2012 - 2013 Spring Intermediate PQ4 (Grammar)

SFL/METU March 5, 2013
Dept of B.E. Time: 15 mins.

Testing Office
Announced Quiz 204
INTERMEDIATE GROUP
A. Below is a text on Oprah Winfrey, a talk-show host. Mark the best choice.
Oprah Winfrey is an American talk-show host, actress, and producer. Winfrey is famous for her talk show,
“The Oprah Winfrey Show,” (1)____ was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally
broadcasted from 1986 to 2011. (2)____ she is known to be a very rich woman today, that was not always
the case. In fact, Winfrey’s start in life was not a very fortunate one.
1. a) - 2. a) Since
b) it b) Despite
c) that c) Although
d) which d) The fact that
Born to an unwed teenage mother, Oprah Winfrey spent her first years in the South of the United States on
her grandmother’s farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi in (3)____, while her mother looked for work in the
North. Life on the farm was primitive and simple, but her grandmother taught her to read at an early age,
and at age three, Oprah (4)____ poems and Bible verses in local churches.
3. a) greed 4. a) has read
b) wealth b) was read
c) priority c) was reading
d) poverty d) had been read
Her world changed for the worse at the age of six, (5)____ she was sent to Milwaukee to live with her
mother. Her mother (6)____ work as a housemaid there. Unfortunately, while her mother was away for
work for long hours, young Oprah was sexually abused by her male relatives. These men were a/n (7)____
influence on her early life. This situation lasted until Oprah reached age 13. At 14, after (8)____ birth to a
baby boy, who died in infancy, she went to Nashville, Tennessee to live with her father.
5. a) - 6. a) was found 7. a) destructive 8. a) gave
b) that b) had found b) dissatisfied b) giving
c) then c) was finding c) indifferent c) to be given
d) when d) had been found d) superstitious d) being given
Her father, Vernon Winfrey, was a stern disciplinarian. Was he going to be able to save his daughter’s life?
He did not know. Nevertheless, he tried his best. He gave his daughter the secure home life she needed. In
her father’s home, Oprah was expected (9)____ strict rules and be a good student at the same time. In this
strict environment, Oprah (10)____ from a troubled teenager to an honor student, winning prizes for oratory
and dramatic recitations.
9. a) obey 10. a) traced
b) obeyed b) transmitted
c) to obey c) transplanted
d) obeying d) transformed
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At the age of 17, Oprah Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty contest and was offered an on-air
job at WVOL, a radio station (11)____ audience was the African-American community in Nashville. She
(12)____ any experience in broadcasting, yet she had a great success there. She also won a full scholarship
to Tennessee State University, (13)____ she majored in Speech Communications and Performing Arts.
Oprah continued to work at WVOL in her first years of college, but her broadcasting career was already
taking off. She left school and signed on with a local television station as a reporter and anchor. Her
experience at WVOL helped her be comfortable in front of audiences.
11. a) - 12. a) hasn’t had 13. a) -
b) its b) hadn’t had b) that
c) which c) wasn’t having c) there
d) whose d) wouldn’t have d) where
In 1986, Oprah got her TV talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. At first, the producers weren’t sure, but
Oprah was doing well. The show was broadcast nationally and quickly became the number-one talk show in
the United States; through it Oprah received a lot of (14)____. What made her famous? It was her warm
personality. Soon, her show was available to millions of people around the world. The Oprah Winfrey Show
(15)____ as popular as ever, airing in 140 countries until the very last one on May 25, 2011. However, the
end of the show was not the end of Oprah Winfrey’s broadcasting career. She now hosts a nightly program,
Oprah’s Lifeclass, on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her accomplishments as a global media leader and her
determination to overcome difficulties and (16)____ in life have established her as one of the most respected
and admired public figures today.
14. a) publicity 15. a) interpreted 16. a) consequences
b) content b) subsidized b) implications
c) hardware c) remained c) components
c) trial d) revealed d) obstacles
B. Below are sentences taken from the text. Combine each sentence pair using NOUN CLAUSES.
1. Was he going to be able to save his daughter’s life? He did not know.
He didn’t know ______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________.
2. What made her famous? It was her warm personality.

___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________.
SFL/METU March 5, 2013
Dept of B.E. Time: 15 mins.
Testing Office
Announced Quiz 204
INTERMEDIATE GROUP
ANSWER KEY
A.
1. d 7. a 13. d
2. c 8. b 14. a
3. d 9. c 15. c
4. c 10. d 16. d
5. d 11. d
6. b 12. b
B.
1. whether (or not) / if he was going to be able to save his daughter’s life (or not)
2. What made her famous was her warm personality

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2. What made her famous? It was her warm personality.

2. What made her famous was her warm personality

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