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Mid Term Test

Last updated over 6 years ago
25 questions
Note from the author:
Vocabulary and Comprehension
SECTION 1

Each sentence in this section has ONE underlined word. Choose from the four options, the word which is closest in meaning to the underlined word.
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The astute businessman carried out a feasibility survey before signing the contract with foreign investors.

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The teacher was embarrassed by the brazen attitude of the student who deliberately disturbed the class on several occasions.

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The workers were heedless of the dangers at the construction site.

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The country suffered intensely from the nefarious actions of the enemy during the war.

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The idea of Christmas dinner for the children in the communty was palatable to all memebrs of the club.

SECTION 2

Read the poem carefully and then answer the following questions on the basis of what is stated and implied.

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The experience in the poem is taking place most likely in

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All the following express the poet's difficulty in choosing except

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Which of the following best expresses the mood of the poem in (L-13) "Oh I kept the first for another day"?

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The two roads best represent

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The dash (-) after "an I - " (L-18) shows

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The main idea the poet wishes to convey is that

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The poet doubted he would ever come back because

Read the advertisement carefully and then answer the following questions (Ques 13-18)
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According to the warning a tampered packet

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Lozenges

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"Occasional minor irritation" means

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Which expression willmost likely appeal to a sick person?

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From your evidence in the passage what is the main use of Lozenges?

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Which of the following is a true statement based on the advertisement?

SECTION C

Read the following passage carefully and then answer questions 19 - 25 on the basis of what is stated or implied.


Away to the right I glimpse the front of the lava choking a narrow street and spilling steadily forward. It was black like clinker and as it spilled down along the street, little rivulets of molten rock flowed red.

The air was full of the dust of broken building now. My mouth and throat were dry and gritty with all the air shimmered with intense heat. I could no longer hear the roar of gases escaping form Vesuvius. Instead my world was full of a hissing and sifting - it was a steady, unrelenting backgound of sound to the intermittent crash of stone and the crumbling roar of falling plaster and masonry.

The next building began to go. I watched, fascinated, as a crack opened across the roof. There was a tumbling roar of sound, the crack widened splitting the very stone itself, and then the farther end of the building vanished in a cloud of dust. There was a ghastly pause as the lava consolidated, eating up the pile of rubble below. Then cracks ran splitting all across the remains of the roof not five yards away from me. The cracks widened, spreading like fast moving rivers, and then suddenly the whole roof seemed to sink, vanishing away below me in a great rumble of sound and disappearing into the dust of its own fall.

And as the dust settled I found myself staring at the lava face itself. It was a sight that took my breath away. I wanted to cry out, to run from it-but instead I remained on my hands and one knee staring at it, unable to move, speechless, held in the shock of seeing the pitiless force of Nature angered.

I have seen villages and towns bombed and smashed to rubble by shell fire. But Cassino Berlin- they were nothing to this. Bombing and shelling at least leaves the torn shells and smashed rubble of buildings to indicate what was once there. The lava left nothing. Of the half of San Franciscp that it had overrun there was no trace. Before me stretched a black cinder embankment, quite flat and smoking with heat. It was impossible to think of a village ever having existed there.

It had left no trace and I could scarely believe that only a few minutes before there had been buildings betweeen me and the lava and that I'd seen them toppling, buildings that had been occupied for hundreds of years. Only away to the left the dome of a church stood up out of the black plain. And even as I noticed it the symmetrical dome cracked open like a flower, fell in a cloud of dust and was swallowed completely.
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The intention of the writer of this passage is primarily to

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The phrase "little rivulets of molten rock" is an example of

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The words "spilling, gritty, shimmering, splitting" are all examples of onomatopoeia because

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The word "unrelenting" most nearly means

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The sentence " I watched fascinated ... across the roof" most likely suggests.

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The writer was unable to move because

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This passage can best be described as