Welcome to your GRADE 6 ENGLISH MODEL 001
GRADE 6 ENGLISH MODEL 001
Section One: Reading Passage
Directions: For questions (1- 10), read the following passage carefully and choose the correct answer from the given alternatives A-D, and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
Cheetahs are built for speed. Their bodies are muscular and streamlined. They have long legs and backs that let them take big steps. They have long tails to help them keep their balance and steer at high speeds. They have large hearts and lungs that help them breathe easily during fast runs. In addition, their ridges on the bottoms of their paws that provide traction much like the ridges on snow boots that keep them from slipping.
Although cheetahs can reach their top speeds in two or three seconds, they can’t keep it up for long. Cheetahs can’t sweat to cool themselves down, unlike people. If a cheetah doesn’t catch its prey after it runs about 1,000 feet (300 meters) the length of three soccer fields, it has to give up. Otherwise its body could get so hot that the cheetah might die.
Cheetahs hunt over very large areas. A female cheetah might cover an area as big as 300 square miles (800 squares km) in search of food. Male cheetahs hunt over smaller areas but they fight hard to keep other cheetah out of their territory. Cheetahs hunt gazelles, impalas, hares, and young wild beasts. Sometimes, males cooperate with other males to prey on even bigger animals, such as zebras.
Sometimes cheetahs are the victims of theft. Lions or hyenas may bully a cheetah and steel its fresh skill. For this reason, cheetahs hunt during the day when lions and hyenas like to nap.
Cheetahs live in dry places, such as grasslands. They can go a long time without water. They get much of the water they need from the prey they kill. Cheetahs like places where they can see for a long distance so they can find more prey. Cheetahs also need bushes and shrubs to hide behind when they hunt.
Mother cheetahs give birth to four from eight cubs (children of cheetahs) at a time. The cubs are blind and helpless. They stay hidden in their den for about eight weeks while their mother hunts.
1.
A female cheetah covers __________ square miles in search of food.
2.
Which one of the following is not true about cheetahs?
3.
Why do cheetahs need bushes and shrubs?
4.
According to the passage, cheetah hunt__________________.
5.
Cheetahs get much of their water from______________.
6.
The pronoun…They…in paragraph 6, line 2 refers to .
7.
The pronoun…its…in paragraph 4, line 2 refers to .
8.
Which one of the following can be the topic of the passage?
9.
The above passage is example of writing.
10.
What is the gist of the passage?
Directions: For questions (11-14), choose the best that depicts the words in bold type refer to in the text accordingly.
11.
The word…give up…in paragraph 2, line 4 means .
12.
The word …territory… in paragraph 3, line 4 means .
13.
The word … hunt… in paragraph 4, line 2 means .
14.
The word …hidden… in paragraph 6, line 2 means .
Section Two: Vocabulary
Directions: For questions (15- 18), choose word that is the same or nearly the same in meaning with underlined words in each sentence and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet.
15.
She wears a uniform when going to work.
16.
The boy grew up to be a famous novelist and poet.
17.
He never gets up before eight.
18.
Yesuf won first prize in the speech contest.
Section Three: Grammar
Directions: For questions (19- 35), choose one that best completes the sentence from the given alternatives A-D, and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet.
19.
The girl is her elder brother.
20.
In Ethiopia, June has night than September.
21.
Amazon River is the river in the world.
22.
Our English teacher us new words every day.
23.
We an English model examination now.
24.
fruit do you like most, apple or mango?
25.
My parents have lived in Bahir Dar six years.
26.
Meron is a very woman. She helps a lot of people in the hospital.
27.
Grade six students educate their parents about basic traffic rules.
28.
Drivers break red signals while driving cars.
29.
You study very hard English last year because you didn’t speak it fluently.
30.
Last week, my sister presents from her friends.
31.
When I was a baby, I drink milk a lot, but now I don’t drink it.
32.
Ali ________the story about the Battle of Adwa when the light off.
33.
I was writing my notes while my younger brother __________ a movie.
34.
He studies his lesson very hard___________ pass the exam.
35.
I am really hungry! I haven’t___________ since this morning.
Section Four: Writing
Directions: For questions (36-40) are related to different types of writing. Read each of them very carefully and choose the best answer from the four alternatives A-D, and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet.
36.
The farmer tills the farm with a pair of oxen. The action verb of this sentence is ___________.
37.
___________ writing describes how something or someone looks or feels.
38.
Which one of the following is simple sentence?
39.
She has a nice skirt. The interrogative form of this sentence is ___________.
40.
He did her homework last night. The negative form of this sentence is ______.
