TERM PAPER

1. Complete the story using the past simple, past perfect, or past continuous of the verbs in brackets.
It

surprise it

he

(be) Tuesday evening and I

(get) ready to go to bed when the phone

(be) my friend Peter. He

(lose) his keys and he

(call) from his mobile and he was very annoyed because

(cannot) get into his flat. He

work but now it was midnight and the office was closed so he

to his flat because a month before he

holiday. When he finally

(ring). To my

(think) he

(cannot) get in to check. Luckily I had the keys

(give) me a spare set so that I could look after his cat while he was on

(arrive) to pick them up, it was three o'clock in the morning, and I

the sofa fast asleep.

2. Transform the sentences into passive:
1. They were interviewing her for the job.
She ________________ for the job.
2. Tom is writing the letter.
The letter ________________ by Tom.
3. Everyone understands English.
English ________________ by everyone.
4. The employees brought up this issue during the meeting.
This issue ________________ by the employees during the meeting.
5. The professor told him not to talk in class.
He ________________ by the professor not to talk in class.

3. Put the verbs into causative forms

1.

(leave) them at

(you / ever/ anything / steal) from your house?

2. He didn't fix his car himself, he

(it / fix) at the garage.

3. Your hair is too long. You need

(it / cut).

(lie) on

4. I'm going to do my food shopping online and I

(the food / deliver) to my house.

5. If you can't see properly, you should

(your eyes / test).

4 Put the verbs into a future tense:

1. The train

2. We

3. It

at 11:45. (to leave)

dinner at a nice restaurant on Saturday. (to have)

in the mountains tomorrow evening. (to snow)

4. On Sunday at 8 o'clock I

5. They

my friend. (to meet)

to London on Friday evening. (to fly)

5 Write the words/ phrases above next to the right definition. use capital letters.
v Toxic gases expelled by cars.

A. air pollution

v The rise in temperature caused by gases in the atmosphere.

B.

recycle

v Animals which are in danger of becoming extinct.

C.

ozone layer

v The process by which the Earth is heated when the atmosphere traps heat from the sun.

D. acid rain

v Polluted water falling from the clouds.

E.

v A type of spray containing pressurized liquid.

F. global warming

v Pollution of the atmosphere.

G. energy

v A dense forest in a tropical region.

H. aerosol spray

v It protects us from the suns ultraviolet radiation.

I.

endangered animals

v The natural world in which people, animals and plants live.

J.

exhaust fumes

v The power that comes from coal, electricity, gas, etc. that is used for producing heat.

K. environment

v Cutting down trees over a large area.

L.

v Put used objects and materials through a process so that they can be used again.

M. environmentalist

v A person who wants to protect the environment.

N. greenhouse effect

rainforest

planet

v A chemical substance that is used for killing animals, especially insects that eat food crops.

O. pesticide

v Add a chemical substance which will make the water dirty or harmful.

P. water contamination

v A large body in space that moves around the sun.

Q. deforestation

6.

Rewrite the sentences by using the word given:

1.The service was so good we had to leave a tip.
It

SUCH

we had to leave a tip.

2.The car was too expensive for me to buy.

I

ENOUGH

money to buy the car.

3. It's the most beautiful sculpture I've ever seen. SEEN

I

beautiful sculpture.

This spring has been much cooler than last year. COOL
Last spring

as this year.

5 I'm not as good at maths as Joseph.

Joseph

BETTER

me.

7
Tornadoes in Kansas
Kansas is known for many things -- wheat, sunflowers ... and tornadoes! What famous story set in
Kansas features a tornado?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, tells the story of Dorothy, who gets caught in a
Kansas tornado and lands in the imaginary land of Oz. This story has been dramatized on stage and film.
You might have seen the movie version, which stars Judy Garland as Dorothy.
Tornadoes are storms with rapidly rotating winds that form a funnel cloud. Also known as
"twisters," they extend downward from the huge clouds of a severe thunderstorm. The winds that rotate
within a tornado usually reach a speed of almost 300 miles per hour! A tornado often sweeps through an
area quickly, but it can cause considerable destruction. There have been a number of remarkable reports of
tornadoes. In one instance, a schoolhouse was demolished while the 85 students originally inside it were
carried more than 400 feet with none killed. There was also a case of five railway coaches, each weighing
70 tons, lifted from their tracks.
1. What is Kansas known for?
a. wheat
b. potatoes
c. sunflowers
d. a and c
2. How fast do the winds rotate within a tornado?
a. 85 miles per hour
b. 400 miles per hour
c. 300 miles per hour
d. 70 miles per hour

3. Tornadoes are also known as

a. thunderstorms
b. typhoons
c. tempests
d. twisters
4. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Eighty-students died when a tornado struck their schoolhouse.
B. A tornado lifted five heavy railroad coaches from their tracks.