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سؤالات

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Vocabulary:

A. Fill in the blanks with the words give. There is one extra word.

(craters – agriculture – join – private - destination - willing  – suffers )

1.  They are not …………… to work under dangerous conditions.

2.  There are several ………….. on the moon surface .                                            

3.  The north of Iran is a popular holiday ……………….  .                                                                

4.  My grandmother …………….. from backache.                                 

5.  After collage I am going to ……………. the police.                                                     

6.  Most of the people in the country are employed in …………… .

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B. Match column "A" with column "B". There is one extra word in column "B".

                           A                                                                                          B

               ---------------------                                                               ----------------------

7. Make someone stop doing a job                                                         a. sample

8. A small amount of something to test                                                  b. document                                          

9. A piece of paper with information on it                                             c. remove

10. A building for nuns                                                                          d. locate

                                                                                                                e. convent

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C. Choose the correct answer.

11. At an early age, he showed …………. of a serious hearing problem.

    a. pictures                       b. signs                        c. samples                   d. features

12. There is no ………… way to stop child labor.                                                 

     a. urban                          b. simple                     c. artificial                  d. addictive                             

13. A space probe is a robot vehicle to ……………… deep space.

     a. experience                  b. express                   c. explain                    d. explore                             

14. Do you think I made a good ……………….. on your parents.

     a. competition                b. formation               c. definition                 d. impression

15. On the World Wide Web, news is ……………. continuously.

     a. planted                       b. transferred             c. updated                    d. explored

16. He first worked as an ………….. to his father before he started his own business.

     a. agency                        b. adult                      c. apprentice                d. advisability

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Grammar: Choose the correct answer.

 17. “He was very sad when I saw him”.

      “He ...................... have failed one of the exams.”

      a. should                       b. must                             c. can’t                               d. shouldn’t

18. ............... the weather was too cold and rainy, the children had a lot of fun.

      a. as                             b. whether                         c. although                         d. since

19. Missions have to carefully designed ................ astronauts will be kept safe from take off to landing.

     a. so that                       b. to                                  c. although                         d. so as   

20. Some people prefer to work for the government, …………….others like to be self employed.

     a. while                          b. so that                               c. because                  d. unless

21. The glasses aren’t in my pockets. I don’t know what happened for them. I …………….. them

      somewhere.

     a. should leave               b. should have left                c. might leave            d. might have left

22. I like football  …………….. my father hates it

      a. when                         b. whether                             c. whereas                 d. so that

23. Mary went to the store ………….. buy some pencils.

     a. so that                        b. in order that                      c. so as to                   d. so

24. I was in Paris at that time. You ……………. to see me.

     a. should come             b. must have come                c. should have come                  d. might have come

25. I know they’re coming next week , …………. I don’t know which day.

      a. when                        b. so that                               c. but                           d. since

26. We went to an excellent restaurant but John didn’t eat anything. He …………… hungry.

      a. shouldn’t have been              b. might not be             c. couldn’t have been          d. mustn’t be 

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Sentence function:

     Match the items in column “A” with column “B”. There is one extra item in column “ B.

                       A                                                                                                B

      -----------------------------                                                          --------------------------------

27. She died ten years ago ………                                        a. because it speeds up problem solving .                    

28. A telescope is an instrument ...............                            b. but her memory lives on .

29. A computer is a useful device ............                            c. since they can pay them less .

30. Employers may hire children ...........                              d. that magnifies distant objects .

                                                                                               e. because it is addictive .

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Reading comprehension                                                                                                                                   

 A. Read the following sentences and check the correct answer.

31. Three months after starting school, Edison ran away. His mother was forced to teach him at home.

      We understand from the above sentences that Edison………………………… . 

       a. was not educated at all                                         b. was forced to teach his mother                     

       c. went to school only three months                        d. ran away from his house

32. Although there have been no plans to build bases on the moon so far, they will be possible by the year

      2020. According to this sentence …………….. .

      a. a base has been built on the moon                        b. building bases on the moon are future possibility

      c. it is impossible to make bases on the moon         d. man can not build bases on the moon

33. The Web is  actually one special area of the internet .Other areas include newsgroups, mailing lists and

      chat. According to these sentences ……………  .

      a.  the Internet is much wider than the Web            b. the Web is more useful than the Internet 

      c.  the Internet is a part of the Web                         d. the Internet and the Web are the same

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B. cloze Passage: Fill in the banks with the words given. There is one extra word.

             (   impression – promotion – taught – homeless – poverty – slums – devoted   )

     From 1929 to 1948 Mother Teresa .........34......... at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta. The suffering

and .........35........she observed outside the convent walls made a deep ............36............ on her. In 1946 she 

left the convent school and ..........37.........herself to working among the poor in the .........38..........of  Calcutta. Although she had no money she started an open-air school for ...........39...........children.

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C. Read the following passage and answer the questions.

     Bill Gates is a very important person in the computer industry .He has been the head of Microsoft

Company for many years. He is also the richest person in America. How did he do it? 

     He learned a lot from his parents. While Bill was going to school , his father went to collage , got a

degree, and became a successful judge. From this he learned that you have to work hard if you want

something. His mother was a very busy teacher, but she also enjoyed traveling. From this he learned that if you want to work hard and enjoy yourself at the same time, you have to make program.

      When Bill was young he spent a lot of time on reading. But his childhood was not all work. He played a lot of sports. When he got older he spent more and more time working and playing on a computer. Before he was 20, Bill developed the world’s first computer language for a computer program. He thought that every home was going to have a computer and every computer would require software ( the program you put into a computer ). He said,” I am going to make my first million dollars on software by the time I’m 25.” And he did it.

 40. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct about Bill Gates?

       a. He became very rich at a very young age

       b. Both of his parents were hard working people

       c. As a child he was greatly interested in reading

       d. He was the first person to develop a computer

41. What Bill Gates learned from his mother was that if you have an organized life, you can ……........  .

         a. do your job and have your hobbies too

         b. make good programs for working harder

         c. travel to different places and enjoy yourself

         d. study and work successfully at the same time

  42. The word “require “ in the last paragraph is the closest in meaning to ……………. .

         a. accept                       b. use                           c. need                                    d. produce

43. The word “it “ the last word of the passage refers to ……………… .

         a. selling one million computer at the age of 25 

         b. spending a lot of money before he was 25

         c. making one million pieces of software in 25 years 

         d. becoming a millionaire before the age of 25

44. Bill Gates was not even 20 years old when he developed the first …………….. .

        a. personal computer in the computer industry 

        b. computer language for home computers  

        c. personal language for computers 

        d. software for world computers

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D. Read the following passage and check the answers.

     Poverty plays an important role in the phenomenon of child labor. Poor families around the world are forced to make even young children work to increase the family’s total income. For poor families the small amount of a child’s income or assistance at home is very important. It allows the family to survive from hunger and not to die. According to the 1997 UNICEF report a study of nine Latin American countries found that without the income of working children aged 13 to 17 the poverty rate could climb by 10 to 20 percent. 

45. What’s the best title for the passage?

       a. Economic problems of working families

       b. Poor families and little income

       c. Poverty and child labor 

       d. Child labor in Latin America

46. According to the passage poor families send their children to work because ………. .

      a. they do not love them

      b. they need their income very much

      c. children should learn some skills

      d. the money they receive is very much

47. The text implies that in poor families ………. .

      a. both children and their parents work 

      b. adults are not forced to work at all

      c. only children have to work 

      d. family total income is truly high

48. The word “climb” in the last line means …………….. .

      a. prepare                           b. decrease                                   c. increase                        d. come down