Section A

( 20 marks )
Questions 1 to 5

Choose the best answer to complete the sentences.

1. She can bake ______________ butter cookies.

A. interesting
B. delicious
C. pretty
D. boring

2. The butcher uses a ______________ to slice the meat.

A. cleaver
B. blade
C. knife
D. dagger

3. My friend does not like to _______________ in the sun.

A. play
B. plays
C. played
D. playing

4. Tigers ___________ fierce animals that like to hunt alone.

A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were

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5. The villagers wept because ____________ lost their homes in the fire.
A. I
B. you
C. we
D. they

Questions 6
Choose the most suitable simile to complete the sentence below.

6. She did not want to wake her baby up, so she was ________________ when
she opened the door.
A. as tall as a giant
B. as cunning as a fox
C. as quiet as a mouse
D. as graceful as a swan

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Questions 7-9
Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks in the passage that follow.

Faris and his friends are playing football in the field. Suddenly, Faris

________________ (7) over a stone ________________(8) falls down. He hurts his left

knee and it is bleeding. Faris walks home_______________(9) . His mother cleans the

cut on his knee and applies some ointment on it.

7. A stumble
B stumbles
C stumbled
D stumbling

8. A or
B so
C and
D but

9. A quickly
B hurriedly
C gently
D slowly

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Questions 10
Choose the best word that has the same meaning as the underlined word.

10. The walls of the old house were painted in bright colours.

A pleasant

B shiny

C light

D dull

Questions 11
Choose the word with the correct spelling.

11. My cousin is a _______________________. He loves to read.

A bookworm

B bokworm

C bukworm

D bookwom