Written Test 150 minutes.
(School year 2005- 2006)
I- Circle the word whose sound of the underlined parts is pronounced differently from that
of the others (2.0 ps)
1. A. feat B. great C. seat D. beat
2. A. cost B. post C. roast D. toast
3. A. bear B. beer C. dear D. fear
4. A. laugh B. plough C. enough D. cough
5. A. Valentine B. imagine C. discipline D. magazine
6. A. chorus B. cherish C. chaos D. scholar
7. A. three B. thank C. think D. father
8. A. measure B. pleasure C. treatsure D. ensure
9. A. absent B. present C. descent D. recent
10. A. pudding B. put C. puncture D. pull
II- Give the correct form of each verb in brackets ( 2.0 ps)
1. A violin (1. sell)................ yesterday at Christie’s for $902,000. The violin owned by the
Mendelssohn family (2. make)............... in 1720, and because of its color, it (3. know) ..............
as the “ Red Strad”.
2. In its years in the Mendelssohn family, it (4. play ) .............very little, except by amateurs,
but its beautiful tones (5. demonstrate)................ by oa Japanese violinist before the auction
yeaterday.
3. Peter couln’t understand what had been decided because too many people (6. talk) ...............
at once.
4. If I (7. have).............. enough money, I’ll buy a new car.
5. She (8. tell) ............... to leave by my mother for a week.
6. I wish you ( 9. not/ criticize).............. Denis behimd his back all the time. He’s not so bad.
I’d rather he ( 10. become) .............mu son-in-law than Kevin.
III - Circle the word or phrase which best completes each sentense (2.0 ps)
1. Having checked the man carefully, the doctor let him.....................
A. to go back to work B. going back to work
C. to go back working D. go back to work

be cut, leaving the young ones to grow biger. Trees and shrubs are also need to preserve land
because of their roots bind the soil, preventing heavy rain from wash the soil away.
V.Complete each sentence with an appropriate form of each word in BLOCK CAPITAL (2.0
ps)
1. They are having their house................... ( REPAIR)
2. She is not interested in.........................(WRITE)
3. He felt very............................. when he saw he had failed the exam again. (COURAGE)
4. Children’s books now are generally....................(EDUCATION)
5. It’s the most ................ film I’ve ever seen. (FRIGHTEN)
6. It’s very....................... to live in a damp room. (HEALTH)
7. Her performance was......................... wonderful. ( SURPRISE)
8. You shouldn’t leave..................... things on car seats in full view of people walking pass ?
(VALUE)
9. His writing is so bad. He doesn’t write ......................... (CAREFUL)
10. Is she ........................ ? She had better do morning exercises. (WEIGHT)
VI- Read the information in the box carefully, and then circle the best answer to complete
each sentence (2.0 ps)
Country Area Population Climate Avarage
temperature
Egypt
1.002.000 km
2
46.000.000 Hot and dry
(Cairo)
Jan: 8 to 18
0
July: 21 to 36
0

C

117.884.000 Hot in summer,
cold in winter
(Tokyo)
Jan: -2 to 8
0
C
July: 22 to 30
0
C
1.978.000 km
2
68.000.000 Very hot in low (Mexico City)
2
Mexico parts and warm
in high parts
Jan: 6 to 19
0
C
May: 12 to 26
0
C
Saudi Arabia
2.150.000 km
2
8.367.000 Very hot and
dry
(Riyadh)
Jan: 8 to 21
0
C

A. Finland B. Egypt C. Saudi Arabia
VII/ Fill in each numbered space with suitable words given in the box ( 2.0ps)
dangerous, difficult, impossible, talk, top, thick, saying, what, in, world, reach,
when.
We often hear people (1) ................ that the world is getting smaller. They don’t really
mean that the world is getting smaller, of course. (2) ................ they mean that with mordern
means of transport, we can now (3)................... every part of the world very quickly. We can
across from New York to Paris (4) .............. less than 4 hours in the Concorde, and helicopters
can now be used to explore mountains and valleys that were (5) .............. to explore on foot.
There used to be a time when many parts of the world had never seen or visited by people. The
great forests of Brazin are so (6)................ that in some places it is (7)................. to walk
through them. Mount Everest, the (8) ....................’s highest mountain was for a long time
through to be too (9) ....................... to climb. But in 1953, a New Zealander called Edmand
Hilary with his Nepanlese guider, Tenzing, reached the (10) ................ of Mount Everest.
Your answers :
1.......................................................... 6....................................................
2......................................................... 7....................................................
3......................................................... 8....................................................
4........................................................ 9...................................................
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VIII/ Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning (2.0ps)
1. My village no longer has bridge made of wood.
-> There used .............................................................................................................
2. He bought that house ten years ago.
-> He has ....................................................................................................................
3. They didn’t accept any of the applicants for the job.
-> None ......................................................................................................................
4. The article was both interesting and informative, you know.
-> The article was not only.........................................................................................

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