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1. The weather was so bad we'd have been off staying at home.
2. We were in a hurry so we had to make with a quick snack.
3. They voted in of the prohibition of smoking in public areas.
4. in mind that some of the children will need extra help.
5. He would and turn late into the morning before a big game.
6. She's over eighty now, but still as as a fiddle.
7. Potted plants always die with me. I'm afraid I haven't got green .
8. I'm all fingers and today. That's the second plate I've dropped
this morning.
9. I have no ambitions than to have a happy life and be free.
10. There was a great of applause when the dance ended.
11. One day, out of the , she announced that she was leaving.
12. Life is sad at , but it is up to you to make your own life happy.
13. The show was on the of being canceled due to low ratings.
14. The children were out in the playground letting off .
15.He was found of driving without due care and attention.
16. They've been trying to come to with what's happened ever
since.
17. I've offered to paint the kitchen in for a week's
accommodation.
18. His name's on the tip of my , but I just can't think of it.
19. I can’t work properly on an stomach.
X. Think of ONE word only which can be used approximately in all three
sentences.
It’s been a hard few months, but we’re finally beginning to see the
___________ at the end of the tunnel.
She had blue eyes and ___________ brown hair.
We searched around for twigs and fallen branches, so we could
___________ a fire.
Would you please ___________ your ticket to the man at the door?
Does anyone have a watch with a second ___________?
Don’t worry, help is at ___________!
While she was in France she developed a ___________ for fine wines.
XI. You are going to read a magazine article about Khan Academy, an online
project. For questions 1–5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think
fits best according to the text
This is exactly what happened to his cousin Nadia. Usually a straight-A student,
she had done poorly in a maths streaming test in sixth grade because she had failed
to understand one concept. This one test result, Khan says, might have harmed her
academic destiny. Nadia’s distraught mother turned to Khan for help. Khan tutored
her remotely over the phone and Nadia passed her retake with flying colours. Soon,
many more relations and friends wanted Khan’s help. Unable to handle the volume
of requests, at the suggestion of a friend, he started to record his lessons on video
and post them on YouTube. ‘At first I was dismissive,’ Khan says. ‘I thought
YouTube was for dogs on skateboards.’
Now Khan has more than 3,000 videos to his name, which are watched by nearly
three million unique users a month, via YouTube and his own website. His
friendly, avuncular style, coupled with his knack for making difficult concepts
seem simple, has helped children – and adults – all over the world move into the
fast track. He says his aim is to create ‘the world’s first free, world-class, virtual
school where anyone can learn anything’. Some teachers are wary of him, thinking
that he is trying to supplant them, but many more embrace his approach and have
started ‘flipping’ the classroom, encouraging students to watch Khan’s videos at
home and then tackling maths problems together in class.
You might expect a man with such influence to have state-of-the-art headquarters
but Khan’s premises are unprepossessing. Arriving at an unmarked red door,
sandwiched between a clothes shop and a Chinese restaurant, I decide I have the
wrong address – especially after ringing the bell for ten minutes with no response.
Eventually, I rouse someone on the telephone and the door is opened. When his
assistant shows me in, Khan appears at first to be slightly annoyed at this
interruption. Sitting on a leather swivel chair behind a heavy oak desk surrounded
by pictures of his wife – a doctor – and their two young children, he continues to
work for a few minutes. But once he warms up, it becomes clear that the initial
awkwardness is down to shyness, not rudeness. ‘I’m not very good when people
want to meet me,’ he says. ‘I want to hide a little bit.’
Khan believes that the rigidity of the school system is outdated and deadens a
child’s natural curiosity. ‘Aged one to four, kids are excited by anything new, they
want to figure it out, then all of a sudden, when they turn five, you start seeing
fewer curious kids, by nine or ten you see very few with any curiosity, and by
eighteen it’s very much the exception. Curiosity is just stamped out of them. I’m
convinced it’s indoctrination, not a genetic thing. Kids are herded together, the bell
rings, you’re rewarded for passivity, you’re rewarded for compliance, that’s what
keeps you moving through the system.’
Private school education makes little difference, he says. Nor does he believe that
student-teacher ratio is an issue. ‘The idea that smaller classes will magically solve
the problem of students being left behind is a fallacy. ’ As he points out, if a
teacher’s main job is lecturing to the students, it doesn’t really matter how many
students are in the classroom. What matters is the ‘student-to-valuable-human-
time-with-teacher’ ratio. What his videos do, Khan says, is free teachers up for
more personal interaction.
He thinks bigger classes with more teachers would provide a more creative
learning ground. In his ideal classroom there would be 75-100 students of widely
varying ages, with three or four teachers. Some students would be working at
computers; others would be learning economics through board games; others
would be building robots or designing mobile apps; others would be working on art
or creative writing. His dream is nothing short of revolutionary.‘
In 500 years I hope people look back and say, “Imagine, kids had to learn in
classrooms that were like factories and it was unheard of for an eight-year-old to
truly, deeply understand quantum physics. Isn’t that strange?
XII.There are 10 mistakes in the following text. Find and correct them.
Underline the mistakes and write the answers in the blanks provided.
2020 - A year we will never forget (31st December, 2020)
(1) For billion of people around the world, January the 1st, 2020 seemed like a
great day. It was the start of a year that sounded like science fiction - 2020. Many
people had great hopes for the year ahead. (2) Little knew what a rollercoaster ride
2020 would be and how the world would change. The year has been dominated by
the COVID-19 pandemic. (3) This has brought hundreds of thousands of deaths,
economical chaos, lockdowns and masked populations. (4) Other huge event was
the death of George Floyd at the hands of U.S. police in July. This sparked the
Black Lives Matter movement and global protests. (5) The year ended with Joe
Biden being voted in as the President-elect of the USA.
Different people will have different memories of 2020. (6) Our reporters asked
people around the world to tell us how they will remember 2020 for. Ahmed
Hussein from Lebanon said he would never forget the massive explosion at a
Beirut port in August that killed at least 190 people. (7) He said he thanked God
none of his family or friends were hurt, and was sad at the destruction of his city.
(8) Lucy Baxter, a nurse in the UK, said her happy moment came with the news of
the vaccines for COVID-19. (9) She said she could see light at the ending of a long
and dark tunnel. (10) Ayumi Miyamoto of Japan was saddened by the
postponement of the Tokyo Olympics but is happy they will go by in 2021. She
said 2021 would be a good year.
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