MCO – 07 APRIL 2020

NAME : ____Sadakat Sadia Maliha______________________________

CLASS : ____4 Delima_____________________________-

DATE : ____7/4/2020______________________________

PRESENT SIMPLE

EXERCISE A

Fill in the blanks with the Present Tense.

Write your answers in the space provided.

Chinese usually (1) ___celebrates_______ Chinese New Year in February. On the eve of
the New Year, there (2) __is_____ a reunion dinner where all members in the family (3)
____sits______ around the table for a time of feasting and talking. Children (4) ___gets_______
very excited at this time of the year. This is because they (5) ___receive_______ angpow which
are red packets that (6) ___has_______ money inside. They also (7) ___spend_______ on
new clothes and shoes. On the second day of the New Year, most people (8) ___meet_______
their friends. Lion dancers also (9) ____perform______ at the shopping malls and (10)
__impress________ shoppers with their intricate and sometimes dangerous lion dancing
techniques.

Chinese New Year (11) __lasts________ for 15 days. On the first day, some people
(12) __________ the floor. This (13) __is________ because they do not want to sweep out the
good luck. They also (14) __bake_______ sticky cakes because they (15) __believe________
that the kitchen god will eat the sticky cakes. Thus, the kitchen god will not be able to present
bad reports to the God of Heaven. On the last day of the Chinese New Year, young maidens
(16) ___goes_______ to the river to throw oranges. They hope that by doing so, they will get
good husbands.

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SCORE : / 16

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EXERCISE B

Choose the correct verb from the box below. You can use the same verb more than once.
Write your answers in the space provided.

is covers drops wreaks lies

seem believe surrounds continues

The clear blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda
(1) ___seem_______ like paradise. The Bermuda Triangle (2) ___is_______ 1.3 million squares
kilometres of some of the world’s most dangerous waters. Its treacherous ocean floor
(3) ___lies_______ from shallow blue waters into a dark trench several kilometres below the
surface.

Within the paradise, however, (4) ____seem______ deadly place from which some
believe there (5) ____is______ no escape – the Bermuda Triangle. Gian Quasar, along with
many others, (6) ___continues_______ in the Hutchison Effect, a theory formulated by john
Hutchison. According to the theory, electronic fog (7) ___drops_______ metallic objects and (8)
___wreaks_______ havoc with electronic equipment.

(9) ___is_______ there an evil force wreaking havoc? Or is it one of the world’s greatest
mysteries simply a case of bad weather and bad luck? The Bermuda Triangle mystery
(10) ___continues_______ to confound us today.

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SCORE : / 10

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