MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST
ELEMENTARY LEVEL
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READING COMPREHENSION AND WRITING
(90 minutes)
PAPER 1: READING COMPREHENSION
Section A: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
Blacken your choice.
1. When I see Barbara in the street, she always……. at me.
A. smiled B. has smiled
C. was smiling D. smiles
2."Who's in my bed?", the little bear asked.
A. sleep B. been sleep
C. been sleeping D. been slept
3. She told me I would have an accident if I …… more care.
A. am not taking B. haven't taken
C. won't take D. didn't take
4. It's a lovely day, but I … staying at home with you.
A. don't mind B. haven't mind
C. am not minding D. wasn't minding
5. Several people were hurt in the accident but only one …….
to hospital.
A. has taken B. has been taking
C. was taken D. was taking
6. The doctor showed the nurse ……. to do.
A. what B. that C. how D. as
7. "You're late," he said. "I think the bus …… already."
A went B. was going C. has gone D. goes
8. You should have some ice-cream when you …… your

A. so B. enough C. too D. not
20. They keep the dog …… so that it will not bite anybody.
A. in chain B. unchained
C. chained up D. to be chained
Section B: In this section you mil find after the passage five questions, each with four suggested answers. You
must choose one which you think fits best. Blacken your choice.
THE EVILS OF SMOKING
Last Thursday an old man came to our school to talk about the evils
of smoking. He said he wouldn't talk for too long, and we saw him take his
watch off and lay it on the table. I can't remember what he said about
smoking because John and I had other things to think about. He
finished when the bell rang for break, and the headmaster told us to go out.
John happened to slip when he was passing the teacher's table.
In the playground John showed me the watch. He put it on his wrist,
and it looked lovely. I was wishing that I'd been the one to slip by the
table, because it was a beautiful gold watch. The headmaster came
outside then, and the old man was with him. They walked about, looking
around and talking all the time. After a bit the bell rang, and we came into
our class again.
The headmaster said, "I've got a little job for you, boys. This
gentleman, our lecturer, has lost his watch in the playground. It has
happened before, he says - it just slips off his wrist. So look around for it,
will you? See if you are clever enough to find it. The boy who can find it will
get a useful reward."
Well, of course we all walked about the playground, looking for the
watch. And I wasn't surprised at all when John bent down as if he was
picking something up. Then he hurried past me towards the headmaster
and the old man.
"Where are you going?" I called out, though I knew very well where
he was going. And the next minute John was smiling, handing over the

C. It was to encourage the boys to find the watch.
D. The watch was a valuable one, so a reward was necessary.
25.When John "bent down", what was he trying to do?
A. He had to bend down in order to pick up the watch.
B. He was trying to hide the fact that he had found the watch
C. The watch had slipped off his wrist, and he was trying to pick it
up.
D. He was pretending to have found the watch in the playground.
PAPER 2: USE OF ENGLISH
Section A: Passage foe Gap-fill
Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage by a word chosen from the list. Use ONLY
ONE word in each space.
abruptly as because benefit discharge
exhaust garbage gradually individuals or
protects provide purity require too
by amount pollutes give can
people
Everyone wants to reduce pollution but the pollution problem is too (26) complicated
as it is serious. It is complicated B/.C. .(27) much pollution is caused by (28) things that
benefit people. For example, exhaust (29) from cars causes a large amount (30) of all air
pollution. But the cars benefit (31) transportation for millions of people. Factories discharge (32)
much of the material that polutes.(33) air and water, but factories provide (34) employment
to a large number of people.
Thus, to end or (35) greatly reduce pollution immediately, people (36) would
have to stop using many things that give (37) them. Most people do not want to do that, of
course, but pollution can be gradually. . (38) reduced in several ways. Scientists and engineers
can work to find ways to lessen the amount of pollution that such things as cars and factories
cause. Governments can pass and enforce laws that require (39) businesses and individuals (40)
to stop, or to cut down on certain polluting activities.
Section B: Guided sentence building

schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor hi Philadelphia. So determined was she, that she taught school
and gave music lessons to earn money for her tuition
hi 1849, after graduation from medical school, she decided to further her education in Paris. She
wanted to be a surgeon, but a serious eye infection forced her to abandon the idea.
Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was
a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another female doctor, managed to
open a new hospital, the first for women and children. Besides being the first female physician and founding
her own hospital, she also established the first medical school for women.
51. Why couldn 't Elizabeth realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?
A. She couldn't get admitted to medical school.
B. She decided to further her education in Paris.
C. A serious eye infection prevented her.
D. It was difficult for her to start practice in the US.
52. What main reason almost destroyed Elizabeth's chances for becoming a doctor?
A. She was a woman.
B. She wrote too many letters.
C She couldn't graduate from medical school.
D She couldn't establish her hospital.
53. How many years passed between her graduation from medical school and the opening of her
hospital?
A. 8 B. 10 C. 19 D.36
54. When Elizabeth became a doctor, she was
A. 21 years old B. 49 years old C. 28 years old D. 31 years old
55. All of the following are "firsts" in the life of Elizabeth Blackwell, except:
A. She became the first female physician
B She was the first woman surgeon
C. She and several other women founded the first hospital for women and children
D She established the first medical school for women