TERM 3 MIDTERM EXAM

What is a diary entry?

• A diary entry is a formal letter written to a formal person.

• A diary entry is a record of personal events.

Diary entry is written in the present tense.

• true

• false

A diary includes personal emotions and feelings.

• true

• false

READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION

Plants need sunlight and water to make their own food. You can do an experiment to test if this is true. Place a bucket over a patch of green grass. After a few days, lift the bucket. You will see that the grass is not as green anymore. If you leave the bucket in place for a week, the grass will become very dull. This happens because the grass cannot make food in the dark. Remove the bucket. In a few days, the grass will start turning green again.

1) What is the main point of this passage?

• Buckets are bad.

• Plants need sunlight.

• Grass is not pretty when it is dull.

My next pet was a pigeon, the most revolting bird to look at, with his feathers pushing through the wrinkled scarlet skin, mixed with the horrible yellow down that covers baby pigeons and makes them look as though they have been peroxiding their hair. Because of his repulsive and obese appearance, we called him Quasimodo. Since he had an different upbringing, without parents to teach him, Quasimodo became convinced that he was not a bird at all, and refused to fly. He walked everywhere. He was always eager to join us in anything we did.

He would even try to come for walks with us. So you had to either carry him on your shoulder, which was risking an accident to your clothes, or else you let him walk behind. If you let him walk, then you had to slow down your own pace to suit his, for should you get too far ahead you would hear the most frantic and imploring coos and turn around to find Quasimodo running desperately after you.

The narrator describes the pigeon as a ‘revolting bird’ because

• He could not fly

• He had to be carried everywhere

• He had wrinkled skin covered with yellow feathers

• he was fat

My next pet was a pigeon, the most revolting bird to look at, with his feathers pushing through the wrinkled scarlet skin, mixed with the horrible yellow down that covers baby pigeons and makes them look as though they have been peroxiding their hair. Because of his repulsive and obese appearance, we called him Quasimodo. Since he had an different upbringing, without parents to teach him, Quasimodo became convinced that he was not a bird at all, and refused to fly. He walked everywhere. He was always eager to join us in anything we did.

He would even try to come for walks with us. So you had to either carry him on your shoulder, which was risking an accident to your clothes, or else you let him walk behind. If you let him walk, then you had to slow down your own pace to suit his, for should you get too far ahead you would hear the most frantic and imploring coos and turn around to find Quasimodo running desperately after you.

Quasimodo got his name because

• he was fat and repulsive

• he was attractive

• he could not fly

• he loves behaving like human beings

Fill in the blank with the correct preposition.

The two friends went _____________ the movies by themselves.

• above

• from

• to

During the summer, I stayed _____________ my grandparents.

• with

• for

• at

2. Peter doesn’t go to work _____________ Fridays.

• in

• on

• at

I am very interested __________ documentaries on TV.

• in

• on

• at