Intermediate 4 Life 4 (2e)

INTERMEDIATE 4
FIRST NAME ____________________________________________
LAST NAME ____________________________________________
DATE ____________________________________________
CLASS TIME ____________________________________________
TEACHER ____________________________________________

WRITING _________ / 25

SPEAKING _________ / 25

EXAM _________ / 100

FINAL GRADE ____________ %

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RECONSIDERACIÓN

Deje esta hoja en blanco hasta el momento de la entrega del examen para que pueda solicitar su
reconsideración. De igual manera, debe tomar en cuenta las siguientes consideraciones:

- Se revisará el examen sólo cuando exista error de suma y/o se haya omitido corregir la totalidad o
parte de una respuesta.
- No se aceptará reconsideración de reconsideración.
- No se aceptará la reconsideración en caso el examen esté resuelto con lápiz o lapicero de tinta
borrable.

Fecha de reconsideración: / /

Ciclo:

Motivo: Error de Suma Corrección de preguntas

Profesor:

Indique las preguntas a revisar:

Pregunta (Número y/o letra) Procede (Llenado por el profesor)

SI NO

SI NO

SI NO

NOTA DEFINITIVA FIRMA DEL PROFESOR

Fecha: / /

En caso la reconsideración proceda:

COORDINADOR DEL DIRECTORA DE EXTENSIÓN

CENTRO DE IDIOMAS UNIVERSITARIA
Fecha: / / Fecha: / /

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I. GRAMMAR (30 points)

A. Choose the correct relative pronoun to create DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES. (5 points)

1. The gardener ………. is in the yard is wearing blue jeans.

a) who b) which c) what
2. My uncle ………… has two children lives in Ireland.
a) which b) who c) where
3. The cake ……… my grandmother made was delicious.
a) whose b) which c) when
4. This is the house ………….. my grandmother was born.
a) who b) which c) where
5. February 14th is a special date ………. a lot of people receive flowers form their couples
a) when b) where c) which

B. Complete the sentences with the verbs given in order to have SECOND CONDITIONAL ones.
(5 points)

1. If she ________________ (have) her purse with her, she ________________ (buy) the fruit.

2. If I ________________ (speak) French, I ________________ (visit) France.

3. John ________________ (not work) so hard if he ________________ (be) rich.

4. Liz ________________ (get) better grades at college if she ________________ (study) more.

5. Fred ________________ (eat) a good breakfast if he ________________ (wake up) earlier.

C. Put the words in the correct order to create sentences into REPORTED SPEECH. (5 points)

1. new car / said / he / that / He / loved / his

_______________________________________________________________________.
2. said / they / were / They / at three / arriving
_______________________________________________________________________.
3. if / I / ate / asked / meat / her / she
_______________________________________________________________________.
4. me / see / tomorrow / she’d / said / Sally
_______________________________________________________________________.

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5. said / I / that / not enjoy / brother / the film / My / might

_______________________________________________________________________.
D. Use REPORTING VERBS to change the sentences into reported speech ones. You cannot use
“say”. (5 points)

1. Joseph to Mary: “Can you do me a favour?” (ASK)

_______________________________________________________________________.
2. Mark to his friends: “How about having a pizza?” (SUGGEST)
_______________________________________________________________________.
3. George to his friends: “Tomorrow is my birthday. You can come to my party.” (INVITE)
_______________________________________________________________________.
4. Wife to husband: “Don’t forget to buy milk on your way home.” (REMIND)
_______________________________________________________________________.
5. Husband to wife: “I’ll get that diamond necklace for you.” (PROMISE)
_______________________________________________________________________.

E. Choose the correct alternative to create THIRD CONDITIONAL sentences. (5 points)

1. If the explorers had built / would have built igloos, they would be / would have been warm.

2. If the explorers have copied / had copied the survival techniques, they ‘d have avoided / ‘d avoided death.

3. If they hadn’t eaten / had eaten salads, they wouldn’t have been / wouldn’t been as healthy.

4. They hadn’t gotten / wouldn’t have gotten exhausted if they had used / have used dogs to pull the sleds.

5. They wouldn’t have suffered / hadn’t suffered from frostbite if they would wear / had worn sealskin.

F. Complete the sentences with SHOULD HAVE or COULD HAVE and the correct form of the verbs
in parenthesis. The sentences could be positive or negative. (5 points)

1. It was a dangerous sport. You _______________________ (get) hurt.

2. It was our secret. You _______________________ (not tell) anyone!
3. You __________________________ (see) my brother. He has been in Mexico for a month.
4. You didn’t get the prize. You __________________________ (work) much harder.
5. You are grounded now. You _________________________ (not speak) to your parents like that.

GRAMMAR: __________ / 30

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II. VOCABULARY (30 points)

A. Circle the best option. (6 points)

1. The surgeon / paramedic carried out the operation.

2. The treatment / healing given by the doctor is working.
3. I have to appear in court. The date /appointment is at ten o´clock.
4. Rob has got a deep cut. He’ll need some crutches / stitches.
5. The soldier was wounded / injured in combat.
6. Melanie has just given birth. Which surgery / ward is she on?

B. Match the expression in the left with the correct phrasal verb with TAKE. (6 points)

1. To happen or to occur ______ A. take away

2. Leaves the ground and starts flying ______ B. take place
3. To become interesting in something, as a hobby ______ C. take care of
4. To remove something ______ D. take off
5. To participate in an activity ______ E. take up
6. To be responsible for, to look after ______ F. take part

C. Complete the missing word related to TECHNOLOGY (6 points)

1. In many countries, I __ __ __ __ __ __ T access is almost free.

2. If you want to learn more about the government you should read the P __ __ __ __ __ __ S section.
3. I didn’t have time to read the newspaper. I just saw the H __ __ __ __ __ __ __ S.
4. You’ll find the report about the football match in the S __ __ __ __ S pages.
5. I’m not very interested in economics so I don’t read the B __ __ __ __ __ __ S section.
6. Google is one of the most famous S __ __ __ __ H engine program around the world.

D. Write the negatives of these words using the PREFIXES un-, im-, in-. (6 points)

available mobile efficient polite lucky punctual visible direct moral

un- im- in-

_____unavailable______ _______immobile______ ______inefficient______

_____________________ _____________________ _____________________
_____________________ _____________________ _____________________

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E. Complete the sentences with a word from the box. There is one extra word you do not need. (6 points)

martial arts knight sword warriors archery duty calligraphy

1. The samurai were the elite _______________.

2. The samurai’s _____________ symbolized the authority and luxury of the warrior class.
3. The samurai’s customs would have been familiar to a medieval European ______________.
4. Most samurai trained for hand-to-hand combat. Such forms of combat were called ________________.
5. They killed dozens of enemies in the name of _______________.
6. Samurai generals practiced _______________, did flower arranging, and went to the theater.

VOCABULARY: __________ / 30

III. READING COMPREHENSION (20 points)

A. Read the text about sharks and choose the best option according to the author. (2 points each)

WHY GREAT WHITE SHARKS ARE STILL A MYSTERY TO US

Meeting a great white shark in the wild is nothing like you expect it would be. At first glance it’s not the
malevolent beast we’ve come to expect from a thousand TV shows. It’s portly, bordering on fat, like an
overstuffed sausage. Flabby jowls tremble down its body when it opens its mouth, which otherwise is a
chubby, slightly parted smirk. From the side, one of the world’s greatest predators is little more than a
slack-jawed buffoon.
It’s only when the underwater clown turns to face you that you understand why it’s the most feared animal
on Earth. From the front its head is no longer soft and jowly but tapers to an arrow that draws its black eyes
into a sinister-looking V. The bemused smile is gone, and all you see are rows of two-inch teeth capable of
crunching down with almost two tons of force. Slowly, confidently, it approaches you. It turns its head, first
to one side and then the other, evaluating you, deciding whether you’re worth its time. Then if you’re lucky,
it turns away, becoming the buffoon again, and glides lazily into the gloom.
There are more than 500 species of sharks, but in popular imagination there’s really only one. When Pixar
needed an underwater villain for its animated film Finding Nemo, it didn’t look to the affable nurse shark or
the aggressive bull shark. Not even the tiger shark, which would be more appropriate in Nemo’s coral-reef
home. It was the great white shark—with its wide, toothy grin—that was plastered on thousands of movie
billboards across the world.
The great white shark is the ocean’s iconic fish, yet we know little about it—and much of what we think we
know simply isn’t true. White sharks aren’t merciless hunters (if anything, attacks are cautious), they aren’t
always loners, and they may be smarter than experts have thought. Even the 1916 Jersey Shore attacks
famously mentioned in Jaws may have been perpetrated by a bull shark, not a great white.

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1. The author writes about the shark “… is little more than a slack-jawed buffoon” (first paragraph) because of:
a. its fierceness b. its looks c. its sense of humor

2. The author mentions “… slightly parted smirk” (first paragraph). The smirk refers to:
a. the sharks tail b. the shark’s fins c. the shark’s mouth

3. Why is it considered to be the most feared animal on Earth? (second paragraph)

a. Because of its size b. Because it’s soft and jowly c. Because of its V look.

4. What kind of shark most probably lives in the Coral Sea? (third paragraph)
a. The tiger shark b. The white shark c. the bull shark

5. Which of the facts is not true?

a. Bull sharks are more aggressive than white sharks.
b. They live in groups.
c. White sharks are not as intelligent as scientists think.

B. You are going to read an article about exploration and failure. For questions 1–10, choose the answer
(A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. (1 points each)

Where would we be without failure?

At the end of the nineteenth century, a middle-aged Swedish engineer named S. A. Andrée came up with a radical
idea: Why not fly in a hydrogen balloon to become the first person to discover the North Pole? At the time, the
Pole was as mysterious and unknown as Mars, and for years explorers had attempted and failed to reach the Pole
overland. Few had got far. Many had died trying. An air expedition, Andrée and his supporters reasoned, would
eliminate much of the risk. And so, on a dangerously windy day in July 1897, the brave explorer and two younger
colleagues climbed into the basket of a balloon on an island in the far north of Norway and set off. As journalists
and well-wishers cheered and waved, they sailed into the air, heading to a place no human had seen.
As soon as they lifted off, however, strong winds blew the balloon off course, and a thick fog froze on the surface
of the balloon, weighing it down. For almost three days the balloon flew along, sometimes so heavy that it hit the
surface of the Arctic Ocean. Thirty-three years later, the bodies of Andrée and his crew – along with their cameras
and diaries – were discovered. The diaries revealed that they’d been forced to land on the ice 298 miles from the
North Pole. The three had died during an attempt to walk back south – an impossible journey which would have
taken three months if they had managed to do it.
It is a dramatic story of incredible bravery, but also a story of failure. To an explorer, failure is a terrible thing, and
yet, at the same time, the possibility of failure is something that could happen on every attempt at exploration. If
there were no failures, progress would be impossible.
Today there is growing recognition of the importance of failure. Educators wonder how to make children more
comfortable with it. Psychologists study how we deal with it, usually with an eye towards improving the chance of
success. Business schools run courses in dealing with failure. Even at their most miserable, failures provide
information to help us do things differently next time. ‘I learned how not to climb Everest the first four times I
tried and failed to reach its summit,’ says alpinist Pete Athans, who’s reached the world’s highest peak seven

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times. ‘Failure gives you a chance to refine your approach. You’re taking risks more and more intelligently.’ In
his case, this meant reducing the number of climbers in his team and choosing less challenging routes for his first
successful ascent in 1990.
For most explorers, only one failure really matters: not coming back alive. For the rest of us, such tragic ends can
capture the imagination more than success. Robert Falcon Scott, who died with his team after reaching the South
Pole in 1912, is hailed as a hero in Britain. Australians are moved by a disastrous nineteenth-century south-to-
north expedition that ended in death for its team leaders. These stories stay with us for the same reason our own
failures do: ‘We remember our failures because we’re still analysing them,’ one expert says. Success, on the other
hand, is quickly forgotten. And too much success can lead to overconfidence – which in turn can lead to failure.
During the 1996 Everest season, in which twelve climbers died, mountaineering experts wrongly felt that
climbing the mountain was easy and routine. Failure keeps you on your toes.
S. A. Andrée’s balloon expedition was cutting-edge for its day, but it failed. However, the failure led to
improvements in the design and reliability of balloons, and, ultimately, improved technology helped solve the
problems of Arctic aviation, resulting in the first successful flight to the North Pole, which took place three
decades after the 1897 attempt. Risking failure to do things we have never done before is the nature of the human
condition.

1 At the time Andrée decided to go to the North Pole, which of the following was true? Nobody
A had tried to go to the Pole before.
B had attempted a long balloon expedition before.
C knew much about what the Pole was like.
D believed it was possible to go to the Pole by balloon.

2 What does the word few in line 6 of paragraph 1 mean?

A many
B hardly any
C some
D none

3 When Andrée set off in his balloon,

A he was alone in the balloon.
B the weather was perfect.
C other people watched him leave.
D he waved to people on the ground.

4 Andrée got into difficulties in his balloon

A three days after starting his journey.
B not long after starting his journey.

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C because he had put too much weight in the balloon.

D because the weather suddenly changed.
5 Which of the following is true about the death of Andrée?
A He died after crashing into the Arctic Ocean.
B He was killed when the balloon hit the ice.
C He died three months after crash-landing.
D He died while trying to walk to safety

6 What does the expression ‘growing recognition’ in line 1 of paragraph 4 mean?

A more and more people understand (the importance of failure)
B fewer people know about (the importance of failure) than before
C fewer people are sympathetic to (the importance of failure)
D more people experience (the importance of failure) than before

7 Which of the following summarizes Pete Athans’ view of failure?

A We need to learn to be better at dealing with failure.
B We only fail because we haven’t planned intelligently.
C It’s only by failing that we learn how to do things right.
D We should try to avoid failing as much as we can.

8 According to the writer, which of the following is true?

A Failures are more memorable than successes.
B It’s harder to analyse success than failure.
C We aren’t comfortable with successful people.
D Failures are reported more widely than successes.

9 What does the expression ‘keeps you on your toes’ in the last line of paragraph 5 mean?
A makes you feel confident about what you are doing
B forces you to continue giving all your attention and energy to what you are doing
C makes you worry about what you are doing
D helps you to forget about problems so that you can continue to do things

10 Which of the following summarizes the writer’s view?

A We only make progress if we fail and learn from failures.
B Humans are almost always going to fail sometimes.
C We lose confidence if we fail too often.
D We must improve our ability to analyse failures.

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READING: ____/20

IV. LISTENING (20 points)

A. Complete the sentences with one word based on the recording. (2 points each) (TRACK 1)

Speaker 1: Speaker one is concerned about the ______________________.

Speaker 2: She wants to ______________ facilities for disabled people.

Speaker 2: Even in public buildings there is a lack of _________________.

Speaker 3: What bothers speaker 3 is the ___________________.

Speaker 4: The _____________ should pass a law to have more beautiful buildings.

B. You will hear five people talking about their worst house guests ever. Choose from the list (A–I) the
two etiquette rules that each speaker’s guest broke. Each rule can be used more than once. (1 point
each) (TRACK 2)

Sandra ___ , ___ Ben ___ , ___ Anna ___ , ___ Donna ___ , ___ Jim ___ , ___

You should

A always bring a small gift.

B never wear your shoes inside.
C always eat what you are given.
D never arrive early.
E not do all the talking.
F never open other people’s cupboards.
G never help yourself to food.
H not talk about yourself.
I never eat everything on the table.

LISTENING: _____/20

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