SS 1 English Language 1st Term Exam
  • 1. What part of speech connects words or groups of words? Examples are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
A) Adverb
B) Preposition
C) Pronoun
D) Interjection
E) Conjunction
  • 2. Which part of speech expresses a mild or sudden burst of emotion? Examples are wow! or no!
A) Noun
B) Adjective
C) Adverb
D) Preposition
E) Interjection
  • 3. The hero of the game was ___________ .
A) Him
B) Them
C) He
D) They
  • 4. What type of noun is made up of two or more words? (policeman, father-in-law, real estate...)
A) None
B) Proper
C) Collective
D) Compound
E) Inproper
  • 5. What is the correct spelling for hope + ing ?
A) hoping
B) hopeing
C) hopping
D) hoppeing
  • 6. Find the correctly spelt word
A) Difference
B) Defference
C) Deferrence
D) Deferense
  • 7. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelt second word?
A) hot-hotter
B) thin-thinner
C) big-biger
D) small-smallest
  • 8. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelt second word?
A) offer-offerring
B) slim-slimmer
C) begin-beginning
D) end-ended
  • 9. I set my alarm clock because I have to ___________ early tomorrow.
A) Look out
B) Get up
C) Come on
D) Look up
  • 10. Here's a chair. Please ___________.
A) Go up
B) Sit down
C) Break down
D) Make up
  • 11. If you don't pass the exam this time, don't ___________. Try again!
A) come in
B) go on
C) give up
D) look out
  • 12. The English sounds have how many Monophthongs?
A) 9
B) 8
C) 1
D) 7
E) 12
  • 13. Which sound is different from the others?
A) /ʊ/
B) /u:/
C) /ɒ/
D) /ɪ/
E) /æ/
  • 14. Which is a short vowel ?
A) /ɜ:/
B) /i:/
C) /æ/
D) /u:/
  • 15. What is the definition of diphthongs?
A) a simple vowel that we used to study for a long time
B) a sequence of two vowels sounds
C) any sound that a letter makes that is not a consonant sound
D) the sound that forms the peak of a syllable
  • 16. The idiom 'To cry wolf' means _________
A) To turn pale
B) Raise a false alarm
C) To keep off starvation
D) To listen eagerly
  • 17. Identify the meaning of the idiom “Can’t judge a book by its cover.”
A) It is hard to tell how something is simply from its outward appearance.
B) A book’s ending can’t always be guessed by how it begins.
C) It takes a long time to really know someone.
D) It is easier to read a book than to protect the pages.
  • 18. The phrase, “A hard nut to crack” means ___________.
A) a difficult problem
B) a unique problem
C) an interesting problem
D) a simple problem
  • 19. Identify the meaning of the idiom “a bed of roses”.
A) An impossible situation
B) A tough option
C) A fragrant place
D) An easy situation
  • 20. The weather disturbance is expected to enter the country’s jurisdiction within the day. What NOUN phrase is used in the sentence?
A) is expected to enter
B) The weather disturbance
C) to enter the country's jurisdiction
D) within the day
  • 21. Whale watching has attracted many tourists. (What is the verb phrase?)
A) has attracted
B) many tourists
C) meanwhile
D) Whale watching
  • 22. Which of the following is a noun phrase?
A) Around the sun
B) Across many rivers
C) The choreographer
D) The movie was boring
  • 23. Which of the following is a verb phrase?
A) were spoken
B) For making cookies
C) The cake is very yummy
D) The glittering bells of the church
  • 24. What type of sentence is this? Maya should not handle this situation.
A) Compound
B) Not sure
C) Simple
D) Complex
  • 25. What type of sentence is this? Paul and Stephen never attended the party.
A) Compound
B) Not sure
C) Simple
D) Complex
  • 26. She could accept ___ she could go home.
A) to
B) or
C) But
D) Not sure
  • 27. What figure of speech is this? Her hair was like gravy, running brown off her head and clumping up on her shoulders.
A) Simile
B) Onomatopoeia
C) Idiom
D) Personification
E) Metaphor
  • 28. What figure of speech is this? Her cheeks are big red apples from the cold.
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Personification
E) Idiom
  • 29. What figure of speech is this? The leaves danced in the wind.
A) Simile
B) Idiom
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Personification
  • 30. There was some _________agreement over the topic.
A) Un
B) Dis
C) Anti
D) Mis
  • 31. She has got a little aware______ of the dangers she will face.
A) ness
B) ment
C) ing
D) ity
  • 32. The twins got very well together and there was no jealous_____ between them.
A) ing
B) y
C) ity
D) ism
  • 33. We never watch TV in _________ morning.
A) a
B) an
C) the
  • 34. The Browns live in a house. __________ house is very old.
A) The
B) A
C) An
  • 35. Rama has come without ____ umbrella
A) the
B) a
C) an
  • 36. Multiple Choice

    The place of articulation of the consonant sounds /f/ and /v/ are
A) interdental
B) velar
C) labiodental
D) bilabial
  • 37. Find the odd one out: a, w, i, u, e
A) i
B) w
C) e
D) a
  • 38. Which of these is not a type of essay?
A) Descriptive essay
B) Personal esaay
C) Expository essay
D) Narrative essay
E) Argumentative essay
  • 39. Which of these tells a story?
A) Argumentative essay
B) Descriptive essay
C) Narrative essay
D) Expository essay
  • 40. "About" has stress on the 2nd syllable.
A) False
B) True
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