ENGLISH ACTIVITY N.

GRADE

11-4

TEACHER: MARIO CEDEÑO PEREZ

STUDENT: ____________________________

FECHA: SEPTEMBRE 23 – OCTUBRE 16

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RESPONDA LAS PREGUNTAS 9 A 16 DE ACUERDO CON EL SIGUIENTE TEXTO

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En las preguntas 9 - 16, marque A, B o C en su hoja de respuestas.

COFFEE
Coffee is popular around the world. (0) the
past centuries, few subjects have been as carefully
studied as coffee. Its (9) important
component is caffeine and it has lots of benefits.

Coffee has been well-known

th
(10) the
beginning of the 14 century, (11) Sufi
Yemenis started
using coffee to stay alert during special activities. It became a popular
medicine (12) Europeans in the 1600s.

Caffeine was first (13) in the 1800s by Ferdinand Runge, a doctor

that found out some effects that coffee has on people.

Some people say (14) coffee isn’t good, but doctors say you (15)
believe this. Thanks to caffeine you don’t get hungry. Coffee can also
reduce
headaches and blood problems. (16) many people believe coffee is
bad, studies show it is good for your heart.

0. A. Over B. By C. Across

A. much B. more C. most

9.

A. during B. until C. since

10.

A. when B. which C. who

11.

A. among B. about C. along

12.

A. describe B. described C. describes

13.

A. drink B. drinking C. drunk

14.

A. mustn’t B. couldn’t C. wouldn’t

15.

A. while B. if C. because
16.
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RESPONDA LAS PREGUNTAS 10 A 14 DE ACUERDO CON EL SIGUIENTE TEXTO

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En las preguntas 9 - 14, marque A, B o C en su hoja de respuestas.

0. A. which B. where C. who

10. A. saying B. said C. say

11. A. its B. his C. your

12. A. This B. That C. These

13. A. larger B. largest C. large

14. A. in B. along C. on
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15. Where was the painter from? A. Ireland

B. Spain
C. France

16. She was mostly excited by the A. painter’s ability.

B. painter’s voice.
C. painter’s show.

17. How often did she watch the show? A. three times a week
B. once a week
C. twice a week

18. She could not get oil paints because she A. didn’t speak Spanish.
B. was too young.
C. always watched TV.
19. Stopping painting was A. the painter’s idea.
B. her mother’s order.
C. her own decision.
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En las preguntas 17 - 23, marque A, B o C en su hoja de respuestas.

JAMES SALTER’S DAYS IN

FILM

James Salter was a pilot in the United States Air Force. He

abandoned the military profession in 1957 after the
publication of his first novel, The Hunters. He is best known
as a novelist, but during the sixties and seventies, he worked
in film making. Salter made documentaries, wrote texts for
films, and even was the director of a film called Three,
starring Charlotte Rampling and Sam Waterston.

In Passionate Falsehoods, which was adapted from Salter’s

book Burning the Days, published in The New Yorker in
1997, Salter tells the story of his life in film.

Salter’s time in the film world is both good and bad. In

Rome, he met directors and stars. In New York, he explored
the city with Robert Redford and enjoyed being famous.
Deborah Treisman and Michael Agger have talked about
Salter. Nick Paumgarten in The Last Book, describes Salter’s
opinion about his film career:

“Of sixteen texts for movies, only four were popular. There
was money, attractive women, and entrance into rooms where
there were stories more for the dinner table than for the
page.” Salter thought he was wasting his time.

Perhaps he wasted his time in a larger artistic way, but it

still makes for attractive reading. The Last Book is available
to everyone in online stores.
16. James Salter is famous for A. his books.
B. his movies.
C. his plays.

17. James Salter played an important part A. 1960 to 1979.

in the making of movies from B. 1960 to 1970.
C. 1960 to 1985.

18. Passionate Falsehoods is A. a newspaper.

B. a play.
C. a movie.

19. Salter had nice and difficult times in his A. acting years.
B. big screen work.
C. visit to one city.

20. The Last Book was written by A. James Salter.

B. Deborah Treisman.
C. Nick Paumgarten.

21. James Salter thinks that his work in the A. not useful.
cinema business was B. not hard.
C. not usual.

22. Reading about James Salter's years in A. clever enough.

the cinema could be B. just fair.
C. quite interesting.

23. The Last Book can be found A. in museums.

B. at a café.
C. on the web.
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En las preguntas 20 - 21, marque A, B, C o D en su hoja de respuestas.

20. What is the writer trying to do in this article?

A. convince people to buy a Colombian coffee farm

B. tell readers to run a coffee business in Colombia
C. invite tourists to write about places they visit in Colombia
D. encourage tourists to visit Colombia

21. What can a reader find out from this text?

A. which activities tourists prefer to do at the farm

B. when the best time is to visit the farm
C. what the accommodation price includes
D. how to grow coffee on the farm
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Swift Pizza and Sandwich House

Today we have the pleasure of showing you the best letter written by
our customer Mark. He wins £25 for writing about us this week. He
is so happy with the orders at Swift Pizza and Sandwich House that he
wants to declare a holiday to celebrate his experience here: “Happy
burgerday and Merry Sandwichmas to everyone!” he wrote.

Wednesday May 18
2011.
One typical day I was too tired after working all day long to cook
for myself, and I was very hungry. I really wanted something
to eat, so I decided to find a burger. I ordered a half-pound
burger and a lamb and chicken sandwich. I also made some
special orders for extra cheese and vegetables. Food arrived very
fast (less than twenty minutes) and was hot and fresh. The burger
was delicious, and left me wanting more - fortunately I had the
sandwich left. It felt as if it had been cut just a minute before I
opened it - juicy, fresh, and great.
Every single special request I made was completely satisfied,100%
And the best thing was that all of the above and some drinks cost me
ONLY 10 dollars! If that doesn't say value for money, I don't know
what does.
It certainly feels great to find new excellent food delivery
companies for whenever you don't feel like cooking yourself. I
recently had a sad experience with my usual take away
restaurant, so I decided to change to something else - and on my
first try I got what I wanted!
Order now from Swift Pizza and Sandwich
House.
Mark

According to the text, the customer

A. left a £25 tip to the waiters who work there.

B. celebrated Christmas and New Year at this restaurant.
C. found this great restaurant after many attempts.
D. posted an excellent review about this restaurant.

25. It can be inferred from the text that Mark

A. does not like cooking food for himself.

B. almost always eats hamburgers.
C. enjoys eating fast food sometimes.
D. is tired of going to restaurants
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Zoos are basically designed for human entertainment. People can learn
little or nothing from seeing poor undignified animals forced to go round
and round in cages.
Tests have shown that penned-up animals suffer high levels
of stress and boredom not to mention physical harm.
Those who claim that zoos prevent the extinction of endangered species
should ask themselves whether it is really preferable for them to live in
such a demeaning and artificial environment than not to live at all.

11. From the underlined sentence people can learn little or nothing from
seeing poor undignified animals forced to go round and round in cages,
we can conclude that

A. animals cannot teach us anything about themselves.

B. people are wasting their time, if they visit zoos in order to learn about animals.
C. visiting zoos can be a really enriching experience.
D. people who do not know anything about animals can visit zoos to learn about them.

12. Based on the text, the author uses the underlined word demeaning
to communicate that animals

A. live in comfortable conditions.

B. deserve respect.
C. have a life of pleasure.
D. prefer to live in zoos.

13. The intention of the author in this article is to

A. describe the life of animals in zoos.

B. advise animals about their poor conditions.
C. invite people to visit as many zoos as possible.
D. make people reflect on the life of animals in a zoo
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In the early 1950 rock and roll radically changed the way people thought
about music.
Before that time, songs were generally popular because they appealed to
a broad spectrum of people, and the music and lyrics were more important
than the individuals who performed them.
Rock and roll merged the music and the performer and aimed itself at a
young audience teenager. In writing and performing songs that spoke
specifically to teenagers, Chuck Berry, a black rhythm and blues musician
from St. Louis, helped invent rock and roll

31. The underlined word they refers to:

A. people
B. 1950.s
C. lyrics
D. songs

32. The underlined word spectrum can be replaced by:

A. community
B. troop
C. group
D. quality

33. The underlined word merged means the same as:

A. marked
B. joined
C. emerged
D. divided
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The business was there to be done, he found. For the first time in
twenty-seven years he had no secretary to type his letters, answer
his telephone, book his tickets, be polite to visitors, and organize his
papers. The phone rang, and no one answered; he got an answering
machine, but forgot to turn it on. He misplaced letters, and missed
vital appointments. Typing was a disaster, but his handwriting was
worse; and when the tax inspector called on him, he was almost
prosecuted for evasion, because no accounts had been kept at all .  
. 

According to the text,

A. secretaries are not indispensable to their bosses.

B. it's easy for an executive to work on his own.
C. the majority of bosses cannot function without a secretary.
D. being a secretary is less difficult than being a boss.

For the first time in twenty-seven years he had no secretary to type his
letters means that

A. his secretary worked for twenty-seven years.

B. his secretary was twenty-seven years old.
C. he had been working with a secretary for twenty-seven years.
D. he had been working by himself for twenty-seven years

According to the text, the author's intention is to

A. describe the situation of an executive without a secretary.

B. compare the duties of bosses and secretaries.
C. explain the differences between executives' and secretaries' jobs.
D. summarize the advantages of working without a secretary.
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George Frederick Handel is one of the most outstanding

composers of the Baroque period. He composed many
operas, but since he wasn't good at money management,
he went broke. He was well-known, though, due to his
vast cosmopolitan repertoire, including over fifty
offertories. It can be said that he was a German artist who
wrote Italian music with a French style for the English
people

The word though implies that

A. in spite of his great skill, he is still well-known.

B. somehow, Handel did a good deal of work.
C. he'd never have succeeded unless he had composed a lot of music.
D. despite his financial difficulties, his music was very successful during his own time

The expression he wasn't good at money management means that

A. Mr. Handel didn't have any financial ability.

B. Mr. Handel was financially terrific.
C. Mr. Handel was used to being in good financial condition.
D. Mr. Handel didn't have many financial resources

The sentence a German artist who wrote Italian music with a French style for the English
people is intended to

A. show the places he visited.

B. show how international his music was.
C. determine the origin of his music.
D. determine geographic influences on his music.