ESL Test Feb 24

Reorder the words to make a sentence.

• my

• new

• is

• This

• pencil.

Reorder the following

• my

• friends.

• play

• I

• with

Yesterday I ​ (a)   to the mall.

• went
• go
• gone

Last night I ​ (a)   my homework.

• finished
• finish
• finishd

Last week I ​ (a)   a scary movie.

• watched
• watch
• watchd

​Read the paragraph: “Rosa Parks was born in 1913 in Alabama. At that time there were segregation laws in the South. These unfair laws did not allow African Americans and Caucasians, or white people, to live in the same places, go to the same schools, or use the same bathrooms or water fountains. Even as a child, Rosa felt that people should not treat others unfairly. This is something she believed in her whole life.”

When did Rosa Parks decide everyone should be treated fairly?

​ ​ ​ (a)  

• When she was a child.
• When she became an adult.
• When she got married.

Read the paragraph: “On December 1, 1955, Rosa got on a bus and took a seat in the back. Soon all of the seats were filled, but there was still one Caucasian man who was standing. The bus driver told some of the African Americans to stand up, but Rosa didn’t. The bus driver asked Rosa, “Are you going to stand up?” “No,” Rosa replied. The driver told her that he was going to call the police. Rosa knew that she could

either stand up or go to jail. Rosa made up her mind and went to jail.”

What is Rosa Parks best known for?

​ (a)  

• Refusing to give her bus seat to a white man
• Leading the NAACP
• Ending segregation in the South

Read the paragraph: “Finally on December 20, 1956, the Supreme Court, which is the highest court in the United States, ruled that segregation on Montgomery buses was illegal. The next morning African Americans got back on the buses and sat anywhere they wanted to sit. The African American citizens of Montgomery had won their fight against bus segregation. Rosa Parks had helped to make the world a better place.”

8. How Rosa Park’s actions helped the world?

​ (a)  

• She helped end segregation.
• She helped the buses industry.
• She become a bus driver.