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WorksheetsEnglish Grammar and Vocabulary
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 12mins
When Michael Jordan (be) a rookie in the NBA, he believed that he could be the best player in the world.
(a)
Which of the following is an abstract noun?
child
children
childish
childhood
Which of the following sentences is written in first-person point of view?
On 20th July 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space.
My life on the ISS was never easy because there was never any fresh food.
Read the paragraph below.
Chess is a two-player game. One player uses the white pieces. The other uses the black pieces. Each piece moves in a special way. One piece is called the king. Each player has one. The players take turns moving their pieces. If a player lands on a piece, he or she takes it. The game ends when a player loses his or her king. There are a few more rules, but those are the basics.
What is the main idea of the paragraph?
What chess is.
How many players there are in a chess game.
How chess is played.
How to win a chess game
What a beautiful morning it was, the sun smiled down on us and the birds sang.
What figurative language is used in the sentence above?
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
Which of the following expressions is a hyperbole?
Julie was always the lion in the group.
As cunning as a fox, Peter tricked the audience.
Just in a matter of seconds, running faster than the wind, Usain Bolt won the gold medal.
Read the paragraph below.
With its radiant color and plantlike shape, the sea anemone looks more like a flower than an animal. More specifically, the sea anemone is formed quite like the flower for which it is named, with a body like a stem and tentacles like petals in brilliant shades of blue, green, pink, and red.
The word "shape" in line 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
length
nature
form
grace
Read the sentence below.
When disturbed a sea anemone retracts its tentacles and shortens its body so that it resembles a lump on a rock.
The word "disturbed" is closest in meaning to which of the following?
hungry
bothered
sick
tired
Which two of the following pairs are full-rhymes? Tick two boxes.
worm - swarm
bold - bald
white - fight
red - bed
Which connectives show cause and effect? Tick two boxes.
because
after
thus
initially
