II. Use the following sets of words and phrases to write complete sentences .(2pts)

1) Learning / foreign language / necessary / us / get / job. //

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2) I / spoke / the man / wife / injured / accident. //

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3) family / I / spend / two months / plan / summer / holiday. //

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4) driver / stop / car / time / save / child. //

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5) Boxing / too / dangerous / her / play, / it ? //

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6) If I / younger / learn / drive / car. //

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7) Of all / hotels in town / the Royal Hotel / comfortable. //

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8) He / try / stop / smoking / many times / but / he / never / succeed. //

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9) I / hope / my English / considerably / improve / the end / course. //

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10) It / difficult / prevent / people / park here. //

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I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it (2 pts)

1/ He said he was not guilty of stealing the car.

    He denied ……………………………………………..…………..

2/ Is this the only way to reach the city centre? 

     Isn’t there ………………………………………………………………….?

3/ He never suspected that the money had been stolen.

    At no time …………………………………………………………………..

4/ It’s my opinion that you should take more exersise. 

    If I………………………………………………………….………………..

5/ I was going to leave, but because of what he said, I didn’t. 

    She persuaded ……………………………………………………………….

6/ He was very sorry that he didn’t see Andrey on her trip to London. 

    He greatly regretted…………………………………………………………..

7/ It’s thought that the accident was caused by human error.

    The accident is …………………………………………..…………………

8/ “Will you be visiting the Taj Mahal when you go to India?” he asked Elizabeth. 

    He asked ……………………………………………………………………

9/ “Ithink you should try the chicken Marengo,” said the waiter.   

    The waiter recommended …………………………………………………..

10/ This is the most delicious cake I have ever tasted. 

     I have …………………………………………………………………………...….

III.Read the following passage and then choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes each blank.  (2pts)

“My home is in the air – I do an enormous amount of traveling. It is a fast life and (1) ______ of work, but I like it and that is the only way (2) ______ me. Everything is tiring – music, traveling – but what can I do? I am not (3) ______ to complaining. It is hard to imagine now (4) ______ I will ever be very long in one place. My home town is on the Caspian Sea. There is sea, wind, sun and (5) ______ (many tourists and hotels. I have my own flat with four or five rooms, but I am seldom there. If I am there for a day or two I prefer to (6)  ______ with my mother and grandmother. They live in a small house, (7) ______ it is very comfortable and my mother cooks for me. I like good, simple food.

I have no wife, no brothers or sisters and my father (8)______  when I was seven. He was an engineer and I don’t (9)______  him very well. He liked music very much and wanted me to (10) ______ a musician.”

1.         A. most                                   B. full                C. complete                        D. more

2.         A. for                                      B. to                   C. in                                     D. by

3.         A. wanted                              B. taken             C. used                                D. known

4.         A. and                                     B. so                  C. while                               D. that

5.         A. far                                      B. too                 C. much                               D. more

6.         A. stay                                    B. go                  C. do                                    D. spend

7.         A. but                                     B. since             C. even                                D. which

8.         A. killed                                 B. gone              C. passed                            D. died

9.         A. know                                 B. remember     C. remind                            D. see

10.       A. become                             B. turn               C. develop                          D. grow

II. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer: (1p)

                        In the early years of television, educational specialists believed that it would be

very useful in teaching and learning. Many schools have brought television sets, intending to

use them effectively to improve the quality of education; but actually they are rarely used

properly in classrooms. Meanwhile, children spending the majority of their out-of-school

hours watching TV and their typical school days proceed as if television did not exist.

                        There are some explanations for the failure of television to get the interest of

the teachers. Firstly, the schools that purchased television sets have not set aside money

for equipment repairs and maintenance so these television sets are sooner and later out of

work. Secondly these schools have not found an effective way to train teachers to

integrate television into their ongoing instructional programs. Lastly, most teachers do not

 regard the quality of television and its usefulness in the classroom.

                        Teachers at the schools work hard for at least twelve years to train their students

 to become good readers. However, according a recent statistics, teenagers seldom spend their

 free time reading books and newspapers but watching television instead.

1) The text is about:

A. the use of television at schools.                                    B. teaching and learning television

C. educational specialists.                                      D. watching TV outside school.

2) When TV first appeared, educational specialists . . . . . . . .

A. did not appreciate it.                                           B. did not appreciate it.

C. believed it would be useful for schooling.      D. banned children from watching TV.

3) According to the text, TV . . . . . . . . .

A. has not been used properly in classrooms.      B. has been used effectively in classrooms.

C. has not existed in classrooms.                         D. has not attracted students’ interest.

4) There are . . . . . . . . . explanations for the failure of television to get the interest of the teachers.

A. two                                                                      B. three                        

C. four                                                                     D. five

5) Children spend their free time . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A. reading books                                                      B. reading newspapers.

C. learning foreign languages                                D. watching TV.

IV.Supply the appropriate forms of words in the brackets.(2pts)

1. As ________ as he is, it’s not surprising that he believed their lies. (IMPRESS)

2. Our factories, cars and power stations may poison the environment with _______ gases and chemical waste. (POLLUTE)

3. The monument was erected in ________ of the fallen soldiers for posterity. (REMEMBER)

4. Being a career woman, Angelina devoted herself exclusively to ________ her career. (FAR)

5. Urban sewage and industrial waste that man discharges into the sea have a ________ effect on marine life. (DELETE)

6. Good jobs are in short supply these days and you need to be on the ______ for them as a result. (LOOKING)

7. The invention of software by Bill Gates brought ________ wealth to him when he was 25. (TELL)

8. One of the most studied of all ‘kitchen cures’, ginger has been used ________ for millennia. (MEDICINE)

9. _______ skill is the one skill that can grant you the opportunity to get a good job. (LEAD)

10. Bill Gates is a _______ story of an entrepreneur. (SUCCEED)

PART IV: READING

I.Put ONE suitable word in each space (1p)

                    Miss Darby was one of those people who never threw anything away. “You

never know when you might need it” was (1) ...................................... of her favorite sayings.

She lived (2)  ...................................... herself in a large Victorian house across the road from

 us. Although I never went to her house, I knew it was full (3) ......................................

antique furniture, Persian carpets and so on. In every room, there were dozens of paintings so

that her house was (4) ...................................... an art gallery. I remember my father

(5) ...................................... that she was a “ Staffordshire Darby” but I had

(6) ...................................... idea what he meant.

 I (7) ...................................... out years later that the Darby family had made their money

from coal-mining in Staffordshire. We used to make up stories (8) ...................................... her.

 My sister Alice, (9) ...................................... was a romantic girl, told us that Miss Darby once

had a lover, but he walked out one day and she (10) ...................................... saw him  again!