Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Exercise 1: rewrite these sentences without changing their meaning (03pts)

1. The exams are approaching so, students are very busy.

The (near)……………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. There are more and more accidents in our road because most of the drivers are rude.

If……………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………..

3. They reported that there were more than six hundred people killed in Libya the past week.

Six hundred people ………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………

Exercise 2: complete the following dialogue meaningfully with questions, answers or tags (04pts)

MIMI: I think you have watched the T.V program that was passing yesterday night, ………………………?

CARLOS: No, …………………… and ………………….……………………..?

It was about an important social issue.

MIMI: ………………………………….. of social issues?

CARLOS: The problem of gender issues: Men-women parity.

MIMI: But ……………………………………………………………….?

CARLOS: ………, they can’t be equal neither in religion nor in justice.

MIMI: ……………… was the guest?

CARLOS: the minister of education.

MIMI: ………… didn’t she talk about education instead of parity?

CARLOS: It is only a sort of propaganda.

Exercise 3: put these words between brackets into comparative or superlative (05pts)

BABA: Is Moussa a driver?

LUC: Yes, He is ..........................driver I have ever seen, (good)

BABA: But I think there are many drivers in the village.

LUC: Of Course he's a good driver: he drives ……………………..the others, (carefully)

BABA: You want to say, of all the drivers in this town, Moussa drives ……………….. (efficiently)

LUC: he runs ………………….than anyone else in this area.(fast)

BABA: Do you think older people drive …………………….....younger people? (slowly)

LUC: Yes they do

Exercise 4: repot this quotation (05pts)

I said to Alain, “I am very discouraged. I don’t think I will ever speak English well”.

Alain said, “Your English is getting better every day. In another year, you will be speaking English with the greatest of ease”

I complained that I …………………………… very discouraged. I said that I ……………….. I ……………….ever …………………. English well. Alain told me that my English ………………….. better every day. He assured me that in another year, I …………………………. English with the greatest ease.

Exercise 4: put the verbs into the tense or form (03pts)

(drive - free - hold  - include - insist - pay – reunite)

Health workers freed

Three UN health workers and a pilot …………………..(1) yesterday, after they ……………… (2) in captivity by the separatist rebels for over 10 weeks. The two men and two women ………………….. (3)to the capital where they ………………….(4) with colleagues and relatives. The captives ………………… (5) two Germans, a Belgian and a Norwegian. A spokesman for the UN ………………. (6) that no ransom money …………………. (7) to the kidnappers