METU/SFL Fall 2024

DBE
SPAN 2 FP1 201 GROUP
(Student’s Copy)

LANGUAGE
A. Read the text about Anton Kristoff, and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Do
not use modal verbs, such as should or can.
Hi! I’m Anton. I (1) ______________________ (be/ born) in Toronto, but my parents are from Bulgaria. They
(2)______________________ (move) to Canada thirty years ago. When they first arrived, they
(3)______________________ (speak) any English. Their life was very difficult. However, I
(4)______________________ (have) any communication problems when I was a kid because I could speak
English very well.
As I told you, I am from Canada, but at the moment I (5) ______________________ (live) here in New York. I
(6)______________________ (work) as a bike messenger. I really like New York because I
(7)______________________ (think) it is the center of the universe, and it’s very cosmopolitan. I
(8)______________________ (have) friends from all over the world. I earn about $100 a day in this job. That’s
good money. These days, I (9) ______________________ (save) money for my education.
Next September, I (10) ______________________ (move) back to Toronto. I hope to get a good job there, and
I (11) ______________________ (do) a Master’s degree in Management. My older brother is a university
student now, but he wants (12) _______________________ (start) a business with me by the time he is 30, so
we can work together. I am excited to work with him, but I also think that I (13) ______________________
(miss) New York when I go back to Toronto.

B. Complete the sentences with the gerund or infinitive form of the verbs in brackets. Be careful: in some
sentences, both alternatives are possible.
1. I really enjoy playing soccer with my friends on the weekends.
2. My sister loves ______________ (read) books before bed every night.
3. Tom started ______________ (learn) Spanish last year to travel to Spain.
4. Sarah hates ______________ (run) early in the morning.
5. We don't mind ______________ (wait) for the bus in the rain.
6. Peter wants ______________ (take) a vacation to the mountains next summer.
7. I finished ______________ (eat) dinner before the movie started.
8. I can't stand ______________ (lose) in video games; it makes me so frustrated!
9. They need ______________ (practice) more if they want to improve their skills.
10. He would like ______________ (travel) to Japan next year.
11. I began ______________ (play) tennis two weeks ago, and I really like it.
12. We hate ______________ (miss) family gatherings.
13. I like ______________ (spend) time at the beach in the summer.

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C. Read the e-mail below, and fill in the blanks with ONE WORD ONLY. Contractions, such as can’t or shouldn’t,
count as one word.
Hi Tamara,
How’s everything with you? How (1) ______________ your trip to Lille last month? All is well here in Hong
Kong. Last Friday, we moved in to a new flat. My company organized (2) ______________ for us. It’s amazing.
There is a jacuzzi in the bathroom with a view of the city. The kitchen (3) ______________ really modern, with
a huge fridge. I (4) ______________ walk into the fridge. It’s unbelievable. There is even (5) ______________
swimming pool in the building. We swim in the pool in the morning (6) ______________ it is the best time to
swim.
I (7) ______________ start work until next month, so I have lots of free time at the moment. I’m getting to
know the area. I go for walks, take photos, and visit the local shops and markets. It’s a beautiful place.
Anyway, you’re welcome here any time. I think you (9) ______________ love Hong Kong, and we’d love to see
you.
Let me know what’s happening back home. Tell everyone we miss them.
Take care,
Jason

D. Rewrite the following sentences using the time clauses given in brackets. Do not change the meaning of
the sentence, and do not omit information.
1. The passengers from foreign countries will get off the plane. Immediately after that, they will go to the
passport checkpoint. (as soon as)
As soon as the passengers from foreign countries will get off the plane, they will go to the passport
checkpoint
____________________________________________________________________________________.
2. The guests will go on a sightseeing tour around the city. Then, they will rest in their hotel rooms. (after)
The guests will rest in their hotels after they go on a sightseeing tour around the
city.____________________________________________________________________________________.
3. First, I’ll book a flight. Then, I’ll get to the airport. (before)
Before I get to the airport, I’ll book a
flight____________________________________________________________________________________.
4. I won’t leave the station. The train will arrive. (until)
Until the train arrives, I won’t leave the station.
____________________________________________________________________________________.

E. Circle the correct answer.

1. Mary is a (slow/slowly) swimmer.
2. Mrs. Thompson reads our paragraphs (quick/quickly).
3. Mr. Garcia speaks (loud/loudly).
4. Mr. Lopez is not a (careful/carefully) policeman.
5. Mr. Wilson always speaks (quiet/quietly).
6. Ann pronounces every word (clear/clearly).
7. We like to go boating in (clear/clearly) weather.
8. Ed makes a lot of mistakes when he writes. He is a (careless/carelessly) writer.
9. The teacher asks (easy/easily) questions. We usually answer her questions (easy/easily).
10. Jake can’t see (good/well) without his glasses.

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 11. David is kind, generous, and thoughtful. He is a (good/well) person.
12. She looked at me (happy/happily) when I gave her the news.
13. The soup tasted (awful/awfully), so I couldn’t eat it.
14. She ate her lunch (incredible/incredibly) quickly. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
15. Dolphins are (extreme/extremely) (intelligent/intelligently) mammals.
16. The child was (violent/violently) at first, but he gave up behaving (violent/violently) after some time.
EXERCISE 6. Rewrite the following sentences using comparative adverbs. Try to keep to the original meaning
as much as possible.
1. Tom drove at 150 km/h on the motorway. His wife drove at 120 km/h on the motorway.
Tom drove faster than his wife.
__________________________________________________________________________________.
2. No one plays football as beautifully as Ronaldo.
I think Ronaldo __plays football more beautifully than___________________________________everybody
else.
3. Adults _____________________________________________________________________________.
Children ___________________________________________________________________________.
4. My sister studied hard at school. My brother didn’t study so hard.
My sister _ studied harder than my brother at school.
________________________________________________________________________.

LISTENING
A. Click on the link below, listen to the conversation between two students, and answer the questions below.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/b1-listening/arriving-late-class

1. The class started ______________________ ago.

2. The lecturer will hand the midterm exams ______________________.
3. The students are expected to look at page _________ in the text book.
4. The student 1 doesn’t understand ___________________________________.
5. What does the student 1 learn at the end of the conversation?
_______________________________________________________________.

B. Click on the link below, watch the video, and answer the questions below.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/video-series/word-street/wots-art/pop-galleries

1. A pop-up art gallery is a temporary exhibition ________________.

a. in a traditional art gallery where you can meet and chat with artists
b. at a school which tries to get young people interested in art
c. in an empty building where artists can show their work

2. Which one of the following is FALSE about pop-up art galleries?

a. They are quite a new idea in London.
b. They're usually open for a few weeks or a month.
c. They require the artist’s permission.

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3. One advantage of a pop-up gallery is that it helps _____________.
a. customers to buy art from well-known artists at an affordable price
b. younger artists to survive during economic hard times
c. artists to sell their art to established art galleries

PRACTICE 3. (TRACK 1)
A. You are going to listen to a talk about an American mathematician called John Nash. Listen to the talk
carefully, and fill in the blanks with ONE or TWO words. Now you have one minute to have a look at the
statements.
 John Nash was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.
He was born in 1928 in the USA.
 He was different from other kids. His mind worked very fast, and he had
a wonderful 1) _______________.
 John’s parents supported his education in their own way. For example, his father gave him
a 2) _______________.
 At the age of 14, John Nash read a book called Men of Mathematics. It
was about the 3) _______________of mathematics.
He found the book very exciting.
 John Nash studied mathematics at university. He became a doctor of mathematics at the age of 22.
Then, he joined the 4) _______________of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 Between the years 1959 and 1970, at different periods, John Nash received treatment for his mental
illness. After 1970, he never went back to the hospital, and he didn’t use much 5) _______________.
 In 1994, he won the Nobel Prize for his research on an economic theory. This theory was called the
6)_______________theory. He shared the Nobel prize with two economists.
 The film called A Beautiful Mind tells about John Nash’s family life, his 7) _______________and some of his
studies.

B. You are going to listen to the talk again. Listen carefully, and answer the
questions below. Now you have 30 seconds to have a look at the questions.

1. Why did the other students at school think John was strange?
_______________________________________________________________

2. When did John Nash join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)?
_______________________________________________________________

3. How did John Nash die?

_______________________________________________________________

4. Mark the best choice to complete the statement below.

The film A Beautiful Mind did NOT win an Oscar award for the __________________.
a) Best Picture
b) Best Actress
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 c) Best Makeup
d) Best Director

VOCABULARY

Fill in the blanks below with the words from the box. There are more words than you need. Use each word
only once. Do not change the form of the words.
sightseeing takeaway open-air go
take travel have booked

Last summer, I was bored at work and felt really tired. Therefore, I decided to take a break and (1)_go away to
the seaside for a few weeks. I (2) _booked_____________a bus ticket to a small town on the coast of the
Mediterranean Sea. It was the perfect place to relax and enjoy the sun. After I arrived, I spent my days doing
(3)______travel_________and visiting local attractions. I went to the beach every day. Sometimes I went to
the park to __sightseeing a picnic with a few friends. In the evenings, I occasionally had a/n (5)____have
from my favorite local restaurant and relaxed in my room. One of my favorite activities was going to a/n (6)
_____open-air__________theatre with my cousin. The performances were fantastic, and it felt magical to
watch a show under the stars. Overall, it was a summer full of fun activities.

competitive access revolve around fall behind realizes

makes up contain harm deal cause

Technology changes the way we work and interact. One of the most important aspects of this change is that it
helps us to have (1) _______________to a lot of digital tools and resources. However, not everyone has equal
access to technology, and this can create important problems. For example, it can (2) _______________a gap
between different social and economic groups, especially in education and employment opportunities.

In many industries, technology (3) _______________a significant part of the work. This certainly increases
efficiency. However, it can also (4) _______________workers who don’t know how to use new systems. As a
result, some of these employees may (5) _______________their colleagues who can use these technologies.
Managers sometimes (6)_______________with this problem by training employees, but especially in (7)
_______________sectors, they do not want to spend time and money trying to teach those employees how to
use digital tools and sources. Therefore, they don’t hire them in the first place, and people who can use them
have better job opportunities.

impact support rewards

calculations press prove

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Many fields of science emerged because human beings wanted to understand the world. Scientists and
engineers spend a lot of time trying to (1) _______________their ideas about how things work. They use math
to help them understand and explain different situations.
***
Math can have a great (2) _______________on our lives. For example, engineers use math to build bridges,
design buildings, and create safe cars. These things are possible because math helps to (3)
_______________the idea that certain rules or patterns exist in nature. When scientists want to prove
something, they often make (4)_______________ to test their ideas.

keep contact belongings warning

switch off install selection ask for

Library of Congress in the US is famous is the largest library in the world. It has a huge (1) _______________of
books on different topics, from science to fiction. It is usually very crowded, so it’s not a good idea to leave
your (2) _______________ on the desk when you are searching for a book. There are also strict rules to obey in
this place. The librarians watch you all the time, and they give you a (3) _______________if you make noise.

The library also provides a wide range of digital resources. Visitors can (4) _______________apps to access e-
books and journals, or make (5) _______________with library staff if they need help with research. In addition,
for those who work with computers, the library offers services to connect to other digital tools.
***
When I graduated from university, I moved to an apartment. I shared it with a couple of friends to (6)
_______________the costs low. The apartment was in a new neighborhood. On my first day, I got lost, so I
needed to stop people on the street and (7) _______________directions. When I got home, I saved the location
on my phone in order not to get lost again.

loudly alive identified research confidently

amazed recognize invented urgently frightened

Last semester, we organized a science fair at school. My students all worked hard to present their projects at
the fair. One student (1) _______________a printer that work on solar power. People were
(2)_______________ by her success. She explained everything (3) _______________and showed us how to
charge and use the printer.

Another student designed a robot that can (4) _______________emotions on people’s faces. A lot of people
found that interesting. However, some younger students were (5) _______________by the robot’s
appearance. I think they found it strange as it was all red and had a mechanic voice. The students screamed
(6)_______________and ran through the corridors. The teachers called their parents (7) _______________.

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 READING

Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.
1. The human body survives by burning calories. We know that these calories come from the food we eat, but
which food is good to eat, and which food is not? Which diet is the healthiest one? People often try alternative
diets to have a healthier lifestyle. These diets include vegetarianism, veganism, raw foodism, and breatharianism.

2. Vegetarianism means not eating meat or fish. There are several types of vegetarians. For example, lactoovo
vegetarians eat dairy products (milk, butter, cheese) and eggs. Ovo-vegetarians don’t eat dairy products, but they
eat eggs. A more restricted form of vegetarianism is called veganism. Vegans do not eat meat, eggs or dairy
products at all. In other words, their diet is very limited.

3. Alternative diets include more extreme food choices. One example is raw foodism, or raw veganism. Raw
foodists believe that consuming mostly raw (uncooked) foods is ideal for human health. They think that cooking
reduces the "life force" in the food and turns it into a harmful substance. Similar to veganism, the raw food diet
mainly includes fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Some of these raw foodists call themselves frutarians. Their
diet consists of at least 75% raw fruit, and 25% nuts and seeds.

4. The last stage of alternative diets is called breatharianism. This is the strangest of all diets. Breatharians say that
they do not eat or drink anything at all. According to their theory, a person can stop consuming food and water.
They believe that the body can produce its own energy by taking in sunlight and oxygen. In other words, the body
can make a kind of “photosynthesis”.

5. An Australian called Jasmuheen started today’s breatharian movement in America in the 1990s. She says that
she has only a cup of tea and a biscuit every three or four days. However, a TV program called 60 Minutes started
filming Jasmuheen in 1999 for four days to check her health. During this period, she had serious health problems,
so they stopped filming at the end of four days. According to Jasmuheen, she suffered from these problems
because the studio was near a city road. She said the air was not clean enough for her. Today, Jasmuheen still
argues that she consumes very little food, and she gives seminars on breatharianism around the world.
Jasmuheen advises her followers to change their diet slowly over a period of time: become a vegetarian; then a
vegan; next, start to eat raw foods, then fruits and finally become a breatharian.

6. However, following these steps doesn’t work. Many breatharians die because they try the breatharian diet. For
example, Verity Linn, a 49-year-old woman, died after she tried breatharianism, and Timo Degen, a kindergarten
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teacher, went into a coma and died. Health experts say that living without food for more than two months, and
living without water for more than one week can be fatal. They say people should not try this deadly diet at all.

A. What do the following refer to?

1. one (para. 1) : __________________________________
2. Their (para. 3) : _________________________________

B. Answer the following questions according to the information in the text.

1. How are ovo-vegetarians different from lactoovo vegetarians?

____________________________________________________________________ .
2. According to raw foodists, why is cooking not good for health?
____________________________________________________________________ .
3. According to breatharian theory, how does the body make “photosynthesis”?
____________________________________________________________________ .
4. What was Jasmuheen’s explanation about her health problems?
____________________________________________________________________ .
5. What is the first step in becoming a breatharian according to Jasmuheen?
____________________________________________________________________ .
6. Why did Timo Degen go into a coma?
____________________________________________________________________ .

C. Answer the following questions according to the information in the text.

1. Where do you think this text is from?

______________________________________________________________________ .

2. What is the purpose of the writer of this text?

______________________________________________________________________ .

3. What is the text type of this reading?

______________________________________________________________________ .

4. Work on the structure of this text and fill in the table below:

Para. 1 Introduces types of diets the text talks about

Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4&5
Para. 6 Warns the readers about the health risks of breatharianism

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