Sample Test Januaray 2005 - Yud Classes

  1. Vocabulary Section (20 words)

A. Translate the following words into English. On the test, the word bank will be dictated.

שאיפה / לגשת, להתקרב / שנוי במחלוקת
פרסום / נציג / מעצב
להתוודות / שגרה / מהתקופה האחרונה
מחקר / להופיע, להגיע / יוצא דופן
פגישה / לפי / לעיתים רחוקות

B. Fill into each sentence one of the words from the word bank above.

  1. Winning the Nobel Prize is an ______achievement.
  2. It was getting late when she finally ______.
  3. She is ______seen in public nowadays.
  4. Dorin Frankfurt is a famous fashion ______.
  5. Everything went ______plan.
  6. Make exercise a part of your daily ______.
  7. The recommendations of the Dovrat Commission are ______.
  8. As you ______the town, you'll see the college on the left.
  9. She is intelligent but suffers from a lack of ______.
  10. Each class has one or two ______in the student council.
  1. Unseen (36 points).

Read pages 36-37 in "Choices": Reality TV

Questions: Page 36 question 1A. (6 points)

Page 37 question 1 (6 points)

question 2 (8 points)

question 3 (8 points)

question 5 (8 points)

  1. Grammar (24 points)

A. Change the following sentences into the passive voice (10 points)

  1. The new director will hold the meeting in the staffroom.

______

  1. The fishermen have caught 30 kilos of fish since this morning.

______

  1. Do you recycle old newspapers to make paper?

______

  1. The best architect in the country is designing the new cultural centre.

______

  1. The usherette has shown all the people to their seats before the concert began.

______

B. Write the verb in brackets in the correct tense and voice (active/passive). The following

tenses are to be used: present simple, present progressive, past simple, past progressive,

present perfect simple, present perfect progressive, past perfect simple, past perfect

progressive, future simple. (14 points)

  1. She finally put the book down after she (read) ______for hours.
  1. While Tom (exercise) ______in the gym, I (swim) ______

in the heated pool.

  1. She is not very popular. One of the main reasons is that she (always/interfere) ______

in other people's business.

  1. She (pay) ______her phone bill last month and (have) ______

no trouble with her phone since then.

  1. By the time he arrived, the football players (already/begin) ______the most

important game of the year.

  1. Writing Activity (20 points)

Choose one of the following topics and write 120-140 words.

  1. You are going to study English at a summer school in Scotland. Write one paragraph of a letter

explaining who you are to the teenager you will be sharing a room with for three weeks.

  1. Write a short science fiction or fantasy story connected to the topic of time or dreams.

There is an answer key, and you can ask me questions on the forum before the test.