Free Grade 7 NY State Test Practice Questions

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Tomas took the referee course because it paid forty dollars a game and because he was thirteen and had run out of other ways to make money.

[2] The course was eight hours in a community center basement. [3] The instructor, a woman named Bev who had refereed for twenty-two years, spent the first hour on something Tomas had not expected, which was how to be wrong.

[4] "You will miss things," she said. [5] "Everybody misses things. [6] The question is what you do in the four seconds afterward."

[7] His first game was a Saturday morning under-tens match on a field with no lines painted at one end. [8] He missed a handball in the first half. [9] He knew he had missed it as he was missing it, in the way you know a glass is going over before it lands.

[10] A parent on the sideline told him about it at some length.

[11] What Tomas discovered, over the following eleven weeks, was that the parents were not really the difficulty. [12] The difficulty was the four seconds. [13] In those four seconds there was an enormous pull toward making the next call go the other way, to even it up, to be fair in a rough running total rather than fair in each moment.

[14] Bev had a phrase for this, delivered in the basement in hour two, which Tomas had written down and not understood: the game does not owe anybody a compensating error.

[15] He understood it in October, in a game where he gave a soft foul against the blue team in the tenth minute. [16] Six minutes later he saw a much clearer foul by the blue team, and felt his arm want to stay down.

[17] It was not a difficult decision in the sense of being close. [18] It was difficult in the sense that everything in him wanted the arm to stay down. [19] The wanting was not about the blue team or the parents. [20] It was about his own tenth minute, which he was still carrying around.

[21] He blew the whistle.

[22] Blue lost by one goal. [23] Two parents spoke to him afterward and one of them used the word consistent, which Tomas had by then learned was the word people used when they meant the opposite.

[24] Driving home, his mother asked how it had gone.

[25] "I made a mistake in the tenth minute," Tomas said, "and then I did not make a second one to cover it."

[26] His mother, who had not refereed anything, said that sounded like most of adult life. [27] Tomas thought that was probably an exaggeration, and filed it away anyway.

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Tomas took the referee course because it paid forty dollars a game and because he was thirteen and had run out of other ways to make money.

[2] The course was eight hours in a community center basement. [3] The instructor, a woman named Bev who had refereed for twenty-two years, spent the first hour on something Tomas had not expected, which was how to be wrong.

[4] "You will miss things," she said. [5] "Everybody misses things. [6] The question is what you do in the four seconds afterward."

[7] His first game was a Saturday morning under-tens match on a field with no lines painted at one end. [8] He missed a handball in the first half. [9] He knew he had missed it as he was missing it, in the way you know a glass is going over before it lands.

[10] A parent on the sideline told him about it at some length.

[11] What Tomas discovered, over the following eleven weeks, was that the parents were not really the difficulty. [12] The difficulty was the four seconds. [13] In those four seconds there was an enormous pull toward making the next call go the other way, to even it up, to be fair in a rough running total rather than fair in each moment.

[14] Bev had a phrase for this, delivered in the basement in hour two, which Tomas had written down and not understood: the game does not owe anybody a compensating error.

[15] He understood it in October, in a game where he gave a soft foul against the blue team in the tenth minute. [16] Six minutes later he saw a much clearer foul by the blue team, and felt his arm want to stay down.

[17] It was not a difficult decision in the sense of being close. [18] It was difficult in the sense that everything in him wanted the arm to stay down. [19] The wanting was not about the blue team or the parents. [20] It was about his own tenth minute, which he was still carrying around.

[21] He blew the whistle.

[22] Blue lost by one goal. [23] Two parents spoke to him afterward and one of them used the word consistent, which Tomas had by then learned was the word people used when they meant the opposite.

[24] Driving home, his mother asked how it had gone.

[25] "I made a mistake in the tenth minute," Tomas said, "and then I did not make a second one to cover it."

[26] His mother, who had not refereed anything, said that sounded like most of adult life. [27] Tomas thought that was probably an exaggeration, and filed it away anyway.

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Tomas took the referee course because it paid forty dollars a game and because he was thirteen and had run out of other ways to make money.

[2] The course was eight hours in a community center basement. [3] The instructor, a woman named Bev who had refereed for twenty-two years, spent the first hour on something Tomas had not expected, which was how to be wrong.

[4] "You will miss things," she said. [5] "Everybody misses things. [6] The question is what you do in the four seconds afterward."

[7] His first game was a Saturday morning under-tens match on a field with no lines painted at one end. [8] He missed a handball in the first half. [9] He knew he had missed it as he was missing it, in the way you know a glass is going over before it lands.

[10] A parent on the sideline told him about it at some length.

[11] What Tomas discovered, over the following eleven weeks, was that the parents were not really the difficulty. [12] The difficulty was the four seconds. [13] In those four seconds there was an enormous pull toward making the next call go the other way, to even it up, to be fair in a rough running total rather than fair in each moment.

[14] Bev had a phrase for this, delivered in the basement in hour two, which Tomas had written down and not understood: the game does not owe anybody a compensating error.

[15] He understood it in October, in a game where he gave a soft foul against the blue team in the tenth minute. [16] Six minutes later he saw a much clearer foul by the blue team, and felt his arm want to stay down.

[17] It was not a difficult decision in the sense of being close. [18] It was difficult in the sense that everything in him wanted the arm to stay down. [19] The wanting was not about the blue team or the parents. [20] It was about his own tenth minute, which he was still carrying around.

[21] He blew the whistle.

[22] Blue lost by one goal. [23] Two parents spoke to him afterward and one of them used the word consistent, which Tomas had by then learned was the word people used when they meant the opposite.

[24] Driving home, his mother asked how it had gone.

[25] "I made a mistake in the tenth minute," Tomas said, "and then I did not make a second one to cover it."

[26] His mother, who had not refereed anything, said that sounded like most of adult life. [27] Tomas thought that was probably an exaggeration, and filed it away anyway.