The author mentions all of the following as problems with the survival of panel paintings EXCEPT _______.




A.condition
B.restoration
C.preservation
D.theft

What does the writer mean by saying “education quite often produces surprises”?




A.Educators often produce surprises.
B.It’s surprising that we know little about other religions.
C.Success of informal learning is predictable.
D.Informal learning often brings about unexpected results.

She has just bought ___________.




A.a reddish impressive wood French coffee table
B.an impressive reddish French wood coffee table
C.an impressive French reddish wood table coffee
D.an impressive French wood reddish coffee table

It is necessary that a life-guard __________ the summing pool while the children are taking their swimming lessons.




A.monitored
B.monitors
C.monitor
D.monitoring

When it started to snow, he ________ his overcoat.




A.took out
B.put off
C.took off
D.put on

VI- Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underline is pronounced differently from the rest.




A.thereupon
B.thrill
C.threesome
D.throne

VII- Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Not until(A) I was on my way (B) to the airport that I realized(C) I had left my passport at home (D)




A.until
B.on my way
C.that I realized
D.at home

VIII- Read the following passage taken from Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th edition, and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 55 to 64
John F. Kennedy
(John Fitzgerald Kenedy 1917-1963) the 35th US President( 1961-1963). He was the country’s youngest president and the first Roman Catholic ever ___(55)___. He was ___(56)___
Known informally as Jack Kennedy and JFK. His wife was Jackie Kenedy. He won a medal for ___(57)___ during World War 2, and was elected to the US House of Representatives (19947-1953) and then ___(58)___, the US Senate ( 1952-1960).
Kennedy greatest success ___(59)___ President was in ___(60)___ the Cuban missile crisis and his worst failure was over the Bay of Pigs incident. He worked ___(61)___ his brother, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy , to support the civil rights ___(62)___ . He was murdered in Dallas, probably by Lee Harvey Oswald, in one of the most shocking events in US history. Some people believed that others were responsible for his murder, but ___(63)___ has ever been ___(64)___ proved. Kennedy’ book, Profiles in Courage (1956), won a Pulitzer Prize.
“And so, my fellow Americans : ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
JOHN F KENNEDY




A.for
B.to
C.about
D.on

The word “motions” is closest in meaning to




A.stop watches
B.habits
C.actions
D.special tools

The man mentioned in the passage, who used his cellphone too often, ______.




A.suffered serious loss of mental ability
B.could no longer think lucidly
C.abandoned his family
D.had a problem with memory