1-      In recent years, schools have become more involved with students' emotional welfare as well as their ____ achievement.

 

1)         Standardized

2)         academic

3)         current

4)         real

 

2-      Glance at the sentences and ____the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking.

 

1)         memorize

2)         measure

3)         score

4)         use

 

3-      Tests that are the same in every school, are called “ ____ tests”

 

1)         Similar

2)         Exact

3)         proficiency

4)         standardized

 

4-      One of our senses is____.

 

1)         Walking

2)         Waking

3)         Tasting

4)         testing

 

5-      Remember to smile. It’s the friendliest and most ____form of communication, and is sure to be understood in any part of the world.

 

1)         Dangerous

2)         Severe

3)         complex

4)         sincere

 

6-      You should be at the airport an hour before____.

 

1)         Destination

2)         Expiration

3)         Departure

4)         attention

 

7-      You want to eat local food while you are in another country, so you eat____.

 

1)         Food from your own country

2)         Special dishes from that country

 

3)         The cheapest food served

4)         The food without fat

 

8-      The prefix “pre” in the word “precaution” means____.

 

1)         Above

2)         Advanced

3)         Done before

4)         Next

 

9-      Choose the word that doesn’t belong to the group.

 

1)         Terrible

2)         Wonderful

3)         Fabulous

4)         Fantastic

 

10-  I can see that Tom ____ the fish. He’s hardly eaten any of it.

 

1)         Dislikes

2)         Disagrees

3)         Disconnects

4)         Disappears

 

11-  Mary is ____ person I have ever met.

 

1)         A nice

2)         nicer

3)         the most nice

4)         the nicest

 

12-  You digest your food by using your ____.

 

1)         Hands

2)         Stomach

3)         Head

4)         heart

 

13-  “The study of the earth” is called “____”.

 

1)         Biology

2)         Phonology

3)         Psychology

4)         geology

 

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

 

1)         bad

2)         worse

3)         the bad

4)         the worst

 

 

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