ENGLISH TEST 8TH FORM / LEVEL 4

I Pre-reading question (4 points)

What is your favourite activity during holidays? ____________________________
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II Text comprehension (37 points)

Read Marguerite letter to her Irish pen friend, Nora.

A. TRUE or FALSE? Quote from the text to justify if they are true and correct the
false ones.
1. When Noras postcard arrived, Marguerite was away on holidays. ___________
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2. Marguerite came to Portugal with some of her friends. ____________________
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3. She thinks the classes at the international school were uninteresting. ________
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B. Answer the following questions about the text.

1. When did Marguerite write her letter? _________________________________
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2. Why did Marguerite go to Bradfield? __________________________________
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3. What activities did they do in the evening at the international school? ________
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4. Which British cities really impressed her? ______________________________
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A. Complete the sentences below with ideas from the text.

1. Marguerite and her cousins always have a great time together because ______
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2. In her opinion the boat trip to the caves along the coast ___________________
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A. Fill in the blanks with a reflexive pronoun.

1. Noras brother enjoyed ___________________ very much at the party.
2. I did all the work by ___________________.
3. Look at the cat. Its washing ___________________.
4. We are going to make ___________________ a cup of tea.

B. Complete the sentences below with the Present Simple, Present Continuous or
Past Simple of the verbs in brackets.
1. Noras mother usually ___________________ (drive) her to school but now
Nora ___________________ (wait) for the school bus.
2. Her friend Mary ___________________ (not / go) on holiday last August; she
___________________ (stay) at home, because she ___________________
(be) ill.
3. Marguerite ___________________ (catch) the school bus every morning.
4. In 2005 they ___________________ (spend) a week in Spain. They
___________________ (stay) in a hotel near the beach.

C. Now complete the sentences by using the Past Continuous.

1. While she _______________________ (prepare) dinner, her brother
_______________________ (read) the newspaper.

2. Yesterday at 5 oclock, I _______________________ (watch) TV, but my

parents _______________________ (clean) the house.

D. Order the words to build correct sentences.

1. cottage / in / lives / Nora / beautiful / a/.
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2. car / buying / he / new / a / is /.
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3. interesting / subject / new / sounds / the /.
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IV Vocabulary (6 points)
A. Write the plural of the nouns below.
1. class

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4. sheep ______________

2. woman ______________

5. knife ______________

3. city

6. foot

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V Composition (19 points)

Write a text about your last summer holidays. (What did you do? What were
your days like? Did you do anything special? Did you visit any particular place /
town / city? If you did, why did you go there? How long did you stay there? Who did
you go with? What did you see? Did you enjoy yourself? What did you like the
most?)

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GOOD LUCK!