English: 3rd Year College
Semester 2 Test 1 Model 1
Professeur : Mme ZAARA Asmae
I- Text
Amazing world
The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest in Nepal. It is about 9 kilometres high. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb it on May 29th 1953. At the top, the winds are very strong.
The largest volcano in the world is the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. It is a very active volcano. The last time it erupted was on March 25th, 1984. It is about 19 kilometres high but only about 4 kilometres of this is above the sea.
The largest ocean in the world is the Pacific Ocean. It’s over 166 million square Kilometres on March 30th, 2001, a man called Jim Shekdar became the first person to row across the Pacific alone. He finished his journey after 274 days! The deepest part of the Pacific Ocean is the Marianas Trench. It’s 12,000 metres deep. |
II- Comprehension
- Complete the chart :
The highest mountain | The largest volcano | The largest ocean | |
Name | |||
Where ? | |||
How high? / large? | |||
An important date | |||
Why ? |
- Put "True" or "False". Justify :
1- No one climbed Mount Everest : ____________
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2- Mauna Loa volcano is very active : ____________
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3- Jim Shekdar crossed the Pacific with his friend : ____________
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III- Vocabulary
- Give the opposites from the text :
Weak ≠ _____________________
the first ≠ _____________________
Began ≠ _____________________
IV- Language
- Write the comparative and superlative forms of these adjectives :
Comparative | Superlative | |
Popular | ||
Dangerous | ||
Good | ||
Exciting | ||
Unusual | ||
Difficult | ||
Bad | ||
Interesting |
- Underline the correct word :
1- Are you interested / interesting in music ?
2- We saw an amazing / amazed documentary on the rainforests .
3- I'm bored / boring . Turn on the TV, please .
4- Was the last wars film excited / exciting ?
V- Writing
Write about the coldest place in the world.
- name : Antarctica
- How big? : 8 million miles (winter), 4 million miles (summer)
- How cold? : Between – 40° C and -70° C
- An important date : December 14th, 1911: Roald Amundsen became the first person to walk to the South pole.
Antarctica is the coldest place in the world ______________________________________
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