1.

Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the
appropriate tenses.

1. It is already 9:30 PM and I (wait) here for over an hour. If John does not get
here in the next five minutes, I am going to leave.

2. I was really angry at John yesterday. By the time he finally arrived, I (wait) for
over an hour. I almost left without him.

3. Did you hear that Ben was fired last month? He (work) for that import company
for more than ten years and he (work) in almost every department. Nobody knew
the company like he did.

4. I (see) many pictures of the pyramids before I went to Egypt. Pictures of the
monuments are very misleading. The pyramids are actually quite small.

5. Sarah (climb) the Matterhorn, (sail) around the world, and (go)
on safari in Kenya. She is such an adventurous person.

6. Sarah (climb) the Matterhorn, (sail) around the world and (go)
on safari in Kenya by the time she turned twenty-five. She (experience)
more by that age than most people do in their entire lives.

7. When Melanie came into the office yesterday, her eyes were red and watery. I think she (cry)
.
8. My English is really getting better. I (try) to learn the language since 2010, but
only recently have I been able to make some real progress. By the time I started high school in
2013, I (study) the language for almost three years; however, I was only able to
introduce myself and utter a few memorized sentences. For a couple more years, I (struggle)
through grammar and vocabulary lessons, which made absolutely no difference.
Nothing worked, so I decided to study abroad.

I found an exchange program in England that sounded like the perfect answer. I (stay)
with a host family for one month. It was a huge disappointment! I (sit)
there the whole time staring at the host mother and father hoping that there would
be some breakthrough. Nothing.
When I returned, I mentioned to a friend that I (have) problems with the language
for years. He recommended that I spend a year in an English-speaking country. I decided to go
abroad again. I (research) exchange programs for a couple of weeks and finally
decided on a school in the United States.

Well, it worked. I (live) and (study) in the U.S. for more than two
years. I (stay) here for at least another year before I return home. By then, I should
be completely fluent.

2. Word formation
Use the word at the end of the sentence to form a new word that fits into the blank !
An unusual park

Parks in large cities are (USUAL) thought of as refuges, as islands of green in the middle
of a concrete desert. But High Line Park in the (NEIGHBOUR) of Chelsea in New
York looks on first (SEE) like something that city parks were created to get away from.
It's an (ATTRACT) steel structure supporting an (ELEVATE) rail line that
once brought freight cars into the city's factories.  Now the structure has been turned into an
(INNOVATE) and inviting public park. Walking on the High Line is (LIKE)
any other experience in New York. You can sit surrounded by (CARE) tended plants
taking (ENJOY) from the views, or you can walk the line as it crosses between old
buildings and past (STRIKE) new ones. I have walked the High Line many times and
the (REMARK) thing is that every time you walk you experience new and
(DIFFER) things .

While the population of Europe and America is growing older, those in (DEVELOP)
countries  are becoming younger. In the non-Western world, (PARTICULAR)  India,
China and Brazil there is a new generation of teenagers (GROW) up. These young
people’s tastes are influencing (CONSUME) habits in our world today.
In terms of language , English is dominant throughout the world.  It is a way with which
teenagers  across the world can communicate with each other and share a common culture. The
(EXIST) of graffiti written in English in so many countries is one example of this.

The (STRONG) force in international youth culture today is pop music. It has a

(UNIVERSE) appeal and is driven by pop music stations like MTV and others. They
broadcast pop music to every corner of our planet, and while most of the music is English, kids
from all over the world learn to sing English too.
 

Youngsters these days can communicate online with friends in (DISTANCE) places . In

fact, a teenager in India may feel  they have more in common  with an Internet friend in Brazil
than with other young people in their (NEIGHBOUR) . Young people around the
globe are beginning to hang around together on the Internet as they used to  on the street.
There may be a greater (READY)  to learn a foreign language  on the streets of
cyberspace than in a normal classroom. More and more people are learning English from their
friends on the Internet  and it is not always  the same as the English they learn in school.

Tim Berners Lee , the British (INVENT)  of the World Wide Web, imagines the effect
of the Internet  on a teenage boy : Google shows him  a random (SELECT)  of the
hundreds of thousands of  people around the world whose (PREFER), for example,  in
reading are similar to his own . He may live in a small town in the Netherlands but he is right in
the center of a major trend. He feels he is (EXACT)  in tune with all of his
(SEEN) friends.

Many companies say they are trying to create a youth agenda to unite teenagers around the
world.  Such an agenda includes an (AWARE) of the global environment  and human
rights.  Benetton, for example, says teenagers do not always conform to the same style. Thus,
those  who wear the “united colours of Benetton”  are encouraged to celebrate together their
individual  and (CULTURE) difference.

3. Punctuation exercises
Use appropriate punctuation marks in the following sentences.
1. We had a great time in France  the kids really enjoyed it
2. Some people work best in the mornings others do better in the evenings
3. What are you doing next weekend
4. Mother had to go into hospital she had heart problems
5. Did you understand why I was upset
6. It is a fine idea let us hope that it is going to work
7. We will be arriving on Monday morning  at least I think so
8. A textbook can be a wall between teacher and class
9. The girls father sat in a corner
10. In the words of Murphys Law Anything that can go wrong will go wrong

1. All of the people at the school, including the teachers and _______________ were glad when
summer break came.
a. students:
b. students,
c. students;
d. students
2. Sit up straight _____
a. ;
b. ?
c. .
d. :

3. They asked what time the department store would open _____

a. ?
b. .
c. ,
d. ;

4. Who do you think will win the contest _____

a. .
b. !
c. ?
d. ,

5. Choose the sentence below with the correct punctuation.

a. Ted and Janice, who had been friends for years, went on vacation together every summer.
b. Ted and Janice, who had been friends for years, went on vacation together, every summer.
c. Ted, and Janice who had been friends for years, went on vacation together every summer.
d. Ted and Janice who had been friends for years went on vacation together every summer.

6. To _______________, Anne was on time for her math class.

a. everybody’s surprise
b. every body’s surprise
c. everybodys surprise
d. everybodys’ surprise

7. In Edgar Allen Poe’s _______________________ Edgar Allen Poe describes a man with a

guilty conscience.
a. short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,”
b. short story The Tell-Tale Heart,
c. short story, The Tell-Tale Heart
d. short story. “the Tell-Tale Heart,”

8. Billboards are considered an important part of advertising for big

business, ________________ by their critics.
a. but, an eyesore;
b. but, “ an eyesore,”
c. but an eyesore
d. but-an eyesore

9. I can never remember how to use those two common words, “sell,” meaning to trade a product
for money, or _____________________ meaning an event where products are traded for
less money than usual.
a. sale.
b. “sale,”
c. “sale
d. “to sale,”

10. The class just finished reading ________________________ a short story by Carl

Stephenson about a plantation owner’s battle with army ants.
a. -”Leinengen versus the Ants”,
b. Leinengen versus the Ants,
c. “Leinengen versus the Ants,”
d. Leinengen versus the Ants

11. This is absolutely incredible _____

a. !
b. .
c. :
d. ;

12. Watch out for the broken glass _____

a. .
b. ?
c. ,
d. !

4. Reading comprehension

Read the passage below and answer the questions which follow.

1. Every family has a black sheep and Tom Ramsay had been the black sheep of his family
for twenty years. I had watched him begin life decently enough: he went into business,
married and had two children. But one day, without warning, he announced that he didn't
like work and that he wasn't suited to married life. He wanted to enjoy himself. He left
everything behind and spent two happy years living in Paris, spending all his money.

2. His relatives wondered what would happen when he would have no money left. They
soon found out - he borrowed. He made a steady income from his friends and he made
friends easily. But he always said that the money you spent on necessities was boring;
the money that was fun to spend was the money you spent on luxuries. For this, he
depended on his brother George.
3. George was insensible to Tom's charm. Once or twice he fell to Tom's promises to
change and gave him considerable sums so that he might make a fresh start. With this
money, Tom bought a new car and some very nice jewellery. George finally realised that
his brother would never change and washed his hands of him but Tom, without any
hesitation, began to blackmail him. It was not very nice for a respectable lawyer to find
his brother serving drinks in his favourite restaurant. Tom said that to serve in a restaurant
was a perfectly decent occupation, but if George could give him a couple of
hundred pounds, he didn't mind, for the honour of the family, giving it up. George paid.

4. Poor George! Though only a year older than his brother, he looked sixty. He had not
taken more than a fortnight's holiday in twenty-five years. He was in his office every
morning at nine-thirty and never left before six. His life was blameless. He was glad he
was growing old because that meant Tom was growing old too.

5. "In four years' time Tom will be fifty. He won't find life so easy then. We shall see if it
really pays to work or be idle."

The other day, I saw George Ramsay sitting by himself in a restaurant, wearing an
expression of deep gloom. "Do you know what's happening now?" he asked me.

I wondered if Tom had got into the hands of the police at last. George could hardly speak.

"You can't deny that all my life I've been hardworking, decent and respectable."

"True," I replied.

"And you can't deny that Tom has been a rude and worthless rogue."

"True as well."

George grew red in the face.

"A few weeks ago, he became engaged to a woman old enough to be his mother. And now
she's dead and left him everything she had. Half a million pounds, a yacht and a house in
London."

6. George Ramsay beat his clenched fist on the table.

“It’s not fair, I tell you, it's not fair!"

I could not help it. I burst out laughing and very nearly fell on the floor. George never
forgave me.
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1. How many children did Tom Ramsay have? (

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2. Which two consecutive words tell us that the change in Tom was unexpected?

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3. Why did Tom change his way of life?

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From Paragraph 2

4. What did Tom do when he ran out of money?

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5. “The money that was fun to spend was the money you spent on luxuries.” (line 10).
Which aspect of Tom’s character do we see here?

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From Paragraph 3

6. At first, George trusted Tom. What evidence is there in this paragraph to show
this?

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7. What did Tom do with the money George gave him?

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8. Explain fully how Tom blackmailed George.

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From Paragraph 4

9. By how many years was George older to Tom?

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10. In your opinion, why did George look sixty?

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11. Why was George happy that he was growing old?

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From Paragraph 5

12. Why do you think “George could hardly speak”? (lines 28-29)

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From Paragraph 6

13. “It’s not fair, I tell you, it’s not fair!” (line 39).
What is George finding unfair?

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14. “George never forgave me. ” (line 39).

Why do you think George was so angry with the narrator?
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15. Give the meaning of the following words or expressions as they have been used in
the passage.

(i) black sheep (line

1) : .................................................................................................................................................
(ii) steady (line
7) : ....................................................................................................................................................
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(iii) insensible (line
11) : ..................................................................................................................................................

(iv) washed his hands of (line

14) : .......................................................................................................................
(v) idle (line
24) : ..................................................................................................................................................
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