IN THE NAME OF GOD

 

Midterm English Test of Azad University, Bonab Branch  

  Time: 40 Minutes   Date: December 05, 2008 

   Choose the best choice

A: Vocabulary

1-      The teacher spoke so quietly that the students could ____ hear her.

1)         Difficult

2)         Hard

3)         Hardy

4)         Hardly

2-      I will do ____ I can to help you.

1)         How

2)         Where

3)         Whatever

4)         However

3-      The imaginary line around which the earth turns, is called “____”.

1)         Meridian

2)         Ax

3)         Oxen

4)         Axis

4-      The tired boy ____ on the bed and went to sleep.

1)         Lay

2)         Lied

3)         Lying

4)         layed

5-      The world “____” comes from the Latin word meaning “to know”.

1)         Knowledge

2)         Date

3)         Information

4)         Science

6-      The travelling of the earth around the sun helps cause the ____.

1)         Reasons

2)         Seasons

3)         Hurricane

4)         Earthquake

7-      The scientific name for human beings is “____”.

1)         Man

2)         Homo sapiens

3)         Ancestors

4)         Cavemen

8-      Work was ____ start on a new factory building.

1)         Going

2)         Nearly

3)         about to

4)         approximately

9-      People will respect you more ____.

1)         By looking at you with anger

2)         If you laugh at them

3)         If you are a good listener

4)         If you are very selfish

10-  Engineering is ____.

1)         Finding ways for solving problems

2)         Scientific ways of building up a great body of knowledge

3)         A branch of applied physics

4)         Not an academic field of study

 

B: Grammar

11-  I'm having ___ a wonderful time in Belem that I don't want to go home.

1)         such

2)         too

3)         so

4)         enough

12-  The garage was just ---- for two cars to fit in.

1)         so big

2)         very big

3)         big enough

4)         enough big

13-  When they were in Japan, they ____ speak either Japanese or English.

1)         had to

2)         have to

3)         must

4)         should

14-  This book is ____ one I have ever read.

1)         bad

2)         worse

3)         the bad

4)         the worst

 

C: Reading Comprehension

People have long been interested in having one language that could be spoken throughout the world. Such a language would help promote understanding and better feeling among nations. A universal language also would increase cultural and economic ties among various countries.

Through the years, at least 600 universal languages have been proposed. Esperanto is the most successful universal tongue. About 10 million people have learned Esperanto since its creation in 1887.

 

15-  The passage is mainly about ____.

1)         universal languages

2)         human languages

3)         various countries

4)         language learning

16-  Esperanto should be ____.

1)         an artificial language

2)         a modern language

3)         a natural language

4)         an industrial language

17-  According to the passage, even the most successful universal language____.

1)         Does not have many speakers

2)         Has been less successful than Esperanto

3)         Is very difficult to learn

4)         Has fewer speakers than any other language

     Recent technological changes are making modern medicine a more popular and exciting field than ever before. First, new technology is now available to modern “disease detectives”, doctors and scientists who are putting together clues to solve medical mysteries-that is, to find out the answers to questions of health and sickness. Second, knowledge of genetics may prevent or cure birth problems and genetic illnesses. Third, successful transplants of the heart and other organs of the body are much more common than they were ten or twenty years ago.

 

18-  We understand from this passage that ____.

1)         modern medicine is a very popular and exciting field

2)         new technology has changed all fields especially medicine

3)         all medical mysteries have been solved nowadays

4)         knowledge of genetics tries to find out the answers to questions of birth

19-  The word “prevent” means ____.

1)         consist

2)         insist

3)         step

4)         stop

20-  This text says that ____.

1)         transplant of heart is a possibility now

2)         transplant is not as much common as twenty years ago

3)         new technology puts organs together to solve problems

4)         the knowledge of genetics is not related to birth problems

 

 

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

 

GOODLUCK

 

M. Mofarreh