Name :

Class : X
Teacher: Crisan Diana
Term Paper
-The first semester-

I . Complete the following sentences with the appropriate reflexive pronouns: (22 points)

1. Jane is a baby, she is too small to eat by ___________ .
2. The children solved the exercises by _____________ .
3. Michael’s dog cleans ______________ with its tongue .
4. Peter! Please come in and make ___________ at home .
5. My father managed to repair the car by____________.
6. We can move the sofa ______________ .
7. The girl looked at_________in the mirror.
8. I’ll introduce___________to my new boss.
9. Boys, can you make the beds__________?
10. She made____________ a yellow skirt.
11. They can do it ____________ .

II . Complete the second sentence by using should have or shouldn’t have . (20 points)

1. I didn’t do my homework yesterday. I___________________________________________ .

2. The teacher laughed during the test. The teacher____________________________________ .
3. Michael cried when a story was sad. Michael______________________________________ .
4. He lied to his mother. He______________________________________________________ .
5. Sarah didn’t answer her phone. Sarah_____________________________________________.

III . TRUE (T) or FALSE (F) ? Read the text carefully and then answer the questions: (18 points)

Just a few years ago, Scott was a schoolboy in Australia who hated reading and was failing English.
Now he is a successful journalist and author of young adult fiction. Scott says that he started writing when
he was about 13. His English teacher gave the class a task to write a 20-page story with three months to
complete it. Scott started work on the task and finished it in three days. But he realised he had only
written the beginning of a story, and over the next three months he continued to write. From that moment
on, he became addicted to writing and started writing another story.
Scott graduated from the University of Canberra with a degree in journalism, although he says that
he never really intended to become a journalist.’I wanted to study law, but didn’t get the results, so I
chose journalist instead. I don’t regret it; it was an absolutely fantastic course’, he says.

1. When he was a schoolboy, Scott had difficulties in passing his English tests. ____
2. Scott began to write when he became an adult. ____
3. The task given by his teacher consisted in writing a novel’s summary. ____
4. In the present time, Scott hates writing. _____
5. Scott was interested in studying law. _____
6. Scott always wanted to become a journalist. ______

IV . Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
has,at,their, despite,than, most, used, of, then, on, there. (30 points)

In Western Europe and the USA, family life 0) has changed dramatically over the last forty years. The
number of families that depend 1)_____ both parents going out to work, or where 2)________ is one
parent raising the children alone, is much greater than it 3)_______ to be. Also, many more people move
away from their families 4)_______ ever before. 5)___________ these changes, most people still think
6)________ their family as one of the most significant parts of 7)__________ lives.
A recent American survery showed that 8)_________ people think that spending time 9)_________
home is more important 10)_________ earning a high salary or having a challenging job.

+ 10 points