زبان 3

6. Ferdowsi ----------------- about thirty years on his book, Shahnameh.

1) minded

2) drew

3) shared

4) spent

                                                  

7. If we had two TV sets at home, we would never ----------------- for a TV program.

1) influence

2)  struggle

3) improve

4) behave

 

8. You have no ----------------- but to follow the captain’s order.

1)  decision

2) choice

3) success

4) average

 

9. We make some motors which in some ----------------- are better than foreign motors.

1) cases

2) facts

3) degrees

4) effects

                                                      

10. According to the ----------------- there has been a terrible car accident in Karaj highway.

1) roles

2) reports

3) secrets

4) bills

                                                      

11. I tried taking two aspirins for the headache but it had no -----------------

1) event

2) experiment

3) care

4) effect

                                                 

12. You must decide for yourself. Don’t let anyone ----------------- you.

1) promise

2) expect

3) influence

4) understand

                                                

13. It took her hours to ----------------- which dress to wear for the party.

1) taste

2) employ

3) solve

4) choose

                                                         

14. The air ----------------- becomes lower and lower as you climb a mountain.

1) experiment

2) observation

3) passenger

4) pressure

                                 

15. Watching TV for long periods of time may have a bad effect on your -----------------

1) eyesight

2) headache

3) waist

4) truthfulness

                                               

16. The ----------------- showed that most plants need sunlight to grow.

1) experiment

2) exercise

3) expression

4) expectation

                                    

17. As it was raining, we didn’t ----------------- our children to play in the garden.

1) agree

2) guide

3) comment

4) allow

 

Cloze Test

 

Many people in the modern world live in towns. Many live and work in (1) places, so they have to travel a lot. In (2) big cities people often travel for more than one (3) both morning and evening. Traveling by train or bus may be (4) than going by car, because people can do something else at the same time.

 

18.  1) beautiful

2) different

3) interesting

4) similar

 

19.  1) clearly

2) finally

3) hardly

4) really

 

20.  1) hour

2) minute

3) week

4) year

 

21.  1) larger

2) longer

3) better

4) shorter

 

Reading Comprehension

 

 Mrs. Jones lives in a small village. Her husband is dead, but she has one son. He is twenty one, and his name is Jim. He worked in a shop in a small village and lived with his mother, but then he got a job in a town and went to live there. Its name was Green Sea. It was quite a long way from his mother's village, and she was not happy about this. But Jim said,' There isn't any good work for me in the country, mother, and I can send you some money every week'.

Mrs. Jones was very angry last Sunday. She got in a train and went to his son's house in Green Sea. Then she said to him,' Jim, why do you never phone me?' Jim laughed. 'But, mother, 'he said, 'You don't have a phone.' 'No, 'she answered, 'I don't, but you have one!'

                          

22. Jim first worked -----------------

 

1) in a town

2) in a shop

3) with his father

4) worked on a farm

 

23. After a while, Jim went to work in Green Sea because -----------------

 

1) he liked to live in that beautiful city	2)  there was no good work for him his  village.
3)  his father was dead some years ago	4)  his mother told him to go to a town for work.

 

24. Jim's mother was not happy because -----------------

 

1) he couldn't get more money	2) the train was very late
3) he was living far from his mother	4) he couldn't feel at home in Jim's house

 

25. He didn't phone his mother because -----------------

 

1) she didn't have a phone	2) he didn't have a phone
3) she didn't want to	4) he didn't have free time