UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO

INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES III year

Mid-term test - November 2013. Name: …………………………………

Total: 100 / 40

A.  Complete the text with a suitable form of the verb in brackets.

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Deja vu is a feeling of having experienced a present situation before. I (0) have been teaching students in the same college for many years now. (tenses, as in homework assignment II)

B.  Complete the text by writing one word in each space.

a. The cartoonist Charles Schulz created the daily lives of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and the other inhabitants of the Peanuts strip. Schulz, (1) known to his friends as ‘Sparky’(practice exercises, last lecture)

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b. The same as B. a.

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C.  Complete each gap with an appropriate noun form of the word in capitals at the end of the line.

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Ancient man used sticks of charcoal to draw pictures on cave walls in order to communicate (with, probably, their deities and (0) trainee huntsmen). / train

(practice exercises, last lecture, 10 sentences)

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b.

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(the same as C. a. but in a text)

D.  Circle the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the sentences.

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(multiple choice, 25 sentences)

E.  Report these comments using the suggested prompts and a suitable reporting verb.

(handout on reporting, exercise H)

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F.  Rewrite each sentence in two different ways. There is an example at the beginning (0).

(0)  “I’ll help you do your homework later,’ she told him.

a)  She said that she would help him do his homework later.

b)  She promised to help him do his homework later.

(one sentence with say, ask, wonder; the second one with infinitive or gerund)

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G.  For the following sentences think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.

Here is an example (0).

We don’t take much notice of the dress code at work and we tend to wear what we like.

I just saw the manager putting up a notice advertising for a part/time sales assistant.

You didn’t happen to notice where I out that file, did you?

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