9 CU SINIF SINAQLARI - 9 2023

Listen to the passage and answer questions 1-6.
1. What is the passage mainly about?
A) great swimmers
B) Southern Hemisphere
C) freezing cold climate
D) Antarctica
E) penguin hunters
2. Choose the correct statement according to the passage.
A) Southern Hemisphere is the top half of the Earth.
B) Penguins rarely eat fish as a food.
C) Penguins are hardly able to swim.
D) Penguins live only cold climates.
E) Feathers protect penguins from cold.
7. Choose the correct variant?
My sister successful in ... Spanish.
A) learnt
B) to learn
C) learning
D) learns
E) to learning
8. Change the sentence into Passive.
Our grandpa talked us about different cultures.
A) We are talked about different cultures.
B) Our grandpa was talked about different cultures.
C) We were talking our grandpa.
D) We were talked about different cultures.
E) Our grandpa was been talked us.

3. Complete the sentence according to the passage. 9. Choose the correct variant.
Penguins are birds but they... I like milk ... sugar in my coffee.
A) catch fish A) but
B) can't fly B) and
C) aren't good at swimming C) so
D) live in warmer places D) as
E) have wings E) because

4. Which information isn't given in the passage? 10. Choose the correct variant.
1. Penguins are hunted for their skin. 1. What a patient nurse she is!
2. Penguins can't swim back side. 2. How patient the nurse is!
3. Penguins spend most of their life in water. 3. What patient nurse is she!
4. Penguins have black and white feathers, 4. How a patient nurse she is!
A) 1,2 A) 3, 4
B) 2,3 B) 1, 2
C) 1,4 C) 2, 3
D) 2,4 D) 1, 3
E) 3,4 E) 2, 4

5. Choose the false statement about the passage. 11. Choose the correct variant.
A) A lot of people think that penguins live in cold places. ... purses are these? ... left them here?
B) Few people think that penguins live in cold places. A) Who, whose
C) Walking with short steps is common for penguins. B) Whom, who
D) Most penguins live warmer places. C) Whose, who
E) Penguins belong to the bird family. D) Whom, whose
E) Whose, whom
6. Choose the word from the passage that describes
"climate". 12. Choose the correct variant.
It was ... 7 o'clock, when we arrived ... hotel.
A) at, at
B) at, in
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D) -, at
E) -, -

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9 CU SINIF SINAQLARI - 9 2023

13. Choose the adjective forming suffixes. 18. Choose the correct variant.
A) ness, less Matilda has two pen-friends, one of them is from Italy, ... is
B) teen, ly from Portugal.
C) ous, ful A) another
D) th, tion B) the others
E) able, or C) other
D) others
14. Choose the correct variant. E) the other
1.to promote
2.to give up 19. Choose the correct variant.
3.to look through 1. a few times
a) to rise a higher position 2. so much snowflakes
b) to read something quickly 3. a little traffic
c) to stop doing something 4. a plenty of hotel
A) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b A) 1, 3
B) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a B) 2, 3
C) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b C) 3, 4
D) 1-b, 3-a, 3-c D) 2, 4
E) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a E) 1,4

15. Choose the correct variant. 20. Choose the correct variant.
1. The roses that he gave me were pale. You ... drive so fast. It's very dangerous.
2. Water and juice was drunk by somebody. A) need to
3. Each of them was polite enough. B) needn't to
4. Everybody are invited to the party. C) should
A) 1, 2 B) 2, 4 C) 3, 4 D) shouldn't to
D) 1, 3 E) 2, 3 E) mustn't

16. Choose the correct variant. 21. Choose the correct variant.
There is ... restaurant near our house ... restaurant served I observed Samuel ... a game of golf.
good food. 1. win
A) a, a 2. winning
B) a, the 4. wins
C) -, the 3. to win
D) -, - A) 1, 4 B) 2, 3 C) 1, 2
E) the, the D) 3, 4 E) 2, 4

17. Choose the nouns in the plural. 22. Choose the correct tense forms.
1. goods My friend and I ... a rest after we ... back home.
2. princess 1. have, come
3. clothes 2. will have, come
4. progress 3. had, came
5. trousers 4. has, come
6. hostess 5. had, will come
A) 1, 3, 6 A) 4, 5
B) 2, 4, 5 B) 1, 5
C) 1, 3, 5 C) 1, 2, 3
D) 1, 4, 5 D) 3, 4, 5
E) 2, 4, 6 E) 2, 3, 4

Aynura Hamidova
051 586 77 27
9 CU SINIF SINAQLARI - 9 2023

Read the passage and answer questions 23-30.
People use a flag as a symbol or a signaling device.
People flew flags in China over 4,000 years ago. They were
sticks of wood. Each part of the army had its own flag so
the soldiers could see their leaders.
Iran had metal flags about 3,000 years ago. People in
Rome first made flags of cloth about 2,000 years ago.
Those flags looked like today's flags. Flags are important at
sea. Most ships fly their own country's flag and the flag of
the country they are visiting. When a ship flies only its own
flag, it is ready to fight.
The Olympics has a flag. The Olympics flag has five rings
of five colors. Each ring represents a continent. It means
that people from five continents Africa, Asia, Europe,
North America, and South America - come to play.
Railway lines also use flags. Railway flags tell the trains
what to do. For example, a red flag tells the train to stop. A
blue, white, or green flag tells the train that it can go. A
blue flag on the side of a train means someone is working
on the train. It means nobody can move the train.
23. The passage is mainly about ....
A) national flags of countries
B) the history of the flags and their functions
C) the Olympics flag
D) the flags in railway lines
E) the importance of flags at sea
27. Which question has no answer in the passage?
A) What does each ring represent on Olympics flag?
B) What does blue flag signify in railway lines?
C) What kind of flags were used in ancient China?
D) What flags looked like today's flags?
E) What colour were the first cloth flags in Rome?
28. Which word in the passage best fits the following
definition?
"a large organized group of people trained to fight on land
in a war"
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29. Complete the sentence according to the passage, using
your own words.
The driver has to stop the train if...
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30. Complete the sentence according to the passage, using
your own words.
In railway lines, flags help to control ....
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24. Which word in the passage is a synonym to the word

"to symbolize"?
A) to visit B) to represent C) to fight
D) to use E) to cut

25. Which statement isn't mentioned in the passage?

A) Flags were used in China 4000 years ago.
B) Red is the most popular colour used in flags.
C) Different colour flags are used in railway lines.
D) Flags are used for different purposes.
E) About 3000 years ago, metal flags were used in Iran.

26. Choose the correct statement according to the

passage.
A) The rings on the Olympics flag are red.
B) The train can go if there is a blue flag on its side.
C) A ship flying two different flags is ready to fight.
D) Flags are used not only as a symbol but also as a
signaling device.
E) In ancient China each soldier of the army had his own
flag.

Aynura Hamidova
051 586 77 27