13029 diagnostic testfirst level

ENGLISH PROGRESS TEST-FIRST LEVEL-SEPTERMBER2,011
PUPIL’S
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A) V O C A B U L A R Y
A-1) WRITE THESE NUMBERS AS WORDS.

1. 5th___________________________________
2. 2,011(date)___________________________
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4. 9th___________________________________
5. 3rd___________________________________

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12. A-2)-ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
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What is your date of birth? I was born
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Where do you live?
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A-3)label as many parts of the body as you can
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21. Richard Outcault, an American artist, started to write his Yellow Kid stories in 1896. These were the first comics. They were funny
stories and they had a lot of pictures. They appeared in a New York newspaper every week.

22. Other artists copied this style. At first, they wrote funny stories about children and animals. Later, adventure and science fiction

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stories became popular, with characters like Tarzan and Flash Gordon.Then, in 1931, teenagers Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster met
at school and invented SUPERMAN
the first “ superhero”. From
1939 to 1945 there were nearly 400
new superheroes, including
Batman and
Wonderwoman.
23. There were also a lot of horror and
detective comics in the 1940s.
Adults usually bought these comics,
but children also read them.
This was a problem. Parents and
teachers didn’t like the violent
stories in the 1950s, the American
government prohibited a lot of
comics.

24. In the 1960s, superheroes and
detective stories became popular
again
25. .The X-Men and Spider-Man were the readers ‘ favourite , and millions of people bought, the first
Spider-Man comic.
After that, comics didn’t change much until the 1990s, when something new and exciting came to bookshops and newsagents “The
Manga Invasion”

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B)ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TEXT- FULL answers

Who was the writer of the first comic?
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When did he write the “Yellow Kid” stories?
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How often did the first comics appear?
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How old were Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster when they “invented” Superman?

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What was the reason why American government forbade a lot of comics?
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How many “superheroes” were there from 1930 to 1945?
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How many people bought the first Spider-Man comic?
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When did “The Manga invasion” come?
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Where did Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster meet?
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When did the American government forbid a lot of comics?
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C) IF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES ARE TRUE PUT “T”; IN CASE THEY ARE WRONG PUT “F” AND CORRECT
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Richard Outcault started to write comics in 1986.
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The first comics were about superheroes.
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Superman was the favourite superhero in the 1960s.
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Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster met at University
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Parents and teachers didn’t like horror comics
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The first Spider-Man comic wasn’t popular
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