Anglo Americano

1 anno

June 2003
Language Exercises
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UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI VENEZIA

DIP. DI STUDI ANGLO-AMERICANI E IBEROAMERICANI
SEZIONE DI STUDI ANGLO-AMERICANI
ESAME SCRITTO DI L. e L. ANGLO-AMERICANA
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Complete the letter by putting the verbs into the correct form, using any auxiliary and modal
verbs necessary, and the other words in brackets. Make sure you put the words in the right
order.
Interview for position as tourist guide
Mrs Jones: Good morning, Mary. Now I 'd like to ask you a few questions. First of all, when and
where 1. .. (you / be / born)?
Mary: On 19 January 1980.
Mrs Jones: Thank you. And 2. .. (you / do) this kind of work before?
Mary: No, but I 3. .. (offer) a job as a tourist guide in Mexico last year.
Unfortunately I 4. .. (not / take) it because my father was ill, but if I
5.

(accept) it, I 6. ... (send) to Mexico to work with

groups of tourists.
Mrs Jones: Now I see you 7. ... (learn) Spanish. How long
8.

.... (study) that?

Mary: For five years. I'm really quite fluent.

Mrs Jones: Good, now what are your ambitions for the future?
Mary: Well, I hope that by the time I 9. (be) 25, I 10. ....
(visit) lots of different countries and I 11. ..... (work) for a large tourist
agency.
Mrs Jones: Now, if you 12. . (ask) to explain how to exchange dollars into
pesos, 13. .. (you / able / do) it?
Mary: Yes, I think so.
Mrs Jones: And if we 14. .. (offer) you this job, 15. ...
.. (you / accept) it?
Mary: Oh yes certainly.

Exercise 2. For questions 1-15, read the text below and decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best
fits each space. CIRCLE the correct answer. DO NOT write the answer in the space.
Parents are 1) ...... worried about their teenage children getting mixed up 2) ...... drugs that they are
failing to spot the serious emotional and mental health problems that concern 3) ...... offspring.
While 42 per cent of parents listed drugs 4) ...... the single biggest problem facing teenagers today,
5) ...... than 80 per cent of young people disagreed, 6) ...... to new research.
In the new survey, only 19% of teenagers 7) ...... that drugs represented a problem in their life, but
31% cited relationships with friends or family as their single 8) ...... worry.
Steven Phipps, director of Connections, the telephone help-line that commissioned the survey, said
that 9) ...... parents had always misunderstood their teenagers, the extent to 10) ...... they now
overestimated the significance of drugs in their children's lives was a cause for great concern.
"Young people and drug-related problems are rarely 11) ...... of the media and this is one of the
reasons that parents' concerns 12) ...... drugs are totally out of proportion with the problem itself,"
he said.
"It is almost as if some parents think there are practically no other problems. Addressing the
13) ...... of drugs is important, but it must not be at the expense of 14) ...... with other problems that
young people face, particularly problems to do with mental health, which do not get such
widespread media coverage."
Mr Phipps was particularly worried about 15) ...... tendency to overlook the emotional and
psychological problems facing their teenagers, who often felt that they had no one to turn to.
1. a) this
b) so
c) most
d) very

6. a) according
b) second
c) except
d) in addition

11. a) away
b) far
c) out
d) except

2. a) to
b) for
c) with
d) of

a) told
b) spoke
c) said
d) gave

12. a) of
b) about
c) to
d) without

3. a) to
b) their
c) some
d) the

8. a) greater
b) most
c) hugely
d) biggest

4. a) as
b) to
c) which
d) for

5. a) just
b) all
c) most
d) more

10. a) which
b) that
c) how
d) what

a) while
b) however
c) therefore
d) despite

13. a) wealth
b) loss
c) chance
d) issue
14 a) deal
b) dealer
c) dealing
d) dealt
15. a) parents'
b) parent's
c) parent
d) parents

Exercise 3
Rewrite the sentences using a different structure from the one given. The meaning should be
as close as possible to the original sentence. Use the new beginning as in the following
example:
Example:
1.

Perhaps he left early

He may have left early

They didn't pay Tim very much for the translation.

Tim ................................................................................................
2. The weather changed so the climbers didn't get to the top.
If the weather ................................................................................................
3. It was a mistake not to try on the jeans before I bought them.
I wish I ......................................................................................
4. Peter said "I think I'll be busy tomorrow evening."
Peter said he thought he........................................................................................................................"
5. "I think you should stop smoking" Tony said to his girlfriend.
Tony advised....................................................................................................................................
6. The Ferrari is more expensive than the Alfa.
The Alfa isn't as ...............................................................................
7. Why didn't you tell me you were ill?
You should ................................................................................................................
8. She started working for her uncle six months ago.
She has ..............................................................................................................

Exercise 4
Read the text below and write questions for the answers
Eleven year old Doris tells us what it's like growing up in Ghana.
My name is Doris and I live in a small village called Bonfa in Ghana. Like most adults in the
village, my parents are cocoa farmers who sell their cocoa to Kuapa Kokoo. This means that they
get a fair wage for their hard work and their chocolate and have some money left over to send their
children to school.
At my school it's very important to be able to speak English and we spend a lot of time learning it.
My day starts at 5 am. My first job of the day is to go to the well in the village and fetch buckets of
water for my family to wash. I have to collect enough water for my parents, my two brothers and
my sister.
School starts at 7am and out of the nine subjects I study, Maths and English are my favourites. I try
to work very hard, because I want to become a doctor when I'm older, so that I can help the people
in my community to be healthy.
During the harvest period I spend some of my time helping my parents harvest the cocoa. My Mum
and Dad scoop the cocoa beans onto banana leaves and then leave them there to ferment for a week.
After that they move them onto mats in the sun, where the beans dry out and start to taste like
chocolate.
1. ?
In Bonfa.
2. ?
They are cocoa farmers.
3. ?
No, the parents have to pay.
4. ?
So that his family can wash.
5. ?
Maths and English.
6. ?
To be a doctor
7. ?
After they've been fermenting for a week.