14540 6th grades exam

2011-2012 1st Semestr 6th Classes’1st Exam
Student’s Name: _______________________

Date: ___________________

Class: ________

PART I. TIME TO UNDERSTAND
B. Read the passage below and fill in the blanks with the correct words.
celebrate
tradition
believe

costumes
have fun
parade

spooky
frightened of
fireworks

HALLOWEEN
In America and Europe, people (1)......................... Halloween which is a witches’
celebration on 31th October every year. It is a 200 year- old (2) ........................... .
People (3)....................... that bad spirits come out in winter, so the owners of the house
use a pumpkin to scare them way. They put a candle inside to light up the pumpkins’ face. Some
of people use pumpkin as a decoration.
Kids dress up in (5)........................... .Some kids wear a mask on their faces and others
paint their faces with make-up. So, they seem (6) .......................... .
At night, kids go trick-or-treating, which means they go from house to house, knock
the doors and say ”trick or treat”. Then, the owners of the house will give the kids candy.

Some of them are (7)............................. the kids in a spooky costume.
The kids (8).............................. at that festival. Some of the kids prefer to walk in a large
(9)....................... with their family to celebrate Halloween and use some (10)............................. .
Points:

PART II: GRAMMAR

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C. Fill in the blanks with Present Simple and Present Continuous
Mrs. Stone usually 1. ____________ (work) in Liverpool and then she 2.
____________ (stay) at home in the evening. But this week she 3.____________( not
stay ) at home. At the moment, she 4.____________(visit) a friend and they 5.
____________ (talk) about their problems at work. Clare, her friend´s daughter,
6.____________ (be) fifteen years old and she 7.____________(do) her homework while
her parents 8.____________(talk) to Mrs. Stone. She usually 9.____________(finish) it
before dinner but today she 10.____________ (finish) right now.
Tom, her brother, always 11.____________(watch) TV after dinner but at the moment
he 12.____________(help) a friend of his. They 13.____________(draw) two maps for
the Geography lesson. He often 14.____________(go) home on foot but today his father
15.____________(drive) him back home because it 16.____________(be) very late. His
mother never 17.____________(fall) asleep when he 18.____________(study) at a
friend´s home; she always 19. ____________ (wait) for him. She 20._____________
(want) him to study at home on his own.
Points:

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D. Look at the chart below and make a sentence by using frequency adverbs.

always
Mark

often

sometimes

rarely

never

do homework

Joe

ride a horse

Maria
Claire

generally

drive fast
go shopping

1.
2.
3.
4.
Points:

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E. Use the adjectives or adverbs (ADJ+LY) as necessary.
1. (noisy) Children are always very _______________
2. (slow) Please drive _____________
3. (beautiful) Don’t you think she paints

Adjectives

_______________ ?

1. ________

____________

4. (happy) David is a _________ child.

2. ________

____________

5. (successful) He is _________ businessman.

3. ________

____________

4. ________

____________

5. ________

____________

6. ________

____________

7. ________

____________

6. (good) He plays tennis very _____________
7. (quiet) The boys were so _______________

Adverbs

Points:

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F. Look at the picture and complete the sentences with a suitable place preposition:
Next to

under

in front of

behind

opposite

between

1. The dog is _______ the bed
table.
2. The microscope is _______
the clock and the bottle.
3. There is a pair of shoes
_______ the door.
4. The books are _______ the
dressing table.
5. The bed is _________ the
door
Points:

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