Grammar Notes Online Test #11

Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for each question below (22-24).

Christmas is only a few days away and the two children in the Robinson family feel very excited and are impatient for it. Their mother has baked them a very large and delicious Christmas cake. She has shown them how to make colourful ornaments for their Christmas tree. Tomorrow she will take them out shopping in the High Street as she is planning to purchase new clothes for them to wear on Christmas Day. Mr. Robinson gave Tommy and Irena some money last week so that they could buy themselves lots of balloons and streamers to decorate their house.

22. 
    We understand from the passage that …
    

1. 
   Christmas doesn't mean much to the children
   
2. 
   the family is not happy with Christmas
   
3. 
   children are looking forward to Christmas
   
4. 
   they always do the same arrangements for the New Year
   

23. 
    Children learnt how to …
    

A) do shopping B) make decorations
C) buy new clothes D) make a cake

24. 
    It is obvious in the passage that …
    

1. 
   she hasn't bought clothes for the children yet
   
2. 
   the shopping for the Christmas has finished
   
3. 
   the following day is the New Year
   
4. 
   children spent all their money on cake
   

Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for each question below (25-27).

I had walked along the river many times since meeting the fisherman that day in winter, but I did not see him again until spring. It was late afternoon, and I had bicycled to a point along the river about a mile downstream from where we had met hoping to find a deserted spot to draw a picture. I found a niche in the sloping floodwall and started drawing a junk moored not far from me. Half an hour passed, and just as I finished the drawing, I heard someone calling my Chinese name. I looked down to see Old Ding scrambling up the floodwall, his boat anchored behind him. I noticed that he limped badly, and when he got up close I could see that one of his legs was shorter than the other and set at an odd angle. Such was his balance and skill in the boats that I only saw his deformity when he came ashore.

25. 
    It is obvious that the writer ...
    

1. 
   walked with the fisher along the river many times
   
2. 
   made good friends when they met
   
3. 
   hasn't been able to see the fisherman all winter long again
   
4. 
   was always jealous of the fisherman
   

26. 
    We can infer from the passage that the writer was drawing the picture of ...
    

A) an old boat B) the fisherman
C) the river D) sloping floodwall

27. 
    We understand that the writer …
    

1. 
   caught fish with the fisherman.
   
2. 
   wanted to learn who the fisherman was.
   
3. 
   knew that he didn't walk properly.
   
4. 
   has only seen the fisherman in his boat out in the river before.