Midterm Exam 9th Grade Palestine
U.N.R.W.A
Date: 8th Nov. 2012
Department of Education
Time:
Name:……………………
Midterm English language test
Grade: 9th
Reading
Around the world, people also found natural ways to shelter from the weather. In cold regions, traditional houses were often low with thick walls and small windows that faced away from the direction of storms. In the hot rainforests of
South-East Asia, people built their homes above the ground and high on hills to catch every cool wind. In the hot, dry Middle
East, traditional courtyard houses did something similar. Their thick, white walls reflected the sun’s heat and kept everything inside cool. The height of these walls also provided cool shade in the courtyard all day.
During the last 100 years, most people have stopped living in traditional houses with their old ways of protecting against the weather. Now, we heat and cool our modern brick and concrete houses and apartments with electricity, oil and gas.
Read and answer the following questions
1. What has changed during the last 100 years?
…………………………………………………………………
2. How are homes built in the middle east?
…………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………
3. What are the materials used in building modern houses? …………………………………………………………………
4. From the text find the opposite of:
Cold: ……………..
Modern: ………………
]1[
Low: ……………..
5. The underlined pronoun their line 7 refers to
………………………
6. T or F
1) Traditional houses in cold places were often built with high and thick walls.
(
)
2) White walls does not reflect the sun's heat.
(
)
Vocabulary
Complete the following sentences using words from the list
Shade
Excuse me
mud
port whole hurry bookcase remember forget in time
1) Sandy: I must ………………… to take my guidebook.
Muna: And don't ……………… to take your Turkish phrase book.
2) The old man sat in the …………… of the wall.
3) The Masai people used ……….. in building their houses.
4) We should ………………….. because we are
Date: 8th Nov. 2012
Department of Education
Time:
Name:……………………
Midterm English language test
Grade: 9th
Reading
Around the world, people also found natural ways to shelter from the weather. In cold regions, traditional houses were often low with thick walls and small windows that faced away from the direction of storms. In the hot rainforests of
South-East Asia, people built their homes above the ground and high on hills to catch every cool wind. In the hot, dry Middle
East, traditional courtyard houses did something similar. Their thick, white walls reflected the sun’s heat and kept everything inside cool. The height of these walls also provided cool shade in the courtyard all day.
During the last 100 years, most people have stopped living in traditional houses with their old ways of protecting against the weather. Now, we heat and cool our modern brick and concrete houses and apartments with electricity, oil and gas.
Read and answer the following questions
1. What has changed during the last 100 years?
…………………………………………………………………
2. How are homes built in the middle east?
…………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………
3. What are the materials used in building modern houses? …………………………………………………………………
4. From the text find the opposite of:
Cold: ……………..
Modern: ………………
]1[
Low: ……………..
5. The underlined pronoun their line 7 refers to
………………………
6. T or F
1) Traditional houses in cold places were often built with high and thick walls.
(
)
2) White walls does not reflect the sun's heat.
(
)
Vocabulary
Complete the following sentences using words from the list
Shade
Excuse me
mud
port whole hurry bookcase remember forget in time
1) Sandy: I must ………………… to take my guidebook.
Muna: And don't ……………… to take your Turkish phrase book.
2) The old man sat in the …………… of the wall.
3) The Masai people used ……….. in building their houses.
4) We should ………………….. because we are