SCHOOL EXAM 2011 FOR 12 TH GRADE OF ENGLISH TIME :180 MINUTES DATE : 29-11-2011 I.LEXICO-GRAMMAR Part 1.supply the correct tense/form of the verbs in bracket.Write your answers in a space provided under this part Brenda (join) our firm ten years ago.She (work) for the previous five years with an advertising Company and (acquire) much useful experience.For the first eight years with us she (work) in the in the Sales Department,and (work) there when I (become) the Managing Director. Since then she (work) as my personal assistant,and she (prove) herself to be outstanding capable on many occasions. She (work) on the top floor,in an office next to mine, but at the moment she (work) in London on a special assignment. 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11.When she (know) me for a year, she invited me to tea 12.If they (not,see) the museum,we’d better go there today 13.The car broke down. But for that we (be) in time 14.He looks as though he never (get)a square meal,but in fact his wife feeds him very well. 15.I have no objection to (hear) your story again 16.He is determined to get a seat even if it means (stand) in a queue all night 17.What explosion ? I didn’t hear any. You (hear) it ?The whole town heard it 18.I waited under the clock !So did I,but I didn’t see you! We (wait) under different clocks 19.We are swamped with work and (work) overtime all week. 20.All the information we need (store) in a minute chip in the computer Part 2.Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the space provided 1.Since its …………………….a few decades ago,television has become very popular (appear) 2.Human beings are the worst ………………….on earth (pollute) 3.They were sent to an ……………… run by nuns (orphan) 4.I was kept …………………last night by the noise from a party in a flat above (wake) 5.These countries are …………….in import of raw cotton (prefer) 6.All the newspapers raised the ………………of the firemen (brave) 7.It’s important to keep ourselves healthy so that we can always be vibrant and ……………(energy) 8.The company is not taking on any new …………………this year (employ) 9.We have decided to interview only the best six …………….for the job (apply) 10.That large dog is perfectly ……………….and has never been known to attack anyone (harm) Part 3.Fill each blank with one suitable preposition. Write the answers in the space provided under this part When Edison was a boy …1……… fifteen, he worked ……2…… a telegraph operator.He had to be ……3…… duty from 7pm and give a signal every hour to prove that he didn’t sleep. The signal was made ……4……astonishing exactness. One night an inspector arrived and saw Edison sleeping ………5………a chair He was ……6…….to shake him when he caught sight of a mechanism on a table ……7… the telegraph instrument. He waited to see what would happen. When the hand of the clock pointed ………8……the hour, the instrument got busy and one lever threw open the key while the other sent the signal ………9…….the wire The inspector seized the sleeping boy,roused him and fired him. That is why the first 10. Edison ‘s numberous inveention was never patented. * * * When Charles Dickens was a boy 1… four, his father showed him a beautiful house 2…the place where they were living…. 3… that time.”Why can’t we live …4……a fine house like that ?”the boy asked his father.”We’re so poor,and can’t pay …… 5…… ”his father answered Little Charles often went … 6……that place. He liked to look … 7……the house and play … 8…….it.Many years later he really moved … 9……that house and lived there ….10…… a long time Part 4.Choose the word with best completes each sentence.Circle the answer 1.you ………… your homework by the time the movie starts a.will finish b.will be finishing c.will have finished d.finish 2.John admitted ………… by the unexpected birthday party last night a.surprised b.being surprised c.surprising d.to be surprised 3.Why don’t you have your chest ………………….? a.check b.to check c.checked d.being checked 4.He doesn’t take much exercise,…………….from walking the dog a.besides b.alone c.apart d.except 5.You’ve changed !I didn’t recognize you ………………………. a.firstly b.at the first c.at first d.in the first time 6.They stayed for hours,which I was very ……………………… a.annoyed b.annoying c.annoyed about d.annoying me 7.She passed the final exam. She smiled with everyone she met a.she must be very happy b.she must have been happy c.she must have smiled with everybody d.she must pass the exam 8.it’s necessary that you …………… here at 7am tomorrow a.will be being b.would be c.be d.would have been 9.only if you prmise to study hard ……………….to help you a.will I agree b.do I agree c.I agree d.I will agree 10.Mary is the best student in the class.She is ……………to all the other students a.superior b.better c.excellent d.brightest 11.A new study group has been ………….by the United Nations a.put up b.put on c.set up d.set on 12.have you got time to discuss your work or are you ……….to leave ? a.thinking b.planned c.around d.about 13.I can carry only two of these four boxes.Please carry ………………. a.the other b.another c.the others d.other 14.I shall do the job to the best of my ……………………. a.ability b.capacity c.knowledge d.talent 15………………I love you, I cannot let you have any more money a.Much as b.Whether c.Also d.However 16.The rumours about a government crisis …………….like wildfire a.caught b.went c.spread blew 17…………… goods have been sent to the shop a.Much b.A great deal of c.A large number of d.A little 18.We can offer free accommodation ………… help in the house a.in exchange for b.by exchange with c.in exchange with d.in exchange by 19.The balloon landed near an airfield. It …………………………… a.came along b.came over c.came off d.came down 20.He deeply regrets …………………………… a.that he stole the money b.of money stealing c.to steal the money d.having stolen the money Part 5.Read the following paragraph about oil and gas supplies.One word is missing from each line.Put an oblique stroke (/) where the word has been omitted and write the missing word in each blank.The first one has been done for you. Although the world ‘s energy resources / taken many 0 ……….have……… Millions of years to produce , we quickly beginning 1……………………. To exhaust these supplies . Recently UN committee 2……………………. Reported that world ‘s oil and gas supplies 3……………………. Would about one hundred years if used carefully.The report 4……………………. Stated that there be enough oil and gas for a century 5 ……………………. Only if the present demand could controlled. If the 6……………………. Demand continued grow , the report said that fuel 7……………………. Supplies last for less than forty years .According to 8……………………. The report, governments now take steps to 9……………………. Control the amounts of fossil fuels are used 10…………………… II. READING Part A. Cloze test. Fill each numbered blank with one suitable word The worry about salt is that it may ……1…… high blood pressure.Chemically,salt ….2…… of sodium and cloride ions,both of … 3…… are common in the human ….4……and are important for many physiological and biochemical …….5… We not only need salt, but too …… 6…….may be still bad for us. Althuogh the idea of a …7….between salt and high blood pressure ……8…… back to 2000 BC,there is still no scientific ….9…….as to whether this is so or not.One reason for this …….10……to agree is that individual salt intake ……….11…….enormously from day to day,and so reliable measures of intake are hard to come …… 12……… Those who believe that salt does ….13….to high blood pressure … 14….to the high incidence of high blood pressure in countries that eat a very ….15……diet. In Japan,for instance, where salted fish is an important part of the diet, high blood pressure and …… 16…….complications are common ………17…….among Amazonian and African tribes, which have a low intake of salt,they are almost …….18……… But …….19…… there is this neat relation between salt intake and the incidence of high blood pressure between countries, it doesn’t seem to apply …… 20 ……those countries themselves. Studies,for instance, of couple who have a similar salt intake don’t show any consistency in how often they develop high blood pressure 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: 15: 16: 17: 18: 19: 20: Part B.Multiple choice :Read the following passage and choose the correct answers LANGUAGE IN THE NEWS As readers of newspapers, and viewers of television, we readily assume that the Nine O’clock News, or the front page of the Daily Express or the Guardian, consists of faithful reports of events that happened “out there “,in the world beyond our immediate experience. At a certain level , that is of course a realistic assumption: real events do occur and are reported – a coach crashes on the autobahn , a postman wins the pools, a cabinet minister resigns.But real events are subject to conventional processes of selection: they are not intrinsically newsworthy, but only become “news” when selected for inclusion in news reports. The vast majority of events are not mentioned, and so selection immediately gives us a partial view of the world. We know also that different newspapers report differently, in both content and presentation. The pools win is more likely to be reported in the Mirror than in the Times, whereas a crop failure in Meghalaya may be reported in the Times but almost certainly not in the Mirror. Selection is accompanied by transformation, differential treament in presentation according to numerous political, social and economic factors. As far as differences in preseentation are concerned, most people would admit the possibility of “bias”: the Sun is known t be consistently hostile in its treatment of trade unions, and of what it calls “the loony Left”; the Guardian is generous in its reporting of the affairs of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Such disaffections and affiliations are obvious when you start reading carefully, and discussing the news media with other people. The world of the Press is not the real world, but a world skewed and judged. Now what attitude might one take towards the “bias”? There is an argument to the effect that biases do exist, but not everywhere. The Daily Express is biased, the Socialist Worker is not (or the other way round ). In a good world, all newspapers and television channels would report the unmediated truth. This view seems to me to be drastically and dangerously false. It allows a person to believe, and to assert, complacently, that their newspaper is unbiased, whereas all the others are in the pockets of the Torries or the Troskyites; or that newspapers are biased, while TV news is not (because “the camera cannot lie”). The danger with this position is that it assumes the possibilities of genuin neutrality, of some news medium being a clear undistorting window. And that can never be. 1.We have a distorted picture of the world beyond our immediat experience because a/ real events are deliberately distorted by the media b/ we are selective in what we read c/ a limited number of events are reported d/ the stories that are presented are not fully researched 2.The writer implies that the Times a/ never deals with any human interest stories at all b/ has large numbers of overseas readers c/ carries reports that would not interest Mirror readers d/ has the same political slant as the Mirror. 3.According to the writer,newspapers a/ shape the political views of their readers b/vary greatly in their degree of objectivity c/ are widely perceived to be politically biased d/ are funded by political pressure groups 4.When the author says”the Daily Express is biased “ a/ he in fact means the opposite b/he is citing an opinion he may not hold personally c/ he wishes to imply that the Daily Express is a special case d/ he wants to defend the Socialist Worker 5.The writer’s attitude toward distortion of news is that a/ it happens more in the press than on TV b/ its incidence varies between different newspapers c/ it is far too prevalent d/ it is inevitable Part C.Rearrange the following sentences in order to become a good passage A/ Archimedes worked out that mixture would take up more space than the same weight of pure gold because silver is less dense than gold B/ but how could he possible measure the volume of the crown ? C/ for over 2000 years. The story goes like this. King Hieron II of Syracuse asked Archimedes to find whether a goldsmith had cheated him or not. The goldsmith should have made the king a pure gold and silver D/ but the king suspected that he had in fact used a mixture of gold and siver E/ Little is known for sure about the Greek physicist and mathematician, Archimedes ,except his dates and hometown. He was born in 287 BC and he died in 212 BC F/ He lived in Syracuse in Silicily. Yet the story of how he made his greatest discovery has survived E ………. ………. ……… ……… …………… III. WRITING. Part 1.Complete the sentences in such a way that it means almost the same as the sentence printed before it. 1.We were not surprised by his success It came …………………………………………………………………. 2.You can try to get Tim to lend you his car but you won’t succeed There ‘s no point ………………………………………………………. 3.It was the goldkeeper who saved the match for us Had it …………………………………………………………………… 4. She listens more sympatically than anyone else I know She’s …………………………………………………………………… 5. Everyone started complaining the moment the announcement was made No sooner ………………………………………………………………. 6. It was careless of you to leave the window open last night You shouldn’t ………………………………………………………… 7. You won’t find a more dedicated worker anywhere than Mr Jones Nowhere ……………………………………………………………… 8. I’d rather not see him tomorrow I don’t ………………………………………………………………… 9. She never seems to succeed, even though she studies much Much as ……………………………………………………………… 10. He told me that it was wrong of me to leave early He criticized …………………………………………………………… Part 2. Write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence, using the word given. 1. “A club has just opened in Leeds “,said Mary to Sally (told) Maria …………………………………………………….club in Leeds 2. Have you got a brooch that is cheaper than this one ? (less) Have you got ………………………… than this one ? 3. You can avoid tooth decay by brushing your teeth regularly (prevented) Tooth decay …………………………… your teeth regularly 4. Every concert I had attended had been better than that one (the) It was ………………………………I had ever been to 5. The Embassy said it would not be necessary for me to get a visa (need) The Embassy said I ……………………………………… a visa 6. I dislike it when people criticise me unfairly (object) I …………………………………… me unfairly 7. Tien Giang is a far less hilly province than Lam Dong (hills) Lam Dong …………………………………….Tien Giang 8. I’m absolutely sure he took the money on purpose (mistake) He couldn’t possibly …………………………………. 9. I’m not keen on gold , I much prefer silver (rather) I ……………………………………… gold 10. You didn’t think carefully enough before you decided (thought) You might ………………………………………… Part 3. sentence bulding. Use the words to make sentences 1. I / not / mind / help / you …………………………………………………………. 2. He / wait / her / hours …………………………………………………………. 3. He / leave / Sydney / Canberra / Sunday morning …………………………………………………………. 4. Workers / try / put fire / control …………………………………………………………. 5. Someone / knock / door / at the moment …………………………………………………………. 6. I / sit / late / last night …………………………………………………………. 7. Jane / much / beautiful / intelligent / her sister …………………………………………………………. 8. Not hesitate / ask / my help /necessary ………………………………………………………… 9. They / try / look / job / since june ………………………………………………………… 10. I / good / chemistry / English ………………………………………………………… THE END . SCHOOL EXAM 2011 FOR 12 TH GRADE OF ENGLISH TIME :180 MINUTES DATE : 29-11 -2011 I.LEXICO-GRAMMAR Part 1.supply the correct tense/form of the verbs in bracket.Write. readers of newspapers, and viewers of television, we readily assume that the Nine O’clock News, or the front page of the Daily Express or the Guardian, consists of faithful reports of events. possibility of “bias”: the Sun is known t be consistently hostile in its treatment of trade unions, and of what it calls “the loony Left”; the Guardian is generous in its reporting of the affairs of