ENGLISH FINAL TEST LEVEL IV

NAME: MIGUEL HERNANDO MARTINEZ QUEVEDO ID: 691977

READING COMPREHENSION

Read this text:

Stephen Hawking
Professor Stephen William Hawking was born on 8th
January 1942 (exactly 300 years after the death of
Galileo) in Oxford, England. Stephen studied physics in
Oxford and later went on to Cambridge for his
postgraduate research in cosmology.

At the age of 22, he was diagnosed with a rare form of

motor neurone disease. As he was preparing to marry his
first wife Jane, doctors predicted he did not have long to
live. They were married for 26 years and went on to have
three children together. Hawking later went on to marry
one of his nurses, Elaine Mason, in 1995. They were
married for 11 years before they divorced.
Hawking met many famous world figures, including Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg in 2008.
He won many awards in the fields of mathematics and science and in 2009, was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-US President Barack Obama.

His life story was made into a 2014 film, The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne.

Then answer the questions.

1. Where was he born?

R/he was born on 8th January 1942 in Oxford, England

2. Did he win many awards in the fields of mathematics and science?

R/Stephen Hawking won many awards in the areas of mathematics and science, and in 2009 he
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the then President of the United States, Barack
Obama

3. Were Stephen and Elaine married for 13 years before they divorced?

R/Stephen Hawking was married for 11 years before the divorce to elaine. no 13 years

4. Did Stephen study psychology in Oxford?

R/Stephen studied physics at Oxford, not psychology

5. Was he diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease?

R/yes. at age 22, he was diagnosed with a motor neuron disease

WRITTEN EXERCISE

I. Choose the biography of a famous person and write your opinion about that famous
person in a text (80 to 100 words).

Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn on April 20, 1889 and died in Berlin on April 30,
1945.Adolf Hitler was the main leader of Nazi Germany since he was appointed chancellor in 1933.
The son of an Austrian customs officer, he was the third child of his parents (carnal cousins).

Hitler was a genocide. More than 6 million Jews were killed, millions and millions more Jews were
humiliated and tortured in ghettos, concentration camps, etc. And only because of the fact that
Hitler considered them an inferior race. Hitler and the Nazis annihilated entire families and
communities. Regardless of whether they were children, women, pregnant women, the elderly.
They were killed just because they were Jews. Outside of the Jews, millions of citizens from
different countries in Europe were also killed by the Nazis who wanted to conquer Europe. Hitler
after all ended up destroying Germany, and almost all of Europe. And all this has no justification
whatsoever.

 Hitler was unfortunately a person with horrendous extremist ideas and with a high charismatic
power and conviction for what he knew how to take advantage of the economic, political and
social situation of Germany in the post-war period to carry out his cruel ideas.

 So. Can you think something positive about Hitler? Absolutely nothing. Hitler can be seen as one
of the best examples to show how prejudice, hatred, racism and intolerance can end up with a
group of people for the simple fact of being different.

II. ORAL and LISTENING TEST:

Watch the next video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKUOzm-goxE .

Then make your own video with a duration of aproximately 3 to 5 minutes, presenting your
opinion about the video.

You can also present this oral test (with your camera on) the next class.

https://youtu.be/l09JCNRHGHQ