AES Worksheet C Level Reading 3 P39-46 + Basic Voc.

P71-82 Score: __________/50

Class: ________________ English Name: _________________________ Date: ________________
Part A: Fill in the blanks. (2% each, -12%)
_______________ 1. My ______ food is pizza.
_______________ 2. We go to the gym to _______.
invited
_______________ 3. Roy ______ Ryan to his slumber party today.
favorite
_______________ 4. I want to get 100 in my test so I need to ______ more.
compete
_______________ 5. Hans is a ______ dancer because everybody knows him.
_______________ 6. The two baseball teams will ______ for the game.
exercise
Part B: Cloze. (2% each, -10%) famous
Shaun White is a famous snowboarder. He has won many contests in his sport. He won a goldpractice
medal for
snowboarding. This (1) in 2006. He won a race in the Olympics. He won another gold medal in 2010. Shaun has
been snowboarding for a long time. He also loves to skateboard. (2) Then, he decided to switch.
( ) 1. (A) happen (B) happening (C) happened
( ) 2. (A) He was a skier first. (B) He is a skier first. (C) He does a skier first.
“Planning a birthday party is hard,” thought Jenna. She could not pick which friends to (1) . Jenna was
having a slumber party, so her parents thought she only have a few guests. It was hard to narrow down her (2) .
Jenna had friends at school. She had friends on her soccer team. She had friends from summer camp. She did
not know (3) everyone in one event.
( ) 3. (A) swim (B) invite (C) sing
( ) 4. (A) money (B) gold (C) list
( ) 5. (A) what to give to (B) when to eat (C) how to include
Part C: Reading Comprehension. (2% each, -18%)
The class decided to make a graph. They wanted to show their favorite seasons. They made a bar graph. It
had a section for each of the four seasons. The teacher helped to tally the votes. She organized the data. Then,
the class heard the results. Summer was the favorite season!
( ) 1. Which picture is about bar graph? (A) (B) (C)

( ) 2. Which of the following words is a synonym for data? (A) informed (B) information (C) informing
( ) 3. From the reading, which is NOT true?
(A) The students made a bar graph to show their favorite season.
(B) The teacher did not help to tally the votes and organized the data.
(C) The graph shows that summer is the student’s favorite season.
Joe was not a competitive kid. He did not like to win and did not like to lose. He really did not like to compete
against anyone for anything. For this reason, Joe did not like most sports. He thought it was a waste of time to
play with a team. He still liked to move his body and exercise. Joe decided to start swimming. It was quiet way to
exercise. There was no competition. It was just Joe in the water, moving and pushing forward.
( ) 4. Which question would help readers monitor the reading?
(A) How does Joe compete? (B) How does Joe exercise? (C) How does Joe’s friend exercise?
( ) 5. Why did Joe NOT enjoy most sports? (A) Because he only knows how to swim.
(B) Because he always lose.
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 (C) Because he did not like to compete against anyone.
( ) 6. Which simile describes Joe’s experience while swimming?
(A) eating like a mouse (B) smart as a mouse (C) quiet as a mouse
Snowboarders like to take risks and enjoy the thrill of a fun ride on the snow. Many fans of the sport like to
snowboard in a half-pipe, which is a U-shaped bowl. Riders can move from one side of the bowl to the other. They
jump and do tricks inside the half-pipe. The half-pipe started with skateboarders. Now snowboarders enjoy it. It
takes a lot of practice to do some snowboarding tricks, but it sure is lots of fun!
( ) 7. What does the first sentence tell about this text? (A) The text is about slowboarders.
(B) The text is about snowboarders. (C) The text is about skateboarders.
( ) 8. Which image best shows the place for snowboarding?
(A) (B) (C)

( ) 9. What type of text is most similar to this text?

(A) a book about swimming (B) a story about thrilling sports (C) a book about Hans eating

Basic Vocabulary P71-82

Part A: Multiple Choice. (1% each, -10%)

( ) 1. The cat is lying on the _____. (A) grasses (B) gress (C) grass
( ) 2. The fridge is _____ of beef and pork. (A) full (B) fill (C) fall
( ) 3. She left the office at _____ past twelve. (A) half (B) halves (C) twelve
( ) 4. My grandmother has much gray _____. (A) hare (B) hear (C) hair
( ) 5. We have no idea how to _____ trees. (A) growing (B) grow (C) grown
( ) 6. Something terrible _____ last night. (A) happened (B) happen (C) happening
( ) 7. Mom keeps the old books and toys in the _____. (A) garaje (B) garage (C) garfield
( ) 8. I want to be a firefighter in the _____, just like my dad. (A) fewture (B) future (C) funny
( ) 9. We learn about countries of the world in _____ class. (A) math (B) music (C) geography
( ) 10. I _____ late this morning, so I had to _____ quickly. (A) got off; get dressed (B) got off; get dressed

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