Μάθημα : English B4 - 2024

For each gap, choose the correct answer a,b or c. Remember that the grammar phenomena you are practicing are indirect speech, passive voice, impersonal passive and inversions.

Use the correct form (derivatives) of the following words to complete the gaps.

Complete the gaps with a derivative of the given word. You can use a dictionary if you want.

Read the following text about Michelangelo and decide whether the following sentences are True, False or Not mentioned in the text.

Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect and poet and one of the great
artists of the Italian Renaissance.

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese near Florence
(Italy) where his father was the local magistrate. A few weeks after his birth,
the family moved to Florence. In 1488, Michelangelo was apprenticed to the painter
Domenico Ghirlandaio. He then lived in the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the leading patron of the arts in Florence.

In 1505, Pope Julius II summoned Michelangelo to Rome and commissioned him to design Julius' own tomb. Due to quarrels between Julius and Michelangelo, and the many other demands on the artist's time, the project was never completed, although Michelangelo did produce a sculpture of Moses for the tomb.

Michelangelo's next major commission was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1508-1512). It was recognised at once as a great work of art and from then on Michelangelo was regarded as Italy's greatest living artist.

Use the correct derivative of the following words to complete the gaps (11-20) as in the example . There is an extra word.

Complete the gaps with one of the given words. You don't need to change the word. You may repeat the exercise as many times as you want.

brave, corpse, vain, scorching, evoke, abandoned, down-trodden, eliminate, perished, wandered, vomit, demanded, individual, question, crouch

Read the following text and decide whether the following sentences are True - False - Not mentioned. At the end of the exercise feedback will be provided.

Kakuma is found in Turkana district which is situated in the north-western part of Kenya, bordering
Ethiopia, Uganda and the Sudan. The area where the refugee camp is located is dry, dusty and
sunny. Sometimes you feel the heat as if the sun is only kilometers away. The air is full of dust
particles.

At the far end of the refugee camp stands a lone plastic make-shift hut, as if ithas no care for what exists in the world. The owner is also lonely; he lives byhimself in an alien land. The shabby shelter is neither a house nor a pen. But itpartially protects its owner from the sun and the big grains of sand and it is the only worldly thing which relates Mesfin with property. He says "It is my
house", but deep inside he knows that he does not deserve it. When Mesfin feels the stress from the combined forces of loneliness, lack of love and hunger he usually wanders in the forest. Moreover, when there is a shortage of firewood, which is more often than not, he walks for about twenty kilometres to fetch wood sticks. The wood is essential to provide the energy required to boil the beans which are hard to cook. The firewood rationed is hardly enoughto make a day's meals, so fetching wood is one of Mesfin's main activities.

Buying charcoal is out of the question since money is hard to come across; collecting from around
the camp is illegal and it would invite confrontation with the uncompromising local Turkana people. But having a piece of wood is the difference between eating and going without food. So, to cook and eat a decent meal, he has to rise with the sun and go in search of firewood.
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Read part of the text on page 19 and then choose the correct answer: a, b or c?

A passionate advocate for the education of girls and young women in Jordan’s refugee camps, Muzon has been hailed as Syria’s answer to Malala.

When Muzon’s family fled the war in Syria in early 2013, they briefly considered leaving
her behind. The bright 14-year-old had been studying hard all year for her grade-nine school exams, which were just a month away, and her aunt urged the family to let her stay and continue her education.

In the end, her father decided the risks were too great, and so she fled with him and her siblings across the border to Jordan. “I knew she could make up for lost schooling, but if you lose your life there’s no way to make up for that” Abu Mohammed, 45, told me when I met the family in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp.

Education has always played a big part in Muzon’s life. Both of her parents were teachers back in Syria’s southern Dara’a province, and her aunt and uncle were head teachers at local schools. “I didn’t need them to tell me that education is important. I always just felt it,” she explains. “Our house was built by an engineer. When I was sick I went to a doctor. Education is everything in life.”

Now 17, her deeply held conviction of the importance of education has become a defining feature of Muzon’s life in exile. Not only has she continued her studies in Jordan, but she has also become a forceful and increasingly high-profile advocate for education among Syrian refugees, particularly young women and girls.