6th Semester

6th Semester

DEPERTMENTAL EXAM

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READ THE NEXT TEXTS AND WRITE BELOW WHAT TYPE OF

WRITING IS IT.

Students Grow Flying Sauce Jim Wilkes, Science Reporter

TORONTO - In the cult movie classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, mutant Vegetables cut a deadly swath through the community, consuming everyone

in their

path.

But Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk says Toronto students cultivating tomato

seeds from space shouldnt worry about like imitating art. There should be no fear on the part of teachers or parents about any toxic fruit

growing from these tomato plants, said Thirsk, who flew aboard the shuttle Columbia on a 17-day mission in 1996.

He said hell eat tomatoes produced from the high-flying seeds or use them to

make salsa or ketchup.

Thirsk visited students at St. Cecillia Catholic School on Annette St.

yesterday to

check up on their experiments with tomato seeds taken into space by astronaut

Mark Garneau.

The Tomatosphere project involves 2,500 secondary school classrooms

across

Canada growing 400,000 seeds, half of which made the trip to space. Space

plants

are said to grow faster and taller.

The space-flown seeds made 170 orbits of the Earth, travelled more than 7 million kilometers and spent 12 days weightless, Thirsk said. At the end of June, schools will send results of their experiment to the

Canadian

Space Agency which will compile the date and make conclusions.

Thirsk said the program is designed to introduce space science to young

Canadians. I can see that in these classrooms we have potential future Canadian scientists and astronauts, he said. I find that incredibly exciting.

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2.-Give your reasons to argument this is the writing you asure above?

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PARENTS

Parents. I consider mine as my flat mates these days because we do not spend much time together. We are four people living

in a house together but we even eat our dinners separately

because everybody comes home at different times and we are busy all the time. What I remember from the old days is my two

grown up flat mates are two different characters so I have no idea

why they still live together.

They are pretty much the same in physical appearance. They

both have fair complexions which is typical of Caucasians. They should be thin if we consider this type but they are not. Actually they were but I cant remember those days.

They have different personalities. My father is moody and pretty

much aggressive just like me. He has obsessions, like everything

should be perfect. On the other hand, my mother never cares

about what she is doing and she has what we will call the patience of a saint. Whenever my father gets angry and starts shouting,

my mother goes Ergun, why are you shouting? with a very calm voice.

What they really cant get along about is their tastes in life. My mother loves spending money. She can spend her whole day going around the stores shopping while my father is sitting at

home reading newspapers and books or watching documentaries

on TV.

Although my parents are very different from each other, they

came to an agreement and that is not being a parent for me any

more. They never worry about me when I am late and they never

interfere in my choices. I think from now on they will work on my

brother, my poor little brother.

Ridade Guldal Adv 2004

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Christopher Brodie is this morning celebrating his gold medal success in the

paralympics 100m sprint.

Yesterday, in the packed stadium in Sydney, Australia, where the games have been

taking place all week, Chris ran the race of his life to cross the line in the gold medal

position.

For any athlete a championship medal is the ultimate achievement, but for Chris it was

also the culmination of years of determination and courage.The 20 year old was just 5

when he had to have his right leg amputated below the knee. The pain caused by his

artificial leg was mot enough to stop the lively youngster from Motherwell running

around living life to the full.

When he joined the local athletics club he never dreamt that he would end up an

Olympic champion.

Now, thanks to the pioneering work of sports scientists and the doctors at Glasgows St

Thomas Hospital, Chris has been able to take advantage of the latest sports

technology, a new prosthetic sports leg.

The new leg is made of light weight materials and the foot section has as close to

normal foot movement as an artificial leg can get, said Ken Brown, one of the doctors

who worked on the project. Chris backed up Dr. Browns claim when he said that the

new leg allowed for fluid movement and a much less cumbersome running style.

Certainly, the benefits the artificial leg will bring to sports women and men all over the

world could be seen yesterday in Sydney, when Chris Brodie showed the world what a

powerful combination courage and innovation can be.

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2.- Give trustful reasons to asure the text is what you said above?

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Happiness

Humankind cant continue their lives without desires. If one wants to be

happy, surely, he has to discover his best desires that provide him a

happy life. Some of these desires that help to continue our lives can be

acceptance in our relationships, a good family life and strong social

relations. Trying to satisfy these desires has a great meaning to achieve

happiness for me.

To start with, however embarrassed I am about this desire of mine, I have

an obsession to expect people to accept my thoughts and manners in

every situation. Yes, this is not a good characteristic and sometimes

makes me an antipathic person but trying to be accepted by someone can

give you happiness, too. Besides, if you can manage to make someone

love you knowing and accepting all about you, I think that is the absolute

happiness.

Furthermore, it seems to me that family is the basic source of happiness.

Certainly, I cant always be a good guy and sometimes I make them upset

but I cant stand seeing them upset. Therefore, I try to do whatever

necessary to make them happy. Consequently, when I see happy family

faces, I feel deeply happy.

Thirdly, to have friends is one of the most meaningful aspects of life. I

believe that one should have three very warm friends at least. For

example, I cant bear loneliness and if I couldnt share all my heart with

these warm friends, I believe that I could never be happy. As a

consequence, if you feel like me, it will be worth improving your close

relationships in order to be happy.

To recap, humankind has a short life but he is given a lot of desires to be

happy. Moreover, if one wants to discover the meaning of his short life,

he should look for it in desires. Whether he finds it or not, he will taste

happiness just by looking for it.


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Hi Scott,

It is always nice to hear from people, especially from you, Scott.

I have not got any reply, a positive or negative one, from Seibido yet. Let's wait and hope that it will make a BOOK.

Have you finished your paperwork for Kaken and writing academic articles? If you have some free time in the near future, I want to meet you and explain to you our next project.

Why not drink out in Hiroshima if we are accepted? We need to celebrate ourselves, don't we? Let's have a small end-of-the-year party!

Sincerely, K. Nakagawa


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MAKE POSITIVE PRESENT PERFECT SENTENCES:

1. (I / study / French)

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2. (She / eat / octopus)

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3. (They / go / to Scotland)

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4. (We / read / that book)

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5. (He / live / here for three years)

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6. (You / know / David for ten years)

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7. (We / be / here for two weeks)

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8. (I / lose / my keys)

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9. (He / drink / too much coffee)

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10. (They / miss / the train)

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WRITE THE COMPARATIVE OR SUPERLATIVE OF THE NEXT ADJECTIVES.

1.-Jeremy is 10 years old. Jenny is 8 years old. Jeremy is (old) ____________ ______

Jenny.

2.-The Alps are very high. They are (high) _____ _______________ mountains in

Europe.

3.-An ocean is (large) ____________ _______ a sea.

4.-A Rolls Royce costs a lot of money. A Twingo costs less.

A Rolls Royce is (expensive) _______ ________________ _____ a Twingo.

5.-John's results were bad. Fred's were very poor. Fred's results were (bad)

__________ _____ John's.

6.-This exercise is not very difficult. It's ____________ ______ I expected.

7.-The weather is not good today. It's raining. I hope the weather will be (good)

_____________ next week.

8.-People are not very friendly in big cities. They are usually (friendly)

________________ in small towns.

9.-In the government of a country, the President is (important) _____ ______

_______________ person.

10.-People say that Chinese is (difficult) ______ ____________ to learn than English.

CHOOSE WHETHER TRUE OR FALSE ON THE NEXT SENTECES

1. To compare two things, we add -er to many adjectives. True False

2. We add -est to make the superlative form of many adjectives. True False

3. We never change the spelling of the adjective before adding -er / -est. True False

4. We often use "than" after a comparative. True False

5. We often use "the" before a superlative. True False

6. With longer adjectives, we use "more" + adjective or "most" + adjective. True False

7. There are a lot of irregular comparatives and superlatives. True False

WRITE THE COMPARATIVE OR SUPERLATIVE OF THE NEXT ADJECTIVES

The clothes here are _______________________ (good) than in my town.

2. Thats my _______________________ (bad) mark ever!

3. Its _______________________ (far) than I thought I think were lost.

4. Thats the _______________________ (disgusting) meal Ive ever had!

5. I hope your teams _______________________ (lucky) today than last week.

6. Theyre _______________________ (happy) in their new school than in their old one.

WRITE THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE OF THE NEXT ADJECTIVES

1. good ..........

6. pretty ..........

2. far ..........

7. small ..........

3. expensive ..........

8. nice ..........

4. old ..........

9. comfortable..........

5. young ..........

10. bad ..........

Rewrite the sentences adding (Already / Just / Yet)

1. I have eaten sushi before. (already) ______________________________________________________ 2. She hasnt visited Germany. (yet) ______________________________________________________

3. They have seen this movie. (already) _____________________________________________________

4. We have met your teacher. (just) ______________________________________________________

5. My brother hasnt started school. (yet)___________________________________________________

6. Daniel hasnt fixed the broken pipe. (yet) __________________________________________________

7. We havent participated in any internship programs. (yet)

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8. My daughter has lost her purse. (just)_____________________________________________________

9. He has finished his assignment. (already)__________________________________________________

10. Your son has broken his arm. (just) ______________________________________________________

GOOD LUCK

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