The Fun They Had Practice Test Paper 2025

The Fun They Had Practice Test Paper 2025

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Q.1 (A) Language Study

(1) Complete the words by using correct letters:

1. ab_out – about
2. f_nny – funny
3. ni_ht – night
4. qu_ck – quick

(2) Put the following words in alphabetical order:

1. progress, teacher, homework, answers
   ✅ answers, homework, progress, teacher
2. superior, shaken, screamed, shouting
   ✅ screamed, shaken, shouting, superior

(3) Punctuate the following sentences:

1. Where did you find it
   ✅ Where did you find it?
2. Whats it about
   ✅ What’s it about?
3. They had a teacher.
   ✅ They had a teacher.
4. How could a man be a teacher
   ✅ How could a man be a teacher?

(4) Write four smaller words (minimum 3 letters each) using letters in “schoolyard”:
✅ (i) school
✅ (ii) yard
✅ (iii) hard
✅ (iv) road

(5) Write related words as shown in the example (school):

(6) Complete the word-chain of nouns:
screen → needle → elephant → table → egg

Q.1 (B) Do as directed:

(1) (a) Make your own meaningful sentence using ‘to be able to’:
✅ I want to be able to swim well.

OR
(b) Add a clause:
✅ The police captured the thief who escaped from jail.

(2) (a) Add a prefix or suffix to make new words:

1. miracle – miraculous
2. hazard – hazardous

OR
(b) Make a meaningful sentence using:
✅ Miracle: It was a miracle that he survived.
✅ Hazard: Smoking is a health hazard.

Q.2 – Seen Passage 1

A1. Complete the following sentences:

1. The incident in the story has taken place on 17 May 2157.
2. Their television screen must have had a million books on it.
3. Margie’s great grandfather told that in old times all stories were printed on paper.
4. According to Margie, ‘a real book’ means printed on paper.

Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed 17 May 2157, she wrote, ‘Today Tommy found a real book!’ It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper. They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to – on a screen, you know. And then when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had when they read it the first time. “Gee,” said Tommy, “what a waste! When you’re through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it’s good for plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.”

A3. Match the columns:

‘A’	Ans.	‘B’
(1) real (2) crinkly (3) same (4) awfully funny		(a) very amusing (b) exactly the one/ones referred to (c) having a lot of thin folds (d) genuine and not false

Answers

A	B
1. real	(d) genuine and not false
2. crinkly	(c) having a lot of folds
3. same	(b) exactly the one
4. awfully funny	(a) very amusing

A4. Underline the verbs and choose tense:

(1) Margie even wrote about it. (Present tense / past tense)

(2) Today Tommy found a new book. (Present tense / past tense)

1. wrote (past tense)
2. found (past tense)

A5. Personal Response:

About what did Tommy say, “what a waste!” Why, do you think, did he say so?

✅ Tommy said “what a waste!” about the old paper books because you could only use them once and then throw them away.

Q.3 – Seen Passage 2

A1. Fill in the blanks with correct alternatives:

Read the sentences and fill in the blank with correct alternatives:

(1) ____________________ was a round little man with a red face.
(a) The teacher (b) The County Inspector

(2) Margie hated most was _____________where she had to put homework and test papers.
(a) the teacher (b) the slot

(3) Large and black and ugly is the description of ____________________
(a) the teacher (b) the Inspector

(4) Margie had hoped the Inspector wouldn’t know how to ____________________
(a) take the teacher apart (b) put the teacher together

1. The County Inspector was a round little man with a red face.
2. Margie hated most was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers.
3. Large and black and ugly is the description of the teacher.
4. Margie had hoped the Inspector wouldn’t know how to put the teacher together.

He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldn’t know how to put it together again, but he knew how all right, and, after an hour or so, there it was again, large and black and ugly, with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions were asked. That wasn’t so bad. The part Margie hated most was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers. She always had to write them out in a punch code they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks in no time. The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie’s head. He said to her mother, “It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I’ve slowed it up to an average ten-year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory.” And he patted Margie’s head again. Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.

A2. Complex Factual Question:

What was the fault with the mechanical teacher? How was the fault repaired?

✅ The fault was that the geography sector was too quick. The Inspector repaired it by slowing it down to an average ten-year level.

A3. Ten words related to family:

✅ father, mother, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin, nephew

A4. Expand contractions:

1. I’ve slowed it up. – I have slowed it up.
2. He wouldn’t know. – He would not know.
3. That wasn’t so bad. – That was not so bad.
4. It’s not the little girl’s fault. – It is not the little girl’s fault.

A5. Personal Response:

Do you like to take tests? Give the reason for your answer:

✅ Yes, I like to take tests because they help me know how much I have learned. Tests show me which topics I understand well and which ones I need to study more. They also motivate me to pay attention in class and revise my lessons regularly. By taking tests, I can track my progress and improve my knowledge and skills over time.

Q.4 Dialogue Writing

(1) Arrange the jumbled sentences:

(A) Prepare a dialogue from the jumbled sentences. 01

1: Yes, I 1liked to hear bedtime stories when I was a child.

2: Did you like to hear bedtime stories when you were a child?

3: Because those were very interesting.

4: Why did you like them?

✅ 2: Did you like to hear bedtime stories when you were a child?
✅ 1: Yes, I liked to hear bedtime stories when I was a child.
✅ 4: Why did you like them?
✅ 3: Because those were very interesting.

(2) Complete the dialogue:

A: If you do not study well, what will happen?

B: —————————————————

A: If you wake up late on a school day, what will happen?

B: ————————————————————–
A: If you do not study well, what will happen?
✅ B: I will fail the exam.
A: If you wake up late on a school day, what will happen?
✅ B: I will miss the school bus.

(3) Write a dialogue of minimum six meaningful exchanges on “The importance of reading”:

A: Do you like reading books?
B: Yes, I love reading.
A: Why do you think reading is important?
B: It improves our knowledge and language skills.
A: That’s true. It also makes us think creatively.
B: Yes, and it helps us relax and reduce stress.

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