I – Listening (4ms)

A. Listen to the tape and tick (✓) the words you hear.
1. small 6. real 11. nice
2. comfortable 7. nervous 12. join
3. exciting 8. lively 13. wrote
4. mean 9. queen 14. interesting
5. 10. horrible 15. word
uncomfortable
B. Listen again and answer the question.
Who had the worst experience, speaker 1, speaker 2, or speaker 3? Why?
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II –  Choose the correct verb to fill in each blank. Circle A, B, C or D (3ms)

I am an old lawyer and I have three men working for me. My business continued to
grow and I decided to take one more man to help write legal papers. I (1)_________ a
great many people in my life, but the man who (2)_________ my advertisement was
the strangest person I (3)_________ of or met.

He stood outside my office and (4)_________ for me (5)_________. He was a small

man, quiet and (6)_________ in a clean but old suit. I asked him his name. It was
Bottlebie.

At first Bottlebie almost worked himself too hard (7)__________ the legal papers I
gave him. He worked through the day by sunlight and into the night by candlelight. I
was happy with his work but not happy with the way he worked. He was too quiet but
he worked well like a machine, never (8)_________, or speaking. One day, I asked
Bottlebie (9)_________ to my office to study a legal paper with me. Without
(10)_________ from his chair, Bottlebie said “I do not want to”. I sat for a short time,
too surprised (11)_________ . And I became (12)_________. “You do not want to?
What do you mean?”.
1. A. meet B. met C. has met D. have met
2. A. answer B. answered C. answering D. to answer
3. A. hear B. had heard C. have heard D. heard
4. A. wait B. waiting C. waited D. waits
5. A. speak B. speaking C. spoke D. to speak
6. A. dress B. dresses C. dressed D. was dressed
7. A. write B. writing C. writes D. wrote
8. A. look B. looks C. looking D. looked
9. A. come B. comes C. came D. to come
10. A. B. moved C. move D. to move
moving
11. A. B. moved C. move D. to move
moving
12. A. excite B. excited C. exciting D. to excite

III – Fill in each blank with up, on, for, to, from or with. (1m)

At the end of the street all could see a manger and some hay, the place where the trip
must end. The star they had followed shone down upon the manger and lit
(1)_______ strange light. Because it was only a small place, and because there were
so many (2)________ the party of the Kings, the shepherds stepped (3)________ one
side. They wanted the King and the gifts to go first. The oldest of the wise men saw
this and said “Come. Do not make yourselves small before us. Join us and come to
see the child. It doesn’t matter if we come from far or near, or if we are poor or rich,
we come (4)________ for the same reason. We should enter together. 

IV – There are four mistakes in the following paragraph. Identify the mistakes
and correct. (2ms)

He went into the house. His hands and feet were as cool as the snow outside. He put
his arms around his wife and kissed her. He had done a decision. He said, “Ida,
tonight, we are really going to eat and drink, no more saving. I want plenty of good.
I’m going to open that bottle of wine we’ve been keeping”. Ida’s eyes brightened.
Adam said, “There are people who has less than we do. Let us be happy with what we
have. 

1.____________ 2._________ 3.___________

4.______________

V – Read the following paragraph carefully and answer the questions (3ms)

He stood up and looked around again. If they swam out to sea, he could swim to the
shore before they could see him. He saw the sharks rolling and playing. Their hunger
was now gone. They were killing for fun. How could he make them move? He pulled
his knife from his belt. “Sharks can smell blood”, he thought. He put the knife against
his leg and cut deep into the flesh. The blood ran out. He caught it on his white shirt.
When the shirt was red and wet, he tied some cloth around his leg to stop the flow of
blood. He tied a long piece of cloth to the shirt, then walked to the edge of the sand.
He threw the shirt into the water and pulled it with the long piece of cloth. The sharks
smelt the blood. They came racing toward the shirt. He ran down the sand reef,
pulling the shirt. The sharks raced after it. He was leading them away from shore.
Suddenly, he dropped the cloth turning toward shore and ran as fast as he could. He
jumped into the water and swam. He was half way across when he turned to look
back. A high, bony fin was cutting through the water toward him. He put his face in
the water and kicked and pulled himself toward as fast as he could. The shore was
nearer but he thought of his belly under the water. How defenceless it was! He
thought of the flat nose of the shark hitting from below. He lifted his head again to
breathe. He saw the shore coming near. From behind he felt water rush toward him,
almost pushing him, helping him. He kicked and shouted, then a great grey body hit
him. It almost rolled him over in the water. He touched the shore with his fingers and
pulled himself up the stones. The shark, excited by the smell of blood and the chase,
went after him. Its great body crashed against the stones. It rolled and turned as it
dropped back into the water. The other sharks jumped on it. The end came quickly
when the shark’s blood turned the water red. The injured shark was eaten alive when
it tried to escape.

1. Would you do the sane if you were the man? Why?

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2. Did the shark catch the man’s leg and hurt it?
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3. Who killed the shark?
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VI – Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. (1m)

He had to go into the house alone that year because Seth had moved to another part of
the country. But John remembered everything his Indian friend taught him. He stayed
in Seth’s cabin, he hunted animals everyday of that long, lonely winter.
(1)____________ time, he stayed until the end of April. By (2)____________, he had
so many piece of fur that he had to leave his traps behind. The (3)____________ over
the river had melted when he reached it. He built a raft to (4)___________ him across
even though it took him an extra day.
 
VII – Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the
same as the one printed before it. (2ms)

1. We opened the last box.

🡢 The
2. He said to Jane, “Look at this small box, please.”
🡢He asked Jane
3. He is not your brother. You don’t support him.

🡢If he
4. She always trusts the man. He never trusts her.
🡢She always

VIII – Write a paragraph about one of your worst dream (150 words) (4ms)
When did you have it? Did you meet any one? What did you see? What frighten you
most? Did you run away? Did you cry? What did you do when you woke up?