Czytanie z angielskiego, egzamin ósmoklasisty — zestaw 2

BLUE WATER CAVE - GUIDED WALKS

The cave is open from April to October. A guided walk takes fifty minutes and a new group starts every hour. The path inside is wet and slippery, so we lend rubber boots to every visitor - please tell us your size when you buy your ticket. The temperature in the cave is eight degrees all year round, so bring a warm jacket even in July.

• 7.1. From the leaflet we learn that A. visitors get boots from the cave. B. a walk lasts more than an hour. C. the cave is warm in summer.

THE BOOK SHELF IN THE CORRIDOR

You can find our new shelf next to room fourteen. If you have a book at home that you will never read again, bring it here and take another one. You don't have to give anything back and you don't have to write your name anywhere. Please leave only books in good condition. Magazines and school textbooks should stay at home, because there is very little space on the shelf.

• 7.2. This notice tells students A. how to borrow a book from the school library. B. which things they should not bring. C. how to order a new textbook.

From: emma@mail.com To: julek@mail.com Subject: Saturday

Hi Julek! I know we planned to go to the swimming pool on Saturday morning, but my cousin from Gdańsk is coming for the weekend and I have to go to the station with my dad. I'm really sorry about it. Could we go on Sunday instead? The pool opens at ten and it is usually almost empty then. Write back and tell me if Sunday is fine for you. Emma

• 7.3. Emma is writing to Julek A. to invite him to meet her cousin. B. to ask him to change their plans. C. to complain about the swimming pool.

Monday, 7th December

Yesterday evening the lights went out in our whole street. My grandmother took an old box of cards out of the cupboard and taught me a game she used to play as a child. It has really strange rules and I lost six times. Then Mum found some candles and we played for another two hours. It was the first evening for months when nobody in our family looked at a screen. I secretly hope the lights go out again soon.

• 7.4. This note is about A. a game the writer invented. B. a problem with an old cupboard. C. an evening the writer enjoyed.

THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE POST

Two hundred years ago sending a letter in Britain was very expensive. What is more, it was the person who received the letter, not the sender, who had to pay for it. 8.1. _____ Letters were a pleasure only for rich people. A teacher called Rowland Hill thought that this was wrong. In 1837 he wrote a short book with one simple idea: the same low price for every letter in the country, paid before the letter started its journey. 8.2. _____ It showed the head of the young queen and cost one penny, so people soon called it the Penny Black. Suddenly ordinary families could write to each other. In the first year after the change the number of letters in Britain more than doubled. 8.3. _____ Today stamps are used almost everywhere in the world, and a Penny Black in good condition is worth thousands of pounds.

Zdania do wyboru

• A. Three years later the first stamp in the world was printed in London.
• B. Many poor people simply refused the letters they could not pay for.
• C. Other countries copied the idea very quickly.
• D. He also opened the first post office in the north of England.

Tekst A

CLIMB WITH US! The climbing wall in the sports hall on Field Street is open for young people every Saturday from ten to one. One session costs fifteen zlotys. You have to be at least twelve years old and an instructor is always with you. Climbing shoes are lent to everybody free of charge, so just bring comfortable clothes.

Tekst B

CANOEING ON THE GREEN RIVER. Every Sunday in June we take a bus twenty kilometres out of the town and spend four hours on the water. Thirty zlotys, canoes and life jackets included. Before your first trip you have to show us that you can swim twenty-five metres. Take your lunch with you, because there are no shops on the river.

Tekst C

BADMINTON FOR BEGINNERS. Thursdays, from five to half past six, in school hall number two. All students of our school can come free of charge; other young people pay ten zlotys. Rackets are in the hall. Our coach is a former Polish champion and he says that everybody can learn the basic shots in one evening.

• 9.1. Which activity takes place away from the town?
• 9.2. Which activity costs nothing for some young people?
• 9.3. Which activity lends special shoes to everybody?
• 9.4. Which activity asks you to prove that you can swim?

Tekst 1

FILM NIGHT IN THE SCHOOL GARDEN Friday, 12th June. The film starts at half past nine, when it is completely dark. Please come at a quarter to nine if you want to help us carry the chairs out of the hall. Tickets cost five zlotys and all the money goes to our school library. Bring a blanket, because the grass is usually wet in the evening.

Tekst 2

LILY'S BLOG - MY BEST SUMMER EVENING Last July I watched a film in a park together with two hundred other people. The screen was enormous and the birds were singing during the quiet parts. I made only one mistake: I went there in a T-shirt. After sunset it got really cold and I couldn't enjoy the second half at all. So if you go to an open-air film, take a warm jumper with you.