TEST

Date:
Grade:

Objective: To evaluate the comprehension of contents

and use of abilities

I. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT VERB TENSE.

Base Form Simple Past Past Participle Base Form Simple Past Past Participle
Tense Tense
Be hear
become keep
begin know
blow learn
break leave
bring lose
build make
buy meet
Catch pay
choose read

II. READING COMPREHENSION

Read the following text. Then answer the questions.

Rock and roll

Popular music at the end f the 1940s was slow and traditional. Then, black
musicians in the USA started to play strong, exciting ‘rhythm and blues’ music.
Soon, radio disk jockeys (DJs) started to play rhythm and blues, and one DJ,
Alan Freed, called it ‘rock and roll’.
Teenagers loved rock and roll immediately because it was fast, fun and young.
In the 1950s, the police tried stop teenagers dancing at rock and roll concerts.

Elvis Presley
Elvis was born in 1935. When he was young, he learned to sing in church, and
he played the guitar and the piano. He was shy, but he was also very ambitious.
His first record weren’t big hits, but he soon became the most popular rock
and roll singer in the world.
In the five days after Elvis died in 1977, people bought 8 million of his
records! Today, people still call him ‘the King’ of rock and roll.
 a) What type of music became ‘rock and roll’?

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b) What did the police try to stop at rock and roll concerts?

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c) What adjectives describe Elvis Presley?

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d) How old was Elvis when he died?

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III. USE OF ENGLISH

1) Look. Answer the questions with complete answers.

1. What was Andy doing when the phone rang?

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2.

What were the girls doing when it began to rain?

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3.

What was Peter doing when the dog barked?

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 4.

What were you doing when it started to snow?

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3) Read the questions and answer them.

1. Will people continue to use fax machines?

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2. Will people continue to write letters?

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3. Will people continue to watch television?

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4) Read the answers and write the questions.

1. ___________________________________________________________?
Yes, they will. People will always use e-mail.

2. ___________________________________________________________?
No, they won’t. People won’t listen to the radio.

3. _________________________________________________________?
Yes, they will. People will continue to play video games.

4) Look. Answer the questions. Use the present tense or may be or might be.

1.

What do you think it is? ___________________________________________

2.

What do you think it is? ___________________________________________

3.

What do you think it is? ____________________________________________

III. READING. Answer the questions.

On my vacation, it was so foggy that I couldn’t take any good photos! To think that
the one day it was sunny, I forgot my camera. Then while I was running back to
the hotel to get the camera, I fell and broke my ankle.

1. Why couldn’t she take any good photos?

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2. Why couldn’t she take a photo when it was sunny?

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3. What happened to her while she was running back to the hotel?
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