PRACTICE FOR THE FIRST MID-TERM EXAM

MOCK EXAM

1. Read Kathleen Maynard’s story and solve these activities:

a- Choose from the box the correct connector for the dotted blanks (……….)

AS – DESPITE – AS A RESULT – AFTER – BEFORE THAT – HOWEVER – DUE TO

b- Complete the verbs in brackets in the correct form, tense and voice.

“Would you please hold my hand?” my patient asked me. It was an amazing breakthrough. At
that moment I 1 _____________(work) in the Labor & Delivery Recovery Room, and my patient
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was a crack cocaine addict who ___________ (just give) birth via C-section to a 30 week
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gestational age baby, with no prenatal care. ……………………she ____________ (not have)
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any prenatal care and ______________ (never see) at our hospital, we ______________
(not know) anything about her except that she __________ (be) sick. Her arms and her legs 8
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______ (be) contracted and her jaw was wired shut. ………………………., every time we
_____________ (have) to do anything to her, like turn her, she would start screaming and
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cursing at us. …………………….., I _________________ (explain) to her why we
___________________ (turn) her (my usual “because you could get a blood clot from not
moving, and it could end up in your lungs or brain and kill you, and we don’t want you to die”)
and she had seemed satisfied with that explanation and had stopped screaming. Now she was
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asking me to hold her hand!!!! I ___________ (do) it. I grabbed her hand and smiled at her.
There were two medical residents at bedside and a couple of nurses. One of the doctors said:
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“Awww, isn’t that sweet?” ………………………the other nurse rapidly said that she
______________ (not think) she had asked you to hold her hand. I thought she had asked you
for some orange juice.” I felt so embarrassed that…….
(Adapted for pedagogical purposes from https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-funniest-
work-stories)

2. Imagine you are Kathleen Maynard. Finish the story in a four-line paragraph (60 to 80
words). Explain why you had to go through such an embarrassing situation and what
happened. Include a REGRET you have about the whole experience.

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KEY

1 was working
2 had just given
3 AS
4 hadn’t had
5 had never been seen
6 didn’t know
7 was
8 were
9 AS A RESULT
10 had
11 BEFORE THAT
12 had explained
13 were turning
14 did
15 HOWEVER
16 didn’t think