Free printable i-Ready practice test for Grade 7

Reading

Circle the letter of the best answer, or two letters where a question asks for two. No time limit.

1. 1.

   The crowd grew solemn as the names of the fallen soldiers were read.

   What does the word solemn mean in this sentence?

   1. Aproud and boastful
   2. Bbright and colorful
   3. Csilly and loud
   4. Dvery serious and quiet

2. A Voice for Every Sixth Grader

   Good morning, sixth graders. My name is Gabriel Santos, and I am running to be your representative on the student council.

   I want to talk about one thing: being heard. Every one of us has an idea that could make this school better. Maybe it's a club that doesn't exist yet. Maybe it's a fix for the line at the water fountain after gym. But most of those ideas never leave our heads, because we don't know who to tell.

   If you elect me, I will change that. First, I will put a suggestion box in every sixth-grade homeroom. I have already asked Principal Whitfield, and she said yes. The art club has even offered to decorate the boxes. Every Friday, I will read every suggestion and bring the most popular ones to the student council meeting.

   Second, I will report back. Each month, I will post a short update on the sixth-grade bulletin board telling you what happened to your ideas: which ones the council is working on, which ones it turned down, and why.

   You might be wondering whether I'll actually follow through. Last spring, I noticed that our school had no place to recycle cans at lunch. I wrote a letter, collected 212 signatures, and met with the custodians. Now there is a blue bin at the end of every cafeteria table. When I say I'll do something, I do it.

   And finally, if you vote for me, I promise that our class will have the best field day this school has ever seen.

   So when you fill out your ballot on Thursday, vote for the person who will make sure you are heard. Vote for Gabriel Santos. Thank you.

   2.

   Which promise in the speech does the speaker give no plan or evidence for?

   1. AThe most popular ideas will be brought to the student council meeting.
   2. BA monthly update will go up on the bulletin board.
   3. CThe class will have the best field day the school has ever seen.
   4. DEvery suggestion will be read each Friday.
3. 3.

   Which detail does the speaker use to show that he follows through on what he says?

   1. AHe promises the best field day the school has seen.
   2. BThe art club offered to decorate the suggestion boxes.
   3. CHe got recycling bins put in the cafeteria.
   4. DHe noticed the line at the water fountain after gym.
4. 4.

   Why does the speaker mention the line at the water fountain?

   1. ATo give an example of a small idea that might never be shared
   2. BTo show where the suggestion boxes will go
   3. CTo complain about how long gym class lasts
   4. DTo prove that he has fixed problems before
5. 5.

   What does the word overcook mean?

   1. Acook before
   2. Bcook
   3. Ccook again
   4. Dcook too long

6. What Teresa Carried

   Teresa Lombardi woke because her bed was moving.

   For one confused second, she thought her little brother, Paolo, was shaking it as a joke. Then the whole room lurched sideways, and a roar like a freight train poured through the walls of their apartment on Green Street. Plaster dust sifted down from the ceiling like flour.

   "Under the table!" Mama cried. "Both of you, now!"

   Teresa crawled across a floor that heaved beneath her knees like the deck of Papa's fishing boat. The shaking went on and on. Later, people would say it had lasted less than a minute, but Teresa never quite believed them.

   Then, as suddenly as it had begun, it stopped. The clock had fallen from its nail. Papa turned it over and read the time aloud in a strangely calm voice: twelve minutes past five. It was Wednesday, April 18, 1906, and the sun had not yet risen over San Francisco.

   Out on the street, neighbors stood in their nightclothes, calling to one another in Italian and English. The bakery chimney on the corner lay across the sidewalk in a heap of bricks. Far to the south, thin gray threads of smoke rose into the pale sky. Papa set off for the wharf to check on his boat.

   Mama was counting faces. "Where is Signora Pacelli?"

   The old widow lived alone on the top floor of the building next door. She was nearly eighty, and she was so proud that no one on Green Street had ever heard her ask for help.

   "I'll go," said Teresa, before she could think about it too long.

   Next door, at the top of the tilted stairway, the signora's door would not budge; the earthquake had squeezed its frame crooked. Teresa could hear the old woman murmuring prayers inside. She threw her shoulder against the door once, twice, and on the third try it burst open.

   Signora Pacelli was sitting on the floor among the pieces of her blue-and-white dishes, unhurt but trembling, patting the boards around her for her spectacles. Teresa found them beneath the stove, wiped them on her nightgown, and set them gently on the old woman's nose.

   The signora blinked up at her. "Ah. The little Lombardi girl," she said. "Not so little anymore."

   By noon, the threads of smoke had thickened into a brown wall that blotted out half the sky. Papa came back from the wharf with news. The earthquake had broken the city's water pipes, and firefighters were opening hydrants and getting nothing but a trickle. Soldiers had begun using dynamite to knock down buildings in the fire's path, hoping to leave the flames with nothing to eat.

   "We go west, to the park," Papa decided. "We take only what we can carry."

   Teresa ran upstairs for the one thing she had already chosen: a book of maps with gold letters on its cover, the prize she had won for the highest geography score at her school. She hugged it to her chest. Every river and mountain range in the world was inside it.

   Then, through the wall, she heard a scraping on the stairs next door. Signora Pacelli was trying to drag a wooden case down the steps by herself. Teresa knew what was inside: the accordion her late husband had played on Sunday afternoons.

   Teresa looked down at the book. Then she laid it on her bed, smoothed the cover once, and went next door.

   All afternoon the Lombardis walked west toward Golden Gate Park with thousands of other families. Trunks screeched as people dragged them over the cobblestones. Papa carried Paolo on his shoulders, Mama carried the blankets, and Teresa carried the accordion, which grew heavier with every block. Signora Pacelli walked beside her, one hand resting on the case as if to help.

   The fires burned for three days. When word came on Saturday morning that the flames were finally out, it brought other news as well: almost nothing was left of Green Street.

   That evening, among the rows of tents and the smell of supper cooking on outdoor stoves, Signora Pacelli opened the wooden case. She played slowly at first, as if the music had to remember her. Then faster. People drifted over from nearby tents, strangers from all across the city, and soon someone was clapping and Paolo was dancing in the grass.

   Teresa thought of her book of maps, gone now with everything else on Green Street. Sitting there in the lantern light, with Mama on one side and the signora on the other, she found that she did not need it to know where she was.

   6.

   Which TWO details best support the idea that Teresa puts Signora Pacelli's needs ahead of her own belongings? Choose two answers.

   1. ATeresa carried the accordion, which grew heavier with every block.
   2. BShe hugged it to her chest.
   3. CThe bakery chimney on the corner lay across the sidewalk in a heap of bricks.
   4. DThen she laid it on her bed, smoothed the cover once, and went next door.
   5. EEvery river and mountain range in the world was inside it.
7. 7.

   In the story, what does "blotted out" mean in "a brown wall that blotted out half the sky"?

   1. Alit up brightly
   2. Bcooled down quickly
   3. Chid from view
   4. Dcleared of clouds
8. 8.

   The soldiers hoped "to leave the flames with nothing to eat." What does this figurative language mean?

   1. AThey wanted to stop families from cooking indoors after the earthquake.
   2. BThey wanted to save the bakeries so that people would have bread.
   3. CThey wanted to destroy whatever the fire could burn so it could not spread.
   4. DThey wanted to keep the city's food supply safe from the spreading fire.
9. 9.

   What does Signora Pacelli most likely mean when she says Teresa is "Not so little anymore"?

   1. ATeresa looks blurry because the signora has lost her spectacles.
   2. BTeresa reminds her of Teresa's mother at the same age.
   3. CTeresa has grown too tall to fit on the stairway.
   4. DTeresa has just shown the courage of someone much older.
10. 10.

    The plant grew at a linear rate, adding exactly one inch each week.

    This sentence is from a math book. What does linear mean?

    1. Ahaving no solution
    2. Bforming a straight line when graphed
    3. Cmade of fractions
    4. Dcurved like a circle