MID-TERM TEST – ENGLISH 11

Time allowed: 90 minutes

Score Teacher’s comments (Idk what to write here but I’ll try if I’m in the mood)

PART I – PHONETICS (1 pt.)

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
1. A. expedite B. satirical C. stifle D. climax
2. A. advised B. pleased C. housed D. released
3. A. cook B. shoot C. look D. foot
Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is placed differently from that of the others.
4. A. dominance B. lethargy C. fallacy D. complexion
5. A. virtue B. serene C. purpose D. lowbrow
Your answers:
1. B 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. B

PART II – LEXICO-GRAMMAR (4 pts.)

Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences. (1.3 pts.)
1. We returned from _______ two-week holiday in ______ Sahara and ______ Africa.
A. a/the/Ø B. a/the/the C. a/ Ø/ Ø D. a/ Ø/the
2. A former student has donated a _______ sum of money to the college.
A. maleficent B. malevolent C. munificent D. municipal
3. The company was _______ for breaching the Health and Safety Act.
A. prosecuted B. persecuted C. proselytized D. perseverated
4. It _______ Nanami that you saw, because he definitely left for London a few weeks ago.
A. shouldn’t have been B. mustn’t have been
C. might not have been D. can’t have been
5. The new building _______ well with its surroundings.
A. stands out B. shapes up C. gets on D. blends in
6. It is commonly known that the greenhouse effect occurs _________ heat radiated from the sun.
A. when the earth’s atmosphere trap B. when the earth’s atmosphere trapped
C. when the earth’s atmosphere is trapped D. when the earth’s atmosphere traps
7. The law prevents people from _________ harm on one another.
A. inferring B. inducing C. inflicting D. indicting
8. There was no _______ from his doctor that his condition was serious.
A. intimation B. intimate C. intimately D. intimative
9. We seem to have got our _______ crossed. I thought you were getting on Bus No.60, not the No.50 one.
A. minds B. paths C. wires D. fingers
10. Using puppets, special effects, live music, and _______ humour, the FNAF movie creates in its ‘family
audience’ both fear and laughter.
A. joystick B. punchstick C. sadstick D. slapstick
11. When he came to power, he was _______ as a savior.
A. thought B. redeemed C. hailed D. classified
12. The students didn’t study hard for their exam, _______ did they know how important this exam was.
A. for B. but C. and D. nor
13. Don’t try to do everything at once - _______ yourself.
A. pace B. plod C. brace D. turn
Choose the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. (0.2 pts.)
14. Gojo and Megumi met in a supermarket.

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- Gojo: “How are you doing?”
- Megumi: “_______.”
A. Just some grocery shopping B. I’m an actor
C. I’m doing well D. Ew, I’m fifteen. Scram!
15. - “She is the most remarkable student in this school.” - “_______.”
A. That’s that B. Never mind C. You bet D. That’s OK
Your answers:
1. A 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. D
6. D 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. D
11. C 12. D 13. A 14. C 15. C
Give the correct form of the words in brackets. (1 pt.)
1. He was discovered to have been _______ company funds. (PROPERTY)
2. Imtar Rah’s claim to the kingdom was accused of being spurious and _______. (LEGIT)
3. Her personality began to change, with _______ rages, violent outbursts and other evidence of a brain
disorder. (CHARACTER)
4. They _______ to see their son well again. (JOY)
5. The genre of ‘historical fiction’ is an _______ to begin with. (MORON)
Your answers:
1. EXPROPRIATING 2. ILLEGITIMATE 3. UNCHARACTERISTIC 4. REJOICED 5. OXYMORON

Fill a suitable preposition/ particle in each gap to complete the sentences. (0.5 pts.)
1. You shouldn’t pick _______ him just because he’s different.
2. Marrying into such a rich family had always been _______ his wildest dreams.
3. She spent more than twenty years _______ the pinnacle of her profession.
4. You’re getting old. Your ideas are way _______ the times.
5. The announcement that taxes will be raised has put the public _______ an uproar.
Your answers:
1. ON 2. BEYOND 3. AT 4. BEHIND 5. IN
Find a word which can fit in all three gaps to complete the sentences. (1 pt.)
1. ______________
A. The result of the match was in _______ until late into the fifth set.
B. I _______ if I’ll ever come back here.
C. His guilt was established beyond any reasonable _______.
2. _____________
A. You may suffer psychological damage if you _______ up your emotions and feelings. It’s good to
have somebody to confide in.
B. When his family died in a car accident all his life collapsed. He tried to find consolation by hitting
the _______ and leading a reckless life.
C. The process of wine making must be closely supervised. Even the last stage when you _______ the
wine must be carried out in hygienic conditions.
3. ___________
A. I had a pretty _______ shave in the reserve when an alligator missed my hands by 2 inches.
B. The reporter had the chance to see sectarian violence at _______ quarters while in the region.
C. And this joke has brought our show to a _______. Thank you and see you next time.
4. ____________
A. After the gaffe he’d made during a formal reception in the embassy, he became the _______ of his
colleagues’ jokes.
B. At first glance, it seemed that the room wasn’t occupied, but the detective spotted a cigarette
_______ still smoldering in the ashtray. He immediately grew suspicious.
C. Be quiet, you naughty boy! Don’t _______ in if you’re not asked.

5. ___________
A. Earthquakes sometimes seem to come so soon one after ___________.

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 B. ___________ few years and she’ll be a world champion.
C. Shoplifting is one thing; robbery with violence is quite ___________.
Your answers:
1. DOUBT 2. BOTTLE 3. CLOSE 4. BUTT 5. ANOTHER

PART III – READING (2 pts.)

Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D to fill in each blank.
For questions 1-10, read the passage and fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable
word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Large modern cities are too big to control. They impose their own living conditions (1)_______ the
people who (2)_______ them. City-dwellers are obliged by their environment to (3)_______ a wholly
unnatural way of life. They lose (4)_______ with the land and rhythm of nature. It is possible to live such an
air-conditioned existence in a large city (5) _______ you are barely conscious of the seasons.
A (6)_______ flowers in a public park (if you have the time to visit it) may remind you that it is
spring or summer. Some leaves clinging (7)_______ the pavement may remind you that it is autumn.
(8)_______ that, what is going on in nature seems totally irrelevant. All the simple, good things of life like
sunshine and fresh air are (9)_______ a premium. Tall buildings blot out the sun. Traffic fumes pollute
atmosphere. Even the distinction between day and night is (10)_______. The flow of traffic goes on
unceasingly and the noise never stops.
Your answers:
1. on 2. inhabit 3. adapt/live/lead 4. touch 5. that
6. few 7. to 8. beyond 9. at 10. lost
The passage below consists of 4 paragraphs marked A, B, C, D. For questions 1-10, read the passage
and do the task that follows. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
KEEP MOVING
A. In 2006, James Levine, a scientist based at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, conducted a very strange
experiment. He wanted to measure something which goes by the cumbersome title of Non-Exercise Activity
Thermogenesis - or NEAT. Essentially, this examines how people move about during an average day - not
when they’re exercising, but when they’re making no special effort to keep fit. The big question was just
how to do the measuring - and here Levine hit upon a radical plan. He decided to put his volunteers into
specially sensored underwear. This would measure their every waking and sleeping moment. Levine,
incidentally, is no stranger to weird experiments. Aged 10, he’d placed 15 pond snails in a glass tank and
tracked their movements every hour across a piece of wax paper. Twelve months and 200 wax paper trials
later, he came to the same conclusion that he reached 23 years later in his sensored underwear experiment.
All creatures have a biological imperative to move - and movement, perhaps more than anything else, is
good for us.
B. By the same token, lack of movement is very bad indeed. The NEAT experiment revealed that lean
people bum around 350 more calories a day just by fidgeting, pacing about, or walking to the coffee
machine. As for the non-lean ones, they just sat there, getting ever more bloated and unfit. Sitting down,
Levine concluded, is not just bad for people - it’s a killer. This may seem a bit drastic, but Levine isn’t the
only scientist who reckons that being sedentary offers an accelerated route to an early grave. However, the
vast majority of us move about less and less. As labour-intensive jobs disappear, we live in an increasingly
sedentary world, spending our working lives stuck in a chair and ever larger amounts of our leisure time too.
We know that exercise is good for us and that sitting down all day isn’t - we just choose to ignore it.
C. Soon after the end of the Second World War, a British health researcher called Jerry Morris set up a study
to examine why record numbers of people were dying of heart attacks. The first results Morris got in were
from London busmen. Immediately, he saw that there was a striking difference: drivers were twice as likely
to suffer a heart attack as conductors. To begin with, this didn’t make sense. After all, they were much the
same age, ate much the same food and so on. There was only one key difference. Whereas the drivers spent
their days behind the wheel, conductors spent theirs running up and down the stairs. Morris thought he
might be on to something, but it was still too early to say: he had to wait for other data to arrive. Then came
the figures for postal workers. These were strikingly similar to the bus drivers: the postmen who delivered
the mail by bike and on foot had markedly fewer heart attacks than the ones who served behind counters.

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His paper, ‘Coronary Heart-disease and Physical Activity of Work’, was published in 1953 - and greeted
with hoots of derision by his peers. But Morris, as people slowly began to concede, was onto something.
D. Two hundred years ago, people may have led much less sedentary lives, but they still had an inkling that
sitting down wasn’t doing them any good. No one seems to know exactly when the standing desk was
invented, but by the mid 19th century, they were a regular fixture in the offices and homes of the rich. But if
people could get used to working standing up, could they go one step further? One evening in 2007, Levine
was in his office thinking about the relationship between exercise and fitness when he had an idea. Instead
of people nipping off to the gym and then coming back to slump at their desks, maybe they could exercise at
the same time as working. Sliding a hospital tray on top of a treadmill, Levine set it to a modest 2mph. To
his surprise, he found he could work perfectly easily while he was walking along. He could type, make
phone calls and do almost everything that he normally did sitting down. Yet after an hour, he’d burned off
more than 100 calories. It was, as he admits, an eccentric invention. ‘There was a notion floating about that I
had completely flipped.’ But television stations began doing news reports, and all at once people didn’t think
he was so nutty after all. Soon, the treadmill desk, or Walkstation as it was called, had gone into commercial
production.

In which section are the following mentioned? Your answers:

 a cautious reaction to some information 1. C

 the reason for the decrease in the amount of movement made by people 2. B
 the solution to a problem in carrying out some research 3. A
 information from which it was initially hard to draw a conclusion 4. C
 a gradual acceptance of the connection between movement and health 5. C
 something widely acknowledged but not acted upon 6. B
 proof that not everyone regarded an idea as ridiculous 7. D
 a finding that pleased the person who made it 8. D
 a history of taking an unusual approach to research 9. A
 a view that could be regarded as too extreme 10. B