Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word.

Fill in an appropriate word in each blank.

Kipling was the first writer........ (1)..... expressed the faith and national pride. He was.......(2)...... in Bombay India.........(3)..... 1865 and was taken .....(4)..... England to .....(5).... educated at the .....(6).... of 6. But at the age of 17 he returned ......(7)...... India and became a journalist. ........(8)..... this time he.....(9).... a great amount of prose and portry. After wards he returned to England and travelled in Japan and America. He received the 1907 Nobel ....(10)... for literature and died in 1936 while he was working on his autbiographical notes.

IV) Read the text and decide which answer best fits each space:

Ruyard Kipling, one of Endland's (26) ______ famous writers, was born in Bombay, India, in 1865, where his English father was working for the British government. Kipling spent his (27) ______ chilhood in India. At six he was to (28) ______ England and educated in an English school. From 1882 until 1883 he was (29) ______ of his school paper. He went back to India in 1883. There he became (30) ______ in writing and worked for a newspaper. When he was 21 he (31) ______ his first book, which was a small book of poetry. Before he was 24 he had brought out a small collection of short stories. There were well-liked and were full of brilliant descriptions and accurate observations.

Between 1887 and 1899 Kipling traveled (32) ______ the world. He visited China, Japan, and he lived for a few years in America, where he married an American woman. Diuring this (33) ______, he wrote several of his most (34) works, the stories for children, which made him famous: The Jungle Books (1894), Kim (1901) and Jusst So Stories (1902). He also published several books of poetry during this time. Kipling returned to England from America and spent the of (35) ______ his life there until his death in 1936.

26. A.such B.most C.extreme D.too

27. A.early B.starting C.young D.beginning

28. A.carried B.transported C.travelled D.taken

29. A.president B.chairman C.editor D.boss

30. A.liked B.interested C.fond D.taken

31. A published B.took out C.invented D.created

32. A.on B.around C.though D.across

33. A.part B.section C.moment D.period

34. A.common B.popular C.usual D.ordinary

35. A.rest B.last C.end D.period

The first person to swim the English Channel was a sailor named Matthew Webb. Webb was born in England in 1848, and he (1) ______ to swim in a river near his home. When he was 12 years old, he (2) ______ on a ship and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean many times, from Liverpool to New York. Webb was always (3) ______ swimming. On one of his journeys across the ocean, Webb was taking a walk around the ship (4) ______ he saw a passenger fall into the ocean. Webb didn’t hesitate and jumped into the ocean to rescue him.

1. A. learnt B. learns C. learn

2. A. finished college B. got a certificate C. got a job

3. A. good in B. be good at C. good at

4. A. while B. when C. as to

True or Fule

I can still remember my first day at school. I was only 6 years old at that time. It was a very big room. I sat at desk near the window, but I couldn't see anything because the windows were too high. There was a big map of the world on the wall and an old blackboard. I don't think I was worried or at that time. There was another little boy next to me. He sat there and kept silent at first. Then he began to cry, because he didn't want to stay there.

More and more students came in, but the boy didn't stop crying. '' Mom, I want to go home''. He cried again and again. Later, the teacher came in. She went to the littel boy, and said something to him. I couldn't hear what she said. Soon the boy stopped crying and began to smile. To this day, I still don't know what the teacher said to the little boy.

1. The writer went to school when he was 6 years old.(True or Fule)

2. In the classroom, there were beautiful pictures on the wall.(True or Fule)

3. The writer sat near the window, so he could look outside.(True or Fule)

4. The writer was not worried. He was afraid.(True or Fule)

5. The little boy cried, because he wanted to go home.(True or Fule)

6. When the teacher came in, the little boy stopped crying.(True or Fule)

7. The teachers said something interesting and made the boy smile.(True or Fule)

8. The writer knew what the teacher said to the little boy.(True or Fule).

Gandhi was born in 1869 in Porbander, in the west of India. His father was a politician. Gandhi got married and he had four sons. At the age of 18, Gandhi traveled to Britain. He studied law at university in London, the worked in India for a few years. In 1893, he got a job as a lawyer in South Africa. At that time, black and white people in South Africa were not equal and Gandhi fought for the rights of black South Africans. In 1914, Gandhi moved back to India. The British ruled India and Indian people weren’t equal. Gandhi wanted the British to leave India, and wanted India to become independent. He was a peaceful man and against all forms of violence. In the end, he won and the British left India in 1947. Gandhi continued to fight for the rights of poor people and women in India, and he became a hero for millions of people.

1. Gandhi was born in India in 1869.                                                                  ..........................

2. He had four children.                                                                                         .........................

3. He fought for the rights of black English.                                                       .........................

4. He worked as a lawyer in London in 1893.                                                    ..........................

5. In the end, he failed in fighting against all forms of violence.                    ..........................

6. He became a hero for a lot of people.                                                             ......................... 

II. Read the passage carefully, then dicide if the statements are True (T) or Flase (F).

   Lewis Carrol was the pen name of Charles Dogson, the writer who wrote a famous book for children, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Charles Dodgson was born in England in 1832. When Charles finished school, he became a student at Oxford University. He studied mathematics and lateR he began to teach this subject at the university. Charles had no family, but he loved children very much. He often visited his friend, Henry George Liddell. Henry had three little girls and Charles liked Alice most. He often told her interesting stories about the adventures of a little girl in Wonderland. Alice likes these stories very much. When Alice Liddell was ten years old, she asked Charles to write down these stories for her. The name of the little girl in the stories was Alice, too. Then Charles decided to publish the book and took the pen name of Lewis Carroll.

 He was born in England in 1835.

Mozart, who was born on January 27, 1756 in the Austrian city of Salzburg, was neither the (1)………nor the last child prodigy, (2)……….he was certainly the greatest. He was born into a moderately prosperous family (3)……….his unmatched musical genius made itself known extremely early. Mozart began (4)……… to play the harpsichord at three and his earliest known work was composed in 1761 when he was five, the (5)………at which he also first appeared in p ublic. From the age of six, his father (6)……..him on the first foreign tour, Mozart toured the courts and musical centres of Austria, Germany, France, England, Holland, Switzerland and Italy. It has been calculated that Mozart (7)……..almost a third of his short life ( he died at the age of 35) travelling. As Mozart matured, he (8)……..to tour and give concerts. Mozart also (9)………a lot of operas. His first opera,

Mitridate, Re di Ponto, was (10)……… in Milan when he was 14, and it was one of many successes in the life of the genius.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym of O. Henry, was born in North Carolina. His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Lina’s school until the age of fifteen, where he developed his lifelong love of books. By 1881 he was a licensed pharmacist. However, within a year, on the recommendation of a medical colleague of his Father’s, Porter moved to La Salle County in Texas for two years herding sheep. During this time, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary was his constant companion, and Porter gained a knowledge of ranch life that he later incorporated into many of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for three years, and during this time the first recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, allegedly derived from his habit of calling “Oh, Henry” to a family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a bank teller for the First National Bank.

In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly, the “Rolling Stone”, a venture that failed within a year, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank was examined, and the subsequent indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had embezzled funds. Porter then fled to New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He returned in 1897 because of his wife’s continued ill-health, however she died six months later. Then, in 1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of thirty five, he entered prison as a defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally his freedom. He emerged from prison three years later, reborn as O. Henry, the pseudonym he now used to hide his true identity. He wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after re-gaining his freedom, went to New York City, where he published more than 300 stories and gained fame as America’s favorite short Story writer. Porter married again in 1907, but after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henry’s stories have been translated all over the world.

According to the passage, Porter’s Father was ___________.

A. the person who gave him a life-long love of books

B. a medical doctor

C. a licensed pharmacist

D. responsible for his move to La Salle County in Texas