Test 12

(H)

1 Write punctuation in five of the boxes. Include one dash.

Although Mount Everest 1 is the tallest mountain on land 2 it isn’t the highest mountain 3 on Earth 4

1 P

Mount Kea 5 a Hawaiian volcano 6 is 2,000m taller 7 than Everest 8 but 75 per cent of it is under water. 2 marks

Reorder the words and write them in the gaps to make grammatical sentences:
2
been drunk has enjoying have been

Chocolate for 4,000 years.

2 G
For 6,000 years, people tea.
1 mark

Fill in the box below using phrases from this sentence:

3
The tea plant needs to be at least three years old before any leaves can be plucked.

noun phrase
verb phrase 3 G

prepositional phrase 2 marks

adjectival phrase

Add an intensifying adverb (not ‘very’) to make the point more strongly:
4
Warning: Drinking strong coffee can be bad for you. 4 G

1 mark
Give one reason why this text is classed as formal:
5 According to legend, Quetzalcoatl, the mighty god of wind and the moon, gave
his people seeds from a cocoa tree. The Aztecs used the beans as currency and 5 G
they were offered up as precious gifts. 1 mark

Correct the text below to make it Standard English:

6
Mum and myself like tea. We drinks it every day. She drank it while I’m at school.
6 G

1 mark
Circle the word to fill the gap: rapacious rapid rapport rapturous
7
The coffee commercial received applause when it was launched.
7 V

1 mark
Draw lines to match the prefixes to the words:
im- ir-
legal regular consistent possible
/10
in- il-
Total for this test
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