7.TEST 1 – PUPILS & STUDENTS 01

The children can get to school ten minutes earlier if they take a short _____ through the park.

                                                                                            

• A. link 

• B. cut

• C. pass  

• D. path

When Tom was at school, he won first _____ for good behaviour.

                                                                                   

• A. present 

• B. price 

• C. prize 

• D. reward

This pupil is notorious for playing _____ from his mathematics lessons.

                                                                             

• A. truant 

• B. runaway 

• C. absent 

• D. joyride

Little Tom did not like his first _____ at school at all.

                                                        

• A. course 

• B. period

• C. presence

• D. term

We all laughed at his _____ of the teacher.

                                                                               

• A. copy 

• B. imitation

• C. image 

•   D. mimic

They had lunch together in the school _____.

                                                                                    

• A. canteen

•   B. café 

•   C. bar 

• D. restaurant

She _____ for lost time by studying at weekends.

                                                                            

• A. got up 

•    B. made up

• C. set about 

• D. put in

Sue’s teacher _____ her to improve her drawing.

                                                                                           

• A. made 

• B. insisted

• C. encouraged

• D. persisted

In some countries children use pocket _____ when doing mathematics.

                                                                         

• A. robots

• B. computers

• C. counters  

• D. calculators

Since Oscar had no proper reason for missing school, his absence should be treated as _____.

                                                                        

• A. truancy 

•   B. desertion

•   C. neglect 

• D. abstention