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Reading 1
One night in 1995, Joanna Sinclair left work late and got into her car. It was a
dark night, and quite cold. All she wanted to do was to get back to her warm
little house in the country and watch TV in front of the fire.

She was half – way home, on a quiet country

road, when she saw something lying in the road
in front of her. So she stopped the car. It looked
like a little baby in the middle of the road. She
got out of her car and walked toward it. But
when she got closer she saw that it was just a
toy doll, so she picked it up and threw it to the
side of the road.

Then she got back into her car and drove off. Suddenly there was a car behind
her. The driver flashed the lights and beeped the horn. Joanna felt a little
frightened, so she drove faster. The car behind her went faster too, and kept on
flashing its lights.

The car followed her into her house in the village where she lived in. Joanna
was really scared , So she got out of her car and ran towards her front door. A
tall man got out of the car behind and ran towards her.
‘ Wait ‘ he shouted. ‘ What do you want?’ cried Joanna.
‘ I have to tell you ,’ he said , ‘There is someone in the back of your car!’

Joanna looked at her car and suddenly the back door opened. Another man
jumped out and ran away down the street! ‘I saw him get into your car when
you stopped,’ explained the tall man.

A- Write “T” for true sentences and “F” for false sentences.

1. Joanna was going to work.

2. She was driving at night.

3. Joanna lives in the city.

4. There wasn’t much traffic on the road.

5. Joanna found a baby in the street.

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B- Answer the following questions:

1. What was the weather like?

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2. Why did Joanna drive faster?

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3. Why did the driver behind her follow her to her house?

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4. How many people are there in the story?

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5. When did the man get into her car?

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Reading 2

B. Read the three news stories and match these headlines with the passages:

1. 125 ESCAPE IN GERMAN AIR DISASTER

2. WILD ANIMALS IN THE CITY

3. LONDON TOURIST SAVES DOG

4. MUSEUMS’ ROBERIES

Two lions escaped from Whitworth Zoo yesterday

afternoon. The lions were in a special cage, but got out
and jumped over a wall. A zoo keeper said, ‘We think
that a visitor opened the cage.’
Whitworth police gave this warning: ‘Do not go near
these animals.
Answer you must report it to the police at once.’
these questions:
Later, a man in South Whitworth saw a lion in his
garden and phoned the police. When a patrol car
reached the house , they found a large dog!
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1. How did the lions get out of the zoo?

1.________________________________________________

2.What did the police find in the garden?

2.________________________________________________

Police are looking for a man and a woman after a

₤ 850 000 painting disappeared from a museum in
Birmingham. The museum director, Penny Haines
said," You can’t sell a painting like this. We think these
people want money from us and then they will give the
painting back." Last year the same thing happened,
when the museum gave ₤ 20 000 and thieves returned a
Picasso drawing.

Answer these questions :

1.What are the police looking for ? Why?

1. ________________________________________________

2.What did the thieves steal last year?

2._________________________________________________

A plane with 125 passengers and crew on board crashed late last
night at Berlin airport. Officials at the airport say there wasn’t
a bomb on the plane and they don’t know why it crashed .
Reports from Berlin say that all the people survived .
Emergancy workers rescued the survivors from the plane .
A hundred of people walked out of the plane and only 25 went to
hospital, One passenger talked to us : ‘Suddenly there was a
loud noise
Answer andquestions:
these the plane crashed into some trees outside the
airport .It was awful! We’re lucky to be alive.’

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1. How many passengers and staffs were on board ?

1. ________________________________________________________

2. What made the plane crash?

2. ________________________________________________________

A French tourist in London was a hero to one family yesterday.

Mr.Jacques Lescaux ,22, was in a north London park yesterday
afternoon when a frightened little girl asked him : ' Please save
my dog. He 's in the lake and he can't swim." Mr.Lescaux
immediately jumped into the lake.
The animal was very frightened but the Frenchman lifted him
out of the lake and then called the child's parents. Rover – the
dog – was very wet, but he is now safe and well.

Answer these questions:

1. Where did the story happen ?

1. ______________________________________________________

2. Why did Mr. Lescaux jump into the lake ?

2. _______________________________________________________

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Reading 3

A. Read and complete the table with notes from the text:

Robert Louise Stevenson was a Scottish writer. He was born in

1850. He studied law at Edinburgh University, but he always
wanted to be a writer. He was often ill, but he loved travel and
adventure. He visited many countries in Europe and wrote about
his travels.

In 1880 he wrote his most famous book, Treasure Island, a

historical adventure story. He wrote other popular adventure
stories, such as Kidnapped and The Black Arrow. He also wrote
poetry. Stevenson's health became worse and at the end of the
1880s, he went to live on the island of Samoa in the South Pacific.
He was very happy there and stayed there until he died in 1894.

1. Name: Robert Stevenson

2. Nationality: __________________
3. Date of birth: _________________
4. Subject of study: ______________
5. Place of Study: ________________
6. Hobbies: _____________________
7. His best book: ________________
8. Other books: a.________________
b.________________
9. Year died: ____________________

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Reading 4
Read this letter and then answer the questions below:

Dear Sir,

You may remember that I was a guest at your hotel. On my arrival at the
hotel, I put away my umbrella in the cupboard in my room, number 6,
and didn't take it out again even once during the whole of my stay in York
as the weather was so beautifully fine. When the time came for me to
leave for home on Saturday, I'm afraid I left the umbrella behind.

Since my return to Leeds the weather here has got worse and worse, and I
need the umbrella very much, so I ask you to kindly send it to me as
quickly as possible - at my expense, of course. I'm sorry to cause you this
trouble, and I'm looking forward to having a second holiday in York.
Yours faithfully,
John Hogg

1. Did John use his umbrella in York?

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2. When did he leave the hotel?

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3. What did he forget to take when he left the hotel?

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4. Was the weather good or bad in Leeds?

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5. What did John ask the hotel to do?

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6. Who will pay for sending the umbrella to Leeds?

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Reading 5
Read the three texts and answer the questions

1- My name is Diana and I 2- I'm Ali, a Bahraini

student at AI-Bian school.
am from New York. I'm 14. I
My best friends at school
enjoy meeting my friends. are Sam, American and
We play tennis together at Yoko, Japanese. We swim
school. My favourite hobbies together at the weekends.
are collecting shells from the Sometimes we have ice-
creams or cakes at Jasmis
beach and cutting off
because our houses are
pictures of cars and pasting not far from there. My
them on the walls of my favourite animals are
room. I don't like swimming. I birds. I love them so much.
find it very dangerous. I've got a blue one.
3- This is Mark. He's thirteen years old. He was born in
Liverpool, England. His friends find him a little crazy. His
favorite hobby is keeping baby lizards in big bottles and
feeding them to grow bigger and bigger. "What a hobby!
It's horrible." His friend Jack says.
A- Write "T" for true and "F" for false sentences.
_____1- Ali has got some birds at home.
_____ 2- Diana is Ali's friend.
_____ 3- Diana has only one hobby.
_____4.Mark's friends hate his hobby.
_____ 5- Diana enjoys swimming.
_____ 6- Ali swims with his friends on school days.
_____ 7- Yoko is at Al-Bian School.
_____ 8- Ali and Sam are from the same country.
_____ 9- Ali lives near Jasmis.
_____10- Diana is older than Mark.
B- What do the following words refer to?
1. Them (text 1) refers to …………………………………
2. It (text 1) refers to ………………………………………
3. We (text 2) refers to ……………………………………
4. Them (text 2) refers to …………………………………
5. His (text 3) refers to ……………………………………
Reading 6

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From far out in space, Earth looks like a blue ball. Since water covers
three-fourths of the Earth’s surface, blue is the color we see most. The
continents look brown, like small islands floating in the huge, blue sea.
White clouds wrap around the Earth like a light blanket. The Earth is
shaped like a sphere, or a ball. It is 25,000 miles around! It would take
more than a year to walk around the whole planet. A spaceship can fly
around the widest part of the sphere in only 90 minutes.

Even though spaceships have traveled to the Moon, people cannot visit
the Moon without special suits. The Moon has no air or water. Plants and
animals can’t live there either. Astronauts first landed on the Moon in
1969. After that, there were six more trips to the Moon. They brought
back Moon rocks, which scientists are still studying. There are holes, or
craters, all over the Moon’s surface. Scientists believe that meteorites
smashed into the Moon millions of years ago and formed the craters.

The Sun is the closest star to Earth. A star is a hot ball of burning gas.
The Sun looks very big because it is so close. But the Sun is just a
medium-sized star. Billions of far-away stars are much bigger than our
Sun. The burning gases from the Sun are so hot that they warm the Earth
from 93 million miles away! Even though the Sun is always glowing, the
night here on Earth is dark. That’s because the Earth rotates, or turns
around, every 24 hours. During the day, the Earth faces the Sun. Then we
see light. During the night, the Earth turns away from the Sun. Then it
faces the darkness of space.

Each day we learn more about the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun.

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Read the text and tick the right option:

1 Why is the blue color we see most when looking at Earth from outer space?

a- Because most of the Earth is covered in land.

b- Because the Sun’s rays make the Earth look blue.
c- Because most of the Earth is covered in water.
d- Because clouds wrap around the Earth.

2 Read this sentence from the story.

Scientists believe that meteorites smashed into the Moon millions of years
ago and formed the craters.

What does formed mean?

a- hit
b- made
c- broke
d- stopped

3 What causes daylight on Earth?

a- The full Moon causes daylight.

b- Daylight is caused by the Earth facing away from the Sun.
c- The heat of the Sun’s rays causes daylight.
d- Daylight is caused by the Earth facing toward the Sun.

4 Which of the following sentences BEST describes the Sun?

a- The Sun looks small because it is so far from Earth.
b- The Sun is a ball of burning gases that gives the Earth heat
and light.
c- The Sun is a small star.
d- The Sun is not as hot as it looks.

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5 Why did the astronauts bring rocks back from the Moon?

a- Because they didn’t know if they would return to the Moon

ever again.
b- Because they wanted to prove that they went to the Moon.
c- Because they wanted to remember how the Moon looked.
d- Because they wanted to study them and learn more about
the Moon.

6 What is the main idea of the article?

a- Plants and animals can’t live on the Moon.

b- Without the Sun we would have no heat or light.
c- We know a lot about the Earth, Moon, and Sun, but there is
still more to learn.
d- From outer space, the Earth looks tiny, even though it is
thousands of miles around.

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Grammar:

Fill in the blanks below with words from this box:

Neptune gas giants Pluto planetoids

solar Mars nine comet
asteroids Jupiter temperature terrestrial
orbit water Saturn Uranus
dinosaurs Earth Venus tail
Mercury

The Solar System

The _______________ system is the group of planets that _____________ our
Sun. There are _________________ known planets in our solar system, but some
observers think they have spotted others beyond the orbit of _______________.
The Terrestrial Planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are called _________________ planets because
they have rocky surfaces. _______________, of course, is the planet we live on.
_______________ is the closest planet to the sun. ________________, which is
also called the evening star, has a ______________ of 500 degrees Celsius and
clouds of sulfuric acid. _________________ is known as the red planet. Recently,
frozen ______________ was discovered there.
The Gaseous Planets
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are called __________________ because
they are big and made mostly of gas. _______________ is the largest planet in the
solar system. _________________ is famous for its rings.
_______________ also has rings but is not as famous as Saturn.
_____________ is named after the god of the sea.

Planetoids: Asteroids and Comets

There are many other ______________ in the solar system.
Between Mars and Jupiter there is a belt of small rocky
objects called _______________. As well, balls of ice and
rock called _______________ occasionally come close to the
sun creating a bright ________________ that can be seen
from Earth. Some scientists think the _____________
became extinct when one of these comets came crashing into
the Earth.

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Grammar:
Circle the right answer: (20 marks)

1. Pollution has _________ our city.

a. destroy b. destroyed c. destroying

2. Every thing___________ change by the year 2050 .

a. will b. has c. is

3. I ___________school early yesterday.

a. leave b. left c. have left

4. While I ___________, I heard a strange noise in the garden.

a. was sleeping b. sleep c. slept

5. I think Ronaldo is the _______ player in the world.

a. good b. better c. best

6. The nurse helped the man ________ had a bad accident.

a. who b. which c. where

7. I couldn't go to the party ________ I was tied .

a. and b. but c. because

8. If you visit me , I ______ you my album.

a. will show b. show c. would show

9. Schools close _________ Fridays .

a. in b. at c. on

10.Nobody ____________my new bike yet.

a. have seen b. has seen c. is seen

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Grammar: Future Tense

There are many ways to talk about the future. Here are some patterns that you
can use. Write two sentences after each pattern.

I’m going to ~
I’m going to visit my Grandmother on the weekend.
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I’ve decided to~

I’ve decided to buy a new computer.
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I intend to~
I intend to move to Seoul.
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I’m planning to ~ /I’m planning on ~ ing

I’m planning on getting a part-time job.
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I’m thinking of ~ ing.

I’m thinking of learning Japanese .
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I might ~
I might go fishing.
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Writing 1

What do you think will/might/may happen in the future?

You have to talk about: cars, robots, planes, accidents, schools,

computers, English, dolphins, teachers, you…

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Writing 2

Use the following information to write a description of Saturn

Name of planet: Horizon 2007

: furthest planet from the Sun

Size: tenth largest in the solar system

Day length: 100 hours, 20 minutes

Year length: 295 Earth years to orbit the sun

Distance from the Sun: 6,110,425,000 km

Atmosphere composition: helium, uranium and sodium

Special features: wind blow at high speeds (1700 meters a second)

: very active volcanoes

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Writing 3

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Manama is suffering from pollution. Write an article in Gulf Daily News

to describe the problem and suggest some practical ways (solutions) to
keep it clean and safe.
You may use some of the following hints:
• Air – streets – noise – cars – jams – sewage – litter – factories …
• Trees – gardens - bins – recycling – campaigns …

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Writing 4

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Write a horoscope to your friend telling him about

what will happen to him in his lifetime.
You may talk about the following topics: money –
health – love – work – good things – bad things…

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Writing 5

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Write a letter to your friend Ahmed in Tunisia telling

him about your school.
You have to talk about its size, location, buildings,
classrooms, other rooms, playgrounds, vegetation,
students, teachers, clubs, rules…

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Writing 6

“Never forget to warm-

up before playing.” Write an
article in your school
magazine advising students
how to warm up properly
before playing football.

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Writing 7

While you were on a mission to planet

Mars, a strange thing happened on
your spaceship. Write the story.

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Writing 8

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Write a paragraph about Zinadine Zidane.

You have to use the following notes.

Name: Zinadine Zidane

Country: France

Occupation: football player

Date and place of birth: 1972 Marseille, France

Married: Veronique
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Children: Enzo and Luca
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1994: play for France for
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1996: join Juventus
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1998: win the World Cup
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2000: Win the EURO Cup
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2001: join Real Madrid

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2006: Retired from international football

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