...English Exam Après l'impressionnant mouvement d'opposition aux draconiens projets de loi anti-partage SOPA et PIPA, en discussion aux États-Unis, le Parlement européen entame ses travaux sur leur équivalent international : ACTA, l'accord commercial anti-contrefaçon. Les citoyens de toute l'Europe doivent lutter contre cet accord illégitime, voué à remettre en cause la liberté d'expression en ligne, ainsi que l'accès à la connaissance et l'innovation au niveau mondial. to be at a crossroads: to be in a situation where there is a choice to be made between very different options. to be middle of the road: to have opinions or a style that is not extreme and will appeal to many people. on the road to (somewhere): moving towards a particular outcome. to hit the road: to leave somewhere and begin a journey. a roadmap: plan d’action, plan détaillé. Sometimes, the roadmap you set in mind is being changed by some influences when you seems to be at a crossroads. jargon: special words and phrases that are used and understood by people who work in a particular job but are often confusing for others journalese: a style of language used by journalists slang: very informal words and expressions used in everyday situations on the line: that's somebody on a telephone on the ground: that's at the location of the news story news to hand: that means a story which we've just found out about. joining us live: that's an interview which is in real time, not pre-recorded ...
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...Victory Elijah Christian College HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT SY 2014 – 2015 Second Monthly Test ENGLISH 7 Name: ________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________ Year Level & Section: ___________________________________ I. Modified True or False. (7 pts.) Directions: Write T if the statement is true, F if is false, then overwrite the underlined and highlighted word/phrase with the right one to make the statement correct. ______ 1. A verb is a word that expresses action, state of being, or the fact that something exists in a given time and which is always found in the predicate of a sentence. ---------- 2. An action verb tells what a subject of the sentence does which may either be visible (physical) or mental. ______ 3. ’Remember’, ‘honor’, ‘prefer’, ‘excel’ and ‘regarded’ are examples of visible (physical) actions verbs. ______ 4. An action verb is intransitive if it directs action toward someone or something named in the same sentence and which can be identified if answer can be found by asking ‘whom?’ or ‘what?’ after the verb. ---------- 5. A helping verb links, or connects, the subject to the predicate and that which implies a state of being or condition for the subject. ______ 6. Little words such as ‘am’, ‘is’, ‘are’, ‘was’, ‘were’, ‘be’, ‘been’ and some seemingly action verbs such as ‘seems’, ‘feels’, ‘tastes’ are examples of linking verbs. ______ 7.Auxiliary verbs accompany the main verb, helping...
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...Subject: ___________________ Name: ___________________ Class: _______________________ Date: ___________________ Score: ___________________ / 100 Part 1 Reading Comprehension (Total: 20 marks) Magazines Around the World Apart from the textbooks that students use at school, can you guess what is the most common and accessible type of reading format throughout the world? We see them daily on sale. You can get them from convenience stores, supermarkets and even from the Internet. Do you have any idea what they are? Yes, they are magazines. There is a vast variety of magazines around the world. They can be about cars, yachting, celebrities, health, business, cosmetics, literature, etc. Due to their wide variety, they account for much of our entertainment in life, and are a source of information as well. A) Time Time is a weekly American news magazine that covers mostly human issues. Its first issue was released in 1923. Today, Time has become an influential magazine around the world. One of the many features of Time is the annual cover story ‘Person of the Year’. People who have the biggest effect on the year’s news will be chosen as the main topic of the cover story. In the past, people such as Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin have been chosen as ‘Person of the Year’. In terms of style, Time is also known for its standard design ― a red border on the front page. It was changed for the very first time into a black border after the 911 attacks...
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...University 01/2010 – Present Director Assistant, Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai 06/2009 – 08/2009 • Designed 2010 Expo Guide for Canadians in Shanghai. • Coordinated events on Canada’s Day and assisted Administrative Director with related projects • Located and entered data into several databases; made phone calls, and ensured timely mail processing. • Assisted administrative team members with clerical function. Dining Service Associate, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities 09/2009 – 12/2009 • Maintained inventory of standard dining service supplies and assists manager coordinate attendants. Member, Actuarial Club in University of Minnesota – Twin Cities 01/2009 – 12/2009 • Arranged the preparation of Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) exam Volunteer, Students Today Leaders Forever 03/2009 – 12/2009 • Assisted the donation of food to Minnesotans at risk of hunger. Volunteer, in school for the Mute and the Deaf in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province 2006 – 2009 • Taught disabled students Mandarin. Policy-analyst, Model United Nation in Shanghai K.J. Senior High School 2006 – 2008 • Analyzed UN policies for Model UN conferences HONORS/ AWARDS Honor Program, Awarded by Associate Dean of University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Global Excellent Scholarship, Awarded by University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Dean's List, Awarded by University of Minnesota – Twin Cities st th 1 prize, World 20 Odyssey of Mind Competition in China Area 09/2008 – 12/2009 09/2008 – 12/2009 Fall 2008, Fall 2009...
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...Text 1 Summary: The text is about the man Tal Ben-Shahar who talks about happiness. How that he for five years had trained so hard to play in the Israeli Nationals squash championship, and won. Although it gave him immediately satisfaction and he were happy, then after a while, the happiness slowly fainted away. He questioned why only hours after his big win, why he is not happy anymore. He tries to convince himself that the feeling he has is only, the temporary low following an overwhelming high. As the mouth goes by, he finds that it is not. He then realize that he has to think different on happiness. He then surges obsessed after the answer to the question: where to find lasting happiness. His conclusion is “We can experience sadness at times and still enjoy overall happiness” Text 2 outline: You cannot buy happiness; you can buy the latest smartphone, the newest car etc. However, that happy feeling, that wound last. Michael Crichton says “If you want to be happy, forget yourself” he claims that people that lives for others and dedicated their lives to the more unfortunate is often very happy. You have to get busy in life in order to live it, you have to forget your own self-importance, and help others, before you can help yourself. The key to happiness is not materiel things. If we look at the first surveys of happiness, they started in 1946, and then we can see that people actually become more and unhappy, in the progress of the technology. Japan’s economy were completely...
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...Engelsk mundtlig eksamen Different worlds * Film: Once Were Warriors It is a movie from New Zealand about a family where the mother comes from a fine old tribe, and the father comes from a slave tribe. The family lives in a house in the modern civilization, and the father goes to a pub every day because he is fired. See the Plot document. * Going Home Going Home is about a black boy called William or Billy. He is very successful as a painter and football player, and he has forgotten all about his aboriginal roots because he is ashamed of them. One day he meets his disgusting aunt and another day his uncle sleeps on his veranda so William has to move because the neighbors look at him. He decides to visit his family, but it’s not easy and he doesn’t feel comfortable. He gets a gold watch, because it is his 21 years birthday, but when he walks out of the door the next day he is grabbed by a policeman and so is his brother. * The Guilt The Guilt is about an old woman who lives alone in South Africa. She is afraid when black people come to the gate in the high wall around her garden. She becomes irritated when they ask for money, but she feels guilt for being white and she always give them some change, food or clothes. One day a young black man called William comes to her gate and asks for a job, she says she don’t have any and gives him 5 rand. He says that he can’t accept it and starts fixing the garden. When he is finished he goes into her house and demands 10 rand...
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...Opgave 1 |Opgave 1 | |Kathy WAKES UP to a thump upstairs, coming from one of the kids’ rooms. She LISTENS closely, praying silently for rest. Each | |morning there was a delicate period, between six and six-thirty, when there was a chance, however remote, that they could steal | |another ten or fifteen minutes of sleep. But now there was another thump, and the dog barked, and another thump followed. What | |was happening in this house? Kathy LOOKS to her husband. He was staring at the ceiling. […] | | | |The phone began ringing, today as always, before their feet hit the floor. Kathy and Zeitoun – most people CALLS him by his last | |name because they CANNOT pronounce his first – ran a company, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, and every day their crews, | |their clients, everyone with a phone and their number, SEEMS to think that once the clock STRIKES six-thirty, it was appropriate| |to call. And they CALL. Usually there were so many calls at the stroke of six-thirty that the would send half of them straight | |to voicemail. | | ...
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...BLAW 2210 Term Paper Career Preparation My top two career choices are corporate financial analysis in investment banking and actuary. I will be discussing the legal environment of my career choices, taxing authorities, entity structure, graduate school in order to obtain certain license, self-assessment of my chosen careers. First, I will discuss how I can work as a corporate financial analysis in investment banking. After that, I will talk about what I need prepare to be an actuary. 1.corporate financial planning and analysis The responsibility of a corporate financial planing and analysis is to support management planning and decision making by identifying, maintaining, and evaluating information,as well as recommending actions. * Legal environment * Entity structure Investment banking is concerned with the primary function of assisting the capital market in its function of capital market intermediation, i.e. the movement of financial resources from those who have them means investors, to those who need to make use of them means issuer for generating profit. Therefore, it can be inferred that investment banks are those institutions that are the counterparts of banks in the capital market in the function of intermediation in resources allocation. Investment banks carried on carious activities it helps companies and governments and their agencies to raise money by issuing and selling securities in the primary market. They assist public and private corporations...
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...Summary Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy, and Hassan, a Hazara and the son of Amir's father's servant, Ali, spend their days in a peaceful Kabul, kite fighting, roaming the streets and being boys. Amir’s father (who is generally referred to as Baba, "daddy", throughout the book) loves both the boys, but seems critical of Amir for not being manly enough. Amir also fears his father blames him for his mother’s death during childbirth. However, he has a kind father figure in the form of Rahim Khan, Baba’s friend, who understands Amir better, and is supportive of his interest in writing stories. Assef, a notoriously mean and violent older boy with sadistic tendencies, blames Amir for socializing with a Hazara, according to Assef an inferior race that should only live in Hazarajat. He prepares to attack Amir with his steel knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot. Assef and his henchmen back off, but Assef says he will take revenge. Hassan is a successful "kite runner" for Amir, knowing where the kite will land without even watching it. One triumphant day, Amir wins the local tournament, and finally Baba's praise. Hassan goes to run the last cut kite, a great trophy, for Amir saying "For you, a thousand times over." Unfortunately, Hassan runs into Assef and his two henchmen. Hassan refuses to give up Amir's kite, so Assef exacts his revenge, assaulting and raping him. Wondering why Hassan is taking so long, Amir searches...
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...INSIDE THE P.E.T. EXAM (Preliminary English Test) A complete kit designed to prepare students for the P.E.T. language certificate Level B1/Threshold Online ©DIDAEL English TARGET USERS INSIDE THE PET EXAM is a series of online teaching resources designed by DIDAEL for all those who wish to obtain the second of the five European language certificates. It enables them to assess their level of English and receive specific and focused preparation. INSIDE THE PET EXAM can be used by individuals or groups within organisations. OBJECTIVES The aim of INSIDE THE PET EXAM is to offer students the possibility to prepare for the P.E.T. (Preliminary English Test) certificate exam, which is awarded by the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate (UCLES) and is internationally recognised. It certifies that the student has reached the second of the five levels of knowledge designed by UCLES itself. The preparation offered by DIDAEL aims to test the candidate's actual language competence and provides a training ground on which to practice for the exam using the PET format and requirements . It also provides the means to fill the gaps in one's knowledge and to strengthen any weaknesses. CONTENT AND STRUCTURE INSIDE THE PET EXAM is made up of resources developed exclusively by DIDAEL using a preparation strategy which enables the student to sit the exam after having received the necessary information and preparation. The following resources are offered by DIDAEL for this purpose:...
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...I could apply to be a citizen. I was then scheduled fingerprinting and an interview. During my interview I had to take exams on writing and reading English as well as the United States government and history. After passing my exams I was scheduled for a swearing in ceremony, at the ceremony I took an oath of allegiance and was a certified U.S. citizen. How would you describe how you felt about the process? The process was easy enough for me, I began learning English as a second language in my home country. I only had to study for a week because I had already known all the material for the exams and interview. My only complaint is that 5 years is a long time to wait to become a citizen, I wish I could have applied earlier. How has gaining citizenship changed your life? Is your daily life different because of gaining citizenship? There is little noticeable difference in my daily life. I still continue to go through my daily routine. The United States gives anyone who is not a citizen a good life because there is no noticeable difference. Do you feel the process was worthwhile? Yes, I enjoy having rights. I don’t have to fear that Jaywalking will get me deported. The process was very simple in my case. If you had to do it again would you? Please explain. I would do it all again, it didn't take more than a few months in total and I already knew the English language along with the basics of U.S. government and history. What would you change about the process? I would create...
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...International General Certificate of Secondary Education English as a Second Language (IGCSE-E2L) Examination is mainly for fourteen to sixteen-year-old students who are going to study abroad in English speaking countries. This textbook is an IGCSE exam-preparation book whose target user’s proficiency level is about low-intermediate to intermediate. As for the, there are four parts (four themes) in total. There is an increasing difficulty of teaching objectives shown from part one to part four, which show a progressive step-by-step pedagogical approach. This book coves comprehensive language skills in each part which includes five units: reading (2/5), writing (1/5), listening (1/5) and an exam exercise unit (1/5). Meanwhile, speaking skills are practiced through discussion activities within units. There are Speaking-test Cards prepared specially for students in the appendix one. This paper will give an analysis of reading skills based on Unit 2 of this textbook according to pedagogical methods and give suggestions to its weaknesses. Unit 2 (leisure and entertainment as the theme) focuses on reading skills and its instructions provides a clear outline for what is to be learned in the classroom. As for instructions in pre-reading, there are leaning objectives and the corresponding exam requirement standing on the top of the unit, which show...
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...the regular school day. A minimum of 240 credits is required for graduation. 5 credits = 1 semester; 10 credits = 1 year. Graduation requirements include: 40 credits (4 years) English; 30 credits (3 years) Mathematics; 30 credits (3 years) Science; 30 credits (3 years) Social Science; 20 credits (2 years) of Language other than English; 10 credits (1 year) Visual and Performing Arts; 40 credits (4 years) Religion;20 credits (2 years) Physical Education/ Health and/or Sports Affiliation; 5 credits (1 semester) Speech Communication; 15 credits (1.5 years) of elective credit (may include core courses).Advanced Placement courses are offered in American Government; Art History; Biology; Calculus AB; Calculus BC; Chemistry; Economics; English Language; English Literature; Environmental Science; European History; Physics; Spanish; Statistics; Studio Art; United States History; World History. AP courses have prerequisites that students must meet in order to be enrolled. There is no limit of how many AP courses a student may enroll. In 2010-2011 462 students enrolled in AP courses; 462 students sat for 884 exams. Of the 884 exams taken, 583 received scores of 3,4 or 5. Honors courses are offered in most subject areas, specifically: Algebra 2/Trigonometry; Anatomy and Physiology; Asian Studies; English; French; Latin; Pre-Calculus. GRADING AND RANKING The Academy assigns letter grades using a 4.0 system. Letter grades are assigned as follows: A = 90-100%; B = 80-89%; C...
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...The path to english There i was on a sunny august day in st louis missouri, it was the first day of school and i was starting 5th grade my family had just moved to the U.S over the summer. I was feeling very anxious that day, i didn’t know weather i was ready for school here or not. I didn’t know the language, i didn’t know anyone, everything was just different here. It had been only few months since we moved here so i was still feeling homesick missing all my friends there, i really didn’t like being in United states at that time. There i was in a school in different country, with random people around me and not having any idea what to say. I had known very little english when i first came here, i could write a little bit and only knew few words like hey, or what's up. I came from India a non-english speaking country, to the United states ,a english speaking country. Since i didn’t even know a little bit of english they had to put me in a special class ESOL. It was a program to help the non english speakers learn how to read and write. I had a very nice teacher named Mrs. Taylor, she was an older lady in her 50’s. She was always helpful and nice to me, she’s basically the reason that today i am able to read and write and fully understand the language. I was struggling in the beginning but Mrs. Taylor helped me, she worked with me at my pace and helped me understand English better. I remember struggling through all my classes almost all the way to middle school, i wouldn’t...
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