PHENIKAA UNIVERSITY English Progress Test 1

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 50 minutes

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Name: _______________________________ Date of birth: ________________

Student ID: ____________________________ Class: ______________________

Student No.: _______________________________ Sophia

I. Choose the correct option (A, B, C, or D) to complete the sentences.

1. They ran ____________ the building through the emergency exit.
A out of B up C down D next to
2. There are only a few ____________ staying in the hotel right now.
A clients B customers C applicants D guests

3. We need to find a ___________ to the problem.

A solve B score C solution D achievement
4. Hurry up. We don’t have ____________ time.
A some B much C many D a few
5. Choose the odd word out

A paper B cardboard C wood D metal

6. There aren’t ____________ places to recycle clothes.
A some B much C a lot D many
7. Joel is very ___________-working. He spends a lot of time at work.
A strong B good C hard D long
8. After spending twenty years in my job, I think I can say I am ___________ .
A experienced B positive C kind D intelligent
9. Sophie works Monday to Friday from 9 to 5 – it’s a ____________-time job.

A whole B full C half D part

10. Something ____________ a noise in the forest. What was it?
A gave B made C went D did

II. Complete the text with the correct past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
There is an example at the beginning (0).

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 Ellen MacArthur (0) _was_______ (be) born in Derbyshire in the UK in 1976 . She (11) ___________ (grow)
up far from the sea, and her parents and brothers (12) ___________ (not be) very interested in sailing. However,
she (13) ___________ (have) an aunt who was a yachtswoman and she (14) ___________ (learn) to sail while she
(15) ___________ (stay) with her aunt on the east coast of England. Ellen (16) ___________ (buy) her first small
boat while she (17) ___________ (study) at school. After that, she (18) ___________ (spend) all her free time
sailing. In 2005, she (19) ___________ (become) world famous when she (20) ___________ (break) the world
record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in a yacht.

III. Read the text and answer the questions.

Read the article about two adventurers. Is the following information given for Krzysztof (K), Ashima (A)
or both of them (B)? There is an example at the beginning (0).
0 Their age when they started doing a new sport or skill __B________
21 Their plans for the future ___________
22 A course they did once ___________
23 How people in their family help them ___________
24 Why they are famous now ___________
25 A place they were the first person to go to ___________
26 Where they first started doing a new sport or skill ___________
27 A medical problem they had ___________
28 Problems they had when they first tried a new sport or skill ___________
29 Two different sports or skills they can do ___________
30 How they felt after trying a sport or skill for the first time ___________
Two adventurers of the year
When Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski was eighteen years old, he went on a diving course and tried to dive,
but couldn’t because he had problems with pressure in his ears. A few years later, he decided to take up a new
challenge: caving. From the start, he loved his new sport. In Poland, there are a number of deep caves and
Krzysztof began to explore them. Every time he reached the end of a new cave, he came across deep, dark water,
but he knew that he couldn’t go into the water because of his ears.
Then, during a cycling trip, he met a diving instructor who taught him how to deal with the problems with his ears.
As a result, he completed a diving course. He was interested in an underwater cave in the Czech Republic called
Hranicka Propast. The cave was deeper than any he knew. He wondered how deep it really was and spent many
hours diving into the cave to explore it. Eventually, he decided that it wasn’t safe to dive any deeper so he started

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using an ROV, a type of robot explorer, to go down into the cave. In November 2016, the ROV hit the bottom, 404
metres below the surface. It was the deepest underwater cave in the world.
A New Yorker, Ashima Shiraishi discovered rock climbing when she was six years old. She was playing with
friends after school in Central Park and saw some men on a climbing wall known as Rat Rock. She decided that
she wanted to have a try. She started climbing in trainers and kept falling, but she loved it. She was having so much
fun that she didn’t mind that the men were laughing at her because she was hopeless at climbing. Eventually she
got to the top. From that moment she was determined to be a champion climber.
Ashima’s climbing is a family effort. Her father travels round the world with her, and her mother helps make the
clothes she wears. Although only fifteen, she is a champion American rock climber, and well known in her own
country. Many people believe that she could be the best climber in the world one day. Ashima’s ambition is to win
an Olympic medal at the next Olympic Games. Her talent and her dreams are big.

IV. Complete the sentence with the correct form of the CAPITAL LETTERS. There is an example at
the beginning (0).
0 Yousuf Karsh was one of the world’s best-known __photographers__ . PHOTOGRAPH
31 Wait for me near the ____________ . I’ll come down in five minutes. ENTER
32 Deep sea fishing can be a ____________ profession. DANGER
33 I’d like to be a fashion ____________ . DESIGN
34 We were lost but, ____________ , we found a path that took us back to the campsite. LUCK
35 Be ____________when you go down those steps. They’re dangerous. CARE

V. Follow the instructions below.

Write FIVE sentences about an interesting event you attended. It could be a party, a wedding, a festival,
a sports event, etc. Include information about where you went, when and why, and what you saw and
enjoyed.
36 __________________________________________________________________________
37 __________________________________________________________________________
38 __________________________________________________________________________
39 __________________________________________________________________________
40 __________________________________________________________________________

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