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This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share Test 9 FS Paper 1 Multi-choice Student Name: Student Number: Do NOT turn page until instructed © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 1 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 2 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 10 minutes allowed Adapted from ‘The Hound of the Baskerville’s, written in 1902 In this extract, the detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson are on the moor, investigating the mysterious death of Charles Baskerville and the legend of a gigantic hound. I have said that over the great Grimpen Mire there hung a thick, white fog. It was drifting slowly in our direction and banked itself up like a wall on one side of us, low but thick. The moon shone on it, and it looked like a great shimmering ice-field. Holmes' face was turned towards it, and he muttered impatiently as he watched it slowly drift towards us. 5 Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one-half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to the house. Already the first thin wisps of it were curling across the golden square of the lighted window. The far wall of the orchard was already invisible, and the trees were standing out of a swirl of white mist. As we watched it the fog-wreaths came crawling round both corners of the house and rolled slowly into one thick bank on which the upper floor and the roof floated like a strange ship upon 10 a shadowy sea. Holmes struck his hand upon the rock in front of us and stamped his feet in his impatience. "If he isn't out in a quarter of an hour the path will be covered. In half an hour we won't be able to see our hands in front of us." "Shall we move further back to higher ground?" I asked. "Yes, I think it would be as well," Holmes answered. 15 So as the fog flowed onward we moved to higher ground until we were half a mile from the house, and still that thick, white sea with the moon silvering its upper edge, swept slowly on. "Sshh!" cried Holmes, and I heard the sharp click of a cocking pistol. "Look out! It's coming!" There was a thin, crisp, continuous patter from somewhere in the middle of that crawling fog. The edge was within fifty yards of where we stood, and we glared at it, uncertain what horror was about 20 to emerge from it. I was at Holmes' elbow, and I glanced for a moment at his face. It was pale but hopeful, his eyes shining brightly in the moonlight. But suddenly they became a rigid, fixed stare, and his lips parted in amazement. At the same moment police Inspector Lestrade gave a yell of terror and threw himself face down on the ground. I grabbed my pistol, my mind paralysed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog. A hound it was, an enormous coal-black 25 hound, but not like any hound I have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed in the darkness, its muzzle and hackles also flickered as if on fire. Even in my nightmares, I have never seen anything more savage, more appalling, more Hellish than that dark and savage hound which bounded towards us out of the wall of fog. Holmes and I both fired together, and the creature gave a hideous howl, which showed that one at 30 least had hit him. He did not pause, however, but bounded onward. Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry Baskerville looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. I watched the beast spring upon Sir Henry Baskerville, hurl him to the ground, and tear at his throat. But the next instant Holmes had emptied five barrels of his revolver into the creature's body. With a 35 last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet pawing furiously, and then fell limp upon its side. I stooped, panting, and pressed my pistol to its dreadful, shimmering head, but it was pointless to press the trigger. The giant hound was dead. © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 3 of 18 CONTINUE ONTO NEXT PAGE  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share Comprehension Questions 1. Which figurative language technique is used twice in the first paragraph? a) Metaphor b) Simile c) Personification d) Rhetorical question 2. Which word best describes Holmes’ mood in the first paragraph? a) Irritated b) Nonchalant c) Angry d) Pensive 3. Which adjective below does not describe the fog in the first paragraph? a) Thick b) White c) Low d) Grey 4. What was the fog being compared to? a) A polar bear b) A field of ice c) A blanket of snow d) A flock of sheep 5. Which of the words below used in the first paragraph is not a preposition? a) Towards b) Over c) In d) Drift 6. The phrase ‘every minute’ at the beginning of paragraph two is an example of? a) A fronted adverbial b) An expanded noun phrase c) A subordinating conjunction d) A coordinating conjunction 7. Which word best describes the mood of Sherlock Holmes in the second paragraph? a) Aggrieved b) Slovenly c) Sarcastic d) Energetic © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 4 of 18 CONTINUE ONTO NEXT PAGE  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 8. Who is the narrator of the extract? a) Sherlock Holmes b) Dr Watson c) Charles Baskerville d) Inspector Lestrade 9. What sound alerted Sherlock Holmes to the ‘hound’ approaching? a) Pattering footsteps b) Barking c) Howling d) Whistling 10. Which word below could not be used to describe ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’? a) Black b) Savage c) Gigantic d) Helpless 11. How many people survived in the extract? a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 0 12. Which word best describes the main theme in the novel ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’? a) Supernatural b) ethereal c) aesthetic d) feeble STOP HERE-END OF SECTION-YOU MAY CHECK YOUR ANSWERS ON THIS SECTION ONLY. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. DO NOT TURN PAGE OVER. © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 5 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 20 minutes allowed Short Maths 1 13. Which of these is a reflex angle? A B C D E 23° 162° 98° 225° 178° 14. Calculate 32.3 x 5.6? A B C D E 180.88 187.34 189.66 161.28 156.96 15. Pens cost £1.20. If you buy more than 5 pens, you get off 20% of each pen. If Laura buys 7 pens how much does she pay? A B C D E £7.92 £7.20 £6.72 £7.56 £6.93 16. Find the difference between 32 and 72 A B C D E 46 23 16 38 40 17. If 3/4 of a number is 27, what is the square root of that same number? A B C D E 13 6 8 11 3 18. What is 6/19 as a percentage (rounded to two decimal places)? A B C D E 26.32% 31.57% 31.58% 38.89% 35.00% 19. Megan gets 15% less than Jake on a test? Jake gets 5/8th of the total possible marks. The test is out of 96. What is Megan’s score? A B C D E 54 57 63 51 48 © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 6 of 18 CONTINUE ONTO NEXT PAGE  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 20. 12 books cost £72. How much less is it to buy 7 books? A B C D E £52.80 £30 £34.40 £17.60 £64.90 21. Simplify the following equation: 6a + 2b(3-1) -2a + b A B C D E 4a + 5b 3a + 8b 8a +5b 4a + 8b 5a +5b 22. What is the total surface area of a cube with a volume of 64cm3? A B C D E 54cm2 37.5cm2 96cm2 24cm2 216cm2 23. Which multiple of 12 is closest to 100? A B C D E 104 112 108 98 96 24. What is the probability of choosing a king from a deck of cards (52 cards in a full set of cards- 13 cards in each set hearts/diamonds/spades/clubs so 4 kings) and then flipping a coin and getting a head? A B C D E 1/13 1/26 1/32 1/24 1/18 25. The ratio of pink to green sweets in a bag is 5:6. There are 33 sweets in the bag. What fraction are pink? A B C D E 6/11 5/33 2/15 5/11 16/33 © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 7 of 18 CONTINUE ONTO NEXT PAGE  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 26. What is the value of each internal angle of an equilateral triangle? A B C D E 30° 180° 60° 90° 45° 27. If 8a -14 = 28 + 2a, what is the value of a? A B C D E 3 7 4 9 6 28. Calculate 32 + 2(5-2) A B C D E 15 33 24 28 23 29. A plane travels 1800km from France to Portugal. The journey lasts 2 hours and 30 minutes. What is the average speed of the plane (km per hour)? A B C D E 782 km/h 745km/h 815 km/h 680km/h 720 km/h 30. A rectangle has area of 384cm². Its width 1/6th of the length. What is the width? A B C D E 12cm 16cm 8cm 20cm 26cm 31. Which number when squared is between 2300 and 2400 A B C D E 26 42 34 48 56 32. If 66 x 16 = 1056, what is 66 x 4? A B C D E 816 326 184 289 264 STOP HERE-END OF SECTION-YOU MAY CHECK YOUR ANSWERS ON THIS SECTION ONLY. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. DO NOT TURN PAGE OVER. © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 8 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share Do Not Turn page until instructed © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 9 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share Synonyms 4 minutes allowed Choose the word with the meaning that is most similar to the highlighted word on the left. 33. Oppress A B C D E squash push fixated persecute upset 34. Passive A B C D E inactive intense give gone incomplete 35. Lament A B C D E dormant mourn limping excited failure 36. Ignorant A B C D E light unaware delusion exile unlawful 37. Incision A B C D E enrage slope inducement cut incorporate 38. Intention A B C D E learned aim lesser camping extreme 39. Mortal A B C D E whisper grief confidence ethics perishable 40. Perceive A B C D E baffle allow see persevere give © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 10 of 18 CONTINUE ONTO NEXT PAGE  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 41. Obstinate A B C D E destroy compliant busy stubborn unclear 42. Nimble A B C D E agile impartial recently snuggle magnificent 43. Moderate A B C D E average humble fashionable change briefly 44. Hoax A B C D E limp scam rough hamper raise 45. Lofty A B C D E penthouse bolt accommodation tall isolated 46. Malady A B C D E spite instruction operate authority ailment 47. Meagre A B C D E quantify field inadequate adulthood savage 48. Meticulous A B C D E excellence careful ruthless pliable hard-line STOP HERE-END OF SECTION-YOU MAY CHECK YOUR ANSWERS ON THIS SECTION ONLY. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. DO NOT TURN PAGE OVER. © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 11 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 4 minutes allowed Spelling Exercise In the sentences below there are some spelling mistakes. There is either one mistake or NO mistakes. Find the group of words with the mistake and make its letter on your answer sheet. If there is NO mistake mark the E. 49.He was accused and then charged with accesary to murder. A B C D OR E 50.The mare attended the grand opening of the new stadium. A B C D OR E 51. I’m seeing my favorite band in concert next week. A B C D OR E 52. I missed my singing lessen again last week. A B C D OR E 53. Make sure the dog doesn’t bury anything valuable. A B C D OR E 54. The government has introduced a tacks on sugary drinks. A B C D OR E 55. The farmer is going to sheer the sheep tomorrow. A B C D OR E © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 12 of 18 CONTINUE ONTO NEXT PAGE  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 56. Many decades ago my father lived in Malaysia. A B C D OR E 57. The links of a chain work together to witstand force. A B C D OR E 58. The firemen slid down the poll and ran to the fire engine. A B C D OR E STOP HERE-END OF SECTION-YOU MAY CHECK YOUR ANSWERS ON THIS SECTION ONLY. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. DO NOT TURN PAGE OVER. © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 13 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 4 minutes allowed Choose the word that does NOT have the same or similar meaning to the word in bold 59. Eased A B C D E lessen alleviate relieve easy mitigate 60. Prospect A B C D E hope forecast chance promise impossibility 61. Forbidden A B C D E permitted prohibited banned taboo unauthorised 62. Vacant A B C D E unoccupied full deserted bare unfilled 63. Stealthy A B C D E surreptitiously publicly secretly furtively clandestine 64. Restricted A B C D E regulated barred free limited moderated 65. Bisected A B C D E halved diverged split divided unite 66. Copiously A B C D E Sparsely abundant profuse lavishly plenty 67. Disregarded A B C D E ignored praised neglected discounted overlooked STOP HERE-END OF SECTION-YOU MAY CHECK YOUR ANSWERS ON THIS SECTION ONLY. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. DO NOT TURN PAGE OVER. © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 14 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share Do Not Turn page until instructed © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 15 of 18  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 10 minutes allowed Oliver Twist- by Charles Dickens Near to that part of the Thames on which the church at Rotherhithe abuts, where the buildings on the banks are dirtiest and the vessels on the river blackest with the dust of colliers and the smoke of close-built low-roofed houses, there exists the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in 5 London, wholly unknown, even by name, to the great mass of its inhabitants. To reach this place, the visitor has to penetrate through a maze of close, narrow, and muddy streets, thronged by the roughest and poorest of waterside people, and devoted to the traffic they may be supposed to occasion. The cheapest and least delicate provisions are heaped in the shops; the coarsest and 10 commonest articles of wearing apparel dangle at the salesman's door, and stream from the house-parapet and windows. Jostling with unemployed labourers of the lowest class, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers, brazen women, ragged children, and the raff and refuse of the river, he makes his way with difficulty along, assailed by offensive sights and smells from the narrow alleys which branch off on the right and 15 left, and deafened by the clash of ponderous waggons that bear great piles of merchandise from the stacks of warehouses that rise from every corner. Arriving, at length, in streets remoter and less-frequented than those through which he has passed, he walks beneath tottering house-fronts projecting over the pavement, dismantled walls that seem to totter as he passes, chimneys half crushed 20 half hesitating to fall, windows guarded by rusty iron bars that time and dirt have almost eaten away, every imaginable sign of desolation and neglect. In such a neighbourhood, beyond Dockhead in the Borough of Southwark, stands Jacob's Island, surrounded by a muddy ditch, six or eight feet deep and fifteen or twenty wide when the tide is in, once called Mill Pond, but known in the days of this story as 25 Folly Ditch. It is a creek or inlet from the Thames, and can always be filled at high water by opening the sluices at the Lead Mills from which it took its old name. At such times, a stranger, looking from one of the wooden bridges thrown across it at Mill Lane, will see the inhabitants of the houses on either side lowering from their back doors and windows, buckets, pails, domestic utensils of all kinds, in which to 30 haul the water up; and when his eye is turned from these operations to the houses themselves, his utmost astonishment will be excited by the scene before him. Crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of half-a-dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath; windows, broken and patched, with poles thrust out, on which to dry the linen that is never there; rooms so small, so filthy, so 35 confined, that the air would seem too tainted even for the dirt and squalor which they shelter; wooden chambers thrusting themselves out above the mud, and threatening to fall into it as some have done; dirt-besmeared walls and decaying foundations; every repulsive lineament of poverty, every loathsome indication of © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 16 of 18 CONTINUE ONTO NEXT PAGE  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share filth, rot, and garbage; all these ornament the banks of Folly Ditch. In Jacob's Island, 40 the warehouses are roofless and empty; the walls are crumbling down; the windows are windows no more; the doors are failing into the streets; the chimneys are blackened, but they yield no smoke. Thirty or forty years ago, before losses and chancery suits came upon it, it was a thriving place; but now it is a desolate island indeed. The houses have no owners; they are broken open, and entered upon by 45 those who have the courage; and there they live, and there they die. They must have powerful motives for a secret residence, or be reduced to a destitute condition indeed, who seek a refuge in Jacob's Island. Comprehension Questions 68. Which River is the setting of the extract? a) The River Thames b) The River Severn c) The River Tees d) The River Seine 69. Which city is the setting of the extract? a) Birmingham b) London c) Cardiff d) Newcastle 70. Which period is the extract set? a) The Tudor Period b) The Stuart Period c) The Victorian Period d) The Elizabethan Period 71. What is the current name of the ditch that surrounds Jacob’s Island? a) Mill Pond b) The Thames c) Lead Mills d) Folly Ditch 72. What is the best word to describe the location at the beginning of the extract? a) Squalid b) Lascivious c) Delightful d) Majestic © Heckmondwike Tutors 2024 17 of 18 CONTINUE ONTO NEXT PAGE  This test is for personal use only HT Test 9 FS Paper 1 Do NOT share 73. What cannot be seen on the banks of Folly Ditch? a) disgustingly filthy walls b) rotting foundations c) deprivation and poverty d) children looking for food 74. The word “clash” near the end of paragraph 2 (line 15), is the use of which figurative language technique? a) Adverb b) Metaphor c) Onomatopoeia d) Personification 75. Which two shops can the inhabitants find in the locality? a) wool and coal b) sweet and fruit c) clothes and food d) ironmonger and hardware 76. Which borough can you find Jacob’s Island? a) Westminster b) Southwark c) Greenside d) Kensington 77. Who owns the houses there? a) The Mayor b) The Queen c) The government d) No one STOP HERE-END OF SECTION-YOU MAY CHECK YOUR ANSWERS ON THIS SECTION ONLY. 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