ENGLISH ASSESSMENT TEST – YEAR 8 – JANUARY 2017

Name _____________________________________________________________ Nr. _____ Class ______

Tutor _______________________ Teacher _____________ Evaluation ______________________________

PART 1 – READING COMPREHENSION

Read the text below carefully.

Fast Food Follies

About half the young people in America are heavier than they should be. That’s because they
eat the wrong food, or they eat too much or too often. Or all three!
American doctors keep warning about ‘overweight kids’ and
some things are changing, very slowly. However, a lot of
habits are very hard to change. Fast Food restaurants, for
example, are as popular as ever, at all times of the day. Hot
dogs, hamburgers and French fries are still the most popular
things to eat. The problem is that they are high in calories
and fat. Another problem is to encourage children and
teenagers to eat their greens.
“I often come in for a burger after school,’’ says Billy, a
teenager from San Francisco. “They are so tasty and cost
only a dollar! We also come here because it’s a good place to
sit and chat!”
But eating too much is not the only reason why people get
fat - drinking too much has the same effect. In summer it’s so easy to drink too much. In
America people drink lots of soda pop, such as colas and 7Up. The reason is simple. They are
on sale everywhere: in shops, cafés…. And compared to Europe, it’s very cheap. But each small
soda contains spoonfuls of sugar. No wonder people get fat!

A. Complete this summary of the text with only five words from the box. (5 points) cheap
fat
The text is about the (1) ____________________________ of fast food in (2)
popularity
____________________________. People love eating it because it is tasty and not very negative
(3) ____________________________. Europe
But the text also mentions its (4) ____________________________ effects - it can make expensive
people (5) ____________________________. positive
healthy
B. Match the parts of the sentences. (10 points) America

1. Many young Americans ____ a) are very delicious.

2. American doctors ____
3. People like eating fast foods such as ____
4. Young people don’t like eating ____
5. Billy regularly goes to ____
6. He thinks hamburgers ____
7. Coke and 7Up are American’s ____
8. Fizzy drinks ____
b) a fast food restaurant.
c) think that child obesity is a problem.
d) favourite summer drinks.
e) vegetables very much.
f) are too fat.
g) aren’t very healthy.
h) hot dogs, hamburgers and French fries.
 C. Tick () TRUE or FALSE. Copy the sentences from the text to justify all your answers. (12 points)

1. People don’t go to fast food restaurants very often. TRUE FALSE

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2. Hamburgers are delicious and cheap. TRUE FALSE

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3. You can buy soda pops in lots of places. TRUE FALSE

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4. Fizzy drinks aren´t very sweet. TRUE FALSE

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D. Answer these questions on the text in complete sentences. (7 points)

1. Why are so many young Americans overweight?

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2. Why do fast foods and fizzy drinks make people obese?

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PART 2 – USE OF LANGUAGE

A. Look at the picture and complete the sentences with the words below. (12 points)
A LOT OF, MUCH, MANY, FEW, LITTLE, ANY, SOME, A(N), NO

1. I need butter but there is just a _____________

left.
2. How _____________ lemons are there? –
Don’t worry. You have plenty.
3. There aren’t _____________ tomatoes – only
two.
4. Oh no! There’s only _____________ bottle of
milk in the fridge.
5. How _____________ milk do you need?
6. Have I got enough meat for dinner? - Yes,
there is _________________ meat.
7. Is there _____________ oil? – Let me see. Oh,
there is _____________ oil left. Do you want me
to buy _____________? – Yes, please.
8. There are only a _____________ onions left
and I need more.
9. And I still need _____________ oranges. Not
many, just two or three.
10. Finally I need some salt, but not __________.
B. Label the pictures using a partitive noun. Do not repeat them. Follow the example. (7 points)

0) a glass of wine 1) 2) 3)

4) 5) 6) 7)

C. Now use the words from exercise B) to complete the sentences below. (4 points)
1. I gave my girlfriend ___________________________________________ for her birthday.
2. When I go to the gym I always take ______________________________ with me because I get thirsty.
3. For breakfast my mother usually eats _______________________________________ with butter.
4. In summer I just love having ___________________________________ - it’s so refreshing.

PART 3 – WRITING
In about 80 words explain how to have a healthy and balanced diet. (18 points)
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KEY
PART 1
A.
popularity / America / expensive / negative / fat
B.
1f) 2c) 3h) 4e) 5b) 6a) 7d) 8g)
B.
C.
1. FALSE - Fast Food restaurants are as popular as ever, at all times of the day.
2. TRUE - They are so tasty and cheap.
3. TRUE - They are on sale everywhere: in shops, cafés...
4. FALSE – But each small soda contains spoonfuls of sugar.
D.
1. Many are so fat because they have unhealthy eating habits - they eat the wrong food, or they eat too
much or too often.
2. They make people obese because they are high in calories, fat and sugar.

PART2
A.
1-little 2-many 3-many 4-a 5-much 6- a lot of 7-any/no/some 8-few 9-some 10-much
B.
1) a jar of jam
2) a bowl of ice cream
3) a bottle of water
4) a box of chocolates
5) a cup of coffee
6) a piece of cheese
7) a slice of bread
C.
1) a box of chocolates
2) a bottle of water
3) a slice of bread
4) a bowl of ice cream