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CHARLES DICKENS

LANGUAGE CENTRE - IC6 Time: 55 minutes


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Teacher’s name: ……………………………………………………………………………………….Date:………../…………/………

I) LISTENING:
Listen carefully to a programme and answer the questions.

1) What is it about some modern day working practices that causes forgetfulness?
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2) Why did the lady think she was going mad?
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3) In what ways was her lifestyle stressful?
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4) What helped the lady to be more relaxed?
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5) How does the presenter try to be funny at the end of the interview?
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II) GRAMMAR
A. Complete the answers. (15 POINTS)
1) Where does James live?
I’ve no idea…………………………………………………………………………………………
2) Do you want to go out tonight?
I’m not sure…………………………………………………………………………………………
3) Have I passed the exam?
I’m sorry. I can’t tell you………………………………………………………………………
4) Who’s that woman over there?
I can’t remember…………………………………………………………………………………
5) Did Ben buy some more sugar?
I don’t know…………………………………………………………………………………………
B. Complete the sentences with the right Question Tags (10 POINTS)
1) You …………….. (Not) been here before,………………?
2) Lourdes………….to eat meat,………………...?
3) Marco …………..ed the examination,………………..?
4) Charlie ……………………. (Did not) to bed late,………………….?
5) Beautiful day,……………………?
C. Complete the following sentences using reported speech. (10 points)
1) He’s having a shower.
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2) Rosario lost his cell phone.
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3) My friends and I had a big party.
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4) Don’t preoccupy! I’ll call you up tomorrow night.
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5) Have you studied for the exam?
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III) VOCABULARY
A. Which verbs go with which nouns and phrases? Write your answers in the box(10
POINTS)

A B

Whistle a ladder
Kick a pile of books
Lick your head
tie out of the window
Climb a toffee
Scratch a tune
Drop your grandmother
Chew A ball
Hug an ice cream
Stare a knot

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B. Fill each gap with a suitable word from the box. (10 POINTS)
1) Miss Betsey Trotwood……………………………………………..herself to David’s mother.
 Expressed
2) Miss Betsey………………………………..her to take off her cap.
 Introduced
3) She was very surprised and………………………………that David’s mother looked very young.
 Invited
4) She just ………………….the fear that she would die having the baby.
 Told
5) Miss Betsey dismissed these fears and……………………….her to have some tea.
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IV) READING.
READ THE STORY. THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. (15 POINTS)
Women generally live about six years longer than men. Evidence suggests that boys are the
weaker sex at birth, which means that more die in infancy. Also women do not have as much heart
disease as men. In terms of lifestyle, men smoke more than women and thus more die of smoking-
related diseases. They drink more and are more aggressive in behavior, particularly when driving cars,
they are more likely to die in accidents. Also, they generally have more dangerous occupations, such as
building work. Historically, women died in childbirth and men in wars. Hence nuns and philosopher often
lived to great ages. Now, childbearing is less risky and there are few wars. In Japan, the average age of
men is 76 and for women 82.

1) What is the average of men and women in Japan?


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2) Why are men called the weaker sex?
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3) Why are they more likely to have accidents?
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4) How was historically the living between men and women?
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5) Why do you think that women live longer than men?
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V) ORAL PART
LISTEN TO YOUR TEACHER. THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. (15 POINTS)

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