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‫نيابة شؤون الطالب‬

)‫ م (مادة اللغة اإلجنليزية‬2019 – 2018 ‫اختبار القبول للعام اجلامعي‬

SECTION 1: READING (QUESTIONS 1-10)

Read the following passage, and then answer all the questions about it.
Susan and Sam are different in many ways. Susan is tall and thin. Sam is short and heavy.
Susan has blonde hair and blue eyes. Sam has dark hair and brown eyes. Susan is a quiet kind
person . She can work for hours alone in the laboratory. Sam loves to talk and meat people. He
can talk for hours with his patients.
But Susan and Sam think the same way about many things. They both care a lot about
their children and their home. They care about their work and their town. They both like to go
to the seaside in the summer. At the seaside, Susan reads mystery books and Sam goes fishing.
The neighbors take care of their pets and their yard back in Rosebud.
Usually, they are happy to come home to Rosebud. But sometimes they think about
traveling to other parts of the world. They want to visit new places and have new experiences.
They went to Hawaii once, after they were married. But that was 30 years ago!
‟ We're not getting any younger! ” Sam often says to Susan.
‟ You're right, ” says Susan. ‟Let’s go somewhere next year. Not now. We're too busy .
1. This passage is about _____________.
(A) how Susan and (B) Susan and Sam's life (C) Susan and Sam's (D why Susan and Sam want to
Sam are different together vacation. travel.
2. Susan and Sam

(A) look the same (B) both like to work alone (C) are both tall and thin (D) look different

3. Sam likes to
(A) work by himself. (B) work in a laboratory (C) listen to his patients (D) meet people and talk.
4. Susan and Sam both care about
(A) fishing at the
(B) different things (C) the same things (D) going to Hawaii.
seaside
5. In the summer, Susan and Sam
(B) visit their children (C) travel around the (D) take care of their house.
(A) got to the seaside
world
6. Susan and Sam are usually
(A) at the seaside (B) unhappy in Rosebud (C) happy in Rosebud (D) away from home

7. Someday they would like to

(A) visit new places (B) get married (C) go to Hawaii (D) stay home
8. They can’t go away now because they are
(A) too young. (B) too busy (C) too old (D) married
9. The underlined pronoun They in the second paragraph refers back to
(A) people (B) Ted and Kate (C) Sam and Susan (D) patients
10. The opposite of the underlined word younger in the third paragraph is ______________.
(A) happier (B) older (C) smaller (D) colder

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 SECTION 2: VOCABULARY (QUESTIONS 11-15)
Choose the best answer ( A, B ,C, or D)

11. Light is a form of ______________.

(A) power (B) energy (C) reflection (D) electricity
12. ____________ is created by something vibrating.
(A) Sound (B) light (C) reflection (D) refraction
13. A ______________ is powerful storm with strong winds.
(A) volcano (B) hurricane (C) forest (D) mystery
14. An ___________ is an illness that spreads quickly and affect many people.
(A) disaster (B) epidemic (C) eruption (D) crust
15. A ___________ is a shortage of food.
(A) drought (B) epidemic (C) flood (D) famine

SECTION 3: GRAMMAR AND USAGE (QUESTIONS 16-25)

(A) Choose the correct answer to complete the dialogue .
16. One of the least effective ways of storing information is learning ____________ it.
(A) repeated (B) repeating (C) to repeat (D) repeat
17. We __________ dinner in Venice on our vacation last year.
(A) eat (B) ate (C) are eating (D) have eaten

18. If light strikes a rough surface, it_____________.

(A) will diffuse (B) is diffusing (C) diffuse (D) would diffuse
19. You won't get well unless you _____________your medicine.
(A) will take (B) would take (C) is taking (D) take
20. These books should ________ to the library today.
(A) be returned (B) returning (C) return (D) returned

(B) What Parts of Speech are the underlined words ( Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb)
21. A farmer uses a plough to turn up the soil.
(A) Noun (B) Verb (C) Adjective (D) Adverb
22. This is a very easy test.
(A) Noun (B) Verb (C) Adjective (D) Adverb

23. He drinks 5 bottles of water

(A) Noun (B) Verb (C) Adjective (D) Adverb

24. Saleh drives fast.

(A) Noun (B) Verb (C) Adjective (D) Adverb

25. The students did their best in the exams.

(A) Noun (B) Pronoun (C) Adjective (D) Adverb
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