THE FIRST- SEMESTER EXAMINATION
Time allowed: 60 MINUTES
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the
others.
1. a. around b. mouse c. count d. country
2. a. mechanic b. achievement c. chemistry d. school
3. a. cut b. fun c. pull d. button
4.a. camera b. famous c. glad d. family
5. a. seat b. leave c. increase d. ready
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
6. a. computer b. important c. viagers d. condition
7. a. television b. community c. atmosphere d. damage
8. a. documentary b. recommend c. photography d. information
9.a. channel b. cartoon c. headline d. popular
10. a. persuade b. relax c. research d. export
III. Choose the word or phrase – a, b, c, or d - that best completes each sentence.
11. Yesterday, when I at the station, the train for 15 minutes.
a. arrived/ had left b. arrived/ left c. had arrived/ left d. arrived/ has
left
12. Would you mind me a hand with these bags?
a. give b. to give c. giving d. to giving
13. When I was a child I fishing with my father on Sunday mornings.
a. went b. had gone c. used to
g
o d. was used to going
14. Marie Curie harbored the dream of a career which was impossible for a
woman at that time.
a. scientist b. scientific c. science d. scientifically
15. The meeting had been cancelled the chairman's absence.
a. because b. because of c. in spite of d although
16. My favorite at school was mathematics.

A B C D.
30. Even though the extremely bad weather in the mountains, my friends decided not to
cancel their
A B
C
trip across the mountain pass.
D
V. Choose the correct sentence - a, b, c or d which has the same meaning to the
given one.
31. My mother never allows me to go out alone at night.
a. I was not allowed to go out alone at night.
b. My mother never lets me go out alone at night.
c. My mother never goes out alone at night.
d. I usually go out with my mother at night.
32. We haven't been to the concert for two years.
a. The last time we went to the concert was two years ago.
b. It's two years since we went to the concert.
c. We didn't go to the concert two years ago.
d. Both a and b are correct.
33. Although they were very poor, the children seemed happy.
a. The children seemed unhappy-because they were very poor.
b. The children were very poor,- so they seemed happy.
c. Despite their poverty, the children seemed happy.
d. The children seemed happy whether they were poor or rich.
34. He used to travel around the country doing gigs.
a. He liked traveling around the country to do gigs
b. He no longer travels around the country doing gigs.
c. He was accustomed to traveling around the country doing gigs.
d. He never travels around the country doing gigs.
35. Don't forget to go to the supermarket after work.

41. a. positive b. negative c. careless d. trivial
42. a. possible b. impractical c. likely d. impossible
43. a. accessing, b. approaching c. entering d. getting
44. a. disease b. program c. virus d. software
45. a. so b. moreover c. therefore d. yet
VII. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
Galileo Galilei, one of the first modern scientists, was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564.
About twenty years later he attended the University of Pisa. At first he studied
philosophy, but later he studied mathematics and astronomy. He was interested in the
way the earth and other planets move around the sun. He made the telescope, which made
far-away things look larger and easier to examine. He also started the new way of
working in science. Before Galileo; scientists did not do experiments. They just guessed
about how something happened. Galileo was different. He did not just make guesses. He
did experiments and watched to see what happened.
Galileo was famous for his study of how things fall. He was the first person to do
experiments about this problem. Before, people thought that heavy things always fell
faster than light things. He found out that this was not true. He took a heavy ball and a
light ball and he dropped them both from a high place. They fell at the same speed. This
meant that weight is not important. This is the law of failing bodies. it is an important law
for understanding our world.
The life of the scientist was not always easy in the 1500s. For example, Galileo got
into trouble because of his scientific ideas. His ideas were not the same as the religious
ideas at the time. Many religious people did not agree with him. During his whole life he
had to worry about this. He even went to -prison for a while. But no one could stop him
from thinking: He continued to look for scientific answers to his questions about the
world.
46. Galileo Galilei studied all of the following EXCEPT
a. philosophy b. mathematics
c. astronomy d. experiments
47. Galileo started a new way of working in science in which