Grade 7 English – READING:CLASS READERS Quiz
1. The committee ____ the new school project every year.
Committee is a collective noun treated as singular here, so the verb takes the singular form 'meets'.
2. Yesterday the headteacher ____ the winners at assembly.
The time word 'Yesterday' requires the past simple tense: 'announced'.
3. Active: The students elected Mary as group leader. Which sentence is the passive form?
Passive voice places the object 'Mary' as subject and includes a form of 'be' + past participle: 'was elected' plus 'by the students'.
4. The teacher told the class, 'I am proud of your work.' Which is the correct reported speech?
In reported speech the present 'am' shifts to past 'was' and 'your' (addressed to the class) becomes 'their'.
5. Choose the correct relative pronoun: The leader ____ won the award is from our village.
'Who' is used for people as the subject of the relative clause: 'who won the award.'
6. Good leaders often lead ____ positive change in their communities.
The common collocation is 'lead to change' meaning cause or result, so 'to' is correct.
7. A leader ____ listen carefully to others to make fair decisions.
'Must' shows obligation or strong advice, fitting the sentence about what a leader ought to do.
8. They enjoy ____ meetings where everyone shares ideas.
After 'enjoy' we use a gerund (verb+ing), so 'attending' is correct.
9. Which is the superlative form of 'good'?
'Best' is the irregular superlative form of 'good' (good, better, best).
10. In the sentence 'When the leader spoke, everyone listened to him.' What does 'him' refer to?
The pronoun 'him' refers back to 'the leader', the male person mentioned earlier.
11. The leaders ____ speech inspired many. Choose the correct possessive form.
If one leader gave the speech, we use the singular possessive 'leader's speech'.
12. Choose the conjunction that joins two equal ideas: The leaders planned, ____ the team acted.
'And' is a coordinating conjunction used to join two equal ideas or clauses.
13. If a leader listens, people ____ trust them.
This is a first conditional structure (if + present, will + base verb); 'will' is correct for likely future result.
14. The award has ____ to the most helpful student.
Present perfect passive requires 'has/have been' + past participle: 'has been given.'
15. You support the community project, ____?
A positive statement takes a negative question tag; 'You support...' uses 'do' so the tag is 'don't you'.
16. She is ___ leader everyone respects.
We use 'the' before a specific person known to the speaker and listener: 'the leader everyone respects.'
17. Which of these nouns is uncountable?
'Advice' is uncountable (we say 'some advice' not 'two advices').
18. Turn this into a correct question: You have read the chapter?
For present perfect questions we invert 'have' and the subject: 'Have you read...?'
19. He spoke ____ during the meeting.
An adverb is needed to describe how he spoke; 'loudly' is the correct adverb form.
20. Every Monday the headmaster ____ the assembly.
For a habitual action use the simple present: 'addresses' for third person singular.
21. Choose the sentence with a non-defining relative clause.
Non-defining relative clauses give extra information and are set off by commas: 'My mentor, who lives nearby, helps me.'
22. Which formal question is correct when asking where to address a letter?
In formal English the object of a preposition uses 'whom': 'To whom...' is correct.
23. The teacher said, 'Close the books.' Which is the correct reported speech?
Imperatives are reported with 'tell' + object + 'to' + base verb: 'told the students to close.'
24. Which sentence shows purpose correctly?
To show purpose we use 'to' + base verb: 'to plan' (They met in order to plan the project).
25. By the time the guests arrived, the leader ____ the speech.
The past perfect 'had finished' shows one action was completed before another past action (guests arrived).