Swift Middle School

CMT Practice Question

Week 4
Monday, February 20:

Reading Questions 
Gr. 6 and 7 –

The narrator and his younger sister never showed Grandpa’s picture to their friends. It was not because they were ashamed of him, but it was because they knew that the glamorous tales they told did not go with the real thing.

       The word glamorous in this excerpt means…

A. Hollywood      B. exaggerated         C. false       D. truthful

Grade 8 – Which figure of speech is used in the italicized sentence?

Then the banker cautiously tore the seals from the door and put the key into the lock. The rusty lock gave a hoarse groan, and the door creaked.

A. simile     B. metaphor   C. personification     D. onomatopoeia

Week 3

Monday, February 13:

Writing Question (Editing/Revising) - all grades

Change the sentence to use more specific details.

They focused on other things.

A. Things that other artists didn’t focus on.
B. Many different kinds of things.
C. Things different from the usual subject matter.
D. Things like colors, shapes, and textures.

Week 2

Monday, February 6:

Science questions

Gr. 6 - A pan of water at 22 degrees Celsius is evaporating slowly. What would make the water in the pan evaporate more quickly?

A. covering the water in the pan
B. putting the pan of water in a dark place
C. heating the water in the pan
D. gently stirring the water in the pan 

Gr. 7 and 8 - All of the following are examples of erosion except:

A. The wind in the desert blows sand against a rock.
B. A glacier picks up boulders as it moves.
C. A flood washes over a riverbank, and the water carries small soil particles downstream
D. An icy winter causes the pavement in a road to crack.

Week 1

Grade 6-7
Shade the rectangles so that  2 ⁷/₈    of
the rectangles are shaded.
                 

Grade 8
The speedometer on a boat traveling downriver reads 25 km/h. If the river current travels 4 km/h, what is the actual speed of the boat?