First Quarterly Long Test in English 7

Name: _________________________________ Yr./Sec. ______________ Date: ____________

General Directions: Read the directions carefully and write the answers on the space provided before the number.

I. The following sentences have colloquialisms and slangs. Tell whether the italicized word is slang or
colloquialisms by writing S for slang and C for colloquialisms.

_______1. I ain’t going to see a movie. _____6. My bad. I have to apologize her.
_______2. You are disturbing me. Buzz off! _____7. My game stinks.
_______3. What’s going with you? You look blue again._____8. Are you gonna attend the meeting today?
_______4. I will wear my new rides tomorrow. _____9. He is a frenemy.
_______5. Investing in that business is a crapshoot. _____10. He is emo. He needs to see a psychiatrist.

II. Choose the correct answer on the box provided below.

riddle proverb myth legend fable
_________________11. A short story that tells moral truth, often using animals as characters.
_________________12. A traditional story regarded as historical but unauthenticated or not verifiable.
_________________13.A short saying that states a general truth or a piece of advice.
_________________14. A mystifying, misleading, or puzzling questions posed as a problem to be solved or guessed.
_________________15. A traditional story involving supernatural heroes or event.

III. Match column A to column B.

A B
________16. What building has the most stories? A. shoes
________17. What is the best month of the parade? B. iron
________18. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head C. march
But never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? D. river
________19. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? E. candle
________20. What has hands but can’t stop? F. clock
________21. What never asks questions but is often answered? G. footprints
________22. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you? H. name
________23. The more you take, the more you leave behind? I. library
________24. What is iron on a house but leather on a man? J. doorbell
________25. What goes up but never goes down? K. age

IV. Give the meaning of the following idioms. Choose the answer from the box.
Something is very To not feel well Good luck Event that happens Something is very
easy infrequently costly
________________________________26. Break a leg.
________________________________27. A piece of cake.
________________________________28. To feel under the weather.
________________________________29. To cost an arm and a leg.
________________________________30. Once in a blue moon.

V. Subject -Verb Agreement. Underline the correct form of the verb.

31. The boy or the girl ( has, have ) the book.
32. Here ( is, are ) my mother together with her friends.
33. Fifteen years ( is, are ) a lengthy prison term.
34. The group ( is, are ) made up of 10 boys and 9 girls.
35. None of my friends ( was, were ) there.
36. Nobody ( know, knows ) the trouble I’ve seen.
37. The committee ( debate, debates ) these questions carefully.
38. The movie including all the previews ( takes, take ) about two hours to watch.
39. There ( was, were ) fifteen candies in that bag.
40. Annie and her brothers ( is, are ) at school.

VI. Answer briefly, yet concisely.

41-42. How did Sualla create the first man and the first woman?
43-44. Why did Sinonggol turn the medicine into poison?
45-46. How was the earth formed?
47-50. What is the origin of the following:
47. RICE-
48. BANANAS-
49. PIG-
50. RAT-