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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur ‫وزارة التــعليم العالي والبحث العلمي‬
et de la Recherche scientifique ‫جامعــة تونس المنـــار‬
Université de Tunis El Manar ‫معهـــد بـورقيبة للغات الحيـــة‬
Institut Bourguiba des langues vivantes

INSTITUT BOURGUIBA DES LANGUES VIVANTES

SEMESTRIAL EXAM
2023

TEST PAPER
B2
NAME : GROUP :

GRADE : / 45

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur ‫وزارة التــعليم العالي والبحث العلمي‬
et de la Recherche scientifique ‫جامعــة تونس المنـــار‬
Université de Tunis El Manar ‫معهـــد بـورقيبة للغات الحيـــة‬
Institut Bourguiba des langues vivantes

PART 2 LANGUAGE 30 pts

TASK 1: Put the bracketed words in the correct tense / form (5 marks)

Mary had the chance to go to New York last week, but she almost missed the plane. She (stand)
----------------------------------in the queue at the check-in desk when she suddenly (realise)
-------------------------that she (leave) ------------------------------her passport at home. Fortunately, she
(not/live) ----------------------------very far from the airport, so she had time to take a taxi home to get
it. She got back to the airport just in time for her (fly) -----------------------------.

Mary (always/ dream) -------------------------------------of visiting New York City during the Christmas
season. She said to herself that she had to enjoy the wonderful (decorate) ---------------------- in the
city during Christmas. There were plenty of these all over the place. Many people
(enjoy)----------------------------themselves while they were ice skating.
(Remarkable) ,-------------------------------- no one seemed to be bothered by the freezing cold or
worried about their own (secure) ------------------------------ .

TASK 2: Put the verbs between brackets in the right form. [7points]

a. We have our accounts ________________ [check] every month.

b. I had the mechanic ________________ [change] the oil in my car.
c. I'm getting a specialist cleaner's ________________ [clean] my jacket.
d. A new James Bond movie________________ [film] at the moment.
e. Famous people should expect________________ [photograph] when they go out in public.
f. Your hair looks a bit too long. Why don’t you ________________ it ________________[cut]?
g. Do you mind if friends turn up at your home without ________________( call) first?

TASK 3: Complete the sentences using the correct form of the words in CAPITALS. (6
points)
1. Memories involving deep emotions can survive ______________ amnesia. CHILD
2. Tania was so astonished that she couldn’t grasp the full ____________ of what he had said.
SIGNIFY
3. There is a strong _____________________ that interest rate will rise once again. POSSIBLE
4. None of the reports gave an accurate ____________________ of the facts. REPRESENT
5. We encountered fierce __________________ in the opening stages of the tournament.
COMPETE
6. When you take a job, you're making a __________________ to show up and do the job well.
COMMIT
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur ‫وزارة التــعليم العالي والبحث العلمي‬
et de la Recherche scientifique ‫جامعــة تونس المنـــار‬
Université de Tunis El Manar ‫معهـــد بـورقيبة للغات الحيـــة‬
Institut Bourguiba des langues vivantes

TASK 4: Circle the correct alternative. (6 points)

1- The disease can be controlled / checked / treated with medication and a strict diet.
2- The affection / affects / influence of the anaesthetic wore off after a couple of hours.
3- He was asked to manage / control / monitor a new department.
4- Barbara started a course at college, but she went out / dropped out / fell out after six
months.
5- Paris is always full of tourists, specially / especially / special in the summer.
6- We must never lose / loose / loosen sight of the fact that man must work in harmony with
nature.

TASK 5: Fill in the gaps with words from the box below. There is one extra item: (6 points)

aside - to - of - around - away - from - as

1- Chris was completely broke as he had frittered ____________ all his money. He spent his last
million on a lame horse that never won a race.
2- The Minister for Education decided that £130 million would be set __________ for repairs to
schools.
3- Scientists are puzzled ____________ to why the new variant of corona virus has spread so
rapidly.
4- “Have you ever been to Bora Bora?” “No, I’ve never heard ____________it. Where is it?”
5- That kind of thing doesn’t appeal _______________ my sense of humour.
6- Minority languages can be prevented _______________becoming extinct by making them a
compulsory subject in schools.

PART 3 LISTENING 15 pts

Task 1: Write whether each statement is true or false. (5 points)

___________ As a child, Richard used to dream about falling down.
___________ He had an accident when he was six.
___________ He was forced to get around in a wheelchair.
___________ He was in Britain when he had a revelation.
___________ Richard can now walk.

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur ‫وزارة التــعليم العالي والبحث العلمي‬
et de la Recherche scientifique ‫جامعــة تونس المنـــار‬
Université de Tunis El Manar ‫معهـــد بـورقيبة للغات الحيـــة‬
Institut Bourguiba des langues vivantes

Task 2: Here is some gapped lines excerpted from the listening passage, listen again and fill in the
blanks with the right prepositions/ adverbs you hear (4 points)

I had to be lifted up …………… the sink. An accident with a runaway truck when I was four had
mangled my left leg, leaving scars that stood ………….., puckered white ………………… my skin.
Looking at the largest of my scars in the mirror, I imagined that it was an eagle. It wasn't fair,
I thought. I had an eagle on my leg but I couldn't fly. I could ……..…… walk, and the crutches
hurt my arms.

Task 3: Answer the following questions. (4 points)

a- What did Richard dream about when he was a young boy?
_______________________________________________________________________________
b- What happened to Richard when he was a young boy?
_____________________________________________________________________________
c- What was the revelation that Richard had?
______________________________________________________________________________
d- What lessons had Richard drawn from his experience?
_____________________________________________________________________________

Task 4: match these words from the audio script with their respective definitions ( 2 marks)
a- Compassion + …….. 1. Insight, discovery
b- Scars + …….. 2. Marks left on skin from a cut or wound
c- Perseverance +………… 3. A strong feeling of sympathy for a creature who is suffering
d- Revelation +……… 4. Determination to keep trying

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur ‫وزارة التــعليم العالي والبحث العلمي‬
et de la Recherche scientifique ‫جامعــة تونس المنـــار‬
Université de Tunis El Manar ‫معهـــد بـورقيبة للغات الحيـــة‬
Institut Bourguiba des langues vivantes

Dreams of flying and overcoming obstacles

When I was little, I dreamed I was flying. Each night I was up in the air, though never over
the same landscape. Sometimes, in the confusion of early morning, I would wake up thinking
it was true, and I'd leap off my bed, expecting to soar out of the window. Of course, I always
hit the ground, but not before remembering that I had been dreaming. I would realize that
no real person could fly, and I'd collapse on the floor, crushed by the weight of my own
limitations. Eventually, my dreams of flying stopped. I think I stopped dreaming completely.

After that, my earliest memory is of learning to count to one hundred. After baths my
mother would perch me on the sink and dry me as I tried to make it to one hundred without
a mistake. Whenever I got lost, she'd stop me and make me start all over again from the
beginning. I never got bored and I never got frustrated, though I think maybe she did. I'd just
keep trying until I got it right or my mother got bored.

I had to be lifted up onto the sink. An accident with a runaway truck when I was four had
mangled my left leg, leaving scars that stood out, puckered white against my skin. Looking at
the largest of my scars in the mirror, I imagined that it was an eagle. It wasn't fair, I thought.
I had an eagle on my leg but I couldn't fly. I could hardly walk, and the crutches hurt my
arms.

Years later, in Venice, I had the closest thing to a revelation I can imagine. Sitting on the
rooftop of the Cathedral of San Marco, I wasn't sure what life had in store for me. I was up
on a ledge, in between the winged horses that overlooked San Marco square. To the left, the
Grand Canal snaked off into the sea, where the sun cast long, crimson, afternoon shadows
across the city. Below me, in the square, pigeons swirled away from the children chasing
them and swooped down onto a tourist who was scattering dried corn. Somewhere in the
square a band was playing Frank Sinatra. It was "Fly Me to the Moon", I think.

Up on the roof of the Cathedral, it seemed to me the pieces of my life suddenly fell together.
I realized that everybody is born with gifts, but we all run into obstacles. If we recognize our
talents and make the best of them, we've got a fighting chance to overcome our obstacles
and succeed in life. I knew what my gifts were: imagination and perseverance. And I also
knew what my first obstacle had been: a runaway truck on a May morning with no
compassion for preschoolers on a field trip. But I knew that the obstacles weren't
impossible. They could be overcome. I was proof of that, walking.

That night, for the first time in years, I dreamed I was flying. I soared through the fields of
Italy, through the narrow winding streets of Venice and on beyond the Grand Canal, chasing
the reddening sun across the sea. I woke up sure that it was true.

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur
et de la Recherche scientifique
Université de Tunis El Manar
Institut Bourguiba des langues vivantes
‫وزارة التــعليم العالي والبحث العلمي‬
‫جامعــة تونس المنـــار‬
‫معهـــد بـورقيبة للغات الحيـــة‬

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