Mr.Khaled Ghobashy
Units 10-12
 [First Session – First Stage] 2013 
First Foreign Language: English (1)                        Time: 3 hours
1- Respond to each of the following situations:
1. You want to know where your friend would really like to live. What is your question?
2. Someone asks you whether you like your house to be modern or traditional. What do you answer?
3. Someone asks you if you like to live in a house or a flat. What do you sأy?
4. You want to know the type of your friend's dream house. What do you say?
2) Mention the place, the speakers and the language function in each of the following two mini-dialogues:
2. Say where each of the following mini-dialogues takes place and who the speakers are:
1. A: What are your qualifications? B: BA in English and a diploma. 
A: What about your previous experience?  B: I've got no experience in teaching. A: Well, we'll contact you soon.

Place: ....................... Speaker A: .................... Speaker B: ...................

2. A: Can I help you, sir?   B: Yes. My car suddenly broke down.               A: OK. Can you leave it for four hours? 

Place: ..................... Speaker A: ........................ Speaker B: ....................

3. Choose the correct answer from a, b, e or d:
1(Organic -Inorganic - Organ - Organs)   farming methods are more profitable than the traditional.
2. May I introduce (me - mine - myself - oneself) to your highness?
3. My new house is under (construct-constructed -constructs – construction).I can't sell any flat to anyone till it's finished; 
4.Everyone is angry with you; (isn't he - isn't she -are they-aren't they)?
5. Genetically (modify - modifies - modified - modification) foods may be harmful to us.
6.We found our son exhausted. He (revises - revised - had revised - had been revising) for the exam the whole night 
7.Two sailors only (sank - killed -drowned -saved) but the others were rescued by a passing ship 
8.The car( who - which - whose - where )door was hit b the lorry, was taken away by the police 
9.There must be laws that ban (fishing - arresting - taming - hunting)rare animals to protect them from extinction.
10.My uncle was (decided-persisted- determined - insisted )to become a surgeon and he achieved that ambition  
11.By 2000 the skyscraper (had built - wلs built - had been built - had been building)and sold as well
12.Make (herself -yourself - myself-ourselves) a cup of tea, Alaa.
13.Famous actors sometimes get angry when (reviews - reviewers -interviews - viewers) write bad opinion about their films.
14.This is a (thirty storeys -thirty stories-thirty storey's- thirty-storey) skyscraper which I being constructed near our house.
15. Sawsan has a nice face, (hasn't she - doesn't she- has she - does she)?
16.When I reached the station, the bus (leaves -left - had left - has left) so I had to take a taxi 
4. Find the mistake in each of the following sentences and then write it correctly:
1. The insulate of the buildings is necessary in cold and hot regions,. 
2. We scarcely waste our time, don't we?
3. The giant whale famed the boat and sank it.
4. Heba had repaired her computer all the day so, she was very tired when we saw her.
5. Genetically mummified crops are not necessarily harmful.
6. Ghada put the handbag beside herself.
5. Read the following passage, then answer the questions:
Almost everyone now uses the internet. In Europe, the number of personal letters is three times less than ten years ago because, nowadays, we all use e-mail to communicate with each other. Although the computer's technology is very ht. hard, it is very easy to use the internet. In fact, you don't have to know anything mg about computers to be able to use the internet. There is nothing the internet doesn't have information about. You can find out about different books, films, sports or anything else you want, and, it can also be useful for teaching in schools. The ship. Internet can also make problems. Unfortunately, it seems that computers are the . Latest example of how the modern world is being divided up into different categories which' of experts. Moreover, it now seems that children spend too much time in front of computers, and because of this, books have lost popularity.
A) Answer the following questions:
1. Why are people sending less personal letters?
2. How is the internet a great blessing?
3. Find a word in the text that means "discover".
B) Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:
4. The internet is very, .... to use .a) difficult b) hard c)easy d) unknown
 5. The underlined word "personal" means .................. .al common b) general c) public d) private
6. Read the following passage, then answer the questions:
  Air pollution, resulting from the exhaust gases, produced by old and badly maintained vehicles, is very harmful. It can cause brain damage in children. Electric cars which run s on batteries will help reduce pollution, but their batteries cannot store as much fuel as petrol-powered vehicles. They cannot go as far or as fast, as petrol-powered vehicles. Engineers in the USA are trying to design a super car which will run on both electricity and petrol. When the batteries of these cars are used up, they will switch to a small petrol he engine. Scientists think that it will travel for more than 150 kilometres on five litres of petrol. In the future fuel cells will use an electro-chemical process that converts hydrogen ft and oxygen into energy. This is a very important development because hydrogen almost creates no pollution, 
A) Answer the following questions:
1. How far is leaded petrol dangerous to children?
2. Why do electric cars cause less pollution?
3. What is the problem of the electric car?
B) Choose the correct answer from a, b, e or d:
4. The petrol-powered vehicles can store ........... .....a) as much fuel as electric cars b) more fuel than electric cars -                   c) less fuel than electric cars d) the same amount of fuel as the electric cars 
5. Fuel cells result in .. .............a) much pollution b) less pollution               c) brain damage d) converting energy into hydrogen                                                     7. Gulliver's Travels:
A) Answer the following questions:
1. What did the King think when he saw Gulliver for the first time?
2. How was the Queen's attitude towards Gulliver?
3. Why did Glumdalclitch promise Gulliver not to leave him alone?
4 What did the monkey do to stop Gulliver from escaping from him?
B) Read the following quotation, then answer the questions:
"I don't mind if she stays here as your teacher."
a) Who said this? b) To whom was it said?
c) Who is "she"?
C) Find the mistake   and correct it:
1. The Queen asked the scholars for advice about Gulliver.
2. The frog held Gulliver in its arms as a mother does with her baby.
D. Writing 8. Write a paragraph of about 100 words about:
" The importance of exportation for solving the economic crisis in Egypt" 
9. A) Translate into Arabic:
We can gain more experience from the situations we get through. Being successful is not an easy task but ambition and patience are the most important features that should have so as to be able to achieve it Having a set of clear aims and giving priority to the urgent ones are vital to achieve them.
B) Translate into English:
          1-لكل مواطن الحق فى التصويت فى الانتخابات والحق فى التظاهر وليس لة الحق فى تعطيل عجلة الانتاج.
      2- هناك الكثير من الاعمال الهندسية القديمة والحديثة فى مصر.