Course 15 Final Exam Name: ___________________________

Date: ___________________________
Total Score
______ / 50 points

1 Listen to a man and a woman talking about a TV show. Circle the correct words to complete each
sentence.

1. “Say Yes to the Dress” is mainly about a store where wedding ceremonies are performed / wedding
dresses are sold / wedding dresses are made.
2. The woman thinks that the show is boring / ridiculous / interesting.
3. At first, the man thinks that the show seems boring / ridiculous / interesting.
4. One woman on the show cried because her daughter was a police officer / she’d never seen her
daughter in a dress / she didn’t like the dress.
5. One woman on the show was able to get a dress because her friends and family / the man in the salon
/ her father gave her money for it.

2 Rewrite the sentences. Use either indirect object + object (e.g., my sister + a birthday cake) or direct
object + prepositional phrase (e.g., a birthday cake + for my sister). If the sentence cannot be
rewritten, write X on the line.

Example: I made my sister a birthday cake.

I made a birthday cake for my sister.
1. I like making homemade snacks for my guests.
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2. I usually offer them to my guests before dinner.
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3. I don’t usually give my friends birthday gifts.
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4. I bought my sister a sweater.
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5. Then she lent it to her friend.
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3 Read the article. Then read the statements and write T for true, F for false, or NG if the information is
not given.
 1. Gift-giving is a not a recent field of study. ________
2. The guests at a potlatch give food or money. ________
3. Potlatch ceremonies involve most of the families in a village. ________
4. A minority of Americans think that holidays are too materialistic. ________
5. Experts think that gift-giving traditions should be dismissed. ________

4 Complete the email. Use “as . . . as” or the comparative or superlative form of the words in
parentheses.

5 Read the thesis statements written by different students for an essay on the topic of languages.

Write a concluding paragraph for an essay based on one of the thesis statements
in Part A. Make sure that you:

● Restate your chosen thesis statement.

● Think of two supporting arguments for the thesis statement and summarize these arguments.
● Conclude by stating your opinion clearly.
● Use as a result, because, since, due to, therefore, so, or consequently to show cause
and effect.
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