The second semester test 1 pdf

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The second semester test 1
( Time allowance: 45’)
Language Focus: Circle the best answer.
1. The house………I live is very small.
A. which. B. what. C. when. D. in which.
2. Both my sister and I………absent from the class yesterday.
A. was. B. were. C. are. D. am.
3. There aren’t many people here yet,…………?
A. are they. B. are there. C. have they. D. have there.
4. Neil Armstrong was the first man to……… foot on the moon.
A. try. B. let. C. put. D. set.
5. It was Springfield……… Jack lived.
A. where. B. which. C. whom. D. who.
6. When I was a kid, I………….swim at all. I only learnt when I was twenty.
A. could. B. was able to. C. couldn’t. D. must.
* Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently:
7.A. hospital. B. honour. C. host. D. heritage.
8. A. reached. B. watched. C. managed. D. matched.
9. A. sign. B. line. C. kind. D. children.
10. A. capture. B. astronaut. C. biography. D. aspiation.
II. LISTENING(2.5p) Listen and choose the best option
1. Valentina’s father was killed in…………
A. 1959 B. 1939 C. 1839 D. 1858
2. Valentina started school when……………………
A .she was ten B. she was twelve C. she was twenty D. she was five
3. Valentina later moved to live with ……
A. her grandfather B. her grandmother C. her mother D. her parents
4. She became a cosmonaut ……….when she volunteered for the Soviet space program.

A. in 1961. B. in 1951. C. in 1916. D. in 1861.
5. She married to another Soviet………and had a daughter.
A. teacher. B. cosmonaut. C. worker. D. scientist.
iii. reading:Read the passage and decide whether each of thestatements is true ( T) or
false (F).
There is now increasing concern about the world’s energy resources, particularly about
those involving fossil fuels. In less than a hundred years we shall probably exhaust all the
present sources of oil and gas. The world’s coal reserves should last longer but, once used,
these cannot be renewed. It is important, therefore, that we should develop such alternative
sources of energy as solar energy and nuclear energy as well as water and wind power (
classed as renewable energy). Until these energy supplies are widely used, is it important
for the developed countries to reduce energy consumption as much as possible.
1. T / F…The world’s energy resources, are concerned about.
2. T / F… Coal is a source of non-renewable energy.

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3. T / F… Alternative sources of energy such as solar energy, nuclear energy, and
water and wind power should be developed.
4. T / F……Water and power is classed as renewable energy.
5. T / F… Oil and gas supplies will only last in less than a hundred years .
III WRITING (2.5p): From the information given below, write the biography of
Isaac Newton, a great scientist, who found out the law of gravity
1642: December 25 , born/ small village/, England.
1656 : Leave school and help his mother/ run the farm
1660 : Go to Cambridge university
1665 : Take a B.A degree
1665-1667: School closed because of Great Plague / Go on with his studies at home./Laid
the foundations for his famous discoveries in mathematics and physics.
1667 : become a professor / mathematics at cambridge University

1727 : March 20, die , age 85.
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