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ASOCIACION CULTURAL ARGENTINO BRITANICA DE SALTA

COURSE: Crash 2 LEVEL: Beginner Plus

Pre – Exam October 2011
NAME: .............................................................................................................
TEACHER: .......................................................... City: .................................

A- READING COMPREHENSION.-
1- Read the text and answer the questions, True or False: (2 points each= 10)

Spaghetti is one of the many different types of pasta. It is the most famous
Italian food, but the Italians did not invent it. They say that Marco Polo brought
it from China hundreds of years ago, in 1295.

Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254. His father, Niccolo, and his uncle, Maffeo,
first went to China from 1260 to 1269. They bought things from there and sold
them in Italy. In 1271, they went back to China and took Marco with them. They
visited many exciting places.

They all finally returned to Venice twenty-four years later. Marco Polo wrote a
book about his travels in 1298.

0- Italy is famous for its pasta. T

1- Marco Polo brought spaghetti form China
a hundred years ago. _____
2- Marco’s father went to China after he was born. _____
3- His father and uncle came back from China when Marco
was sixteen. _____
4- Marco went to China with his father and uncle. ______
5- They stayed in China for three years. _______

2- Read the text again and choose the correct answer. (2 points each= 8)
1- Marco liked spaghetti.
a) True b) false c) doesn’t say.

2- His father and his uncle sold Chinese things in Italy.

a) True b) false c) doesn’t say.

3- Marco went to China in 1271 for the first time.

a) True b) false c) doesn’t say.

4- He wrote a book about China two years after he returned.

b) True b) false c) doesn’t say.

B- USE OF ENGLISH.-
1- Complete the text with the correct answer. Underline the correct option (2
points each= 16)
Will Smith (0).....c.....born in Philadelphia, in the USA, (1) ...............25 September
1968. He was a famous rapper before he became (2).................actor. Will started
rapping when he was twelve and (3)...................nickname was Prince. When he was
sixteen, he (4).........a band with his friend, Jeff Townes, called DJ Jazzy Jeff and
the Fresh Prince. They made two CDs and quickly (5)....................rich and famous.
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Then, in 1990, he starred (6).................the TV programme, The Fresh Prince of Bel-
Air and worked on the programme for six years. At the same time, he continued
singing and he also (7)....................in films. He made his first film in 1992, and had
his first big hit in 1995 with Bad Boys. A year later, the film Independence Day
was another big hit. He is most famous for the Men in Black films. The second film
(8).................out in 2002.

0- a) were b)is c)was

1- a) in b) on c) at
2- a) a b) the c) an
3- a) her b) his c) a
4- a)starting b) starts c) started
5- a) became b) become c) becoming
6- a) at b) in c) of
7- a) act b)acted c) acting
8- a) come b) coming c) came

C- VOCABULARY.-1- Read the description of some words. What is the word for
each one? (1 each = 5)

1- You can stay here when you are on holiday H ... ... ... …

2- You can walk here. P ………

3- You can buy vegetables here M ... ... ... ... ...

4- You can watch drama here T ... ... ... ... ... ....

5- You can borrow some books from here L ... ... ... .... ... ....

2-Circle the correct option (1 each=5)

1- My sister Ann can sing very good/well.

2- Who is the youngest/younger person in your family?

3- My friend lends me a very boring/bored book.

4- Who/Whose that bag? 5- It’s my/mine.

D- COMMUNICATION. Complete the conversations. Write the correct letter a-f

in the spaces. (2 each=10):
a) Josie: (0) ...b.......
Max: Where is it? How do I get
there?
Josie: (1) .................
Max: Yeah, of course I do.
Josie: (2) ...................
Max: Is that Main Street?
Josie: (3) ....................
Max: Are you sure it’s right?
Josie: (4) ..................
Max: Is it next to the library?
Josie: (5) ......................... f) Ok. Walk past the post office and
a)No, it’s Crown Street. Walk along
Crown Street and turn right.
b) Let’s meet at the cinema.
c) Yes, I am! The cinema is at the end
of that road, on the left. You can’t
miss it.
d) Yes. It’s between the library and
the art gallery. And opposite the
museum.
e) Do you know the post office on the
High Street?
turn right.
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E-VERB TENSES
1- Put the verbs in bracket into the correct tense (2 each=12)
a) Yesterday I ________________ (not take) a bus to school. I
_________(walk).
b) Oh, listen. The baby___________________ (cry).
c) Women love ________________(buy) clothes.
d) What time _____________________(you start) every day?
e) Richard ____________________(go) to get married next week.
f) Where________________ (be) you last night?

E- LISTENING COMPREHENSION.-
Listen to five conversations and underline the correct answer. You`ll hear
the conversation twice. (2 each 10):
0- How many students are there in Sue’s class?
a) Thirteen b) thirty c) twenty-three.
1- How many students ate hamburgers three times last week?
a) Twenty-five b) two. c) six.
2- How does Carlos speak French?
a) Fast. b) carefully c) well.
3- What kind of olives did the boy order?
a) Yellow. b) green. c) black.
4- When did an Italian man make the first pizza?
a) 1862. b) 1889. c) 1762.
5- What did the woman pick up?
a) Her wallet. b) her ID card. c) her bag.

F- WRITING.-
1- Sentence Transformation:
Rewrite these sentences in the interrogative, negative or affirmative form:
(2 each 10)
1- My mother cooks in the morning. (-)
My ..........................................................................

2- The teacher smoked a lot. (?)

.......................................................................... a lot?

3- The students are studying for the exam. (-)

The ………………………………………………………………………..

4- My collegues didn’t work last week (?)

…………………………………………………………………………………….week?

5- My mother and my father played tennis. (-)

My……………………………………………………………………………..

2-Write an e-mail (between 50 -75 words) to a friend telling him/her about your
LAST holidays. (14)

 Where?
 With whom?
 Likes/ dislikes.
 Presents
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