1-10) Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in each sentence:
1/ The story about UFOs caught the ___________ of the whole class .
A. decision B. imagination C. evidence D. science
2/ There’s no _____________ that life exists on other planets.
A. creature B. experience C. evidence D. condition
3/ The satellite moves around the earth’s _________ round the sun.
A. surface B. path C. space D. orbit
4/ My grandfather is keen __________ growing fruit trees.
A. of B. in C. on D. for
5/ Articles and reports in newspapers talk lots about UFO _____________ .
A. shapes B. balloons C. appearance D. exposition
6/ People are talking about the __________ circles on the fields in The Great Britain.
A. secret B. mysterious C. marvelous D. excellent
7/ UFO’s mean ___________ flying objects.
A. unsafe B. unknown C. unable D. unidentified
8/ Some scientists and government want to send ___________ to Mars.
A. pilots B. aliens C. astronauts D. students
9/ What scenes on the earth can you see from __________ space.
A. out B. outer C. upper D. inner
10/ I think UFOs exist only in films for ___________ .
A. imagination B. persuasion C. entertainment D. introduction
Use the correct form of the words in parentheses:
17/ I think UFOs might be the ___________ of people. ( imagine)
18/ There is no __________ that they have been there. ( evident)
19/ There may be a lot of __________ stones in Mars. ( preciosity)
20/ Many reports talked a lot about the __________ of UFOs . ( appear)
21/ It was a really _________ football match. (excite)
22/ You have had to make a difficult _________ . ( decide)
(23-28) Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
On October 21, 1978, Australian pilot Frederick Valentich, age 20, took off from Melbourne and (23)__________ towards a small island. It was the young men’s first solo night over water. It was a still, clear evening, and from his Cessna aircraft Valentich had a perfect (24) _________ of the sky above and the sea below. Shortly after taking off, Valentich reported to flight controllers in Melbourne that he was being followed by a UFO. “ It’s a long shape,” he reported, “ with a green light, sort of metallic like, all shiny on the outside”. A few minutes later, he told the controllers, “ That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again.” After that Valentich stopped talking. For the next fourteen seconds the traffic controllers heard a strange ringing sound. Then silence. Valentich and his plane never reached the island, and no (25) __________ of him or his aircraft was ever found. Several (26) __________ of the public report seeing strange phenomena in the sky over Melbourne that night. An amateur photographer produced a photo of (27) __________ looked like a large object surrounded by vapor. A NASA scientist, Richard Haines, heard about the story and began an (28) __________. He analyzed Valentich’s voice on tape and the strange sound heard at the end of the tape. But he concluded that it was “ unidentifiable.” He decided that there were four possible explanations for the mystery surroundings Valentich disappearance: (1) Valentich might have become confused and disoriented while flying his plane and finally crashed; (2) He could have staged a deliberate hoax;(3) he could have been the victim of a top secret advanced weapons test; or he may have benn captured by the occupants of a OFO.
23/ A. headed B. pointed C. directed D. guided
24/ A. sight B. look C. view D. spectacle
25/ A. mark B. trace C. trail D. lead
26/ A. members B. beings C. sessions D. units
27/ A. that B. which C. such D. what
28/ A. identification B. investigation C. interrogation D. introspection
(29-32) Read the dialogue and then decide whether the statements that follow are true or false. Write True or False in your answersheet:
A planet is a body in space that revolves around a star. There are nine planets in our solar system, and these nine planets travel around the sun. The names of the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Planets travel in orbits around their stars . All of the planets of the solar system revolve in elliptical orbits. In other words, their orbits are like large, flat circles. The time that it takes a planet to make one revolution around the sun is called its year. The Greek were the first people to recognize and give names to some of the planets. The word planet comes from a Greek word meaning wanderer. If a person wanders, this means that he goes from one place to another and does not have a home. The Greek thought that the planets “wandered” in the sky. However, modern scientists can predict the movement of the planets very accurately
____ 29/ A planet revolves around the Earth.
____30/ Venus, Mars and Neptune are planets and stars.
____ 31/ The Greek were the first to recognize some of the planets.
____ 32/ The planets in our solar system travel around the sun and in elliptical orbits
(33-36) Rewrite the sentences so that they are nearest in meaning to the sentence
printed before them.
33/ My cousin will meet you at the station.
You __________________________________________________
34/ It’s possible to travel to Russia without a visa.
You can’t travel to Russia if__________________________________________
35/ The police said : “ Don’t touch anything in this room, everybody. ”
____________________________________________________
36/ You don’t do any exercise and that’s why you put on weight.
If _____________________________________________________
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus