Semester 5 – Practice Test – Answer Key

Section 1A

1) weren’t 2) Do 3) don’t 4) is
5) Does 6) am 7) was 8) were
9) isn’t/is 10) aren’t 11) were 12) was
13) Did 14) didn’t 15) doesn’t 16) weren’t
17) was 18) wasn’t

Section 1B

19) am 20) likes 21) is 22) am writing

23) is/isn’t 24) is taking 25) was 26) is running
27) are shopping 28) was 29) were studying 30) were
31) taught 32) dropped 33) was practicing 34) burned
35) drew 36) finishes 37) was daydreaming 38) were

Section 2

1. SPT – I shop every day.

PCT – I’m shopping now.
Simple Past – I shopped at the supermarket yesterday.
Past Cont. – I was shopping at Sogo Department Store at 7:30 last night.

2. SPT – I often play with my friends.

PCT – I’m playing with my friends now.
Simple Past – I played with my friends last Sunday.
Past Cont – I was playing with my friends at 4:00 yesterday afternoon.

3. SPT – I talk to my mother every morning.

PCT – I’m talking to my best friend now.
Simple Past – I talked to my teacher last night.
Past Cont – I was talking to my best friend at 6:00 yesterday evening.

4. SPT – I usually make my English teacher angry in class.

PCT – I’m making my teacher very angry right now.
Simple Past – I made my teacher very angry last class.
Past Cont – I was making a cake at 8:00 last night.

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5. SPT – My cell phone sometimes rings in English class.
PCT – My cell phone is ringing right now.
Simple Past – My cell phone rang in English class last Friday.
Past Cont – My phone was ringing at 9:00 this morning.

Section 3

1. busy (Present Tense)

adjective: I’m always busy.
comparative of adjectives: I’m busier than you are.
superlative of adjectives: I’m the busiest student in our class.
adverb: My father works busily every day.

2. terrible (Past Tense)

adjective: My English was terrible last year.
comparative of adjectives: My English was more terrible than your English last year.
superlative of adjectives: My English was the most terrible English in the world last year.
adverb: I did my homework terribly last class.

3. good (Present Tense)

adjective: I’m a good swimmer.
comparative of adjectives: I’m a better swimmer than you are.
superlative of adjectives: I’m the best swimmer in my family.
adverb: I swim well.

4. wonderful (Past Tense)

adjective: He was a wonderful person last year.
comparative of adjectives: You were more wonderful than I was last class.
superlative of adjectives: You were the most wonderful child in the world last year.
adverb: I sang wonderfully last class.

5. patient (Present Tense)

adjective: My father is a patient man.
comparative of adjectives: My father is more patient than my mother.
superlative of adjectives: My father is the most patient person in my family.
adverb: My father helps me do my homework patiently.

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Section 4

1) tired. 2) hard 3) more handsome 4) worse

5) more diligent 6) the tallest 7) better 8) the busiest
9) the most difficult 10) the most beautiful 11) faster 12) the best
13) the worst 14) high 15) better 16) uglier
17) angrily 18) sensibly 19) badly 20) pretty
21) enthusiastically 22) accurately 23) romantically

Section 5 – Vocabulary (Chinese/English and English/Chinese)

1) 聰明的 2) 規則的/普通的 3) 退休的 4) 一場地震

5) 蒸汽 6) 在公共場所 7) 一輛貨車 / 卡車 8) 收集
9) 行李 10) 尖叫 11) to take a rest 12) to slap
13) thunder 14) to memorize 15) to fall asleep 16) a tennis racket
17) a/the subway 18) a circle 19) a report card 20) a rose

Section 6

See Handouts 170, 195, 196, 199

Section 7 – Translation

1. There was a typhoon in Taipei last weekend.

2. Making your mother angry is dangerous.
3. My parents were fighting when I got home last night.
4. Eric is the craziest boy in our class.
5. Who is the most terrible teacher at your Chinese school?
6. When was the last time you went to a bakery?
7. My father worked carefully yesterday.
8. Were you watching TV at 9:00 last night?
9. I practiced the piano for two and a half hours last Saturday afternoon.
10. Were your friends chatting when the teacher came into the classroom yesterday?

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Section 8 – Side by Side (Fill in the blanks)

1. sore throat (many possible answers)

2. fast / faster / the fastest
3. lazy / the laziest (many possible answers)
4. were getting on a bus / was cooking dinner (many possible answers)
5. quicker
6. drive a car (many possible answers)