Test 1 XI B
Test 1 XI B
Test 1 XI B
Name: Date: I. Use the words in the box to complete the sentences. chatty sensible hilarious chuckle giggle easy-going
moody witty
shy sympathetic
1. She is .. and everybody likes her. 2. Tom is . and never does anything silly. 3. She was... when I told her my dog had died she listened and said she was sorry. 4. Youre so..! One minute youre cheerful, the next minute youre miserable. 5. Jane is very She talks all the time. 6. He is and sometimes feels uncomfortable with other people. 7. She .to herself when she was reading that book. 8. The teacher was angry because some students couldnt stop. 9. The new Woody Allen film is. 10. My history teacher is always making .. remarks. 20 points II. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits the space. Nowadays advertisers are prepared to do more and more to get their message across. There are more and more magazines with an ever larger proportion of ads, where clearly a fortune has been spent on the production of the ad. This may be because the advertisers have paid to use a famous celebrity or because of using an exotic (1) (LOCATE) as background or because the ad uses expensive photography and (2) .. (GRAPH). We are becoming (3) (INCREASE) sophisticated so it is also becoming more (4) .. (CHALLENGE) to catch our attention. At the same time, as more and more people are hooked into an ever-expanding range of TV channels, advertising on television is becoming (5) .. (PRICE). Because of this, some pundits say the TV companies may be losing their market as the Internet competes for our attention. It is becoming (6) .. (ECONOMIC) now for companies to use TV as they dont get the returns they demand on their (7) (INVEST). But advertising on the Internet has opened up a whole new ball game of (8) . (POSSIBLE). In fact, consumers are getting very (9) .. (RESENT) as the mainly pop-up ads used on the Internet are seen as a gross (10) (INTRUDE) of privacy by most of us. 20 points
III. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets: When Chris Marris, a young teacher, (1). (come) to Queensmill in 1982, he was astonished by Stephens drawings. Marris (2). (teach) disabled children for nine years, but nothing he (3) .. (see) had prepared him for Stephen. When I first (4) (see) him, Stephen (5) (sit) on his own in the corner of the room, drawing, Chris told me. He was absolutely amazing. He would draw and draw and draw the school (6) (call) him the genius. And he (7) (produce) these most unchildlike drawings, like St Pauls and Tower Bridge, in tremendous detail when other children his age (8) (draw) stick figures. It was the sophistication of his drawings, their mastery of line and perspective, that (9) (amaze) me and these (10) .. (be) all there when he was seven. 30 points IV. Answer the following questions: 1. Has anyone ever pulled your leg? What happened? How did you feel? 2. Do you know anyone who is often sarcastic? What does that person do and say? 20 points + 10 points = 100 points