Hacı Sabancı Anatolian High School

2012-2013 Educational Instructional Year

Second Term Second Exam for 10 C

Name:_______________

Number:_____________

A)GRAMMAR

Complete these sentences with some or any.

1)She’s going on holiday with_____________friends in August.

2)I’m sure he doesn’t have _________________evidence for his accusations.

3)I hope there wasn’t______________damage to your car.

4)Wasn’t there _________problem about your tax last year?

5)She had_________doubts about the decision.

Marks _____________20

Put the verbs in brackets in the past simple

Last year my wife and I(go)______went ______to a friend’s Wedding in

Italy.We___________(drive)to Sorrento and then,after the wedding,we(do)____________some
sightseeing and(take)_______some photographs.It(be)___________quite hot and we
(decide)______________to go to a beach outside the city.We(change)_______________into our
swimsuits and(leave)__________our clothes,passports and cameras in the car
park.We(spend)____________the day on the beach.When we(get)________back to the car park at
four o’clock,we(can)__________not find the car.

Marks ____________20

Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect or the simple past tense

1)Ann(go)_______________to Canada six months ago.

2)I(buy)________________a new house last year,but I(not sell)____________my old house yet,so at
the moment I have two houses.

4)Mary(be)____________in Japan for two years.She is working there and likes it very much.

5)George(collect)___________matchboxes ever since he left school.

6)Someone(use)____________my umbrella!It’s all wet!

7)Sheakspeare(write)___________a lot of plays.

8)He_____________(leave)the house at 2.00.

9)I_____________(phone)you twice yesterday.

Marks______20

B)Reading

Read the text and choose the correct answers.

Adunis

Ali Ahmad Said Asbar,also known as Adunis,is a Syrian poet who made his career largely in Lebanon
and France.He has written more than twenty books.From an early age he worked in the fields,but his
father also made him memorize poetry.Soon he began to compose himself and in 1974 he won a
scholarship to go to a school in Latakia,the city of his birth,after he read a poem to the president of
Syria.Later he won another scholarship so he could study philosophy at the Syrian University in
Damascus.In 1956 he moved to Beirut;Lebanon,where he founded a poetry magazine with a
colleague.From 1970 to 1985 Adunis was professor of Arabic literature at the university of Lebanon.In
1980 he emigrated to France and became professor of Arabic at the Sorbonne in Paris for a year.Many
poetry experts would like to see Adunis win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1)Ali Ahmad Said Asbar was born in...

a)France b)Syria c)the Lebanon

2)As a child,Said to had to ...

a)stay at home b)go to school C)help on the farm.

3)Said’s parenst didn’t have to .....

a)pay for his education b)work very hard c)get up early

4)Said was Professor of Arabic at a ...university.

a)Lebanese b)French c)Syrian

5)In his life Said has won...

a)a poetry competition b) a Nobel Prize c)a couple of scholarships

Marks:_____5

Read the text again and answer the questions with a complete sentence.

1)Where is Said most famous?

__________________________________

2)What degree did he take?

___________________________

3)What did he do in Beriut in 1956?

____________________

4)What did he lecture on at the university of Lebanon?

__________________________

5)Where did he emigrate in 1980?

________________________________

Marks _______________15

B)Complete these sentences with the words from the box

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government wheelchair dream disabled paralysed

1)Scientists haven’t ______________how to predict an earthquake.

2)What this country needs is really a strong_______________.

3)I felt___________so I went home.

4)They played______________well.

5)____________tests suggest that the new drug may be used to treat cancer.

6)The accident left him severely______________

7)I had a very odd _____________about you last night.

8)The first symptom of the _________is very high temperature.

9)He spent the last ten years of his life in a ______________after a fall which left him_________from
the waist down.

Marks ___________20