The First Exam High Note 4

1. 1) My uncle visits us ---------------------.

   • yesterday
   • now
   • every so often
   • in 2023

2. 2) Social media sites explain ways that parents can have control ---------------- their children’s internet use.

   • over
   • to
   • in
   • about

3. 3) “He started talking to the new neighbour.”

   -The idiom which has the same meaning as the sentence above is:

   • struck up a conversation
   • had a laugh
   • took to you
   • made small talk

4. 4) I want to get ------------------------- my computer because it’s getting very slow.

   • rid of
   • across
   • on with
   • away with

5. 5) The sentence which expresses an action in progress or repeated over a period of time up till now is:

    

   • I have been waiting here since 9 a.m.
   • He is talking on his mobile phone.
   • He is always complaining about the weather
   • He often loses touch with his colleagues

6. 6) Khaled ---------------- to stay in on Sunday nights these days.

   • loves
   • is loving
   • has loved
   • was loving

7. 7) I think playing computer games improves my problem-solving skills, but unfortunately my mum ------------------it that way, and she has reduced my playing time

   • isn’t looking
   • doesn’t look
   • won’t look
   • didn’t look

8. 8)  She has been chatting in her mobile phone ----------------- ages.

   • since
   • for
   • at the time
   • recently

9. 9) “He has broken his leg so he can’t go to school”.

          - The previous sentence expresses:

    

   • Permanent situations around the present time
   • The duration of states that began in the past and continue up to now
   • Completed past actions with a present relevance
   • Actions in progress at the time of speaking

10. 10) My friend and I ---------------- usually ------------- emails.

    • haven’t - sent
    • doesn’t - send
    • aren’t- sending
    • don’t- send

11. 11) Oil and gas prices ----------------- more and more expensive these days.

    • are getting
    • is getting
    • gets
    • get

12. Read the following texts carefully then choose the correct answer to complete each sentence below each text:

    12) Since the invention of the mobile phone and the Internet, the world has become a different place. People are still sending messages and it usually takes only seconds to deliver them. But are we now forgetting how to communicate face-to-face? Without a doubt there are some challenges, but there are also examples of when the Internet has changed someone’s life for the better. Look at Tara Taylor’s case, a mother who lives in the USA: when she uploaded a photo of her daughter on social media, a friend spotted a problem with one of the child’s eyes. It turned out that the girl had a rare disease, but her sight was saved!

    - All of the following is correct regarding the text above apart from?

    • Because of the invention of the internet and mobile phones, people have completely forgotten how to communicate face to face
    • The internet has changed Tara’s daughter’s life for the better
    • Sending messages doesn’t take a lot of time nowadays
    • Tara’s daughter was infected by uncommon illness.

13. 13) As a child, Jane loved reading books about a fictional character called Dr Dolittle, who could talk to animals. Perhaps this is what inspired her to go to Africa when she was in her 20s. Here she came across a scientist who asked Jane if she might want a job observing chimpanzees in the wild. She immediately said yes. She went with her mother to the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania to start her new job, and it was not long before she made out a group of chimpanzees in the trees around an area now called the Gombe Stream National Park.

    - The sentence which indicates that Jane accepted the job offer is:

    • Here she came across a scientist who asked Jane if she might want a job observing chimpanzees in the wild
    • As a child, Jane loved reading books about a fictional character called Dr Dolittle, who could talk to animals
    • She went with her mother to the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania to start her new job.
    • She immediately said yes

14. 14) We know that some animals understand basic instructions, allowing travellers to control their horses or camels, for example. But although some of the more intelligent animals can figure out what we want them to do, we have long assumed that communication with – and between – animals must be limited. However, thanks to the work done by the naturalist Jane Goodall since the 1960s, we should take the possibility seriously that some animals can both take in what we are saying and get across complex ideas.

    - The word which means “to successfully communicate a message” is:

    • figure out
    • take in
    • get across
    • assume

15. 15) The underlined pronoun “them” refers to:

    • some of the more intelligent animals
    • intelligent animals
    • animals
    • some animals