Pre-advanced 2 - Midterm test
SCORE
Name: ____________________________________________
Teacher’s name: _____________________________________
Group: __________________ Date: _____________________
LISTENING
1.
Listen and check the best option.
(Total: 5 points - 0.5 each correct answer)
a. Which of these did the woman imply?
She hated the new windows.
She was fired from her job.
She would have liked to help choose
the windows.
She was disappointed with the
man’s job.
b. Which of these did the man imply?
He did not care about her opinion, so he
bought the windows by himself.
He wanted to do something nice.
He thought the woman didn’t care about
the windows.
The installation is even easier than he
thought it would be.
c. Which of the following can be implied about
the job the man is doing?
He’s just as good as a professional.
It’s very easy.
It was harder than it had initially appeared
to be.
It was completed just in time to surprise
his wife.
d. What happened to the man?
He accidentally hit the carpenter with a
hammer.
He broke the new windows.
He hurt himself.
He broke his hand.
e. Why is the woman angry?
Because he could have been seriously
injured.
Because they can’t afford a carpenter.
Because she preferred the old windows.
Because he wants to have dinner.
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2. Reading
3. Language Use
4. Writing
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f. What did the woman suggest?
That they work together.
That he uses better tools.
That they hire a professional to do the job.
That he takes a carpentry course first.
g. What is the man’s point?
He cannot pay a professional.
He can do the job himself.
He is a trained carpenter.
He does not trust carpenters.
h. Which of the following is NOT true about the
woman?
She has full confidence in the man’s ability.
She’s mad because he does not listen to
her.
She’s afraid he’ll hurt himself again.
She knows the man can do lots of things
around the house.
i. Based on this conversation, which of the
following is true about the man?
He would not have been hurt if he had
listened to his wife.
He would have finished the job by now if
his wife hadn’t hurt him.
He is very flexible and always listens to his
wife.
He is very flexible and open to ideas.
j. What are they probably going to do later on?
Hire a carpenter.
Spend the carpenter money on a nice
meal.
Finish the job together.
Get new windows.
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READING
2.

Read this short biography of Michael Faraday and decide if the statements
are true (T) or false (F). (Total: 5 points - 0.5 each correct answer)

Michael Faraday: electricity’s true father
Think of every electric and electronic device you have.
They were only possible because a brilliant man discovered
how we can use, produce, and manipulate electricity and
magnetism back in the 19th century. Michael Faraday was
born on September 22, 1791 in South London. As a child,
he received only the most basic formal education, since
his family was very poor. When he was 14, he became the
apprentice of a bookbinder. During the next seven years, he
made books as a job during the day, and educated himself
by reading the same in his spare time. He was particularly
passionate about science. In 1812, Faraday attended
lectures by a chemist named Humphry Davy and was
absolutely amazed. Faraday took notes furiously during
these lectures and compiled them in a book he later gave
Davy. Faraday wanted to be a scientist and saw in Humphry
Davy someone who could help him. In 1813, when Davy
damaged his eyesight in an accident, he remembered the
young man who had given him a book, and decided to
employ Faraday to help him for a short period. Later that
year, Davy appointed him to the official job of chemical
had figured out how to make it happen continuously, as
a kind of motor. As a joke, he told Faraday to try to make
it work after he was done cleaning the lab.
The joke was on Davy: Faraday figured it out and
completed the experiment. The result was the first (still
primitive) electric motor. Faraday became an instant
celebrity in the science community, and Davy became
quite jealous of him. As a way to keep Faraday distant from
the public eye, and also to humiliate him, Davy assigned
Faraday an impossible task. At that time, Bavarian glass
was the best one in the world, and it was largely used
in microscopes and telescopes. Davy asked Faraday to
discover the secret glass-making process invented by
Josel Frauenhaufer, a brilliant Bavarian scientist. Faraday
never learned the secret, despite four years of effort and
repeated failures. In this time, he did almost no research
on electricity.
In 1929, fate intervened on Faraday’s behalf. Humphry
Davy died and Faraday stepped up to take his place. He
was finally free to choose the projects he wanted to
work on. Two years after Davy’s death, in 1831, he began

Adapted from www.wikipedia.com and www.latimes.com.

assistant at the Royal Institution.
Faraday’s main responsibility as an assistant was to help
Davy and other scientists with their experiments. Davy
was never very supportive of Faraday’s ideas, and he was
also target of prejudice because of his simple origins.
In the 19th century, most scientists came from rich and
noble families. One day Davy was trying to re-create
a famous electromagnetism experiment with fellow
chemist William Wollaston, wondering why applying an
electric current to a wire caused that wire to behave like a
magnet. Clearly the forces were connected. Davy wanted
to find a way to exploit this temporary effect to create
mechanical motion for practical applications, but nobody
a great series of experiments in which he discovered
electromagnetic induction. This discovery was the
breakthrough that years later would finally enable the
creation of generators and large-scale use of electricity.
What’s truly amazing is that Faraday did all this for the
simple need of satiating his scientific curiosity. He didn’t
have electric appliances in mind at all. One time Faraday
was visited by a delegation of government dignitaries.
He showed them his electric motors and other demos,
and one person said “This is all very interesting, but of
what possible use are these toys?” Faraday responded: “I
cannot say what use they may be, but I can confidently
predict that one day you will be able to tax them.”

a. If Michael Faraday hadn’t been curious about Science, he wouldn’t have been so successful.
b. Michael Faraday was home schooled.
c. Michael Faraday attended lectures by Humphry Davy.
d. When Davy decided to hire Faraday, he had already received the book he compiled.
e. Humphry Davy became Faraday’s greatest supporter.
f. By reading the text, we can assume that Faraday was never quite sure about the applications of
electricity.
g. Davy forced Faraday to work on glass making for years.
h. Faraday managed to find out Frauenhaufer’s secret.
i. By reading the text, we can assume that if Faraday had better formal education he would have been a
professional bookbinder.
j. Davy intended to make fun of Faraday but everybody ended up making fun of him.

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 LANGUAGE USE
3. Choose the option that best completes each space.
(Total: 5 points - 0.5 each correct answer)

a. If Michael Faraday hadn’t been such a A: And do you know what the problem is?
brilliant man, his humble background B: Almost. I think something [h] inside the
________ one of the greatest scientific power supply. It’s this little box at the back.
minds of his time. That’s why it won’t turn on.
might make him A: And can you fix the power supply?
could have transformed him into B: It’s not worth it, these things are cheap. I’ll
will certainly prevent him from just get a new one to replace this.
becoming
might have prevented him from f. by a professional yourself
becoming by yourself by you
b. Whenever there’s some problem with the g. I can get it done.
electrical installation at your place, the best
I can do it with myself.
thing to do is to ________ by a specialist.
I can’t do it.
check it have checked it
get it painted get it checked I can do this myself.

c. The first time I had to live ________, I h. must have burned

realized I had been very ungrateful with my must burn
parents. could burn
myself with myself had burned
to myself by myself
DIALOG 2
d. ________ electric light was first used in
houses, Michael Faraday had been long A: Where’s Mike?
dead. B: I thought he was with you. He hasn’t
At the time arrived yet.
By the time A: Strange… he’s always so punctual.
Something [i].
Just in time
B: I don’t think so. If something had
Once upon a time
happened, he [j] us.
e. Be careful with those tools. You may A: Maybe he couldn’t.
_______. B: Alright. So let’s give him a call and see if
hurt ourselves hurt yourself everything’s fine.
hurt herself hurt myself
i. must have happened
DIALOG 1 had happened
A: What are you doing? should have happened
B: I’m trying to fix my computer. will happen
A: Are you sure this is a good idea?
B: Yeah, why? j. will call
A: This looks complicated. Why don’t you should call
have it checked [f]? would have called
B: Nonsense. It’s not as difficult as it looks. [g] should have called

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WRITING
4.

Write about a turning point in your life.

(Total: 5 points)

Remember to include these elements in your piece of writing:

• what it was
• what happened
• how it happened (detail the sequence of events)
• when it happened
• how you were like at the time (if relevant)
• what you did and how you did it
• how your life would be if this had never happened

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