Reading TERM I TEST Name ___________________________________________________________ Total ___/15 Grade ___ (GA A2 Unit 1-2) A Anna We live in a new house and my mum is using a great website, roomplanner.com, to plan all the rooms. It’s lots of fun. You can move the sofa and the armchairs or put the beds in a different place. Or put a desk in the living room and a mirror in the hall. You draw a plan of your house. Then you can move your furniture to different rooms. Perhaps it looks good, perhaps it doesn’t. OK – try again. You can change your plan again and again until you get it right! And you can see the results in 3D – it’s very real. You don’t have to work hard and you can still have the perfect house! We have a lot of furniture from our old house and with this website we can try lots of different ways before we have to move anything. It’s easy to use and the 3D is great. B Damian My dad has got roomplanner.com and he lets me play with it. I don’t usually surf the Internet much or play games, but this website is great! My bedroom is quite small and my dad says I can have some new furniture, but first I have to decide where I want to put my things. I’m using the website, and it’s helping a lot. I want a new bed with a desk under it and some more cupboards. It’s looking good now and my dad likes the plan so I can get my new furniture soon. (GA_TG_R1_st)
Jason lives in a big house near the sea. That’s not really unusual, is it? But Jason’s house is very big. There are 20 bedrooms, two kitchens, a big dining room for 40 people and a swimming pool, too! You’re probably thinking Jason has got a very big family, but you’re wrong! Jason lives in a hotel. Jason’s parents own The Jackson Star Hotel in the lovely little seaside town of Barnaby. Lots of people go there in summer for their holidays and stay at Jason’s hotel. It’s very popular! Jason lives with his mum and dad in a small flat at the top of the hotel. They work in the hotel and Jason helps when he is not at school. He sometimes takes the rubbish out and makes the beds. So, does Jason like living in a big hotel? Jason says, ‘Yes, I like my room. It’s very high up, and from one window I can see all over the town and from the other window I can see the sea. I’ve got a big desk in my room with a computer on it so I can do my homework. And I’ve got my own T V. My friends like staying here because the bedrooms are comfortable, and we get very good food! I like the people, too. They come from different places around the world.’ Is there anything he doesn’t like? Jason answers, ‘In the winter, there aren’t a lot of people here and I sometimes get frightened at night. The hotel is big and empty and it’s like a scary film!’ 2 Read the article and choose the best answers, A, B, C or D. 1 Barnaby is a town which is ______________________. A very big B very quiet C by the sea D in the countryside 2 The hotel is very popular ______________. A in summer B in winter C every holiday D all year 3 Jason and his family live ________________________. A in one of the hotel bedrooms B in a flat in the hotel C near the hotel D in a flat in town 4 Jason sometimes does _____________ to help his parents. A homework B cooking C cleaning D jobs 5 His friends like the __________________and the bedrooms at the hotel. A view B cooking C swimming pool D people 3. Read the article again and correct the mistakes in the sentences. 1 Jason’s home is near a big city. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Jason doesn’t go to school. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3 The people who stay in the hotel come from other places in England. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4 The hotel is often full in winter. ____________________________________________________________________________________ (GA_TG_U2_high)