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State Exam in English (Y)
State Exam in English (Y)
Meanwhile there have been 12. demonstrations across the country for a second day. The American Civil Liberties
Union says it will help people with 13. valid visas or 14. refugee status who have found themselves 15. detained in
transit or at US airports. In Los Angeles protesters 16. denounced Trump’s actions. “I came today to send a 17.
message to Trump and his administration that we don’t want any 18. ban, we don’t want any wall. We don’t want a
19. fascist USA.”
“Forensic experts have also 20. discovered Jalilov’s genetic traces on a bag containing an 21. explosive device left
at Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station. This 22. evidence as well as the 23. surveillance cameras give us reason to
believe the person behind the terrorist act in the train was the same who left that bag at Ploshchad Vosstaniya
station,” said Svetlana Petrenko, spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee in St Petersurg.
Questions 24-28. Answer the following questions (all of them are based on precise information from the
episode):
24. Why was the rescue effort in Italy slow to begin?
The snow storm and the avalanche blocked the access for emergency services
28. What ban of Donald Tramp’s administration was declared as a “massive success”?
the enforcement of a temporary ban on refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries
30. The archaeological items of Mayan origin are soon to be put on show in ________ of the central American
countries main museums
a) seven
b) several
c) some
31. What wasn’t mentioned in the episode about the Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman?
a) he was the head of the Sinaloa cartel
b) he played a key role in in Mexico’s drug war
c) he was sentenced to death penalty
32. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth became the UK’s longest-reigning living monarch in 2015 at the age of ____.
a) 89
b) 98
c) 88
33. The suspected suicide bomber who killed ______ people and injured ______ in the St Petersburg underground
has been identified by Russian authorities as 22-year old Akbarzhon Jalilov, a Russian of Kyrgyz origin.
a) 14; 50
b) 14; 15
c) 40; 50
34d 35i 36g 37a 38j 39b 40h 41e 42c 43f
45. The majority of the archaeological items had been _________ in the 1960s and 70s.
a) looted b) rooted c) suited
46. It is tradition for the Queen to spend Accession Day in private at her Sandringham Estate and return to
Buckingham Palace _________ days later.
a) two b) a few c) flew
47. The bomb went off between two stations and the driver of the train, Alexander Kaverin, has been __________
for his decision to keep the train going until the next station to make evacuation easier.
a) amazed b) phased c) praised
Questions 48-50. Provide the definitions of the words given below and indicate the episodes where these
words were mentioned.
48. refugee - a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or
natural disaster.
49. death penalty - punishment by execution.
50. military intervention – the movement of troops or forces of one country into the territory or territorial
waters of another country