Welcome to your GRADE 12 ENGILSH MODEL EXAMINATIONS 2015
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER FORM THE GIVEN QUESTIONS
SESCTION ONE: WORD ORDER (1-7)
Directions: The following words are NOT in the proper order. When put in the right order, they make correct English sentences. From the given alternatives, choose the one that is correct and blacken the letter of your choice in the separate answer sheet.
1.
I send you e-mail an will.
2.
You were doing what called when I you?
3.
Carefully work you did your check?
4.
Know her is name I don’t what
5.
Our warned not us go to swimming mother
6.
It she to people found hard believe
7.
Know they what she did him doesn’t to.
SECTION TWO: PARAGRAPH COHERENCE (8-12)
Directions: When put in the correct order, sentences 1-5 in each of the questions from 6-10 make up a complete paragraph. From the alternatives A-D given in each case, choose the letter that contains the correct order of the sentences and blacken the corresponding letter provided in the separate answer sheet.
8.
A. Our director's speech was very interesting.
B. He said that our younger generation had to study hard.
C. He spoke about the most important tasks of our school.
D. Last week we held a meeting at our school.
E. Our meeting was addressed by our director and some of the teachers.
9.
A. She said she was sorry to be late for class.
B. The teacher said Alice should try not to be late any more.
C. She asked the teacher if she might come in.
D. Alice was late for class.
E. She said she had to take her sister to the nursery school.
10.
A. A little boy showed his father a new pen-knife.
B. "Are you sure it was lost?" the father asked.
C. "I saw a man looking for it."
D. He said he had found it in the street.
E. "Of course, it was lost!" the boy answered
11.
A. Attempts are made to reform the system.
B. But the system remains to this day.
C. Modern English spelling is archaic in many cases.
D. It's a source of difficulty to everybody.
E. Some of it is successful and quite scientific
12.
A. Some jump, and some give out a pungent repellent substance.
B. They are usually much quicker than the ant itself.
C. Nevertheless, these animals do not make easy game for ants.
D. Besides, they have an extraordinary number of ways of escaping.
E. They also eat larvae and insect adults such as flies, moths and spring tails.
F. Ants eat worms, centipedes and spiders.
SECTION THREE: READING COMPREHENSION (13-22)
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions 11-30 according to the information therein. Each question has four choices, A-D. Choose the best alternative and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
Passage I
The fossil remains of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs, have intrigued paleontologists for more than two centuries. How such large creatures, which weighed in some cases as much as a piloted hang-glider and had wingspans from 8 to 12 meters, solved the problems of powered flight, and exactly what these creatures were—reptiles or birds—are among the questions scientists have puzzled over.
Perhaps the least controversial assertion about the pterosaurs is that they were reptiles. Their skulls, pelvises, and hind feet are reptilian. The anatomy of their wings suggests that they did not evolve into the class of birds. In pterosaurs a greatly elongated fourth finger of each forelimb supported a wing-like membrane. The other fingers were short and reptilian, with sharp claws. In birds the second finger is the principal strut of the wing, which consists primarily of feathers. If the pterosaurs walked on all fours, the three short fingers may have been employed for grasping. When a pterosaur walked or remained stationary, the fourth finger, and with it the wing, could only turn upward in an extended inverted V-shape along each side of the animal’s body.
The pterosaurs resembled both birds and bats in their overall structure and proportions. This is not surprising because the design of any flying vertebrate is subject to aerodynamic constraints. Both the pterosaurs and the birds have hollow bones, a feature that represents a savings in weight. In the birds, however, these bones are reinforced more massively by internal struts.
Although scales typically cover reptiles, the pterosaurs probably had hairy coats. T. H. Huxley reasoned that flying vertebrates must have been warm-blooded because flying implies a high rate of metabolism, which in turn implies a high internal temperature. Huxley speculated that a coat of hair would insulate against loss of body heat and might streamline the body to reduce drag in flight. The recent discovery of a pterosaur specimen covered in long, dense, and relatively thick hair-like fossil material was the first clear evidence that his reasoning was correct.
Efforts to explain how the pterosaurs became airborne have led to suggestions that they launched themselves by jumping from cliffs, by dropping from trees, or even by rising into light winds from the crests of waves. Each hypothesis has its difficulties. The first wrongly assumes that the pterosaurs’ hind feet resembled a bat’s and could serve as hooks by which the animal could hang in preparation for flight. The second hypothesis seems unlikely because large pterosaurs could not have landed in trees without damaging their wings. The third calls for high waves to channel updrafts. The wind that made such waves however, might have been too strong for the pterosaurs to control their flight once airborne.
Source: John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (Penguin, 1994)
13.
It can be inferred from the passage that scientists now generally agree that ___________________ .
14.
The author views the idea that the pterosaurs became airborne by rising into light winds created by waves as ______________________________.
15.
According to the passage, the skeleton of a pterosaur can be distinguished from that of a bird by the
16.
The ideas attributed to T. H. Huxley in the passage suggest that he would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
17.
It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following is characteristic of the pterosaurs?
18.
Which of the following best describes the organization of the last paragraph of the passage?
19.
It can be inferred from the passage that some scientists believe that pterosaurs
20.
The pronoun “they” in paragraph 2, line 1 refers to __________________________
21.
As used in the passage in paragraph 3, line 1, the word “resembled” most nearly means _____________
22.
As used in the passage in paragraph 4, line 5, the word “specimen” most nearly means _____________
SECTION FOUR: GRAMMAR AND USAGE (23-70)
Directions: Questions (58-86) are incomplete sentences. There are four alternative words or phrases, A-D, given below each questions. Choose the word that best completes the sentence and blacken the letter of your choice in the space provided in the answer sheet.
23.
I bought a kilo of oranges yesterday. Would you like to take _______________?
24.
Last night, the policeman _______________the robbers entering into the bank.
25.
Unless you take a care, you will lastly ___________________ your exam.
26.
. Abeba has already _______________ her lunch. Now she is picking the tray and the water jug.
27.
Don’t tell me anything! _____________________ times did I tell you not to do that?
28.
Shemsia is outside in the field. She is_______________________ with her friends.
29.
Before and after every meal, you________________ wash your hands for your safety.
30.
Our house is 90m2, but yours is 70m2. So ours is _____________________ than yours.
31.
Next summer, we will go to Asossa ____________________ our cousin lives in.
32.
____________________ of my friends don’t like volleyball, they prefer football.
33.
________ Ali ______ Temesgen doesn’t have any sister. I don’t exactly remember who it is.
34.
While I was walking in ________ street, I saw _______ old man and _______ woman travelling together. ________ old man took some rest, but ________ woman didn’t do so.
35.
This man is ____________ from Turkey _______ from Italy. He is from Germany.
36.
We enjoyed ___________________ in the Spa at Embilta Hotel last Saturday.
37.
We haven’t got __________egg in the fridge at the moment, may I go and bring from the shop?
38.
__________________ money have you spent to purchase this smart-phone?
39.
The situations will become extremely hard ________ you get yourself ready to confront.
40.
This is______________ cafe_______________ we met for __________first time.
41.
When I last talked to him, he _____________________________ English.
42.
. We’ll close all the windows in case it _________________ while we are out.
43.
My friend _____________ a present ____________ me _________ the Ramadan Holiday last year.
44.
I wish I __________ under the sun for a long time. Now I have a terrible sunburn.
45.
Many thanks to God! It all happened ______________ seven o’clock ______________ the evening.
46.
I got a muscle fatigue. We played tennis ____________________ two hours.
47.
I lost my glasses. I looked for them _______________, but I couldn’t find them.
48.
Throughout my school life, I have _________________ close friends. Two or three.
49.
She enjoys _______________________ the news on television.
50.
I’m looking forward __________________ more free time after such a hustle and bustle work.
51.
By the time my sister gets home from work, I ______________ washing all the kitchen utensils.
52.
Now let me _______________ for the meal. You paid last time.
53.
Is there a public call box near here? I have to __________ a phone call.
54.
When you’re not sure what to do, the best thing is to ______________ nothing,
55.
Dave drinks ______________ a fish! I’ve never seen anyone drink as much as him.
56.
The test was really easy. __________the time, I would have got all the answers correct.
57.
You must see their newly ______________ supermarket unless they’ll become angry with you.
58.
If you had worked more, you _________________ to translate this article yesterday.
59.
We're so late for the meeting that __________ we take a cab to the station, we can’t get there on time.
60.
Like many prior to them, the naturalist artists _____ copied from nature _____ tried to improve on it.
61.
You should always do some exercises, ______________ what diet you're following.
62.
Sam and Rose are fighting all the time _________________they're brother and sister.
63.
My elder son practices piano a couple of hours every day and______________ plays it very well.
64.
I got these sandwiches in my bag ______________we may not get any restaurant on our way.
65.
Most of tour operators have cancelled their travel plans to Thailand _____________ the unfavorable weather conditions there.
66.
In recent weeks investors have begun to worry that central banks are raising interest rates; __________, growth is slowing in the United States and is still fragile in Europe and Japan.
67.
The pollution of the seas can only be prevented__________ all countries follow the same policy.
68.
I love my wife so much that it seems to me _________no monument in the world existed_____ my wife, leaning against it.
69.
The stories of my grandmother, most ______________ have never been heard, should have been made into a book so far.
70.
One of the worrying problems is what to do for those______________ education is so poor that they can only manage simple, repetitive jobs ___________ are now tending to disappear as automation takes over.
Passage II
Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free
enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means maximum
productiveness; our “openness” is to be the measure of our stability. Fascination with this ideal has made
Americans defy the “Old World” categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, the
cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quo” defended or attacked. The United States,
it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only “station” was the turning of a stationary wheel, spinning
faster and faster. We did not base our system on property but opportunity—which meant we based it not on
stability but on mobility. The more things changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the steadier
we would be. The conventional picture of class politics is composed of the Haves, who want a stability to
keep what they have, and the Have-Nots, who want a touch of instability and change in which to scramble
for the things they have not. But Americans imagined a condition in which speculators, self-makers, runners
are always using the new opportunities given by our land. These economic leaders (front-runners) would
thus be mainly agents of change. The nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability, a strong
referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm manic speculation; an authority that
can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatory staggered “starting lines.”
“Reform” in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extension
of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, “a piece of the action,” as it were, for the
disenfranchised. There is no attempt to call off the race. Since our only stability is change, America seems
not to honor the quiet work that achieves social interdependence and stability. There is, in our legends, no
heroism of the office clerk, no stable industrial work force of the people who actually make the system
work. There is no pride in being an employee (Wilson asked for a return to the time when everyone was an
employer). There has been no boasting about our social workers—they are merely signs of the system’s
failure, of opportunity denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated. We have no pride in our growing
interdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty
boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them,
move away from them. There is no honor but in the Wonderland race we must all run, all trying to win, none
winning in the end (for there is no end).
Source: John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (Penguin, 1994)
71.
The primary purpose of the passage is to _______________________________________ .
72.
According to the passage, “Old World” values were based on _____________________ .
73.
In the context of the author’s discussion of regulating change, which of the following could be most probably regarded as a “strong referee” (line 13-14) in the United States?
74.
The author sets off the word “Reform” (line 16) with quotation marks in order to ______________ .
75.
It can be inferred from the passage that the author most probably thinks that giving the disenfranchised
“a piece of the action” (line 17) is _____________________
76.
The pronoun “These” as used in paragraph 2, line 12 refers to__________________________.
77.
The expressions “Haves” an “Have-Nots” as used in paragraph 1, line 9-10 are to mean _________ .
78.
The passage contains information that would answer which of the following questions?
I. What techniques have industrialists used to manipulate a free market?
II. In what ways are “New World” and “Old World” economic policies similar?
III. Has economic policy in the United States tended to reward independent action?
79.
Which of the following best expresses the author’s main point?
80.
The word “disenfranchised” in paragraph 2, line 3 is similar in meaning with one of the following.
SECTION FIVE: VOCABULARY (81-100) A: SENTENCE COMPLETION (81-90)
Directions: Questions (81-41) are incomplete sentences. There are four alternative words or phrases, A-D, given below each question. Choose the one that best completes each sentence and blacken the letter of your choice in the space provided in the answer sheet.
81.
Some of the local activists are ________ the problem of the country rather than recommending possible solutions.
82.
After the earthquake, the government needed a lot of____________ equipment to look after the sick and wounded.
83.
No one is so ________________ as the person who has no wish to learn.
84.
In a multiple-choice exercise it’s sometimes easier to _________________ the wrong answers before choosing the right one.
85.
In the examination you may be asked for comments on various ______________ of a topic.
86.
Failing the final exam was a big _____________________ to my hopes.
87.
I'm feeling rather __________________ because of the exam I'm doing next week.
88.
George has no head for figures. He simply cannot __________________ them.
89.
His test results are not very _______________ He does well one month and badly the next.
90.
The _______________ exam in March prepared pupils for the real thing in May.
B: SUBSTITUTION (91-100)
DIRECTION: Choose a word or phrase that keeps the meaning of the underlined word.
91.
There was no trace of poison in the coffee the chemist analyzed.
92.
It is useless to attempt to flee from every danger. Some risk must be taken.
93.
The driver tried to avert the accident by bringing the car to a sudden stop.
94.
Frequent minor ailments keep Mrs. Hana from work away.
95.
Workers have ample time for recreation because their work-week consists of only forty hours.
96.
The security of the whole operation has been jeopardized by thin carelessness.
97.
The consensus among her family members was that she ought to get married.
98.
The hurricane that hit the city had a catastrophic effect because most of the buildings were constructed of wood.
99.
We were shocked by the brutality of the hooligans. They were simply like a herd of violent animals.
100.
I hate people breaking in on a conversation without waiting for the speaker to stop talking.
SECTION SIX: COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES (101-110)
Direction: Questions (101-111) are presented in a dialogue form. The part said by one of the speakers is given, and a blank space is left for the other. Four alternative answers, A-D, are given for each of the blank spaces. Choose the alternative that is most appropriate to complete the dialogue, and blacken the letter of your choice in the space provided in the answer sheet.
101.
Son: “I ________________ out now, Mum. Bye!”
Mom: “OK. Have a good time. What time ________________ home?”
102.
John: By the way, I have two books of yours. I should like to return them.
Harry: Have you finished reading them?
John: ______________________________________
Harry: Would you care to have another book to read?
103.
Alex: Excuse me, sir.
Blake: Yes?
Alex: ____________________ Blake: This way, please.
104.
Jack: What time is the next train to London?
Sam: They go every hour. The next train is at 10 o'clock.
Jack: ______________________________
105.
The teacher said: "Remember? It is better to give than to receive".
A small boy said: "Yes, Miss, my father says he always uses that as his motto in business". The teacher said: "Oh, how good of him! What is his business?"
The small boy said: "______________________________, miss".
106.
Sally: Can you help me with this work?
Suzi: I'm afraid, I can't. I'm very busy now.
Sally: __________________________________________
Suzi: Yes, certainly. I think I'll be free in an hour.
107.
Melona: We are going on an excursion tomorrow. Would you like to join us?
Peter: ___________________________. Shall I take any food with me?
Melona: _________________________. We'll be away for 2 days.
108.
Helen: Nick, have you got anything special for tonight?
Nick: ____________________________________________________
109.
Woman: "Do you think she is better, doctor?"
Doctor: _____________________________________________________
Woman: I am very glad to hear that. Thank you.
110.
Brad: Your sons are very interested in shipbuilding.
Mathew: Really?
Brad: ____________________________________________ Mathew: Not yet, but they have many books about ships.
SECTION SEVEN: WRITING (111-120)
Directions: The following questions are related to different aspects of writing. Read each of them very carefully and choose the answer from the four alternatives, A_D, given. Then blacken the letter of your choice in the space provided in the answer sheet.
SECTION SEVEN: WRITING (111-120)
Directions: The following questions are related to different aspects of writing. Read each of them very carefully and choose the answer from the four alternatives, A_D, given. Then blacken the letter of your choice in the space provided in the answer sheet.
111.
“Lake Calhoun is a great place to swim and relax. In the summer, the water is warm and clean and the beaches are large enough to accommodate groups of people…” This is taken from a piece of writing that is most likely:
112.
“On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft lifted off from the Kennedy space center in Florida…” This is taken from a piece of writing that is most likely:
113.
“The best way for teachers to boost their students’ science test scores is to make students excited by science with real-life examples.” This is taken from a piece of writing that is most likely:
114.
“The Facebook has provided great benefits, but at the same time it has also created problems and inequalities.” This piece of writing is likely to be _____________________________
115.
In which of the following is capital letters used correctly?
116.
Which one of the following is correctly punctuated?
117.
To close a letter to a girlfriend, the most appropriate closing is _______________________.
118.
Which one of the following sentences is grammatically incorrect?
119.
Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
120.
Which one of the following sentences is capitalized correctly?
