Test paper in English, the 9th grade

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Teacher:_____________
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Time: 45min

I. Read the text attentively and do the post text activities:

AN ILL TURN

Miss Martha Marple was 40 years old but she was not married. She had a shop where she sold
bread both fresh and stale. Stale bread was cheaper than fresh bread. One man came to Miss
Martha’s shop two or three times a week. The man was not young but he was very pleasant .He
wore cheap clothes but they always looked nice on him. The man was not healthy. He coughed,
his eyes were red. Miss Marple wanted him to recover but she understood that it was difficult for
him to go and see the doctor. Doctors and medicine were expensive but Miss Martha decided the
man was poor. He always bought stale bread and never fresh.
Miss Martha liked the man very much. She wanted to help him but didn’t know how.
Once she had an idea. She put some butter in the stale bread. When the old man came to her
and asked for his usual stale bread she gave him the stale bread with butter.
The next day the poor man came to the shop. He was very angry. He said he was an architect. “I
used stale bread to take away pencil lines. Last night I finished a plan for a new office and began
to take away the pencil lines. But your butter! … Now I can’t show my plan to anybody!” he
said.

Stale – aspru

a) Match the parts to get entire sentences: 5p.

 The man was not young and never fresh.
 He always bought stale bread in the stale bread.
 She put some butter but he was very pleasant.
 The next day the poor man came to the shop.
 I used stale bread to take away stale pencil lines.
b) Find in the text antonyms for the following words: 5p.
 To buy-
 Fresh-
 Rich-
 Happy-
 Expensive-
c) Answer the question:
Was the architect really poor? Justify it.
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10p
II. Grammar:

a) Add the plural ending to the following nouns. 10p.

Editor-in-chief __________________ Potato ___________________

Photo __________________ Tooth ___________________
Merry-go-round _________________ Forget-me-not ___________________
Fairy tale __________________ Leaf ___________________
Passer –by ___________________ Grown – up ___________________

b) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate prepositions. 5p.

1). Antarctica is famous …. its colds and winds. 2) Saturn’s rings are made …millions of
solid particles of rock and ice. 3) George isn’t here …. the moment. 4) We often go the
beach …. summer. 5) Did you go out …. Monday?

c) Open the brackets. 10p.

1.) Yesterday we (to learn) _________ how life (to appear) _________ on our planet.
2) Scientists (to think)___________ that 4.6 billion years ago the Earth (to represent)
__________ a swirling mass of boiling hot rocks and gases.
3) Jason, what you(to do)___________ at such a late hour? – I ( to type)______________
the results of my experiment.
4) If the matter (not/to be) _____________ urgent , I (not/to ask) ___________ you to come
today.
5) Peter (to wish) _________ he (to know) ___________ more about this subject.

III. Make up a short story on the topic: 20p.

“Health is not valued till sickness comes”.(10 lines)

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