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This document is a revision test for Grade 7 English Language at Billabong High International School, focusing on an extract from 'The Silver Box' by Louise Lawrence. It includes comprehension questions that assess students' understanding of the text, such as identifying phrases, evidence of Carole's illness, and literary devices. The test is structured to evaluate students' analytical skills and their ability to interpret language and structure in a narrative context.

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Revision Grade 7 UT1

This document is a revision test for Grade 7 English Language at Billabong High International School, focusing on an extract from 'The Silver Box' by Louise Lawrence. It includes comprehension questions that assess students' understanding of the text, such as identifying phrases, evidence of Carole's illness, and literary devices. The test is structured to evaluate students' analytical skills and their ability to interpret language and structure in a narrative context.

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BILLABONG HIGH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

REVISION – UNIT TEST 1


2025 Grade: 7
Name: Date:

Subject: English Language Marks: 20


Duration: 40 minutes

Read the text below (an extract from The Silver Box by Louise Lawrence), then answer questions

Lonely and boring, the hours stretched endlessly ahead. She might have
switched on the radio or studied her school books, but listening to music
made her headache worse and she could not concentrate. Curled with the
cat she tried to sleep but then she grew hot and sweaty and small sounds
5 distracted her . . . the whine of the wind down the boarded-up chimney,
the flutter of snow against the window pane, and the creak of a
floorboard. It was as if someone were there, quietly moving at the far end
of her room. Carole raised her head. She saw nothing unusual . . . just a
shimmer of heated air above the electric convector heater and the walls
10 receding into distances, the effects of her fever. But the sounds went on,
movements and footsteps, soft and disturbing. And did she imagine the
room growing dark?
There was a humming noise too, like a high-frequency static almost
beyond the range of her hearing. Once more Carole raised her head and
15 for one panic-stricken moment she thought she was going blind. There
was light around her bed, but the rest of the room had vanished, dissolved
in a curtain of shimmering air and darkness beyond it. Or maybe
something was wrong with the convector heater? The electronic hum was
clearer now, increasing in pitch. Even the cat could hear it. And they
20 moved together, Carole and Splodge, propelled by the same fear. He rose
from the bed with green eyes blazing, arched and spat and bolted for the
door, his tail bushed as a fox’s brush . . .

Glossary
brush: tail

1
1 Give one phrase from lines 1–3 that tells you time seems to be going slowly for Carole.

[2]

2 Give two pieces of evidence from lines 1–12 that show Carole isn’t feeling well.

• [4]

3 What is ‘the whine of the wind’ (line 5) an example of?


Tick (✓) one box.

metaphor

rhyme

simile

personification [2]

4 Give one structural feature used to build up tension in lines 8–12 (from ‘Carole raised …’)
and explain its effect.

Feature:

Effect:

[4]

5 Which two features from the text suggest that it is from a mystery story?
Tick (✓) two boxes.

use of a flashback

unexplained noises

a lonely setting

the inclusion of a cat

the use of bad weather [4]

2
6 Suggest two ways that the writer uses language or structure to describe the cat’s
fear in lines 19–22.

[4]

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