Los Robles School Mid-year exam

Grammar and Spelling

Mr. Douglas Segura
Student’s
name_____________________________________________________

Questions and Answers

• 1. _____ variety of flowers in the show, from simple carnations to the most exquisite
roses.
o A. A wide
o B. There was a wide
o C. Was there
o D. Many

• 2. The wedges ____ dart board are worth from one to twenty points each.
o A. They are on a
o B. Are on a
o C. Are they on a
o D. On a

• 3. _____ producing many new movies for release after the new reason begins.
o A. His company is
o B. His companies
o C. The company
o D. Why the company is

• 4. ____ that Emily Dickinson wrote, 24 were given title and 7 were published during
her lifetime.
o A. Of the 1,800 poem
o B. There were 1.800 poem
o C. Because the 1.800 poem
o D. The 1.800 poems

• 5. Since am, immediate change was needed on an emergency basis, _____ by the
governor to curtail railway expenditure.
 o A. So it was proposed
o B. Was proposed
o C. Because of the proposal
o D. It was proposal

• 6. In the Morgan Library in New York City ____ of medieval and Renaissance
manuscript.
o A. A collection is
o B. In a collection
o C. Is a collection
o D. Which is a collection

• 7. Some fishing fleets might not have been so inefficient in limiting their catch to target
species ______ more strict in enforcing penalties.
o A. The government had been
o B. If the government had
o C. Had the government been
o D. If the government

• 8. The Dewey Decimal system, currently used in libraries throughout the world, ____
all written works into ten classes according to the subject.
o A. Dividing
o B. Divides
o C. It would divide
o D. Was divided
• 9. Individual differences in brain-wave activity may shed light on why some people
are more prone to emotional stress disorders. ______
o A. That others are
o B. And others are
o C. Others are
o D. Than are others
• 10. _____ squeezed, the orange juice in a one-cup serving provides twice the minimum
daily requirement for vitamin C.
o A. It is freshly
o B. If freshly
o C. You freshly
o D. If it freshy

PART I

• 1. _____ several unsuccessful attempts, Robert Peary, reached the North Pole on
April 6, 1909.
o A. After
o B. He made
o C. When
o D. His

• 2. The museum of the Confederation in Richmond host an exhibition which

documenting the origins and history of a banner that most Americans think of as
the Confederate flag.
o A. Documenting
o B. Hosts
o C. Most American
o D. Of as

• 3. The musical instrument ______ is six feet long.

o A. Is called the bass
o B. It is called the bass
o C. Called the bass
o D. Calls the bass

• 4. ________ seven years, I have been here.

o A. Since the past
o B. Before the past
o C. For the past
o D. None of these
• 5. There has ______ a reason for that.
o A. To be
o B. Being
o C. Be
o D. None of these

• 6. Let _____ go for lunch.

o A. His
o B. Your
o C. Our
o D. None of these

• 7. It's always been the __________ in this city.

o A. Experience
o B. Best experience
o C. Most good experience
o D. None of these

• 8. Even if you have go there, you should take someone with you.What's missing
between "Have" and "Go" in the above sentence.
o A. Because
o B. To
o C. For
o D. With

• 9. When is the flag hung upside down, it is an internationallyrecognized symbol of

distress. (choose the incorrect underlined letter)
o A. Is a flag
o B. Hung
o C. It is
o D. Internationally
• 10. Hospital committees ______ spent weeks agonizing over which artificial kidney
candidates would receive the treatments now find that decision is out of their
hands.
o A. Once
o B. That once
o C. Have
o D. Once has

• 11. more than half of the children in the 1.356 member

district qualifies for Reduced-price or free lunch. (choose the incorrect
underlined letter)
o A. More than
o B. On the
o C. Qualifies
o D. Reduced-price

• 12. Five miles beyond the hills were a fire with its flames reaching up the sky.
(choose the incorrect underlined letter)
o A. The hills
o B. Were
o C. Its
o D. Reaching

• 13. One problem with all languages _____ they are full of irregularities.
o A. When
o B. So
o C. Is that
o D. In case

• 14. _____ of economic cycles been helpful in predicting turning point in cycles,
they would have been used more consistently.
o A. Psychological theories
o B. Psychological theories have
o C. Had psychological theories
o D. Psychological have theories
• 15. Kettledrums, what was first played on horseback, wereincorporate into
the orchestra in the eighteenth century. (choose the correct underlined letter)
o A. What
o B. Played
o C. Were
o D. Into the