MALTEPE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
PUPE STREAM 2
WORKSHEET NO: 11 KEY DECEMBER 6, 2013
Task A: Complete the gaps with the words in the box. There are two extra words!
1. This submarine has aRADAR which can see if there are any ships within 100km.
2. You could save ELECTRICITY by switching off your television set.
3. This car goes so fast because it has such apowerful ENGINE.
4. My dad loves having new GADGETS for his office.
5. The government says that if aMISSILE is fired at this country, we will be able to shoot it down.
6. There have been anumber of important TECHNOLOGICAL advances in the last few years.
Task B: Complete the missing words. The first letter of each word is given.
SAVE THE PLANET!
• Put your glass in the nearest bottle bank!
• Switch off your television 1 SET when you’re not watching it.
• Use public 2 TRANSPORT instead of your car. Cars use 3
PETROL which causes alot of
4POLLUTION. Buses and trains are much cleaner!
• Try to use as much renewable 5ENERGY as possible. You could put solar 6 PANELS on
your roof or even create electricity from wind 7 POWER.
• Try to reduce the amount of domestic 8 WASTE that your family produces.
Together we can do it!
Task C: Put the words in the correct order to make predictions about the future.
a/ definitely / nuclear / be / There / war / won’t
There definitely won’t be anuclear war.
1. 100 years / is / will / life expectancy / rise / that / to / possible / over / It
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT LIFE EXPECTANCY WILL RISE TO OVER 100 YEARS.
2. work / future / Most / from / will / the / home / people / in / probably
MOST PEOPLE WILL PROBABLY WORK FROM HOME IN THE FUTURE.
3. get / all / It / unlikely / we / electricity / is / will / from / that / renewable energy
IT IS UNLIKELY THAT WE WILL GET ALL ELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY.
4. quite / a/ I’m / new / certain / invention / replace / mobile phones / that / will
I’M QUITE CERTAIN THAT A NEW INVENTION WILL REPLACE MOBILE PHONES.
Task D: Complete the gaps with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
If life expectancy increases (increase), people will have to (have to) work longer.
1. The air WILL BE cleaner if we USE public transport.
2. If unemployment GOES up, IWILL LOOK for work abroad.
3. Solar panels WILL NOT if the sun DOESN’T SHINE.
4. If we DO NOT REPLANT forests, there WILL BE less oxygen.
5. We WILL NOT BE ABLE to drive if there IS NOT any petrol.
Task E: Complete the gaps with the correct forms of the verbs in the box. Use going to or will. There are two extra verbs that you do not need.
Look at that car. It is going to crash.
1. Paul rang me earlier. He IS GOING TO BE late.
2. Do you think it WILL RAIN next week?
3. Excuse me aminute. Ihave to leave. IAM GOING TO BE sick.
4. Idon’t think anything exciting WILL ever HAPPEN in our home town.
5. Iread in the newspaper that the new supermarket IS GOING TO OPEN on Friday.
6. It’s 3-0 and there are only two minutes left. We ARE GOING TO WIN!
7. I’m sure someone WILL INVITE Jane to aparty one day.
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Read the article and answer the questions.
Alexandra David-Neel A French Woman in Tibet
Tibet has been a secret and a mysterious place to the rest of the world for several centuries. In other words, people know very little about the country and the people living there. The country is on a high plateau in Asia. It is surrounded by even higher mountains and only a few foreigners could cross its borders, or lines between countries, until recently.
One of these foreigners was a French woman named Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969). She travelled by herself in India, China and Tibet. She studied the Buddhist religion, wrote articles and books about it, and collected ancient Buddhist books. After reading the old books she had collected, she decided to become a Buddhist herself. Alexandra always said she had an unhappy childhood. She escaped her unhappiness by reading books on adventure and travel. She also kept a diary to get away from the sad memories of her childhood. Alexandra went to England when she was only sixteen. She was a singer for several years, but in 1903 she started working as a journalist, writing articles about Asia and Buddhism for English and French magazines and newspapers. The next year, when she was thirty-seven, she married Phillippe-Francis Neel. It was a strange marriage. After five days together, they moved to different cities and never lived together again. However, Phillippe-Francis supported her all his life and she wrote him hundreds of letters full of details about her travels.
Alexandra travelled all over Europe and North Africa, but she went to India in 1911 to study Buddhism, and then her real travels began. She travelled in India and also in Nepal and Sikkim, the small countries north of India in the Himalayas, but her goal was Tibet. She continued to study Buddhism and learned to speak Tibetan. She travelled to villages and religious centers, with an interpreter (translator) and a few men to carry her camping equipment. For several months, she lived in a cave in Sikkim and studied Buddhism and the Tibetan language. She adopted a Sikkimese boy to travel with her. He remained with her until his death at the age of fifty-five.
For the next 7 years, she travelled in remote areas of China. Because the areas she travelled in were far from the towns and cities, Alexandra was often in danger. She travelled for thousands of kilometers on horseback with only a few men to help her through desert heat, sandstorms, and the rain, snow, and the freezing temperatures of the colder areas.
In 1924, Alexandra was fifty-six years old. She dressed as an old beggar and travelled through hot lowlands and snowy mountain passes until she reached the border of Tibet. As she dressed like a beggar and spoke Tibetan so well, she was able to cross the border and she reached the famous city of Lhasa without anyone knowing that she was European and forbidden, or not allowed, to be there. It was often freezing cold, and sometimes there wasn't enough food. Sometimes she was sick, and once she nearly died. This was the most dangerous of all her journeys, but she reached her goal and collected more information about Tibetan Buddhism.
Alexandra returned to France in 1925. She spent several years writing about her research and adventures. When she was sixty-six, she returned to the Tibetan border area for 10 years. In 1944, the Second World War reached even that remote area, and at the age of seventy-six, she walked for days, sometimes without food, until she was able to reach a place where she could fly to India and then home to France. She continued writing and translating until she died, just 7 weeks before her 101st birthday.
Most explorers travelled to discover and map new places. Alexandra went to do research on Buddhism. She said that freedom was the most important thing in life for her, and like many other explorers, she lived a dangerous, exciting and free life.
TASK A: Complete the sentences to give the meaning of the highlighted words.
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1. If something is “mysterious” (paragraph 1) you know VERY LITTLE about it.
2. “Border” (paragraph 1) means LINES BETWEEN COUNTRIES.
3. If something is “ancient” (paragraph 2), that means it is OLD.
4. If you give “details” (paragraph 2) of something, you give INFORMATION about it.
5. If an area is “remote” (paragraph 4), that means it is FAR .
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TASK B: What/who do the words refer to? (0.5 point each)
1. “He” (paragraph 3) refers to THE SIKKIMESE BOY (WHO/THAT)SHE ADOPTED).
2. “There” (paragraph 5) refers to LHASA.
TASK C: Mark each statement as TRUE, FALSE or DS (Doesn’t Say).
1. FALSE Tourists from all over the world have visited Tibet for many centuries.
2. FALSE As her parents were Buddhist, Alexandra became very much interested in Buddhism when she was a child.
3. NI When Alexandra was a student at school her teacher advised her to read books on Buddhism.
4. TRUE Alexandra's interest in adventure and travelling began during her childhood.
5. TRUE Phillippe-Francis learned about Alexandra's travels from the letters he received.
6. FALSE The place that Alexandra wanted most to visit was India.
7. NI During World War I, Alexandra worked as a nurse in the French Army.
8. TRUE Alexandra and the men accompanying her suffered from bad weather conditions during their travels in China.
9. NI When Mao came to power in China Alexandra agreed to work with the Chinese government.
10. FALSE Alexandra left the Tibetan border area before the Second World War began.
TASK D: Answer the following questions.
1. What did Alexandra do to escape from her unhappy childhood?
a. SHE READ BOOKS ON ADVENTURE AND TRAVEL.
b. SHE KEPT A DIARY.
2. Why was Alexandra's marriage a strange one?
AFTER FIVE DAYS TOGETHER, THEY WENT TO DIFFERENT CITIES.
3. Why didn't the Tibetans know Alexandra was a foreigner?
a. SHE DRESSED LIKE A BEGGAR.
b. SHE SPOKE TIBETAN VERY WELL.
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TASK: Read the paragraphs and choose the best ending for each one.
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1. The whale swims like a fish, and lives in the ocean, but it is not a fish. A fish stays under water all time. A whale must have air. It can go down deep in the ocean for many minutes, but it always needs to…
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A. find a fish to eat.
B. swim a long way.
C. act like a fish.
D. come up again for air.
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2. Nutella is a popular Italian food. It’s made from chocolate, nuts, and sugar. Someone invented it after World War II. At that time, chocolate was very hard to get and very expensive. Nutella was a great success because it tasted like chocolate but it...
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A. was cheaper.
B. was terrible.
C. wasn’t cheap.
D. was very hard to get.
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3. Scientists are studying the Arctic Ocean very closely nowadays. They are testing the water temperature and the ice. Studies show that the water is getting warmer and the …
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A. ice is getting thicker.
B. ice is getting thinner.
C. days are getting longer.
D. temperature is getting colder.
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4. The English homework for tomorrow is very easy. We have to read one page of our book. We also have to do some exercises in the workbook. I can do it all tomorrow before class. I don’t want to do homework this evening. I want to…
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A. do my English exercises.
B. speak English.
C. go out with my friends.
D. do my Spanish homework.
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5. Hong Kong is an interesting mixture of people and ideas. It is now part of China, but it belonged to Great Britain in the past. In some ways, it seems British. But in many other ways, it is …
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A. Chinese.
B. Western.
C. new.
D. American.
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6. The tulip is a flower which originally grew in Turkey. In the 17th century it became very popular in Holland. Some Dutch merchants became very rich by importing tulips. They sold them to the …
A. Dutch at very high prices. B. Turkish at very high prices.
C. Turkish at very low prices. D. Dutch at very low prices.
7. Where there are people, there are almost always mice or rats. This is true in all parts of the world. These animals can be a real problem. They eat or damage supplies of food. They can also damage clothes and furniture in the home. Finally, they can carry many types of diseases to humans and other animals. Therefore, you should…
A. keep a good supply of food in the home. B. clean your clothes carefully
C. boil all the water you drink. D. keep your home free of mice and rats.
8. Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil and the second largest city in South America. The official population of the city is 10 million, but the real population is probably more like 13 million. This is partly because the city is growing very quickly. Every year hundreds of thousands of people move there. However, there is another important reason for the difference between the official and real population. Many very poor people in Sao Paulo do not have any place to live. When the government counts the population, these homeless people…
A. are often not counted. B. go to live somewhere else.
C. are often counted twice. D. have nowhere to go.
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· Read the introduction to the story, then complete it using the prompts in the box.
A young American was travelling to Venice on the Orient Express. It was a long journey, and he was bored. Sitting opposite him there was an Italian man. He was about 50 years old. He had an English newspaper on the seat next to him.
“Excuse me,” the American said. “Can I borrow your newspaper?”
“No,” said the Italian. “I’m sorry, you can’t.”
“Why not?” asked the American.
“Well,” said the Italian, “it’s quite simple.
If I lend you my newspaper, we will start talking. IF WE START TALKING WE WILL BECOME FRIENDS. IF WE BECOME FRIENDS I WILL INVITE YOU TO MY HOUSE IN VENICE. IF I INVITE YOU TO MY HOUSE IN VENICE YOU WILL MEET MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER. IF YOU MEET MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH HER. IF YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH HER YOU WILL RUN AWAY TOGETHER. IF YOU RUN AWAY TOGETHER I WILL FOLLOW AND FIND YOU. IF I FOLLOW AND FIND YOU I WILL KILL YOU. So that’s why I won’t lend you my newspaper.”
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