I. GRAMMAR

A. READ INSTUCTIONS CAREFULLY AND PROVIDE AN ANSWER TO EVERY QUESTION.

*Use verbs and make sentences from these words

1. Sarah often / tennis: __________________________________________

2. Mary / German very well________________________________________

*Put the verb in the right form.

3. ______________________________________a nice weekend? (you/have)

A. Yes,I went to stay with some friends of mine.

*Complete the sentences. Write about yourself.

4. I’ve been ____________________________________________once.

5. I’ve ____________________________________ since ____________________.

*Complete the sentence using the correct form of the verb

6. Are you tired this morning?

Yes, I_____________________ to bed late last night.

7. What are you doing this weekend?

I don’t know __________________________ (I/not/decide/yet)

*Which is correct? Encircle your answer.

8. Don’t forget __________________ off the light before you go out.

a. switch b. to switch c. switching

9. You’re making too much noise. Can you please stop______________?

a. shout b. to shout c. shouting

10. Tom looked at me without __________________ anything.

a. say b. saying c. to say

B. Circle the letter of the best answer.

1. I _______________________television a lot but I don’t anymore.

a . was watching b was used to watch c. used to watch

2. That bag looks heavy. _________________________ you with it.

a. I’m helping b. I help c. I’ll help

3. Ann _____________________________ and left.

a. said goodbye to me b. said me goodbye c. told me goodbye

4. You can’t stop me from ______________________ what I want.

a. doing b. do c. to do d. that I do

5. Where is_____________________________?

a. the manager office b. the manager’s office

c. the office of the manager d. the office of the manager’s

6. What time shall we _____________________ this evening?

a. meet b. meet us c. meet ourselves

7. Why did you stay at a hotel when you went to New York? You ______ with Barbara.

a. can stay b. could stay c. could have stayed

8. The woman was carrying a _________________________ bag.

a. black small plastic b. small and black plastic

c. small black plastic c. plastic small black

9. You should insure your bicycle _____________________ stolen.

a. in case it will be b. if it will be

c. in case it is d. if it is

10. When we were in Italy, we spent a few days _________Venice.

a. at b. to c. in

C. Circle the letter of the best answer.

1. Much of the power of the trade unions has been lost ____ their political influence should not

be underestimated.

a. Even so b. although c. even d. even though

2. I’ll be with you in________________________

a. one quarter of an hour b. a quarter of an hour

c. a quarter of an hour d. a quarter of hour

3. Following the flood,________in the area_________major repairs.

a. each of building…needs b. every building…need

c. each building…need d. every building…needs

4. I always associate________________________.

a. red wine b. red wine by France c. red wine with France

5. I remembered______________the race.

a. the horse’s winning b. the horse to win

c. the horse winning d.the horse’s to win

II. READING COMPREHENSION

A. Read the selection and answer the succeeding questions

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Low on cash? Try Paris for a Vacation!

Brian arrived at the San Francisco airport two hours before the flight to Paris. He was

wearing three shirts, a jacket, two pairs of socks, a pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. He was

carrying a small back pack, which was very full, he didn't have any other luggage. Brian needed to

meet a man named Tony before he checked in for his flight. He found Tony near the Air France

counter. Tony gave him a round trip ticket and a small package.

"Give this package to Jean Paul at the airport in Paris. Jean Paul is very tall with short,

blond, curly hair. He will have a sign with your name on it. I think you can find him easily," Tony

said. "You don't have any luggage, right?" "Only this back pack," Brian answered. "You said I

could bring one carry-on bag." "That's right. One carry-on bag is fine. Have a good trip."

Is Brian a criminal? Not at all. He is an air courier. And he paid only $110 for the round-

trip ticket to Paris. Air couriers get cheap airline tickets because they take important packages and

papers to foreign countries. Businesses sometimes need to get packages and papers to people in

foreign countries by the next day. Often, the only way they can do this is to use an air courier

company. It is not cheap for a business to send a package with an air courier, but it is quick.

Instead of luggage, couriers often have packages for the air courier company. Sometimes the

packages get checked and sometimes air couriers carry them so that they don't lose time waiting

for baggage to be unloaded off the airplane. Whether the packages are checked or carried on, they

go through customs quickly with an air courier. In contrast, if the package is sent in the mail, it can

stay in customs for many days while custom officials decide if it needs to be taxed.

Every year about 80, 000 people worldwide travel as air couriers. The number of tickets for

air courier travel is growing by about 10 percent a year. Many people like traveling this way

because the tickets are so cheap. However, air-courier travel has some disadvantages. you usually

can't check any luggage. You also need to be very flexible about your travel plans because you can

only travel when and where a business needs you to go.

Air courier travel obviously isn't for everyone. But if you have only a little cash, can be

flexible about your plans, and don't mind wearing the same clothes for a week, it can be a great

way to take a vacation.

A. Reading for main ideas. Circle the best answer for each question.

1. Why do people want to be air couriers?

a. They want to find a good job.

b. They want to get cheap airline tickets.

c. They want to send packages quickly.

2. What is difficult about being an air courier?

a. You can't take much luggage, and you can travel only when a business needs an

air courier.

b. There are fewer air-courier tickets every year, and travelers have difficulties

finding tickets.

c. You need to arrive at the airport earlier than other passengers, and you need to

go through customs.

3. Why do businesses use air couriers?

a. It is easy to fing couriers

b. It is cheap to find a package with an air courier.

c. Packages arrive quickly with air couriers.

B.All of the following statements are false. Change a word or phrase in each statement to make it

true.

Example: Brian wore one pair of jeans. two pairs

4. He arrived at the airport three hours before his flight to Paris.

5. Brian had a lot of luggage.

6. Tony gave Brian a large envelope.

7. Jean Paul is very tall with long, blond, curly hair.

8. Brian paid only $110 for a one-way ticket to Paris.

9. Air courier often can check luggage.

10. If a package is sent by mail, it can be on a ship for many days.

C.Decide if the sentences are true or false. Write T of F next to each sentence.

11. Brian is probably traveling on business.

12. Jean Paul works for the air-courier company.

13. Air couriers usually can take only one set of clothes.

14. Items in an air courier's luggage don't get taxed.

15. Air couriers are more necessary today than they were years ago.

B. Read the selection and answer the following questions.

During the nineteenth century, women in the United States organized and participated in a

large number of reform movements, including movements to organize the prison system, improve

education, ban the sale of alcohol, and most importantly, to free the slaves. Women like Elizabeth

Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone were feminists and abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison and

Wendell Philips, also supported the rights of women to speak and participate equally with men in

antislavery activities. Probably more than any other movement, abolitionism offered women a

previously denied entry into politics. They became involved primarily in order to better their living

conditions and conditions of others.

When the Civil War ended in 1865, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the

constitution adopted in 1868 and 1870 granted citizenship ang suffrage to blacks but not to

women. Discouraged but resolved, feminists influenced more and more women to demand the

right to vote. In 1869, the Wyoming territory had yielded to demands by feminists, but eastern

states resisited more stubbornly than before.

A woman's suffrage bill had been presented to every Congress since 1878 but it continually failed

to pass until 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote.

A. Circle the best answer for each question.

1. With what topic is the passage primarily concerned?

a. the Wyoming Territory

b. the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

c. abolitionists

d. women's suffrage

2. The word "ban" in line 3 most nearly means to __________.

a. encourage c. prohibit

b. publish d. limit

3. The word "supported" in line 6 could best be replaced by ________.

a. disregard

b. acknowledge

c. contested

d. promoted

4. According to the passage, why did women become active in

politics?

a. to improve the conditions of life that existed that time

b. to support Elizabeth Cady Stanton for president

c. to be elected to public office

d. to amend the Declaration of Independence

5. The word "primarily" in line 11 is closest in meaning to __________.

a. above all

b. somewhat

c. finally

d. always

6. What had occurred shortly after the Civil War?

a. the Wyoming Territory was admitted to the Union

b. a women's suffrage bill was introduced in Congress

c. the eastern states resisted the end of the war

d. black people were granted the right to vote

7. The word "suffrage" in line 15 could best be replaced by which of the

following?

a. pain c. freedom from bondage

b. citizenship d. the right to vote

8. What does the Nineteenth Amendment guarantee?

a. voting rights for blacks c. voting rights for women

b. citizenship for blacks d. citizenship for women

9. The word "it" in line 19 refers to __________.

a. bill c. Nineteenth Amendment

c. Congress d. vote

10. When were the women allowed to vote throughout the United

States?

a. after 1866 c. after 1878

b. after 1870 d. after 1920

III. WRITING

A. Answer the following questions.

Complete the sentences by filling in the spaces provided below.

1. My country is ____________________________________________________________.

2. My first impression on the Philippines is ____________________________

_____________________________________________________________________.

Arrange the following words and make a sentence out of them.

Ex.: pretty/always/smile/girl. I always smile when I see a pretty girl.

3. handicap/airplane/rain/seldom

_____________________________________________________________________.

4. smart/idea/plan/work

_____________________________________________________________________.

Answer the question given below. Write as many sentences as you can.

5. What do you think are the differences between you country and the Philippines?

_____________________________________________________________________

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B. Describe the picture below. Write as many sentences as you can.