The Faculty of Arts / English Department / Date: 21.01. 2013
A. Choose the correct answer ( 20 points )
1. Does all of this homework ( have, has ) to be finished tomorrow ?
2. Six plus seven ( equal, equals ) thirteen.
3. The United Nations ( has, have ) its headquarter in New York city.
4. Five thousanddollars ( is, are ) too much to pay for a TV set.
5. The statistics in that report on oil production ( is, are ) incorrect.
6. What percentage of the earth's surface ( is, are ) covered by water ?
7. There ( is, are ) some interesting pictures in today's paper .
8. Salwa, as well as her two older sisters ( join, joins ) the Islamic University.
9. One of my best friends ( promise, promises ) to visit me next week.
10. Each girl in the sixth grade class ( has, have ) to do a science project.
11. Some of the fruit in this bowl ( is, are ) rotten.
12. Where ( do, does ) your parents live ?
13. A number of students in the class ( is, are ) absent.
14. ( Until, While, Just before ) I stood up to give my speech, I got butterflies in my stomach .
15.Almost all ( a, the, no article ) children like fairy tales.
16. a. Are you busy this evening? b. Yes, I ( am going to, will ) meet my friend, Salah, atthe library to study with him for the exam.
17. ( A, no article ) gold is a metal.
18. ( A, An, no article ) iron is an instrument used to take wrinkles out of cloths.
19. My father gave me ( an, some ) money.
20. That book is about ( a, the, no article ) life of Helen Killer.
B. Correct the mistakes in the following sentences ( 20 points )
1. Why is the police here ? ------
2. Two hours are too long to wait, do not you think ? ------
3. On our trip in the mountainous countryside, we saw some foxs, oxes, and wolfs, ------
4.My uncle is my mother brother. ------
5. She borrowed my brother's car. Its old but reliable. ------
6. Thunder and lightning are phenomenon of nature. ------
7. Most of the news on the front pages of both daily newspapers concern the progress of the peace conference. ------
8. He has two pens.------
9. While I am writing my composition last night, someone knocks on the door.
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10. My friends will meet me when I will arrive at the airport. ------
11. Lying on beds is half a dozen of men. ------
12. Do not call Mohammed at 11:30 tomorrow morning because he will attend class at that time. ------
13. Reem has much pieces of furniture. ------
14. Students at the university have to do a great deal of assignments.------
15. Many people are multilingual, but not many people speak more than ten languages.------
16. At least two thirds of that book on famous novelists ( is, are ) about people who lived in the twentieth century. ------
17. Portuguese are somewhat similar to Spanish.
18. I do not have a great deal of friends.
19. A lot books are paperbacks.
20. Some the fish we caught were too small to keep.
C. Do as shown between brackets ( 20 points )
1. This morning I came to class at 9:00. Right now it is 10:00, I am still in class. I
( sit )------in this class for an hour. By 9:30, I ( sit ) ------
------her for half an hour. By 11:00 I ( sit )------
------here for two hours. ( correct the verbs )
2. Change the following sentences to future by using tomorrow instead of yesterday
- When Nadir got up yesterday, the sun was shining. He shaved and showered, and ten made a light breakfast. After he ate breakfast, he got ready to go to work By the time he got to work, he had drunk three cups of coffee.--- By the time Nadir went to bed, he had had a full day and was ready for sleep.
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3. Use each of the following expressions of quantity in meaningful sentences
Much, a little, few, both, plenty of
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Examiner : Mr Ahmed S. Abdelhadi