Read the following passage and circle the best answer for each blank. Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the box provided. (14 pts)
What is the world largest desert? I’m sure the first that …1… to mind is the legendary Sahara – but that’s 3rd .  It’s actually the desert on the Antarctic …2…, measuring just under 14,000,000kms2, closely followed by the Arctic desert. Most people living away from deserts associate this kind of …3… with sand, but only 10% of deserts are actually made up of sand …4….
The term ‘desert’ in fact describes a …5… which receives almost no …6…, meaning rainfall, snow, ice or hail. The term can also apply to regions where there is greater evaporation of …7… than rainfall. In other words, more water is absorbed back into the …8… than stays on or within the ground. So, in …9… deserts, you’re mainly talking about ice sheets and a little rock, not sand, of course. The surface of many other deserts is comprised of loose rock where the finer particles of dust and sand have been …10… Away.
It may surprise you to know that deserts exist all over the …11…, from the Kalahari in Africa to the Great Victoria in Australia and so on, and that they …12… just over a fifth of the earth’s land area. The world’s largest hot desert, the Sahara, actually …13… temperatures of 122 Fahrenheit degrees. Other arid deserts may not be so hot but in common with the Sahara, they …14… considerably at night.
An issue that is worrying geologists, governments and the people that live on the edges of deserts is the way  they are spreading. You might think that the reason for this is drought – but lack of rain is not the cause

A.cool
B.fall
C.freeze
D.decrease

Read the following passage and circle the best answer for each blank. Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the box provided. (14 pts)
What is the world largest desert? I’m sure the first that …1… to mind is the legendary Sahara – but that’s 3rd .  It’s actually the desert on the Antarctic …2…, measuring just under 14,000,000kms2, closely followed by the Arctic desert. Most people living away from deserts associate this kind of …3… with sand, but only 10% of deserts are actually made up of sand …4….
The term ‘desert’ in fact describes a …5… which receives almost no …6…, meaning rainfall, snow, ice or hail. The term can also apply to regions where there is greater evaporation of …7… than rainfall. In other words, more water is absorbed back into the …8… than stays on or within the ground. So, in …9… deserts, you’re mainly talking about ice sheets and a little rock, not sand, of course. The surface of many other deserts is comprised of loose rock where the finer particles of dust and sand have been …10… Away.
It may surprise you to know that deserts exist all over the …11…, from the Kalahari in Africa to the Great Victoria in Australia and so on, and that they …12… just over a fifth of the earth’s land area. The world’s largest hot desert, the Sahara, actually …13… temperatures of 122 Fahrenheit degrees. Other arid deserts may not be so hot but in common with the Sahara, they …14… considerably at night.
An issue that is worrying geologists, governments and the people that live on the edges of deserts is the way  they are spreading. You might think that the reason for this is drought – but lack of rain is not the cause

A.obtains
B.reaches
C.stretches
D.raises

Read the following passage and circle the best answer for each blank. Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the box provided. (14 pts)
What is the world largest desert? I’m sure the first that …1… to mind is the legendary Sahara – but that’s 3rd .  It’s actually the desert on the Antarctic …2…, measuring just under 14,000,000kms2, closely followed by the Arctic desert. Most people living away from deserts associate this kind of …3… with sand, but only 10% of deserts are actually made up of sand …4….
The term ‘desert’ in fact describes a …5… which receives almost no …6…, meaning rainfall, snow, ice or hail. The term can also apply to regions where there is greater evaporation of …7… than rainfall. In other words, more water is absorbed back into the …8… than stays on or within the ground. So, in …9… deserts, you’re mainly talking about ice sheets and a little rock, not sand, of course. The surface of many other deserts is comprised of loose rock where the finer particles of dust and sand have been …10… Away.
It may surprise you to know that deserts exist all over the …11…, from the Kalahari in Africa to the Great Victoria in Australia and so on, and that they …12… just over a fifth of the earth’s land area. The world’s largest hot desert, the Sahara, actually …13… temperatures of 122 Fahrenheit degrees. Other arid deserts may not be so hot but in common with the Sahara, they …14… considerably at night.
An issue that is worrying geologists, governments and the people that live on the edges of deserts is the way  they are spreading. You might think that the reason for this is drought – but lack of rain is not the cause

A.contain
B.expand
C.cover
D.cross

Underline ten mistakes in the following sentences and correct them. Write the correction in the box provided
At the start of the seminar, they gave us a number of handouts and a little nice folder to keep them all in
A.
B.
C.
D.

Underline ten mistakes in the following sentences and correct them. Write the correction in the box provided
Neither of the scout leaders know how to trap wild animals or how to prepare them for mounting
A.
B.
C.
D.

I.               Match the verb in box A with the word(s) in box B to form a phrasal verb, and then fill it in each blank to complete the sentence. Be sure to use the correct verb tense and form. Write your answer in the box provided. (5 pts.)
put, apprise, go, crease, stem, fall, pull,
center, brood, carry
from, over, away, off, on, of, up, back on,
through, in for
He is in a critical condition in hospital, so we’re all praying he’ll      
A.
B.
C.
D.

I.               Match the verb in box A with the word(s) in box B to form a phrasal verb, and then fill it in each blank to complete the sentence. Be sure to use the correct verb tense and form. Write your answer in the box provided. (5 pts.)
put, apprise, go, crease, stem, fall, pull,
center, brood, carry
from, over, away, off, on, of, up, back on,
through, in for
I   almost         when I heard Tim was going to be playing Romeo in the school play
A.
B.
C.
D.

I.               Match the verb in box A with the word(s) in box B to form a phrasal verb, and then fill it in each blank to complete the sentence. Be sure to use the correct verb tense and form. Write your answer in the box provided. (5 pts.)
put, apprise, go, crease, stem, fall, pull,
center, brood, carry
from, over, away, off, on, of, up, back on,
through, in for
She swims so well that she  really should      the competition
A.
B.
C.
D.

I.               Match the verb in box A with the word(s) in box B to form a phrasal verb, and then fill it in each blank to complete the sentence. Be sure to use the correct verb tense and form. Write your answer in the box provided. (5 pts.)
put, apprise, go, crease, stem, fall, pull,
center, brood, carry
from, over, away, off, on, of, up, back on,
through, in for
Her  husband has been           the good news about their son
A.
B.
C.
D.

Life on earth would come to an end if the_____________________ were destroyed.
A. environment 
B.nature
C.stars
D.weather