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LISTENING
PART I:
Part A. Listen to the beginning of a talk
show. Choose the correct answer for each
question. You will hear the listening twice.
1) The topic of the talk show is....
A. teaching your child to be a prodigy.
B. raising a child prodigy.
C. family relationships with talented
children.
D. interacting with strangers.
2) Dr Gibson thinks child prodigies are
interesting to discuss because...
A. they work hard to be talented.
B. they are very rare.
C. their talent is difficult for them to
perform.
D. their talent comes naturally.
3) Dr Tucker believes that parents of
child prodigies...
A. go easy on their children.
B. teach their child to become
talented.
C. put pressure on their child to
become better.
D. make them practice every day.
4) To help a child’s performance the
parents should...
A. motivate and encourage their
child’s talent.
B. push their child to succeed.
C. make them study school work
instead.
D. ask the child to perform their talent
for strangers.
Open ended question
If you could be a child prodigy, what talent
would you like to have? Explain why.
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
Part B. Listen to the interview. Choose the
correct answer for each question.
1) What is the major idea that John and
Professor Kim discuss?
A.
John’s problems with money
B.
John’s friends from high school
C.
how John lived in a poverty zone
D.
problems that John has had to
overcome
2) What limitations did John face?
A. discrimination and poverty
B. family problems and poverty
C. unemployment and lack of
confidence
D. learning disabilities and
discrimination
3) Why don’t many people in John’s
neighborhood have jobs?
A. They don’t want to work.
B. There are too many people.
C. There is high unemployment.
D. They are not trained for any jobs.
4) John’s dream is to ____.
A. get a college education
B. fight against discrimination
C. teach kids from his neighborhood
D. overcome his obstacles from the
past
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Open ended question
What is your dream after high school? 2. What does Donald keep doing
______________________________________ wrong?
A. He is late for class.
______________________________________ B. He has to leave class.
______________________________________ C. He falls asleep in class.
D. He does not go to class.
______________________________________
______________________________________ 3. How many stages of sleep do humans
have?
PART C: You will hear Richard Van A. three
Ornum describe his dreams and his reality. B. four
As you listen, write T (true) or F (false) for C. five
each statement. If the statement is false, D. six
correct it.

1. As a child, Richard used to dream he 4. During REM, ______.

A. your breathing becomes slower
was in an airplane. _____ B. your eyes move rapidly
C. you have no dreams
2. Richard had an accident when he was
D. you break from the sleep cycle
six. _____ 5. If you are deprived of REM sleep,
you might have trouble ______.
3. Richard was forced to get around on
A. moving your eyes
crutches. _____ B. learning new things
C. falling back to sleep
4. Richard was sitting on the roof of a D. releasing melatonin

cathedral when he had a revelation. Open ended question

How do you deal with sleep deprivation?
_____
______________________________________
5. Richard heard a song called “Drive
______________________________________
Away with Me.” _____ ______________________________________

6. Richard dreamed he was a boy again. ____________________________________

_____ ______________________________________
_____________________________________
Part D. Listen to the conversation Choose
the correct answer for each question.
1. The purpose of this conversation is to
______.
A. explain what melatonin is
B. review last week's lecture
C. discuss Donald's sleep
problems
D. tell Donald what he missed in
class

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PART F. Listen to the news report. Choose
the best answer.
PART E
Listen to the classroom discussion.Choose 1. Both Dr. Kelly and Dr. Rauscher
true or false. study ______.
A) the neurological basis of abstract
1. The class discussion focuses mainly reasoning
on the details of a single family. B) how children's brains react to musical
1. true stimuli
2. false C) how music primes the brain for math
performance
D) the pattern of neural activity in response
2. The professor tells about the to learning
Monroes to explain why everyone
should eliminate social media.
2. The subjects in Dr. Cuevas's study
1. true
were ______.
2. false
A) musicians
B) researchers
3. The students in the class are familiar C) university students
with social media and how it is used. D) high school students
1. true
2. false 3. Dr. Cuevas's study was conducted in
______.
A) 1993
4. Mrs. Monroe eliminates social media
B) 1995
to bring her family closer together.
C) 1998
1. true
D) 2000
2. false

A) What does Dr. Kelly most likely

5. The students disagree with the choice think about Dr. Shaw?
that Mrs. Monroe makes for her B) She does not trust Shaw.
family. C) She respects Shaw's work.
1. true D) She disapproves of Shaw's methods.
2. false E) She questions Shaw's scientific
background.
6. The Monroes provide a discussion
point about the advantages and
disadvantages of social media.
1. true
2. false

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READING 5 There are still some things that remain

PART I: READING
A. Read the passage and circle the correct
choice.
Keep Playing the Computer Game?
1 There used to be a general feeling that
computer games were bad for you, and books
were good. Now people are not so sure.
Researchers have found that computer games,
television and the Internet have become key
factors in boosting children’s IQs up to levels
never reached by past generations.
unexplained, however. For example, the
increase in children's IQ scores varies according
to the type of intelligence being tested. It
appears that nowadays people are better at
abstract thinking than their ancestors were - but
their verbal and mathematical abilities have
remained the same as those of previous
generations. No one knows why this is the case.
Nevertheless, during the last few years there has
certainly been a general upward trend, and it
has been found that the present generation have
IQs about 15 points above their parents.

6 Although this is clearly good news, the

increasing popularity of computer gaming and
2 The idea that intelligence can be
other activities has caused concern in some
measured was first suggested about a century
quarters, for two reasons. Firstly, there have
ago, but at that time it was hard to find tests that
been claims that the high levels of violence in
gave useful results. Over the past two decades,
the games could encourage children to be
however, tests have become more subtle and
aggressive. There have also been fears that
complex and researchers have found that IQ
children could become addicted to the games,
scores can give a good indication of what
and so be unable to stop playing them. But a
children’s future exam results will be. Some
recent study found no reliable evidence to prove
experts have even claimed that IQ scores can
that computer games contribute to long-term
accurately predict what level of income and
violence or anti-social behaviour.
status young people will achieve in adult life.
7 Indeed, it has been claimed that, in
3 Why are today’s youngsters doing so
moderation, computer gaming is good for
much better than their grandparents? Of course,
youngsters. It requires positive qualities such as
better nutrition, higher standards of living and
perseverance, fast thinking and rapid learning.
improved education all play their part in raising
However, it seems that improvements in IQ
general levels of intelligence. But there seems
may not last very long without continuing
to be more to it than that. Scientists are
stimulation. The brain seems to be like a muscle
attributing the change in intelligence levels to
and requires repeated and vigorous exercise to
the complexity of modern life.
stay fit and healthy. When it comes to IQ, it's a
4 In today’s fast-moving world, young case of 'Use it or lose it'.
people are required to interact constantly with
8 Others argue that computers have only
electronic gadgets and equipment. Research has
limited value. They fear that young people who
shown that they are constantly exposed to an
spend too much time playing computer games
increasingly complex and visual world – a far
alone will never learn to think independently.
more stimulating world than previous
They claim that the danger with a computer is
generations lived in. This is developing
that doing repetitive tasks can actually reduce
youngsters’ brains in ways that older
intelligence. In the end, computer games are no
generations never experienced. Computers are
substitute for real-life experience and for
one of the major sources of stimulation, and
imagination.
activities such as playing games and using the
Internet seem to be particularly important.

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1. In the first paragraph, the writer
says that computer games _____.
a. have got much better recently
b. are not as good for children as
reading
c. can improve the intelligence of
young people
d. are now used in many different ways
by children
2. According to the writer, in the last
twenty years IQ tests have become
_____.
a. a substitute for examinations
b. more difficult than they were in the
past
c. a way of increasing young people’s
income
d. more reliable than they used to be
3. ‘it’ in paragraph 3 refers to_____.
a. the use of tests
b. the effect of education
c. the increase in intelligence
d. the improvement in food standards
4. What does the writer say about
young people and electronic
equipment nowadays?
a. They sometimes find the equipment
confusing.
b. The equipment makes things too
easy for them.
c. The equipment is an important part
of their daily lives.
d. They depend on the equipment for
their entertainment.
5. According to the writer, what
remains unexplained about
children’s intelligence?
a. why levels of some types of
intelligence have remained unchanged
b. why there has been such a rapid rise
in general intelligence
c. how children can develop their
verbal and mathematical skills
d. how the improvement in intelligence
levels can be made
6. Some people fear that violence in
computer games _____.
a. can sometimes be addictive for
children
b. may lead to aggressive behaviour in
children
c. can make some children nervous or
afraid
d. may have little effect on children
7. What does ‘Use it or lose it’ mean in
paragraph 7?
a. If you don’t use your IQ, you’ll
become less healthy.
b. If you don’t use your computer, it
may be taken away.
c. If you don’t use your brain, your
intelligence will decrease.
d. If you don’t use your muscles, you’ll
get unfit.
8. Some people say that playing
computer games may affect young
people’s ability to ___.
a. make decisions on their own
b. tell original stories
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hours and fast pace did take the energy out of

PART II: me, but the result was worth it. I was able to
spare enough money for college tuition.
A WILL TO SUCCEED
Looking back on that time, there were days
I have always wanted to be a teacher.
when my future looked dim, but I never gave
Throughout my early education I worked hard
up.
to be proficient in all of my classes. It was
because of my determination, more than my I am now a proud high school English
intelligence, that I was able to achieve high teacher who loves her job and the life she has
grades. I had developed a passion for literature: chosen. Due to self-motivation and ambition, I
poetry, prose, and drama. Expressing my ideas have achieved my goals and found success. It
through writing was becoming a talent that was not easy, but I believe it was definitely
my teachers nurtured. They were very worth it. It is up to each person's discretion as
encouraging and helped to give me confidence. to whether he or she wants to put in the time
I assumed that the logical step after graduating and effort to follow a dream. Personally, I know
from high school would be college. that I could not imagine any other option.
Unfortunately, my family was reluctant to
agree. In fact, my parents didn't back my
decision at all.

As I was researching information for

teachers' colleges, my parents did not hesitate
for a minute to inform me that furthering my
education was not an option. Because my
family has a great camaraderie in general, my
parents felt that they could tell me how they
really felt. We live in a country where we all
have choices, so their reaction didn't make
much sense to me at all. I tried to maintain my
poise and focus on civility in expressing my
opinion, but I was very upset. It didn't come
together for me until I realized that it was a
financial issue for my father. His pride, not his
stubbornness, caused him to reject my plans.
Once I realized this, I became more
determined than ever to attend college. Without
missing a beat, I got a job that paid well and
gave me the chance to save money. The long

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A. .
1. The narrator's parents were against
college because they __________. .
a) had no money to help their
daughter .
b) felt their daughter should work
instead .
c) thought their daughter needed
better grades .C. Answer the questions.
d) didn't want their daughter to move
far away .What does “it” refer to in paragraph 1?
___________________________________
2. The narrator went to college by
__________. ___________________________________
a) asking for money _________
b) becoming a teacher
c) borrowing from her parents
d) saving money .What does “this” refer to in paragraph 2?
___________________________________
3. The narrator succeeded in achieving her
goal mainly through _______________. ___________________________________
a) good luck _________
b) hard work
.What does “it” refer to in paragraph 2?
c) help from others
d) classes in high school ___________________________________
___________________________________
.B. Read each statement. Decide if the
statements are true or false. Write _________
true (T) or false (F). .What does “it” refer to in paragraph 3?
. ___________________________________
1. Getting a job before college shows that the
___________________________________
narrator is determined. D. Find words or phrases in the article that
match these meanings.
1. seeming reasonable and sensible (lines 1 –
7)................................

2. The narrator's dream changed when she was 2. to pause before saying or doing something
because you are nervous or not sure (lines 8
in college. – 14)..................................

3. to make something continue in the same

way or at the same standard as before (lines
8 – 14)............................................
3. The narrator could be described as a good
4. The charge or fee for instruction (lines 15 –
problem solver. 21)............................................................

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PART III.
A Story of Love and Courage
1 When she was nineteen months old,
Helen Keller suffered from a severe illness that
left her without the sense of sight or hearing. It
also left her mute. This, however, did not rob
her of the ability to love or be loved. When she
was six years old, Helen Keller’s parents sought
Alexander Graham Bell’s advice regarding their
daughter’s education. As a result, Anne
Mansfield Sullivan, a twenty-year-old, arrived
at the Kellers’ home in Alabama. Sullivan
herself had been both treated and educated at
the Perkins Institute in Boston, where she had
partially recovered her sight.
2 Helen Keller herself said that the most
important day of her entire life was the one on
which her teacher arrived. On their first
morning together, her teacher gave her a doll
and slowly finger-spelled the word ‘doll’ into
the palm of her hand using the manual alphabet.
Helen found this finger play very interesting
and immediately tried to imitate it. It did not
take her long to make the letters correctly.
However, she had no idea that she was spelling
words or that these words existed as
representations of the objects that surrounded
her.
3 It took her several weeks, often filled
with frustration, to understand that everything
has a name. One day, her teacher persisted in
trying to teach her the difference between
‘mug’ and ‘water’. Helen, unable to tell them
apart, threw her doll in a rage and broke it into
many pieces. Her teacher then took her to the
well-house in the garden and placed her hand
into a cool stream. At the same time, she finger-
spelled the word ‘water’ in Helen’s other hand.
At this moment, the mystery of language was
revealed to her and it was the beginning of her
familiarization with the objects around her.
4 Another difficulty Helen had to
overcome was the meaning of abstract words
such as ‘love’. Her teacher finger-spelled the
word into her hand and Helen reacted by
asking, “What is love?” Anne replied by
placing her hand over Helen’s heart and said,
“It is here.” Helen became confused and started
asking lots of questions in order to discover
what ‘love’ actually was. Unfortunately, despite
her teacher’s responses, she could not
understand and became very impatient.
5 A day or so later, when Helen was
trying to string some beads of various sizes
together, her teacher touched her forehead and
finger-spelled the word ‘think’. Helen instantly
realized that this was the name of the abstract
process that was going on in her head. In the
same way, she tried to find the meaning of the
word ‘love’. When the sun came out from
behind a cloud, Helen insisted, “Is this not
love?”
6 Anne turned to her and replied that love
is something like the clouds that were in the sky
before the sun came out. “You cannot touch the
clouds, but you can feel the rain,” she told her.
“In the same way, you cannot touch love, but
you can feel the sweetness that it pours into
everything.” Helen immediately realized this
beautiful truth and felt that her spirit was
somehow connected to the spirit of her teacher
and everyone around her.
7 Miss Sullivan continued to love and
instruct Helen for several years. She not only
taught her English but French, German and
Latin as well. Helen Keller graduated from
Radcliff College, the most prestigious women’s
university in the USA, where Sullivan had
finger-spelled the lectures into her hand. Keller
dedicated the rest of her life to writing and
lecturing on behalf of those who had been
afflicted* the way she had.
*afflicted: mentally or physically unfit
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1. What was it that impressed Helen
most on the day her teacher arrived?
a. the doll she received
b. the manual alphabet
c. the finger play
d. the words she spelled
2. When did Helen understand that
everything around her had names?
a. when her teacher took her to the
well-house
b. when she broke her doll into many
pieces
c. when her teacher taught her the
meaning of ‘mug’
d. when she learned to finger-spell
3. Why was the word ‘love’ difficult for
Helen to understand?
a. She had never fallen in love before.
b. She didn’t know what a heart was.
c. She couldn’t touch ‘love’.
d. She couldn’t finger-spell the word.
4. Helen’s teacher finally made Helen
understand the meaning of the word
‘love’ when ________________
a. she made Helen feel the warmth of
the sun.
b. she expressed her love to Helen.
c. she compared love to the clouds.
d. she was trying to string the beads.
B. Read the text and find the synonyms for
the underlined words. (4x2=8 pts.)
e) Concerning your recent inquiry, I
have enclosed a copy of our new
brochure.
(par.1) __________________
f) Because of the war, the whole town
was wiped out down to the rats.
(par.2) __________________
g) Christmas lights were hung in a
line from one end of Main Street to
the other.
(par.5) __________________
h) I understood that the job was
going to take longer than I thought.
(par.6) __________________
C. Use context clues and find the words in
the text to match the definitions.
1. very serious (par. 1)
2. a strong feeling of uncontrollable anger (par. 3)
3. make known something that was previously
secret or unknown (par. 3)
4. give all your attention and effort to one
particular thing (par. 7)
.D. Answer the questions below.
.1. How do you think the education Helen
received was difficult? Explain by giving
examples from the text.
.............................................................................
.............................................................................
............................................................................
.2. Why do you think Sullivan tried hard to
educate Helen Keller? Explain by giving
examples from the text.
.............................................................................
.............................................................................
.............................................................................
.3. What can you infer about Helen Keller’s
personality considering what she
overcame? Explain by giving examples
from the
text..............................................................
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PART IV.Read the text below. Choose from
sentences A–F the one which fits each gap (1–
5). There is ONE EXTRA sentence.
A Not everyone is impressed by
Eugene’s accomplishment.
B They can perform basic tasks on a
smartphone while we are unable to
press buttons on our phones ourselves,
such as while driving.
C Everybody knows that Eugene is not
human.
D This was a German machine which
was brought to England in 1939 from
Poland.
E The theory was that there would
always be some clues that would give
them away.
F However, Eugene is more advanced
than these very basic versions.
1__________ 2 __________ 3
__________ 4 __________ 5
__________
EUGENE GOOSTMAN PASSES A TEST
1 Eugene Goostman is a thirteen-year-
old boy from Odessa in Ukraine. He has got a
pet guinea pig and his father is a doctor. In
2014,
2 he passed a test that some people say
had never been passed before. Is Eugene a
genius? In fact, he doesn’t really exist at all.
Eugene is a chatterbot. That is, a
computer program which can listen and reply
to questions. You may have one on your
3
smartphone. You can ask it to do simple tasks
like find out what the weather is like in
Portugal or how many dollars there are to the
euro. You can also try to have a conversation
with your chatterbot, although their answers
don’t always make sense. (1) ______ He
actually managed to fool some people into
thinking he was human in a test thought up
over 60 years ago.
The test he passed is called the Turing
Test, named after the computer expert, Alan
Turing, who became famous for his work on
the Enigma code machine during the Second
World War. (2) ______ By breaking the
codes, Turing was able to find out German
war plans in advance. In 1950, after the war,
Turing wrote a paper which predicted that,
one day, robots would have the intelligence to
4
carry out a human-like conversation. Two
years later, in 1952, he finalised the rules of a
test which would show whether or not this
intelligence existed. The main rule was that,
if any computer persuaded 30 percent of the
people reading or listening to the answers that
it was human, it would pass the test. Turing
passed away in 1954 but the challenge lived
on.
Interestingly, Turing based his test on a
party game, called Imitation, which he
enjoyed taking part in. In this game, a set of
questions were given to a man and a woman.
5
They typed their answers, not necessarily
truthfully, and the other party guests had to
try to guess who had written which set of
answers. (3) ______ Turing died without
knowing whether any robot would ever
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manage to pass his test but, in 2014, on the
sixtieth anniversary of his death, Eugene
Goostman managed to do it.
(4) ______ Some say that Eugene
wasn’t the first chatterbot to pass the test.
This is technically true but the previous tests
were either too short or they were judged by
an audience rather than experts. These factors
meant that the results weren’t conclusive.
Eugene’s test involved many more questions
but there were still criticisms. The main one
involves Eugene’s ‘human’ profile’. His
designers deliberately made him a thirteen-
year-old
6 with poor English so that judges
would be more likely to ignore his strange or
irrelevant answers than they would if he was
a native-speaker adult. Finally, even if he was
the first chatterbot to really pass the test,
many people argue that Eugene doesn’t
actually possess real intelligence. All it can
do is imitate intelligence. In other words, it is
unable to think or learn like a real human
being.
Chatterbots may not be ready to take
over the world yet but they can have uses. (5)
______ They could be used to create
believable characters in video games which
can follow orders and report on what is
happening. However, robots with real
intelligence are still a long way off. You
won’t be able to get one to do your
homework for a few more years, I’m afraid!
b. Read the text again choose the correct
answer, A, B, C or D. (5x3= 15 pts.)
1. Alan Turing first made his prediction that
intelligent robots would one day exist
_________.
A during the Second World War.
B in the same year that he died.
C two years before he made the rules for his
test.
D in a paper which also set out the rules for
the test.
2. Alan Turing died before __________.
A a robot managed to pass his test.
B he could finish writing the rules for his test.
C he managed to break all the codes.
D his paper on artificial intelligence was
published.
3. Some people think that Eugene’s
achievement wasn’t special because
_________.
A the test was too short.
B the test had already been passed.
C the test was judged by an audience, not
experts.
D it didn’t get all the answers right.
4. The writer’s view of chatterbots is that they
_________.
A are as intelligent as humans.
B could inspire characters in video games.
C will never be able to follow instructions.
D will be able to destroy humans one day.
5. The word “one” in the fourth paragraph
refers to
A robot B test
C expert D criticism
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PART 1
Read the following text carefully.
Arranged marriages are seen by many
as business deals that have little to do with love.
But they are far more likely to lead to lasting
affection than marriages of passion, experts
claim.
According to research, those in
arranged marriages – or who have had their
partner chosen for them by a parent or
matchmaker – tend to feel more in love as time
grows, whereas those in regular marriages feel
less in love over time. And within ten years, the
connection felt by those in arranged marriages
is said to be around twice as strong.
Relationship experts claim this is because
arranged matches are carefully considered, with
thought going into whether potential partners’
families, interests and life goals are similar.
This means they are more likely to commit for
life – and to stick together through rocky
patches.
Those who marry for love, on the other
hand, tend to be blinded by passion and so
overlook these crucial details. When the going
gets tough, they are more likely to view the
situation simply as a natural end to their
romantic dream – a way of fate telling them
something is wrong with the relationship.  Francine Kaye, relationship expert and
With soaring divorce rates and record
numbers of single-parent households in the
West, researchers suggest it is time to rethink
the Western approach to love. Harvard
academic Dr Robert Epstein has studied the
subject of arranged marriages for eight years,
looking at the approaches taken in cultural
groups including Indian, Pakistani and
Orthodox Jewish. He has interviewed more
than 100 couples in arranged marriages to
assess their strength of feeling and studied his
findings against more than 30 years of research
into love in Western and arranged marriages. 
His work suggests that feelings of love
in love matches begin to fade by as much as a
half in 18 months, whereas the love in the
arranged marriages tends to grow gradually,
surpassing the love in the unarranged marriages
at about the five-year mark. Ten years on, the
affection felt by those in arranged marriages is
typically twice as strong. 
Dr. Epstein believes this is because
Westerners leave their love lives to chance, or
fate, often confusing love with lust, whereas
those in other cultures look for more than just
passion. He said: ‘The idea is we must not leave
our love lives to chance. We plan our education,
our careers and our finances but we’re still
uncomfortable with the idea that we should plan
our love lives. I do not defend arranged
marriages but I think a lot can be learned from
them. ‘In arranged marriages, thought goes into
the matching. In the West, physical attraction is
important. But people must be able to
distinguish lust from love. Strong physical
attraction is very dangerous; it can be blinding.
‘In the West marriages are easy to get out of.
But in arranged marriages, the commitment is
very strong. They get married knowing they
won’t leave, so when times are harder – if they
face injury or trauma – they don’t run away. It
brings them closer.’ 
author of The Divorce Doctor, added: ‘There is
an awful lot to be said for arranged marriages.
They are determined to make it work. ‘I have
seen in arranged marriages in the Orthodox
Jewish community that the parents very
carefully look at compatibility – it is not left to
chance. They do their homework on their
characteristics, their values, morals and life
goals. ‘It should be pointed out that arranged
marriages work because culturally marriage is
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seen differently. We have a very romantic view
of marriage. Theirs is more pragmatic.
‘There is a downside to arranged
marriages though – no matter how pragmatic
you are in choosing a partner, there always
needs to be chemistry.
Glossary:
Pragmatic: Realistic
Lust: A strong emotion
Assess:  Place a value on / judge the worth of   attraction can be dangerous. Explain
something
Fade:   To lose strength
Attraction: Feeling of liking
1. Answer the following questions about
the text. Use your own words.
1. What is the type of the text? (
a) A story b) An article c) A poem
2. According to the text, what do people
generally think about arranged
marriages?
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
________________________________
3. According to the experts, what are the
two positive aspects of arranged
marriages?
1. ______________________________
________________________
2. ______________________________
________________________
4. What kind of features are considered to
find a perfect match in arranged
marriages? Write two of them.
1. ____________________________
2. ____________________________
5. Dr Epstein says strong physical
what he means in your own words.
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_______________________________
6. According to the text, why don’t
arranged marriages end up in divorce?
Support your answer using an example
from the text.
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________
7. What do Orthodox Jewish parents
consider carefully to arrange their
children’s marriage? Write 2 things.
 _________________________
____
 _________________________
____
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8. Does Francin Kaye think that giving 1. they  (Paragraph 3):
careful thought to similarities is enough ________________________________
for an arranged marriage? Explain your ____
answer. 2. He  (Paragraph 4):
______________________________________ ________________________________
______________________________________ ____
______________________________________ 3. them (Paragraph 6):
______________________________________ ________________________________
______________________________________ ____
________________________________ 4. it  (Paragraph 6):
________________________________
9. Choose the best title for the text.
____
5. I(Paragraph 7):
1. Divorce Rates ________________________________
2. Dr Epstein’s Research on Marriages ____
3. Arranged Marriages

10.Which of the following sentence can be

added to the text?
1. Marriage is the process by which
two people who love each other
make their relationship public,
official.
2. If you have problems in
your marriage that are causing
conflict you had better ask for
advice.
3. Some statistics show that arranged
marriage is much better than other
marriages.
4. If you invest in marriage
ceremony it will help you to have a
happier, healthier marriage that will
last a lifetime.
GRAMMAR
RELATIVE CLAUSES

2. What do the following words refer A. Complete each sentence with a word below.
to? (5X1=5 pts.) who ■ whose ■ when ■ where ■ which

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1. Jim can’t remember the
room ........................... he left his glasses.
2. He showed us the car ........................... he
wants to buy.
3. That’s the man ........................... stole my
bag.
4. I still remember the
moment ........................... I first saw her.
5. We have never met the
neighbours ........................... flat is above ours.
B Combine each pair of sentences with a
relative clause. Make any necessary changes.
1. I bought my first car ten years ago. I was a
salesmanthen. .....................................................
.............................................................................
2. There is a girl in my class. Her family
emigrated from
India. ...................................................................
.............................................................................
3. Mark’s sister is getting married tomorrow.
She has just
graduated. ...........................................................
.............................................................................
..............................
4. Lots of people walk in the park. I jog there
everymorning. ....................................................
.............................................................................
5. My uncle’s farm is twenty kilometres from
here. We often visit
it. .........................................................................
.............................................................................
6. The young boy was given a reward. He had
saved the drowning
child. ...................................................................
C Correct the error in each of the sentences.
1. The boy which sits next to me in class is very
clever. .................................................................
.............................................................................
........................
2. Our cat, that we all loved very much, died
last
week. ..................................................................
.............................................................................
.......................
3. The man who car was stolen was very
upset. ..................................................................
.............................................................................
........................
4. The school which I had studied as a child
was destroyed in a
fire. .....................................................................
.............................................................................
....................
5. At the weekend, that my family is at home,
we have breakfast
together. ..............................................................
.............................................................................
D Complete the passage with suitable words.
There may be more than one correct answer.
March 17th is an Irish holiday
1. ............................... honours the patron saint
of Ireland, St Patrick, 2................................
brought Christianity to the Irish people.
According to tradition, St Patrick,
3................................ father was a wealthy man,
was actually born in England. At the age of 16,
he was kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave.
Some years later, he escaped to France,
4................................ he lived for many years
and became a priest. At the age of 60,
5................................ he returned to Ireland, he
built his first church. On March 17th, the day
6................................ St Patrick died, people
wear green clothes decorated with the
shamrock, 7................................ is the national
symbol of Ireland.
SIMPLE PAST & PRESENT PERFECT
A Choose the correct answer.
1. I’m really hungry. I (haven’t eaten / didn’t
eat) yet.
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2. They (arrived / have arrived) a week ago. admit that until then, I 4.............................. not

3. We (have worked / worked) here for three realised just how unpleasant the flu could be. I
years.
had a high temperature for nearly a week, and
4. They (didn’t recognise / haven’t recognised)
me at yesterday’s meeting. my whole body hurt. I don’t think I have
5. Our neighbour (was / has been) in hospital 5.............................. felt so miserable. It’s
since Friday.
taking me ages to get my strength back. It really
6. (Have you travelled / Did you travel) abroad
many times? bothers me that I haven’t had enough energy to

play football 6.............................. I got ill. In

B Complete the sentences with the correct form
of the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple or fact, I have 7.............................. been to the
the Present Perfect Simple.
doctor to ask if it’s normal to feel weak for so
1. John ........................... (not call) me recently.
long. He says I’ll soon feel better. Apparently
2. They ........................... (buy) a new car last
month. I’m lucky. For some people, especially the old
3. The teacher ........................... (not return) the
and the weak, the flu can be very serious.
tests yet.

4. How long ........................... Doctors have tried 8.............................. years to

she ........................... (know) about this
find a cure for the flu, but they haven’t found
problem?

5. ........................... you ever ........................... one 9............................... . Fortunately,

(hear) such an unbelievable story?
researchers have developed a vaccine which
6. When I was a child, I ........................... (live)
gives effective protection against the disease.
in England for two years.

7. He ........................... (buy) me a beautiful gift According to my doctor, most of his elderly

for my birthday.
patients have 10.............................. received
8. I am so excited to have a dog.
I ......................................... (always / want) one. their flu shots.

C Complete the passage with suitable words.

PRESENT& PAST PASSIVE
I 1.............................. always been very fit and
A. Make these sentences passive.
healthy, and I have 2.............................. had a
1- They grow coffee in Kenya.
serious illness. However, a couple of weeks

3.............................. , I caught the flu. I must

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2- They publish The Times newspaper in
London.
3- They transport oranges from Valencia to
Germany in special crates.
4- The shark ate the man.
5- The arsonist started the fire.
6- The police took him away.
7- They didn't punish him for what he did.
8- Did The president give John an award?.
9- Everyone saw them
10- The police brought him here.
11- The firefighters didn’t save the women.
12- All the students understood the
explanation.
13- Who stole my wallet?
14- A snake bit him.
15- Thomas and his brother built that
house.
B. Choose the correct verb active or passive
.These cars produce / are produced in
Japan.
.Alan teaches / is taught Geography.
.German is spoken / speaks in Austria.
.Lots of houses destroyed / were
destroyed by the earthquake .
.Henry Ford was invented / invented
the assembly line.
.Somebody cleans / is cleaned the
office every day.
.Somebody is sent/ sends emails.
.The grass cuts / is cut every day.
.Paul found / was found the key.
.the computer fixed / was fixed
yesterday.
.Who painted / was painted The Mona
Lisa?
.My ballet store / was stolen.
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.
C Put the verbs in brackets in the
correct form active or passive. Chess

Chess is a kind of board game. The board

1- He _______(open) the door.
________________________(divide) into 64
2- The letter _____________by
me. squares. Each player has an army of 16 pieces
3- _________ your mum to fight the battle. These ________
________(pick )you up from
school every day?
always ________________(call) black and
4- _________ the thief
_________ (catch) by the white. They _____________________ (move)
police officer?
about the board in a particular way. Games
5- The airline __________(send)
our passage to Australia by similar to chess __________ first
mistake.
6- Soy _____________ ( grow) by _______________(play) in India and China a
farmers in Argentina
long time ago. The game, as we know it,
7- People _________(export)
Spanish tortilla to the US ________________________ (invent) in the
8- The Burial of the Count of
15th century and it __________ still
Orgaz _________(paint) by El
Greco
_________________ (play) today.
9- You _____________( not find)
penguins at the North Pole
10- America ___________(not
discover) by Columbus in
1491
11- My uncle _________(sell) the
bicycle when he was young.
12- All the plates in the cupboard
__________(break) by the
child
13- She __________(not find) the
book.

REPORTED SPEECH
D. Put the verbs in the present passive or
the past simple passive.
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Change this direct speech into reported
speech:
1. “He works in a bank” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
2. “We went out last night” She told me
______________________________________
__________________
3. “I’m coming!” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
4. “I was waiting for the bus when he arrived”
She told me
______________________________________
__________________
5. “ I have never been there before” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
6. “I didn’t go to the party” She told me
______________________________________
__________________
7. “Lucy’ll come later” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
8. “He hasn’t eaten breakfast” She told me
______________________________________
__________________
9. “I can help you tomorrow” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
10. “You should go to bed early” She told me
______________________________________
__________________
11. “I don’t like chocolate” She told me
______________________________________
__________________
12. “I won’t see you tomorrow” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
13. “She’s living in Paris for a few months” She
said
______________________________________
_____________________
14. “I visited my parents at the weekend” She
told me
______________________________________
__________________
15. “She hasn’t eaten sushi before” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
17. “They would help if they could” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
18. “I’ll do the washing-up later” She told me
______________________________________
__________________
19. “He could read when he was three” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
20. “I was sleeping when Julie called” She said
______________________________________
_____________________
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IF-CLAUSES – Type 1: Complete the 14.We _______________ any tickets for the
sentences with the correct form of the verb performance unless we _______________ them
given. in advance. (NOT GET, BUY)

1. If we _____________ , we _____________ 15.If you _______________ shouting, I

there in time. (HURRY, GET)
2. I _______________ to the doctor unless the
pain _______________. (NOT GO,
INCREASE)
3. If you _______________ in public places
you _______________ into trouble. (SMOKE,
GET)
4. We _______________ for a picnic tomorrow
if the weather _______________ nice. (GO,
STAY)
__________________ to you. (NOT STOP,
NOT LISTEN)
16.If the dog _______________ again, I
__________________ the police. (BARK,
NOTIFY)
17.If you _______________ too much, you
__________________ weight (EAT, NOT
LOSE)
18.If it still _______________ tomorrow, I
_______________ to work. (RAIN, NOT GO)

5. Everyone _______________ you if you 19.Unless she _______________ the

_______________ them the truth. (BELIEVE, ambulance immediately, her father
TELL) _______________. (CALL,DIE)

6. If he __________________ up, he 20.If you _______________ harder, you

_______________ to work on time. (NOT _______________ in your exams. (TRY,
WAKE, NOT GET) SUCCEED)

7. If she _______________ her keys, she

_______________ angry. (LOSE, BE)

8. If the baby _______________ a boy, I

_______________ him Jonathon. (BE, CALL)
9. You _______________ an accident if you
_______________ so carelessly. (CAUSE,
DRIVE)

10.She _______________ it if she

__________________ me the truth. (REGRET,
NOT TELL)

11.If you _______________ the house now,

you _______________ late for the meeting.
(NOT LEAVE, BE)

12.Margaret _________________ to the party

unless you ______________ her. (NOT COME,
INVITE)

13.I _______________ you with the dishes if If-clause types I and II: Mixed
you _______________ tired. (HELP, BE) exercises

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Decide from the context and circle the right f) If Sally just _________________________
verb forms. (talk) to her friend, they could work it out.

a) If the teacher gives / gave him a bad mark,
he will complain / would complain. But Mrs
Schafer always likes his work, so I’m pretty
sure he’ll have no reason to complain! b) Look
at all these dark clouds! If it keeps / kept
raining like that, the cellar will definitely flood /
would definitely flood! c) Your soup looks
g) You _________________________ (be) ill
tomorrow if you go outside without a warm
coat.
h) I _________________________ (drink) this
coke if it was sugar-free.
i) If these CDs _________________________
(not be) so expensive, I would buy them.

delicious! – Yes, it does. I haven’t tried it yet, j) You can call me if you
but if it tastes / tasted good, you can have / _________________________ (need) help.
could have some, too! d) I can’t come with you
k) If Josh _________________________ (win)
this afternoon. If I have / had more time, I will the scholarship, he will go to college in spring.
join / would join you. But unfortunately, I’ve
l) I _________________________ (not eat) this
got lots of homework. e) If Lisa invites / invited salad if I were you. It looks dirty.
that idiot Tim to her birthday party, I certainly
m) We _________________________ (say) hi
won’t go / wouldn’t go! Thank God she hates
to Bob if we see him.
him, too. She would never invite him. f) If I
am / were allergic to nuts, I cannot eat / n) _________________________ you
_________________________ (jump) into this
couldn’t eat this cake. Thankfully, I don’t have
lake if I gave you five dollars?
any food allergies.
o) I’d like Bob if he
_________________________ (not talk) so
EXERCISE 2 Complete the if-clause with the
much.
right tense. There are type I and type II
ifclauses in the exercise.
p) I can pick up your friend if you
_________________________ (let) me borrow
a) It _________________________ (be) stupid
your car
if we tried to do this.

b) I _______________________ (watch) the

film if my girlfriend wants to see it.

c) If you talk to him like this, he

______________________ (not help) you.

d) _____________________ you
______________ (look) after his hamster again
if he goes on holiday?

e) Even if I _________________ (have) a wet-

suit, I wouldn’t go scuba-diving.

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