PUC-Institute of Foreign Languages GESL 7 Core English

September 2021 Midterm Practice Exam Four Corners 4A

Name: ___________________________________ Class: ___________________ Time: ____________

SECTION I: LISTENING
Listen to the recording and answer the questions.
1) What year do they plan to send people to Mars? ___________________________________________
2) What type of exhibit will be shown next month? __________________________________________
3) What kind of house do the people on the show live in? _____________________________________
4) What does the woman think of the show? _______________________________________________
5) How many days a week will students attend school? _______________________________________
SECTION II: VOCABULARY
A. Filling in the blanks
Choose the words in the boxes to complete the blanks.
frozen (adj.) dried (adj.) sculpture (n.) respond (v.) crunchy (adj.) neutral (adj)
chat (v.) discount (n.) criticize (v.) calendar (n.) totally (adv.)
0) Buying frozen food is a good choice for people who don’t have enough time to cook.
1) Sorry, I don’t have time to _____chat______. I have a very important meeting to go to.
2) How often do you ____ criticize _____ other people’s work habits?
3) Naomi likes to hang _____ dried_______ flowers around her living room.
4) Do you know if the 2018 _____ calendar______ has been released yet?
5) I stopped to look at the new _____ sculpture_____ on the riverside.
6) Any chance of a ____ discount____? Look here, there is a mark on the sleeve.
7) How long did it take for the fire fighters to ____ respond _____ to the call?
8) Do you like ___ crunchy __ chips or soft ones?
9) This area is considered ____ natural _____. There is to be no arguing in this space.
10) I ____ totally _____ agreed with him. The idea is very foolish.

SECTION III: GRAMMAR

A. Verb Tenses-Statements
Complete sentences with correct forms of verbs. Use present simple / past simple / present
perfect / present continuous / past continuous / or future with will.
0) Hawaii hopes (hope) to attract more business travellers.
1) Last night, I __was taking __ (take) a long hot bath when the lights went out.
2) Did you Send (send) the letter like I asked you to yesterday?
3) Korky __has lost ___ (lose) his keys and now Becky is angry at him.
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4) Mr. Fields only __teaches____ (teach) in the mornings.

5) __Have_____ you ever _eaten___ (eat) spiders?
6) Tola can’t talk right now. He ___is studying ____ (study) for his year 12 exam.
7) ____Do_____ you ___know______ (know) if Love Ly Hour will be working today?
8) Help!! I __have locked _______ (lock) my keys in the car!
9) Flora and Betty __are trying ___ (try) to steal that car!! Quick, call the police!
10) The doctor ____will see______ (see) you now.

B. Present Perfect Continuous

Complete the sentences using the verbs from the box. Use present perfect continuous.
watch not / look wait catch fly bargain not / kick keep chase make spread

0) She has been watching too much television lately.

1) A: I can’t find my shoe. B: You have not been looking in the right place then, have you?
2) I have been waiting for three hours. Where ever have you been?
3) My cousin has been flying airplanes for 20 years
4) I have been chasing you in my sleep again, have I?
5) Naomi and Tony have been keeping this party as their little secret.
6) All these hot afternoons have been making me feel quite sleepy.
7) The amount of fish that fishermen ____have been chasing _____ is getting lower and lower each
season.
8) Timmy has been bargaining over the price of that souvenir for way too long. Why won’t he just
buy it?
9) The police has been catching the gangsters in a high-speed pursuit for two hours.
10) The Mormons ___has been spreading ______ the word of God in my neighbourhood recently.
C. Present Passive or Active Voice
Complete the sentences with the verbs given. Use present passive or active voice.
0) Many people ___read__ this writer’s articles. (read)
0) Rice is grown in Cambodia. (grow)
1) Most of Phnom Penh’s fresh fruit and vegetables ____are come____ (come) from Dangkor market.
2) International football games in Cambodia ____are held __ (hold) at Olympic Stadium.
3) The quick brown fox ___jumps____ (jump) over the lazy dog.
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4) The true story about the kidnapping ___is not known ____ (not / know) by everyone.
5) Most children ___are teased ____ (tease) at some point in their childhood.
D. Verb Tense Questions
Write wh-questions about the underlined words. Use the correct tenses.
0) A: Where did she crash the plane? → B: She crashed the plane in a forest.

1) A: _when did the picture in the living room?

B: The picture in the living room fell on the floor.
2) A: where did the policeman take the crashed car?
B: The policeman took the crashed car to the station.
3) A: _who told you there was no class today?
B: Hour told me there was no class today.
4) A: _______________________________________________________________________________
B: The restaurant served seafood from Kampot.
5) A: what did the shark do?
B: The shark bit my foot off.
E. Time Clauses
Underline the time clauses.
0) Before my mum appears, I have to tidy my room.
1) I’ll know when I have free time after the new schedule is put up on the notice board.
2) Once the menus are printed, Tony will put them in their new covers.
3) Mr. Fields will call us as soon as he knows one way or the other.
4) Don’t do or say anything until you have heard from me.
5) Before we get off on the wrong foot, let’s make our feelings and opinions known first.
F. Verb + Object + Verb
Circle the correct forms of the verbs.
0) Please remind them come / to come early
1) Could you remind me tell / to tell the newspaper boy to stop our delivery while we are on holiday.
2) I will make her pay / to pay for telling lies about me!!
3) Kantha always likes call / to call her family at Christmas.
4) My mother asked me leave / to leave class during the exam.
5) Are you going to let them continue / to continue making so much noise?
6) Could you have Bob call / to call me when he is free, please?
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SECTION IV: READING COMPREHENSION

Read the text below and circle the correct answer; a / b / c / d.
The world of telecommunications is a world of constant change. Let’s take a look at how much things
have changed over the years. By 1876, many people had spent a lot of time and effort to develop the
telephone. At this stage, the telephone was a simple device that allowed people to talk to each other from
one room of a house to another. The next step had telephones connected from people’s houses to their
offices, or from companies to companies, but these were fixed lines that could only be used for that
purpose. The next biggest step in telephones was the switchboard. This allowed anyone with a telephone
to become a subscriber and get their own line. Then using a huge arrangement of plugs, sockets and
wires, an operator would connect the caller with any other subscriber on that switchboard by connecting
the correct plug to socket. These switchboards began as local units, then spread to statewide, then
national wide and finally international. At this time, having a telephone in your house was not
uncommon, but people who wanted to make a long-distance call went to a special building where there
was less interference from noise and other disturbances.
By the 20th century, the telephone was very popular. The design had changed to make it easy to
use and you could find a telephone in most households. In the 1930s, a new design, using a rotary dial
was introduced. This allowed people to make calls much more easily and developments in the
switchboards meant that now you could make a local call without using the operator. By the 1950s,
modernization had allowed people to begin to make operator-free international calls. The rotary design
was continued until the 1960s, when a new system called touch-tone started to become popular. In the
early 1970s, Motorola launched the new mobile phone. This was the first telephone to use cellular
technology. In the late 1980s, cable television companies started putting telephone lines in their
underground ducted services. Now, we have smartphones, which have all sorts of features and functions,
and you can even make video calls using the internet.
1) At first, how far could you make a telephone call to?
a. the same room b. the next room c. the operator d. outside
2) What invention allowed telephones to expand their usage the most?
a. the switchboard b. the operator c. the plugs d. the sockets
3) What design change made using telephones easier?
a. the 20th century b. the operator c. the rotary dial d. local calls
4) What superseded the rotary dial design?
a. touch-tabs b. touch-toes c. touch-tines d. touch-tones
5) What was introduced in the 1970s?
a. Motorola b. moto phones c. mobile phones d. internet
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