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THE SECOND-SEMESTER EXAMINATION
NAME: ...................................................; CLASS: 11......
I. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
1. A. brand B. spoken C. human D. accident A
2. A. breath B. bath C. death D. breathe D
3. A. hometown B. flow C. slow D. growth A
II. Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the others:
4. A. another B. around C. contain D. astronaut D
5.A. psychological B. cosmonaut C. accident D. national A
III. Choose the best answer (A, B, C, D) that best completes each sentence:
6. The secretary.................I talked to didn’t know where the meeting was.
A. Whom B. that C. Ø D. all are correct D
7. Neil Armstrong was the first man to .................foot on the moon.
A. try B. set C. put D. let B
8. I suggest you take the forms away and read them at .................leisure.
A. my B. mine C. your D. yours C
9. She was not only intelligent but also .................
A. musician B. musical C. unmusical D. music B
10. It is in this room .................we usually hold our meeting.
A. that B. which C. where D. when A
11. The singer was .................on the piano by her sister.
A. served B. accompanied C. assisted D. sounded B
12. He .................could not come .................did not want to.
either-nor B. neither-nor C. either-or D. nor-nor C
13. I looked everywhere but I couldn’t find .................at all.
someone B. no one C. anyone D. somebody C
14. The lake .................thousands of fish.
consists B. contains C. comprised D. holds B
15. Let’s go for a long walk, .................?
shall we B. will we C. do we D. shall us A
IV. Read the passage belowed and decide which answer (A, B, C, D)that best fits each gap.
VALENTINA TERESKOVA
Valentine Tereskova was the first woman to travel into space. She was born.........16..........a farm in the Russian village of Maslennikova. She worked in a factory but ..........17.........wanted something more ........18........... . In 1959she tried parachute-jumping and .........19..........became good at it. Two years later Yuri Gagarin made the first fly into space. Valentina was ..........20.........that she could do that too!
For two years Valentina trained hard to be an ..........21......... . She exercised, practiced being ..........22.........and, in her spacesuit, learned the technical skills for space flight. On 16th June 1963, her spaceship Vostok VI was .........23..........into space to orbit the earth. She stayed in space for three days, making forty-eight orbits and travelling over one and a half million kilometers.
The Russia people were very.........24..........of Valentina and they gave her medals and awards. She had shown that women astronauts were more than equal to men. When she returned to earth, Valentina had, in fact, been in apace .........25..........than all the American-male astronauts at that time.
16. A. in B. at C. on D. from C
17. A. really B. wholly C. fully D. already A
18. A. excited B. exciting C. excite D. excites B
19. A. late B. early C. earlier D. soon D
20. A. sure B. ensure C. true D. believable A
21. A. astronomer B. astronaut C. cosmos D. universe B
22. A. weigh B. weightlessness C. weight D. weightless D
23. A. rocketed B. gone C. put D. lifted A
24. A. proud B. scared C. satisfied D. surprised A
25. A. better B. longer C. later D. more B
V. Choose the underlined part (A, B, C, D) that need correcting.
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