الخميس، 14 مارس 2013

Test on Unit 12 - Festivals and Folk Music

Test on Unit 12 -  Festivals and Folk Music

A- Language Functions
1- Respond to the following situations:
1- You would like to find out what music your friend likes. What do you say?
2- A friend asks you what sort of music you enjoy.
3- You want to find out if your friend plays a musical instrument.
4- A friend asks you whether there is any sort of music you don't like.

2- Say Mention the place , the speakers and the language function in each of the following two mini-dialogues:  
A: Look there, that is an African elephant.        place :
B: It's the largest land animal today.                 speaker A :
A: I see, and what does it feed on?                  speaker B :
B: Leaves, branches and other vegetation.      function :

1- A: Can you tell our viewers how you have achieved         place
     all this success?                                                              speaker A :
     B: Through hard work and sleepless nights.                   speaker B :
                                                                                             function :
B- Vocabulary and Structure
3- Choose the correct answer:
1- If I were you, I'd avoid (travels – to travel - travelling – of travelling) into the city during the festival.
2- My parents suggested (go - going – to go – gone) to the theatre.
3- I really want (going – gone – goes - to go) to Hong Kong for the Chinese New Year.
4- Before you go to London, you should practise (speak – speaking – to speaking – speaks) English.
5- He hopes (to win – winning – wins – won) a prize for his schoolwork.
6- I regret (to go – goes - going – gone) to the cinema. It was not a very good film.
7- She offered (taking  to taking – to take – taken) me to the station in her car.
8- We've just finished (watching – to watch – watches – watched) a TV programme about Egyptian history.
9- She was so weak after the illness that she couldn't (even – until – too – either) walk without help.
10- (Accept – Expect - Except – However) for one old lady, the bus was empty.
11- Some (celebrations – celebrated - celebrities – celebrates) were interviewed on TV last night.
12- The discovery of penicillin was a (landmark – landowner – landlord – landlady) in the history of medicine.
13- The castle occupies a strategic (post – portion – position – petition), overlooking the valley.
14- They (dried – believed – served - evolved) a new system for running the factory.
15- He still felt (responsible – restored – stored – satisfied) for her death.
16-  Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to (bark – dark – shark – mark) the occasion.

4- Find the mistakes in each of the following sentences then write them correctly:
1- When did you decide studied biology at university?
2- We've arranged picking my brother up from the airport.
3- Ali is planning spent all weekend revising for next week's math test.
4- As medical knowledge revolves, beliefs change.
5- The prices here ferry according to the season.
6- He has a very instinctive way of walking.

C- Reading Comprehension
5- Read the passage then answer the questions: (August, 2004)
    Sleep is a powerful influence on our lives. The traditional theory about sleep is that our brain needs to rest for several hours to refresh itself and to ‘file’ in our memory everything that happened to us during the day. If we are not allowed to sleep, we eventually die.
However, Ray Meddis, a scientist at University, has a fascinating new theory. He suggests that we don’t really have to sleep at all. We sleep only because our brain is ‘programmed’ to make us do so. According to Dr Meddis, the ‘tiredness’ we feel at the end of the day is produced by a chemical mechanism in the brain which makes us sleep. We are ‘programmed’ to feel ‘sleepy’ at midnight, even if we have spent the day relaxing or doing nothing. He believes that the unpleasant symptoms we suffer when we don’t sleep enough are not because we have not rested, but because we have disobeyed our brain’s programming. But he believes that if scientists could “turn off” the sleep mechanism in our brain, we could live completely normal lives without sleeping.
So is sleeping a waste of time? Even Dr Meddis does not deny the great psychological value of sleep, and he asks us, “if scientists invented a pill which keeps you awake for ever, would you take it?”

A. Answer the following questions:
1- What happens if people don’t sleep?
2- According to Dr Meddis, could we live without sleeping? Why?
3- What is Dr Meddis’ theory about the reason for tiredness?

B. Choose the correct answer:
4-The traditional view is that we sleep because -------------.
   a) we are programmed to do so     b) the brain needs to rest
   c) the body needs to rest         d) the memory needs to rest
5-According to the passage, we suffer from unpleasant symptoms when we don’t sleep enough  because ------------- .
   a) we have not rested.         b) we feel sick.    
   c) our brain is turned off         d) we did not follow our normal routine fixed by our mind.

6- Read the passage then answer the questions:
    Everyone's personality is as different and unique as everyone's fingerprints. We can usually see people's personality in the clothes they wear, or how they look after their things, or how they behave with other people. When we say that we know someone well, what we really mean is that we can make accurate guesses about what that person will do or think. We know the different features of their personality. These features are called "personality traits".
               Psychologists think that we have "central personality traits". These affect how we behave, and how we react to people and situations. Examples of central personality traits are friendliness, neatness, competitiveness, shyness and optimism. Some psychologists think that we inherit these central traits from our family and that they usually stay with us all our life.
             Psychologists say that we also have "secondary traits", connected with the things we prefer, such as our favourite food, music, films or colours. These can change as we get older, but very often many of them stay the same all our lives.

A) Answer the following questions:
1- How are people different from each other?
2- Mention three adjectives from the passage that describe positive aspects of people's personalities.
3- What are the different types of traits mentioned in the passage.

B) Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:
4- Many psychologists think that we get our central traits from ……………… .
a) school             b) books             c) our family         d) our friends
5- According to the passage, if we know people well, we get to know ……… .
a) their families                            b) ourselves
c) their neighbours        d) their personality traits

8- Write a paragraph of about 100 words about: (August 2004)
      "Choose a job that you would like to do after you graduate". Write about your reasons, advantage of working in this career, and the skills and training required for it?"

9- Translation
A)Translate into Arabic: (August, 2004)
The 20th century will be remembered for its scientific revolution. Our age is the age of the atom, space and revolutionary medical achievements. Therefore, conferences are organised to apply and make use of these achievements.

B) Translate into English:
1- إن الجهود التي تُبذل من أجل تحسين الصحة لا يمكن أن تتم بنجاح إلا بتعاون الأفراد مع الحكومة.
2- لابد أن نبذل قصارى جهدنا لجذب المزيد و المزيد من السياح حتى يمكننا أن نزيد دخلنا القومي.

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