STEP 9 MIDTERM TEST

Name: Juan Sebastián Acosta ferreira

Teacher Carolina Rodriguez
1-Write sentences with the following words/phrases
a- Look after: The other day was raining and mom told me “look after with the big river
on the street” and I told her play cool mom.
b- In advance: My boss the last week invited me to a conference of “Empowerment”
and He said this is your training, you´ve your wage in advance.
c- Get along: My first love was a person who had a lot of love for me and when I
broke up with her, we decided to get along.
d- Give up: If you wanna be an amazing professional you gotta have to put some
thought and If that´s is for you, when you´ve made the decision go hard every day
and never give up.
e- Willing to: Elon musk was willing to get hold of Paypal , however he had a lot of
issues being the director of his enterprise and he couldn´t get it.
f- All bark and no bite: A bunch of people believe that they are rough nevertheless I
´ve the theory “All bark and no bite” and I just relax.
2-Choose the best answer:
+Which phrase is a synonym of “ de casualidad”
a- For casual
b- By chance
c- Happened
d- Casualty
+If you want to be healthy, you should __________junk food
a- Increase all the
b- Call off with
c- Prove the
d- Cut down on
+Something that is very sensible is…
a- Cute
b- It makes sense
c- It’s very nice
d- It understands
+What is agonize?
a- To spend time anxiously trying to make a decision
b- To expect something to happen
c- To be able to see or understand
d- To be able to express thoughts and feelings
+To make a joke about someone or something in an unkind way is to…..
a. Break up with somebody
b. Stand out
c. Make fun of somebody
d. Be a chatterbox

3-Translate the following paragraph from Spanish to English

Después de haber propuesto su famosa teoría, Albert Einstein recorrió las distintas
Universidades en los Estados Unidos, dando conferencias donde quiera que fuera.
Siempre iba en compañía de su fiel chofer, Harry, quien asistía a cada una de estas
conferencias mientras se sentaba en la fila de atrás. Un buen día, después de que
Einstein había terminado una conferencia y salía del auditorio en su vehículo, Harry se
dirige a él y le dice: "Profesor Einstein, he oído su conferencia sobre Relatividad tantas
veces que si alguna vez se me diera la oportunidad sería capaz de dictarla a la perfección
yo mismo."
Translate:
After having propounded his famous theory, Albert Einstein toured the various Universities
in the United States, delivering lectures wherever he went. He was always accompanied
by his faithful chauffeur, Harry, who would attend each of these lectures while seated in
the back row. One fine day, after Einstein had finished a lecture and was coming out of the
auditorium to his vehicle, Harry head him and says, "Professor Einstein, I've heard your
lecture on Relativity so many times, that if I were ever given the opportunity, I would be
able to deliver it perfection myself.”

4- Write an essay about something you are passionate about.

Essay about: Business Administration

Titlle: Why is it important for our life?

Administration is a social and economic science. Its main objective is to achieve the
maximum benefit possible for the companies through the planning, administration and
control the resources at its disposal. Many enterprises have process to achieve the goals
one of them is administration of resources because is the commitment to get productivity
and the enterprise no on verge of going under. Also the culture of a lot of people is get the
goals with a specific purpose , it´s being sensible with his money or finance and attempt no
wasting his resources.
Consequently the administration also in our life is too important one of the possible
reasons is because we can have the control of our finance and that makes us get away ,
and perhaps try to improve our life , another reason is we grew up having problems in this
country , the culture made us not have the control and a visionary mind to get our
purposes. Unfortunately, the English culture taught us how can we get our purposes, and
definitely we can leave our bad habits to wasting money in stupid things.
The administration contributes to the well-being of people, because it provides guidelines
to optimize the use of resources, to improve the economy of households and the country.
To finish administration is important in such a way that it makes us think about how to
have control of our lives and especially of our finances to be someone in life and why not
create a big ideas to help the planet , people and try to get the maximum benefit for our
life.