The Answering Key the First English Test of “Just Speak In English” Topic.
A) Fill in the blanks with the words given:
seminar -people- participants - questions - country- economic- hard - surface area- better- long- company - lower - Way - already- furnished - airsick- serious-grant street- everybody -Smithfield street bridge- anymore -Zimbabwe- gigantic - Monongahela River- intensive - Lake Erie-back -personal- larger - company- end - staying.
1- The Way the people Welcome you.
2- The gigantic Size of this country
3- The economic power.
4- The surface area of the United States.
5- The seminar begins and everybody is very satisfied.
6- At the end Of the day you join some participants At the bar who are staying In the same hotel.
7- They ask you some questions about your company.
8- Where is your company based?
9- After two years of hard Work, you are promoted.
10- I want a\an personal secretary.
11- I want a\an larger office.
12- You are offered a\an lower salary but receive a\an company car as an added perk.
13- Its better than a hotel, isn’t it?
14- All day long
15- There aren’t any hijackers anymore
16- What time do you usually come back ?
17- I already booked my seat.
18- I live in a\an furnished room.
19- During a\an intensive training course.
20- Because I get airsick
21- Your conversations are always so serious .
22- The bank where I’m training is on Grant Street .
23- To get there, I walk across the Smithfield Street .
24- My company in Zimbabwe sent me for the training.
25- Sometimes I have lunch along the Monongahela River
26- Last weekend I drove up to Lake Erie .
B) Put the following text into the conditional perfect:
I would like to find out about this man’s company. We would be interested to know who they do business with. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to organize a seminar every three months? I would prefer to attend seminars in New York. We would have the chance to make more contacts. It would be very useful, wouldn’t it?
I would have liked to have found out about this man’s company. We would have been interested to know who they do business with. Wouldn’t it have been a good idea to organize a seminar every three months? I would have preferred to have attended seminars in New York. We would have had the chance to make more contacts. It would have been very useful, wouldn’t it?
C) Make sentence by words given:
1- Cancelled - We - the - cruise - Bahamas - of - our - hurricane - a - to - because
We cancelled our cruise to the Bahamas because of a hurricane.
2- directly- the- president- to- report- in- want- to-I-Whitehouse
I want to report directly to the president in Whitehouse
D) Rewrite the following sentences as in the example:
Example: we will probably go to San Francisco. >>> We are likely to go to San Francisco.
1- He will probably live with friends.
He is likely to live with friends.
2- The room will probably be furnished.
The room is likely to be furnished.
3- It’ll probably be better than a hotel!
It’s likely to be better than a hotel!
E) Select the correct word:
E1- To Negotiate means to discuss terms.
1-(Litigate) 2-(Negotiate) 3-(Argue) 4-(purchase)
E2- My schedule indicates that I have no classes tomorrow.
1-(parrot) 2-(reference) 3-(schedule) 4-(mother)
E3- foreign currency is money that is not from your own country.
1-(Counterfeit) 2-(Foreign currency) 3-(homemade money) 4(legal tender)
F) Add the word “that” wherever possible, then translate the following passage into Persian:
I think that this training course is going to help my career. I heard that you have better prospects andthat you can get more stimulating jobs when you speak a foreign language. I’m surethat talking with people is the best way to learn English. I thinkthat I’ll enjoy studying in the United States and I intent to make the most of it. I’m afraidthat I won’t be able to go home for a while, but that doesn’t matter. Even though it will be a big adventure, I admit that I’m a bit scared.
Translating to Persian depends on your own idea and knowledge
G) Write the exact Persian equivalents for the following expressions:
1- Don’t keep on me. گیر نده!
2- An old trout. پیرزن غرغرو
3- Shake e leg. جم بخور- یه تکونی به خودت بده
4- Chop-Chop یالا
5- Stone the crow. اوا خاک عالم!
6- Glory be! پناه بر خدا
7- Be sitting pretty. بی خیال بودن
8- A call of nature. قضای حاجت
9- Cut the cackle. حاشیه نرو!
10- And co. دارو دسته - بروبچ
11- I showed him up. پته اش را ریختم رو آب
12- A bunch of cowboys. یه مشت آدم بی سر و پا
13- Pretty-Pretty گل منگلی- اجق وجق
14- Tag! استپ (در بازی)
15- Be all wet. کاملا در اشتباه بودن
16- I take my hat off to you. بابا ایول!
17- You son of a gun! پدر سوخته (با عرض پوزش فراوان...)
H) Continue the following sentence (minimum 30 words):
If I was a president ………….
]You should continue it by your own idea but in true form!
I) Translate to English:
زندگی تجمع لحظات است, لحظه ای شادی ... لحظه ای غم! لحظه ای تولد و لحظه ای مرگ! لحظه ی شاد با تو بودن... و لحظه ای ناگفته بماند! لحظه لحظه ی آن را پاس بداریم.
The life is aggregation of moments, a trice of Jubilation … another trice sorrow! In a trice birth and in another death! Joyful trice of being with you … and another instant, its better to be untold! Come to know each trice’s value.
خنده ی تلخ من از گریه غم انگیز تر است ..... کارم از گریه گذشته است بدان میخندم.
My virulent laugh is more tragic than cry …… my heartache is more than crying, I’m laughing to that.
Good luck