PRE-ADVANCED

CHECK YOUR PROGRESS III

I. READ THE FOLLOWING SITUATIONS AND CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION

ON THE ANSWER SHEET.

 You need to password-protect your phone and computer in case

someone____________________ them and steals all your information.
1.-. a) breaks into
b) breaks in
c) breaks

 Wikipedia is a really useful tool for ___________________ information

about lots of different subjects .
2.- a) looking for
b) looking up
c ) looking at

 Be careful what you put online-some websites will sell you personal data
to_________________________ .
3- a) third parties
b) discussion forums
c) search engines
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
 Snapchat is a fun messaging app that is used to send photos and videos to
your friends and ___________________________ is following you.
4.- a) whoever
b) however
c) whatever

 It`s unique that____________________you post ,it only lasts a short

5- a) whoever
b) however
c) whatever

amount of time before disappearing forever.

 Have you ever wanted to _____________________ yourself from the web?

6.- a) delete
b) disappear
c) defend

 Has your online privacy ever been ________________ ?

7.- a) evaded
b) invaded
c) avoided

Have you ever friended someone with a _______________ social media profile?l
8) a) unreal
b) vulnerable
c) fake

.
 You shouldn’t have posted that photo .That photo_______________________.
9.- a) shouldn’t have posted
b) shouldn’t have been posted
c) should post

 My hair was cut last week. Last week I __________________________ .

10.- a) had my hair cut
b) cut my hair
c) was cut my hair

 I am uploading the files .The files________________.

11- a) are being uploaded
b) are uploaded
c) have uploaded

 I deleted my profile. My profile _________________________ .

12.- a) was deleted
b) has deleted
c) will be deleted

 He will be arrested. The police _____________him.

13-a)will be arrested
b) have arrested
c) will arrest

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

 Cosmopolitan , the leading magazine for women ,once tried to sell

yoghurt ,but it_____________ to impress customers .
14.- a) lacked
b) flopped
c) failed

 Dr. Pepper promised ‘a free soda for all’ if Guns N’ Roses released a long-
awaited album before the end of the year. The plan_____________
15- a) lacked
b) backfired
c) flopped
when the band managed to do so, costing Dr Pepper millions.

 In the late 1980s , Pepsi came up with the idea to produce a clear cola
called Crystal Pepsi, but the idea was never ________________ .
16- a) caught on
b) lacked
c) failed
  Do you want __________________ice cream?,
17a) other
b) another
c) the others

 Some________________person might want to buy your ticket.

18-a) other
b) another
c) the other

 Do you prefer this song or _________________?

19.a) other one
b) some other
c) the other one

 We bought our tickets online _________________avoid waiting in line .

20-a) in order to
b) since
c) so that

 In a rock band , the lead singer is usually the most high-profile member
________________they get the most attention, ______________they often
21-a)since 22-a)since
b)due to b)as
c)because of c)so

make more money than the others to through magazine covers and sponsorship
deals.
Other band members can feel left out_______________the fact that they are less
23) a)because of
b) due to
c)in order to
prominent and more in the background .There is ,however ,one advantage to this,
______________they can lead a more private life ,whereas the lead singer often
24) a) due to
b) because
c)as
feels they have to wear a disguise or dark glasses________________go out
25) a) so
b) in order to
c) because
unnoticed and to escape the flashlight bulbs of the paparazzi.
READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE. THEN READ THE SENTENCES, CHOOSE THE
CORRESPONDING CHOICES AND CIRCLE THE RIGHT OPTION ON THE ANSWER
SHEET

WHAT TRUE EDUCATION SHOULD DO

By Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J.Harris (1917-1986) was a writer for major newspapers in Chicago, Illinois.
His syndicated column “Strictly personal”, was published weekly throughout the
United States and in several other countries.

When most people think of the word “education”, they think of a pupil as a sort of
animate sausage casing. Into this empty casing, the teachers are supposed to stuff
“education”.

But genuine education as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not
inserting the stuffings of information into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge
from him, it is a drawing out of what is in the mind.

“The most important part of education”, once wrote William Ernest Hocking, the
distinguished Harvard philosopher, “Is the instruction of a man in what he has
inside of him”.

And, as Edith Hamilton has reminded us, Socrates never said, “I know, learn from
me”. He said, rather “Look into your own selves and find the spark of truth that God
has put into every heart, and that only you can kindle to a flame”.

In the dialogue called the “Meno”, Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a
day of schooling, and proves to the amazed observers that the boy really “knows
geometry, because the principles and axioms of geometry are already in his mind,
waiting to be called out.

So many of the discussions and controversies about the content of education are
futile and inconclusive because they are concerned with what should “go into” the
student rather than with what should be taken out and how this can best be done.

The college student who once said to me, after a lecture, “I spend so much time
studying that I don’t have a chance to learn anything”, was succinctly expressing
his dissatisfaction with the sausage-casing view of education.

He was being so stuffed with miscellaneous facts, with such an indigestible mass of
material that he had no time and was given no encouragement) to draw on his own
resources to use his own mind for analyzing and synthesizing and evaluating this
material.

Education, to have any meaning beyond the purpose of creating well-informed

dunces, must elicit from the pupil what is latent in every human being, the rules of
reason, the inner knowledge of what is proper for men to be and do, the ability to
sift evidence and come to conclusions that can generally be assented to by all open
minds and warm heats.

Pupils are more like oysters than sausages. The job of teaching is not to stuff them
and then seal them up but to help them open and reveal the riches within. There are
pearls in each of us. If we only knew how to cultivate them with ardor and
persistence
1.- For most people, education means:

a) providing students with a lot of knowledge

b) training people to manage in real life
c)getting very good grades.

2.- William E. Hocking believes that the basis of all education lies:

a) on the ability teachers have to communicate their knowledge.

b) on the ability students have to get such a knowledge.
c) on what the individual processes inside his mind.

3.- With the slave boy, Socrates wanted to prove that:

a) schooling makes all the difference

b) making our minds work is what counts.
c) attending classes in not relevant.
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4.- In the passage, A SORT OF ANIMATE SAUSAGE CASING refers to

a) food packing
b) the knowledge receiver
c) the instructor

5. - In the passage, TO STUFF means:

a) to observe
b) to empty
c) to fill