Grade 7-1st semester-test 1

Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in each sentence: 20 1.. Choose the correct answer that best completes the unfinished statements about the passage: 5 Mai and Lan

Name: ……… GRADE 7

I Choose the word whose underlined part has different pronunciation from those of the others: (5)

II Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in each sentence: (20)

1 What a ……… luck that they can’t come! The party’s going to be dull

2 The arctic tern will begin a long journey from one end of the world to ………

3 Can you help me? I can’t carry all the luggage ………

4 At the end of the music show, more than $150,000 ……… to charity

5 In East Field, there are two bridges ……… the Ramapo river

6 Elvis died ……… heart attack in 1977……… his mansion

7 Come on, Lisa! It’s time you ……… up

8 What do you often do ……… the weekend?

9 You ……… harder for the coming final exam

10 That’s really an ……… man He tells very good jokes

11 I often feel tired ……… I get up in the morning

12 My house is not too far ……… my school

13 He likes to take ……… in sport, not only watch it

14 We walked ……… two hours to teach the top of the mountain

15 He ……… painting the house light blue

16 She doesn’t type ……… as her friends

a quicklier b more quickly c most quickly d so quickly

17 When did your pen pal arrive? -………

a During a week b In five days c For two days d last Monday

18 Hurry up! They’ve only got ……… seats left

19 A child in the first grade tends to be ……… all of the other students in his class

a same old to b the same age than c as old like d the same age as

20 ……… she plays the piano!

III Put the verbs in the brackets in the correct tense form: (5)

1 Tom (lose) ……… his job eight months ago

2 Last night I (hear) ……… a very strange noise from my neighbor’s house

3 How do you spell “accustomed”? – I’m not sure I (look) ……… it up in the dictionary

4 Please stop talking! I (try) ……… to finish a letter

5 My brother often (exchange) ……… stamps with his friends

IV Choose the correct answer that best completes the unfinished statements about the passage: (5)

Mai and Lan were on a sightseeing tour around London at weekend In the afternoon, they started from Piccadilly Circus, the busiest crossroad in London They went up Regent Street, one of the best shopping streets, as far as Oxford Circus There they turned left onto Oxford Street A little farther on the left was a small quiet street called Bond Street with the most fashionable shops in London Keeping on along Oxford Street, they saw Marble Arch, which is over one hundred years old and was first used as a gate into Hyde Park

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After visiting many more places, they came to Trafalgar Square with its tall column and Nelson’s statue on top: The lions represent the British people

1 Where did the tour start from?

a Oxford Street b Regent Street c Piccadilly Circus d Oxford Circus

2 Piccadilly Circus is a ………

3 Regent Street is one of the ………

a most beautiful parks b gates in the Hyde Park

c most fashionable shops d best shopping streets

4 They found the most fashionable shops in ………

a Marble Arch b Piccadilly Circus c Bond Street d Oxford Street

5 Who do the lions represent?

a The British people b Trafalgar Square c Bond Street d Marble Arch

V Read the following passage and choose the best answer: (5)

Many people who choose a career (1) ……… an early age often realize later that they don’t like their job What (2) ……… you do in this situation? Let’s take Shirley Parks (3) ……… an example When she (4)

……… eighteen, she became a nurse

“I knew something about this job, and I love children, (5) ……… i thought it was the job for me,” she (6)

……… us “But after a year or so, I found that I wanted (7) ……… more demanding job So I decided (8) ……… the police.”

Now, five years later, Shirley works in the center of London in a police (9) ……… “I enjoy my work I’m never (10) ……… I meet a lot of people every day, and my job changes all the time.”

VI Make the complete sentences from the words given: (5)

41 How long / take / you / do / homework?

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2 Cars / fast / comfortable / than / motorcycle

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3 My wife / not interested / eat / out / although / busy

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4 What / population / Ho Chi Minh City?

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5 I / hope / see you / summer vacation / New Zealand

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VII Rewrite the sentences so that they mean almost the same as those printed before them: (5)

1 Walking in the rain gives him pleasure

 He enjoys

2 This garden is large than yours

 Your

3 Lan was sick She didn’t go to class last Friday (because)

 Lan

4 Why don’t you bring your brother to the party?

 How

5 What’s the price of this T-shirt?

 How

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