Test A

Academic year Agrupamento I - Escola Secundária Abílio Duarte Score

2022/2023 English test – 9th grade
2nd test – 2nd trimester _________

Name. ______________________________________________________ class: ____________

A visit to London
Last summer Pedro and his family visited London. They travelled by plane. It was their first flight
and they were a little nervous but the trip was calm and they enjoyed it very much.

They stayed in London for two weeks. They were lucky because the weather was fine and so they
could do a lot of things.

They stayed in a nice small hotel near Hide Park. They walked along London streets, looked at the
shop windows, travelled in the famous London red buses. These buses have two floors and the second
floor of the sightseeing buses has an open deck. You can see everything more clearly.

Of course, the also visited London’s famous monuments: Buckingham Palace, Big Ben,
Westminster Cathedral, the Tower of London, etc.

Pedro’s favorite part was visiting the museums. He loved the Science Museum and Madame
Tussaud’s. They loved everything. The only thing they didn’t like very much was the food.

I. Answer the following questions.

a. Where was Pedro? _____________________________________________________________
b. Did he travel alone? ____________________________________________________________
c. How did they travel? ___________________________________________________________
d. Why were they lucky? __________________________________________________________
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e. Where did they stay? __________________________________________________________
f. What was Pedro’s favorite part of the visit? _________________________________________
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g. Did they enjoy their visit? Why? ____________________________________________________
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II. Write T for true or F for false. Correct the false ones.
1. Pedro and his family appreciated the food. ____________
2. The red buses have three floors. _________
3. They visited the museums and loved. ___________
4. The weather wasn’t fine so they stayed in the hotel. __________
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III. Fill in the blanks with the simple past of the verbs in brackets.
1. The students ____________________ at 9:30 pm. (arrive)
2. The weather ______________________in the last two days. (change)
3. Pedro ________________________ his room before they went to London. (tidy)
4. His parents ________________________ about the Buckingham Palace. (talk)
 5. Alice _______________________ her uniform last Monday. (wash)
6. They __________________________ a beautiful surprise party for our teacher.
(prepare)

IV. Rewrite the sentences from exercise II in negative form.

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V. Observe the pictures and fill in the blanks.

Sandra Hellen Luana

16 years old 13 years old 14 years old

155cm 160 cm 175 cm
49 kg 53 kg 60kg
Very happy Very very happy Happy

a. Hellen is ______________________________ Sandra. (tall)

b. Luana is the ______________________ of all. (tall)
c. Luana is _______________________ than Sandra. ( happy)
d. Hellen is the ________________________ of all. (happy)
e. Luana’s sister says she’s the ______________________________ among them. (good-looking)
f. Hellen is _____________________________ than Sandra. (beautiful)

VI. Complete the tables with the right adjective degree.

Adjective Comparative of superiotity Superlative of superiority

Bad
Hot
Long
Confortable
Important