IN THE NAME OF GOD

Midterm English Test of Azad University, Bonab Branch,   Pre-University Level

Group: B    Time: 40 Minutes   Date: December 06, 2008 

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   Choose the best choice

 

1-      This store is always ____. There are always lots and lots of people.

1)         Expensive

2)         Crowded

3)         Interested

4)         Polluted

2-      My ____ are from Mexico. They `re nice people.

1)         Neighbors

2)         Natures

3)         Computers

4)         Languages

3-      Cross out the word that doesn’t belong in this group.

1)         Wonderful

2)         Terrific

3)         Terrible

4)         Good

4-      Cross out the word that doesn’t belong in the group.

1)         Tribe

2)         Family

3)         Place

4)         Clan

5-      “A group of people in a game” is called a ____.

1)         Tame

2)         Team

3)         Temp

4)         time

6-      An extended family is____.

1)         A family with a mother, father and children

2)         A big family with grandparents, parents, children, aunts, and uncles

3)         A family with one parent and a child

4)         A family with no children

7-      In 1965, a ____ nuclear family was important.

1)         Rational

2)         National

3)         International

4)         traditional

8-      Many married women ____ lonely.

1)         Fall

2)         Fell

3)         Feel

4)         Fear

9-      The shirt is ____.

1)         Washing

2)         Washable

3)         Unwash

4)         washment

10-  ____ is the number of people in a country in a city or country.

1)         Pollution

2)         Population

3)         Practice

4)         Power

11-  The word “monster” is ____.

1)         A place to live

2)         A terrible thing

3)         something to drink

4)         a kind person

Read the following passages and choose the best answer.

 

Groups of people living together are called societies. Differences in the behavior of individuals put pressure on the society. These pressures are called social pressures and stress. The social pressures affect all the people in the society. Every large city in the world has problems with the social pressures, and many cities have been trying to solve these problems.

All social pressures are caused by the way people live. When people constantly live under stress, they are often unhappy and unhealthy. Often they live under stress because they are not aware of the things that cause stress in their lives. In order to find out what things are causing stress, people must be willing to think about how they live, how they work, How they play, and how they think about themselves. If they do this, they can find out what they should change in their lives, in order to decrease their stresses and to be happier and healthier.

Sometimes when people are asked if they are happy they have a hard time answering. Some people can't even tell you what makes them happy or unhappy. They often don't know why they are tired, or why they have headaches or stomachaches. Often these uncomfortable feelings come from living under constant stress.

 

12-  In large cities stress is caused by____.

1)         different behavior of individuals

2)         hard work

3)         uncomfortable feelings

4)         unhealthy people

13-  People who are under constant stress can live happier if they____.

1)         work and play

2)         change their way of life

3)         think while they are working

4)         put pressure on society

14-  The word “constantly” is closest in meaning to “____”.

1)         Really

2)         Continuously

3)         Safely

4)         hardly

15-  People can't change stressful things in their lives because they____.

1)         feel pain

2)         are tired

3)         are not aware of them

4)         aren't asked about them

16-  The underlined pronoun, "they" refers to____.

1)         pressures

2)         societies

3)         individuals

4)         people

Global warming brings with it no guarantees. We don't know exactly what will happen. What the effects will be. Nor do we know exactly where or when they will make problems. But it should be said that scientists have a pretty good idea of what is going to happen. They tell us that the possible effects of climate change could be big and, in some cases, would cause serious problems. Among the possible effects are increased number of human deaths, extinction of groups of animals and plants, and a dangerous rise in sea levels. With this in mind, we have to think of the costs of action and weigh them against the risks of inaction.

 

17-  The topic sentence of the paragraph is____.

1)         What the effects will be.

2)         We don't know exactly what will happen.

3)         Global warming brings with it no guarantees.

4)         A rise in sea level will cause lots of floods.

18-  "Risk" is the closest in meaning to____.

1)         danger

2)         region

3)         cause

4)         effect

19-  According to this passage, the scientists____.

1)     don't have any new ideas about global warming

2)     know all about the effects of global warming and climate

3)     have no feeling about the effects of global warming

4)     have a rather good idea of what is going to occur

20-  The underlined pronoun, "they" refers to____.

1)         the scientists

2)         guarantees

3)         possible effects

4)         actions

 

 

GOODLUCK

 

M. Mofarreh