8th grade test

Read the text and answer the questions. (70 points)

QUESTIONS
1. What do we learn in paragraph I? (8 points)
a. How many Bike Mayors there are in the world.
b. When the Bike Mayor program began.
c. What Bike Mayors are trying to do.
d. How successful Bike Mayors are.

2. Why did Boerma organize a contest? (paragraph II) (8 points)

COMPLETE THE SENTENCE.
Because…………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………

3. According to paragraph II, Lotta became Junior Bike Mayor after

(—). (9 points)
a. she got a children's bicycle.
b. she participated in a contest.
c. she won a family vacation.
d. she organized a contest at school.

4. Why does Lotta ride on "the back of her father's bike"?

(paragraph II) (9 points)
a. The station has no bikes for children.
b. She enjoys riding this way.
c. Her father thinks it is safer.
d. Her own bike is too small for her.

5. According to paragraph III, how can cities make bike riding safer?
(9 points)

……………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………

6. How does Lotta want to convince children to use bikes?

(paragraph III) (9 points)
COMPLETE THE SENTENCE.
 She plans to……………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………..
7. Some children travel by bus because (—). (paragraph IV).
(9 points)
a. there are not enough children's bikes.
b. they don't like riding bikes.
c. they don't own a bike.
d. their parents think bike-riding is unsafe.

8. In the opinion of the Bike Mayors, why is riding a bike good for
children? (paragraph IV) (9 points)
……………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………

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Writing (30 points)

Write a description according to the instructions below.

Write 70-90 words.
Describe an important event in your life, and explain how it
influenced you.