1. Respond to each of the following situations:
1. Someone asks what you were doing at 7.30 this morning.
1. I was having breakfast.
2. A friend asks you what you think about TV news programmes.
2. I think it’s very beneficial.
3. Someone asks where your friend Ali is. You have not see him for a long time. You are almost certain he is on holiday.
3. He must be on holiday.
4. A friend suggests that you join a squash club together
4. That’s great idea.
2. Mention the place, the speakers and the language function in each of the fol-lowing two mini-dialogues:
1. Place: Office/Company.
Speaker A: Manager. Speaker B: Employee.
Function: Asking for information.
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2. Place: Radio studio/station.
Speaker A: Presenter. Speaker B: Poet/Guest.
Function: Making interview questions.
3. Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:
1. Before making a meal, my mother prepared the ................... needed. a) elements b) food c) components d) ingredients
ingredients
2. He refused ................... his sister. a) helping b) help c) to help d) helped
to help
3. He ................... his time yesterday. a) shouldn’t waste b) mustn’t waste c) shouldn’t have wasted d) can’t waste
shouldn’t have wasted
4. The new product will be on ................... till the end of the next week. a) purpose b) show c) duty d) business
show
5. The surgeon ................... operations in hospital. a) happens b) performs c) carries d) makes
performs
6. She is very beautiful, ................... no one likes her. a) although b) so c) however d) whatever
so
7. I took a ................... holiday and went to Paris. a) two week b) two weeks c) two week’s d) two weeks’
two weeks’
8. I don’t know who will take ............. the company after my father’s travel. a) off b) apart c) over d) after
over
9. They blamed me ................... the accident. a) on b) with c) of d) for
for
10. Sara is ................... to be chosen for the beauty contest. a) too beautiful b) beautiful enough c) such a beautiful d) so beautiful
beautiful enough
11. I love being my own boss, so I’d like to work ................... myself. a) in b) for c) out d) on
for
12. Why ................... the meeting cancelled? a) did b) has c) will d) was
was
13. Don’t put ................... today’s work until tomorrow. a) out b) on c) off d) in
off
14. Every Egyptian citizen should ................... in the election. a) veto b) vote c) vet d) vomit
vote
15. Bringing up children and working everyday is a ................... matter. a) hard b) hardly c) easily d) laughing
hard
16. Two weeks ago, I ......... on an evening course. I started the course yesterday. a) enrolled b) joined c) called d) wrote
enrolled
4. Find the mistake in each of the following sentences, then write it correctly:
1. How many water is there in the bottle?
1. many much
2. Oil and gas are find under the ground.
2. find found
3. We moved to this house two years ago today, so we lived here for exactly two years.
3. lived have lived
4. Let’s try to find them. They can’t have went very far.
4. went gone
5. Doctors and nurses belong to the medical confession.
5. confession profession
6. She asked me if I have seen her book.
6. have had
5. Read the following passage, then answer the questions: People suddenly started seeing the strange plants in their gardens last spring. No one had ever seen anything like them before, and no one knew where they had come from. At first, some people pulled them out and burned them because they thought they looked horrible. But most people left them where they were, without touching them. The next summer, people enjoyed the big purple-coloured flowers that plants produced. It was not until August that people read in their newpapers the first reports that the plants could walk and run and even catch people and kill them. There is never much interesting news in August, so people thought that journalists had made up these stories about walking plants to sell a few more newpapers and make money. Then in September, there was terrible news. It was true.
1. Why did some people destroy the plants?
1. Because they thought they were horrible.
2. How were the plants dangerous to people?
2. The plants could walk, run and even catch people and kill them.
3. What did people think when they read the newspaper stories for the first time?
3. They thought journalists had made up these stories.
4. Where is this text from? a) a newspaper. b) a science fiction story. c) a detective story. d) a book on gardening.
a science fiction
5. What does them refer to in the plants could walk and run and even catch people and kill them? a) the plants. b) the journalists. c) the new papers. d) the people.
the people
6. Read the following passage, then answer the questions: Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. He was born to Charles Chaplin. And Hannah Harriette Hill, both were Music Hall entertainers. His parents separated soon after his birth, leaving him in the care of his increasingly unstable mother. In 1896, Chaplin’s mother was unable to find work; Charlie and his older half-brother Sydney Chaplin had to be left in the workhouse at Lambeth, moving after several weeks to Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children. His father died when Charlie was 12, and his mother suffered a mental breakdown, and died in 1928 in the United States, two years after coming to the States to live with Chaplin. In 1900, aged 11, his brother helped get him the role of a comic act in the pantomime Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. He became a clown in Fred Karno’s ‘Fun Factory’ slapstick comedy company. According to immigration records, he arrived in the United States on October 2, 1912. Chaplin remained in the United States. Chaplin’s act was seen by film producer Mack Sennett, who hired him for his studio, the Keystone Film Company. A) Give short answers to the following questions:
1. How did Charlie Chaplin’s sufferings begin at a very early age?
1. His parents separated after his birth and he had to be left in a workhouse.
2. What was Chaplin’s mother suffering from?
2. She suffered a mental breakdown.
B) Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:
4. Mack Sennett had hired Chaplin for his studio, that means that he .............. him. a) employed b) punished c) lent d) blamed
employed
5. Chaplin went to the United States when he was .............. . a) twenty four b) twenty one c) twenty three d) twenty five
twenty three
7. The Reader (The Prisoner of Zenda). A) Answer the following questions:
1.What was the news sent to Flavia in Tarlenheim’s house ?
1. The King was hurt but he was alive and asked him to wait for him there.
2.What was the problem with the real king on the morning of the coronation? Why?
2. He was unconscious because he was poisoned and his case was serious.
3. How did Rassendyll escape from signing the document? Why?
3. He said he couldn’t sign because his finger was hurt in order not to know the difference in handwriting.
4. What are the only two ways to save the King according to Rassendyll
4. To have a miracle or one of the Duke’s men betrays him.
B) Read the following quotation, then answer the questions: “If you let your prisoner go free, I can help you”.
1. Who said this? To whom?
1. Rassendyll to Rupert.
2. Who do the underlined words refer to?
2. The real king.
3. What was the speaker trying to do by saying this?
3. He was trying to deceive him to free the real king.
C) Find the mistake in each of the following sentences and correct it:
1. The letter from Antoinette told the king to come to the summer house with a friend.
1. with a friend alone.
2. People were old that the rescued prisoner was an enemy of the king.
2. an energy a friend.
8. Write a paragraph of about 100 words about: “The advantages and disadvantages of computers”.
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9. A) Translate into Arabic:
The world has become a small village thanks to globalization. Symposia, lectures, meetings and conferences are held from time to time to warn our youth against the possible side effects of that.
لقد أصبح العالم قرية صغيرة بفعل العولمة تعقد المنتديات والمحاضرات والاجتماعات والمؤتمرات من وقت
لآخر لكى تحذر الشباب من الاثار السلبية الممكنة لذلك.
B) Translate into English:
1 - يجب أن تشجع الحكومة رجال الأعمال على إقامة مشروعات بالمدن الجديدة لخلق فرص عمل للشباب.
1. We should encourage businessmen to set up projects in new cities to create job opportunities for youth.
2 - عفوًا، هل يمكن أن ترشدنى إلى أحسن طريق للوصول إلى المحطة؟
2. Execuse me could you tell me the best way to the station?