1st year Test

Click on the picture and listen to the audio.Listen and answer the questions below. Choose the title that best fits the text. Angelina Jolie Hated By the Media The Richest Actress In The World A Star Who Cares And Shares Fill in the table with details from audio. Name First Award Second Award Angelina Jolie Oscar Citizen of the World Listen and write True or False a.Angelina Jolie was a well-behaved teenager. False b. The media are interested only in her humanitarian action. False Fill in the blanks with two words from the audio. She has effectivelyused her stardom to highlight world problems. What does the following utterance express? Refusing permission impossibility Inability Are the underlined sounds Different (D) or Similar (S)a.received - media b.start - classes a. Sb. S Put the bracketed words in the right tense or form. A British teenager has become a multi-millionaire after selling an app he created to web giant Yahoo. The deal is reported to be worth up to $30 million and includes a position (work)workingon Yahoo's future mobile projects. Nick D'Aloisio, 17, (create) created his Summly app when he was just 15. While he (study)was studyingfor school exams, he became frustrated at ploughing through long online articles. D’Aloisio, who taught (him) himself to write software at the age of 12, built the free iPhone app Summly that automatically summarizes news stories for small screens in his London bedroom so that people (can) could understand the content more (easy) easily .The acquisition by Yahoo makes the British teen one of the world's (young) youngestself-made millionaires. With new (leader) leadershipfrom Marissa Mayer, Yahoo has a strong focus on mobile and product, and that's the perfect fit for Summly." Fill in the blanks with eight (8) eight words from the list As a girl, I volunteered at animal shelters, played music at nursing homes, and helped with community cleanupafter tornadoes.I actually have an online coaching businessbut I’ve had many opportunities to volunteer with projects for Syrian refugees and youth education.Volunteering has been a way of life for me for a very long time. I can tell stories about special moments when I really felt I was makinga difference . Back when I was in college in the US, a group of friends and I stayed the weekend at an old lady’place. She couldn’t repair brokendoors or pull weeds, so she reliedon us to clean and repair her house. It breaks my heart to remember this old lady cryingtears of joy for such small efforts that we made. Sometimes, voluntary work is fulfilling not because of the actual job you get done, butbecause of how your presence impacts the people around you. Fill in each blank with the tight alternative. Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born (in -on - at) on July 18, 1950, in Surrey, England. At the age of 16, Branson,(who - which - whose) whowas trying to overcome his learning difficulties, dropped out of school in order (start - starting - to start) to starta youth-culture magazine called Student - a decision that ultimately led to the creation of Virgin Records. Branson is (so - too - also) also known for his adventurous spirit and sporting achievements including crossing oceans in a hot air balloon. (Inspite - Despite - Although) Despite this huge success ,he encountered serious financial difficulties. Yet, Branson was persevering and remained determined to stay in the music business.His (ambition - ambitiously - ambitious) ambitiousprojects expanded into ( other - another - others ) othersectors, including the space-tourism venture Virgin Galactic, making him a billionaire. "so far, we (made -are making - have made) have made a sizeable impact on the industry and built up a very healthy book of business,’’says Branson.