Pre-Advanced 2 - Final Written Test - Tipo B
Pre-Advanced 2 - Final Written Test - Tipo B
Pre-Advanced 2 - Final Written Test - Tipo B
SCORE
Name: ____________________________________________ 1. Listening
Teacher’s name: _____________________________________ 2. Reading
Group: __________________ Date: _____________________ 3. Language Use
4. Writing
TOTAL
LISTENING
1.
j. What’s a gossip?
Someone who likes to spread rumors about other people’s lives.
Someone who enjoys some harmless fun.
Someone who buys and sells top secret information.
A person that only tells the truth.
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co-owner of ComicConnect.com, a
company that specializes in dealing with
rare comic books. “Literally, this family
was in tears. The family home was going
to be lost and they’re devastated. They
can’t figure out a way out of this. They
start packing things up. They go into
the basement and start sifting through VOCABULARY
boxes – trying to find packing boxes – • FORECLOSE: to
SUPERMAN SAVES and they stumble on eight or nine take back property
FAMILY HOME comic books.”
because the
Most of the comic books in the box money owed for
Superman saved a family that was were worth between $10 and $30 but the property has
about to lose their home to a bank one – dated June 1938 and depicting
not been paid.
because they couldn’t pay up their the Man of Steel lifting a car above his
debts. It seems strange, but it’s true. head – was extremely rare. That issue, • AUCTION: a
The couple, who live in the South with which originally sold for 10 cents, is public sale at
their children, and asked to remain considered to have started the age of which things are
anonymous, accidentally found what the superheroes. sold to the people
is considered to be the Holy Grail of “It’s a tremendous piece of American who offer to pay
comic books in their basement – a pop culture history,” Zurzolo said. the most.
lucky find that could sell for a quarter The couple learned online that
million dollars at an auction. ComicConnect.com had sold other
As they started the painful task of copies of Action Comics #1 for over
packing up a home that had been a million dollars in an online auction.
in the family since at least the 1950s, They immediately texted a cell phone
they found a copy of Action Comics picture to the firm’s co-owner, Stephen
No. 1, the first in which Superman Fishler.
ever appeared. “You couldn’t ask for a happier ending,”
“The bank was about ready to Zurzolo said. “Superman saved the day.”
foreclose,” said Vincent Zurzolo,
Adapted from abcnews.
a. What’s this article about? b. How did Superman save the family’s home?
It’s about Superman. He found a copy of Action Comics No. 1.
It’s about comic book auctions. He sold a copy of the comic book in an online auction.
It’s about the economic He gathered the money they needed to save their house.
recession.
He didn’t. The author chose these words to make the
It’s about a lucky find that title more curious.
saved a family’s house.
c. What would have happened to the family if e. What made the comic book so
they hadn’t found the comic book? valuable?
They would have used their savings to It has great cultural and historical
pay the bank. value.
They could have gone to jail. It is the first-ever comic book.
They could have found another way. It is from 1938.
They would have lost their home to the It was perfectly preserved in the
bank. basement.
d. What expression does the author use to say f. What did the family do after they
that something is very valuable and desired? realized they had found something
valuable?
Lucky find.
They contacted a company that
Tremendous piece of American pop
auctions rare comic books.
culture history.
They gave it to the bank.
The Holy Grail of…
They sold it on e-bay.
Extremely rare.
They decided to preserve it.
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3. Match each sentence and its equivalent passive form. (Total: 1 point – 0.5 each correct answer)
a. People generally Culture is generally related to the geographical region, but that’s not the
relate culture to the only determining factor.
geographical region,
but that’s not the only Movies can be seen as a precise depiction of real life, and that’s dangerous.
determining factor. Movies are seen by people as a precise depiction of real life, and that’s
dangerous.
b. People can see movies as
a precise depiction of real Culture relates to the geographical region, but that’s not the only
life, and that’s dangerous. determining factor.
WRITING
4.
Write a short paragraph about one of the topics in the box. Include the following information:
(Total: 5 points)
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