Self-Assessment 1 Name: _________________________

Date: _________________________

A ► Listen to the conversations. Check () the correct answers. (4 POINTS)

1. Ally likes her new apartment because 3. Elena’s house is

 it has a spacious bedroom.  too small.
 there’s too much noise.  too spacious.
 it’s cheaper than her old apartment.  too private.
2. Marco wants to live downtown because 4. Peter wishes his new apartment were
 he works there.  nice and bright.
 it’s less expensive.  on the first floor.
 there are more parking spaces.  not as cramped as his old apartment.

B ► Listen to the conversations. Check () the correct answers. (4 POINTS)

1. Matt grew up in
 Argentina.
 Boston.
 Washington, D.C.
2. Mia used to
 play with old toys.
 collect comic books.
 watch mysteries.
3. Kate thinks that there
 aren’t enough safe places to ride bicycles.
 is too much traffic.
 aren’t enough buses.
4. Olivia can join a car pool by
 asking a neighbor for a ride.
 visiting a website.
 riding to work with Rob.

C Complete the conversations. Use the past tense. (3 POINTS)

1. A: Where _____________ ?
B: I was born in Tokyo.
2. A: Did _____________ in high school?
B: No, she didn’t play soccer in high school. She played basketball.
3. A: When _____________ from college?
B: They graduated from college in 2015.

D Circle the correct word. (3 POINTS)

1. Every summer, Kara used to (go / went) to the beach with her friends.
2. I really enjoyed (playing / play) video games when I was a teenager.
3. Mike (used to / use to) have pets, including a fish and a rabbit, when he was a child.

E Put the words in the correct order to make sentences. (3 POINTS)

1. (lights / needs / city / more / this / street)

________________________________________________________________________ .

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 2. (pollution / is / and / much / there / traffic / too / air)
________________________________________________________________________ .
3. (fewer / should / noise / there / less / be / cars / and)
________________________________________________________________________ .

F Complete the conversation. Use the correct form of used to and the verbs given. (4 POINTS)

A: _____________ (go) to the playground when you were a child?

B: Yes, I _____________ to the playground every day after school.
A: And what things _____________ (collect)?
B: Oh, I never _____________ anything, but now I collect art.

G Read the article. Then check () the correct answers. (4 POINTS)

1. Song Youzhou’s company 3. This new bus

 designed the Straddling Bus.
 wants to own a Straddling Bus.
 thinks the Straddling Bus will
work only in China.
2. The Straddling Bus
 takes up four lanes on a road.
 is as high as regular road traffic.
 uses two kinds of energy.
 travels 120 kilometers per hour.
 has 25 rails to ride on.
 is taller than a car.
4. The Straddling Bus
 is less expensive to build than a regular bus.
 can only be used in environmentally-friendly cities.
 takes less time to build than a subway line.

H Circle the correct word. (4 POINTS)

1. I don’t really like my neighborhood. It’s very (dangerous / convenient / safe).

2. I have a lot of windows in my living room, so it’s usually (bright / noisy / huge).
3. It’s (comfortable / convenient / dingy) to have parking spaces near my apartment.
4. Our house is only two years old. It’s very (modern / run-down / cramped) and spacious.

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 I Complete the sentences. Use not enough . . . or not . . . enough and the words given. (3 POINTS)

1. Our apartment is too dark. There are _____________ . (windows)

2. People can see into our house. There is _____________ . (privacy)
3. My apartment is very inconvenient. It’s _____________ for me. (convenient)

J Complete the sentences. Use as . . . as, as many . . . as, or as much . . . as and the words given. (3 POINTS)

1. My new apartment doesn’t have _____________ my old one. (bedrooms)

2. Our house is just _____________ your apartment. (comfortable)
3. Modern apartments often don’t have _____________ older ones. (space)

K Complete the sentences. Use wish and the correct form of the verbs given. (3 POINTS)

Example: My parents won’t buy me a car. I wish _______________________

they would buy me a car .(buy)

1. I don’t like my neighborhood. I wish _______________________ . (like)

2. I can’t find my keys. I wish _______________________ . (can find)
3. My sister is on vacation. I wish _______________________ . (be not)

L Complete the conversation. Use the correct form of the verbs. (4 POINTS)

A: _____________ you ever _____________ (try) Japanese food?

B: Yes, I _____________ . I _____________ (go) to a Japanese restaurant last week.
A: _____________ you _____________ (like) it?
B: Yeah, it _____________ (be) delicious.

M Match the following words with the correct meaning (9 POINTS).

a) the quality of being hot; high temperature.

1. _____ Reach
b) teach a particular skill or type of behavior through practice and instruction
2. _____ Disease over a period of time.

3. _____ Afford c) give assistance to, especially financially; enable to function or act.
d) each of the pair of organs situated within the rib cage, consisting of elastic
4. _____ Choke
sacs with branching passages into which air is drawn.
5. _____ Lungs e) arrive at; get as far as.
6. _____ Heat f) have enough money to pay for.
g) have severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed
7. _____ Support
throat or a lack of air.
8. _____ Run out of h) (of a supply of something) be used up.

9. _____ Train i) a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one
that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location.
and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.

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 N DRAW the following vocabulary words (6 POINTS).

Waste Messy Cramped

Shabby Neat Gossip

O Make a drawing that represents the following words (10 POINTS).

Argue Wheel Headline Pedestrian Highway

Neat Taste Newsstand ATM Windshield

P Write the simple present, simple past, past participle, and meaning (synonym or sentence) in ENGLISH of the
following verbs (10 POINTS).

Verb Simple Past Past Participle Meaning in English

1. Shrink

2. Fed

3. Quit

4. Slid

5. Fight

6. Spread

7. The wound was ________ so much

because of the accident.

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