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LISTENING COMPREHENSION: (8 marks)
1- Circle the right choice: ( 1 mark ) The text is about:
School and Education
Travel and Trips
London Attractions
2- Say whether the following are True or False: ( 3 marks )
The brother travelled to Paris and Rome: ……….
He didn’t see the Eiffel Tower: ……….
He didn’t like the French food: ……….
The brother speaks very good Italian: ……….
He bought souvenirs from France: ……….
In Italy, he stayed with a family: ……….
3- Answer the following questions: ( 3 marks )
Was the brother happy to go back home? ( 1.5 marks )
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Where will he travel next year?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
4- Fill in the blanks with words from the text: ( 1 mark )
It is fun to take a ……………….. to a faraway place. My brother just ……………….. to Italy and France.
LANGUAGE: (12 marks)
1-Circle the correct answer: 4pts
Over the past thirty years or so the quality of many (people's lives-lives people-
people lives) has deteriorated in some respects because of (technological –
technology-technic)progress. Those people living near airports are (constant-
constantly-consist) assailed by the noise of increasingly (larger-more large-
largest) and more powerful jet aircraft taking off and landing. We have ugly
buildings which have sprung up in towns and cities. Some of these are blocks of
flats-high-rise buildings built (because of –thanks to –for) the high price of land,
which seem more like breeding boxes than houses (where –which- that) people
have space to live. Worse still, much of our building effort has been channeled into
the (construction-destruction-distraction) of more and more large office blocks
at the expense (of-in-with) much needed housing for the growing urban
population.
One of Lídia’s friends has recently travelled to Sydney. Read the text and
complete it with the verbs in brackets in the correct tense or form :4.5 pts
Last February I decided to go to Sydney, Australia for a holiday. On the morning
I (1) ________ (leave) Portugal it (2) _______ (rain). But when I (3)
______________ (land) in Australia the sun (4) ___________ (shine) and a
lovely warm breeze was blowing from the sea.
I took a taxi to my hotel. As I (5) _____________ (sign) the register, someone
(6) ___________ (tap) on my shoulder. I (7) ___________ (not/can) believe
my eyes. It was my old girlfriend!
The next day we (8) ___________ (go) for a walk in the hills and saw hundreds
of beautiful flowers. It (9) _____________ (get) dark when we returned to our
hotel after a very interesting day. We spent the rest of the week together. It
was very romantic.
1- Insert the words from the list into the right spaces.There’s an extra
word:3pts
2- Trip-Surround -Impressions-in -coasts-historical –impressed-with
My first visit to London was one and a half years ago. It was a wonderful………………..
I stayed in the city for three weeks, and I had many……………………………… I visited all
the famous places. I'd like to tell you about some of the places I visited in this
beautiful city.When I dreamed of seeing London in the past, I always wanted to see
the Tower Bridge and the famous Big Ben clock. I visited these places, and I went
on a tourist boat on the River Thames and saw two …………………………First, I went to
the Tower of London, and I want to say that it is a very interesting
……………..……..place. I found out that a long time ago,
it was a prison.Later it became a castle for the royal family. Or maybe it is the
reverse; I'm not sure, but later they left this
place and lived in Buckingham Palace
and Kensington Palace.Trafalgar Square is a
popular place for students and other young
people. You will find lots of pigeons there. If
you have time, you can feed them and they
will be very happy. You can buy special food
for them, but be careful! Tons of birds are going
………….…………you if you feed them.I also was ………………………. with the museums in
London. They're very popular. I found them interesting because you can learn
about the history of England.I had a wonderful time in London. I really liked it
because it is a city that is rich ……………………………….history.
