO WALK, Saturday, 18th October. We are walking through the old part of town with a photographer, Mr Grey. Important: this time we do NOT meet at the library. Come to the old railway station at nine o'clock and we start from there. The walk takes almost two hours and we are outside all the time, so bring a warm hat. Afterwards we come back to the library for hot chocolate and we look at your photos together.

Tekst 2

MIA'S BLOG, 3rd September. Everybody asks me what I brought back from Scotland, and my answer always surprises people. I took more than four hundred photos, but I have not looked at them once since I came home. The thing I really keep is a drawing of the harbour at Oban, which I made myself one rainy afternoon. It is not very good, but when I look at it I can remember the rain, the boats and the cold wind.