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Exercises and Test: Global English Tests – Test Number 10
This Global English TEST Number 10.
This global test assesses students’ proficiency in reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary. It targets intermediate to upper-intermediate learners and focuses on:
- A reading passage.
- Language knowledge.
- Writing task
Test Information
- Level: Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate
- Skills Assessed: Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing
- Language Focus: Reported Speech, Expressing Concession, Passive Voice, Vocabulary, Collocations, Tenses, Language Functions…
I– READING COMPREHENSION (15 points)
An Uneven Transaction
Immigration is frequently an uneven transaction. When a scientist from India, a professor from Guatemala, or a physician from the Philippines moves to the U.S.A., America’s gain is the native land’s loss. Since few American professionals head out to settle elsewhere in the world, the redistribution of talents serves only to widen the gap between the land of plenty and the lands of poverty. Worse still, the cycle tends to perpetuate itself: as more people leave their country for the U.S., more are likely to follow—to join relatives, cash in on connections, or simply follow examples.
Though nothing new, the brain drain has recently seemed more than ever to be taking from the poor and giving to the rich: whereas 30 years ago, most well-qualified newcomers to the U.S. arrived from Europe, now they stream in from the poorer countries of the Third World. Even among unskilled workers, the U.S. tends to attract the most enterprising—those who are adventurous enough to quit their homes and strike out for new opportunities in America.
The first to leave are outstanding students who win admission to U.S. universities and who, not surprisingly, accept challenging jobs and high salaries in America upon their graduation. Each year, for instance, some 6,000 Taiwanese students arrive to study in the U.S.; no more than 20% ever return home. Many of the top achievers at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur are snapped up by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). These students are a treasure to any country, and it is a shame that their homes sometimes don’t have the resources to nurture and retain them.
No less costly to Third World nations is the steady migration of well-trained professionals in search of a better life in America. The wage differential between the U.S. and Mexico, for example, is 15 to 1. For many others, even poverty in the U.S. is preferable to uneasy prosperity at home: thus, lawyers and doctors from Central America may be found washing cars or working as porters in Miami hotels.
Time, July 8th, 1985
TEST Number 10
Base all your answers on the text
Are these sentences true or false? Justify your answer from the text. (3 pts)
- Both America and the native countries of immigrants benefit from immigration.
- Most well-qualified immigrants go to the USA from Europe.
- The majority of Taiwanese immigrants return to their native country.
Answer these questions according to the text: (3 pts)
- Give two reasons why immigrants leave their native countries.
- Give two reasons why immigrants go to the U.S.
- Do all immigrants in the U.S. get good jobs? Explain.
Complete these statements with the appropriate information from the text. (2 pts)
- The type of immigration mentioned in the text is referred to as…
- NASA snaps up…
Pick out from the text what shows that: (2 pts)
- Not many Americans immigrate to other countries.
- The writer disapproves of this form of immigration.
Find in the text words or phrases meaning almost the same as: (3 pts)
- Make bigger (paragraph 1): …
- Inexperienced (paragraph 2): …
- Excellent (paragraph 3): …
What do the underlined words refer to in the text? (2 pts)
- Those (paragraph 2): …
- Their (paragraph 3): …
II- LANGUAGE (15 points)
Match the words that go together to make appropriate collocations: (1 pt)
- Internet
- Equal
- Information
a. Access
b. Technology
c. Opportunity
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words from the list: (4 pts)
Sustainable – improve – background – whose – exports – set up
- Young people with a good educational (1) ______ are welcome in North America and Europe, especially those (2) ________ skills are rare and highly appreciated. As for the Third World, which (3) ______ such valuable brains, governments should (4) ______ the working conditions and encourage their people to stay and help in developing their home countries.
Put the verbs in brackets in the right tense: (3 pts)
- After my cousin Omar ______ (to study) nuclear Physics for six years, he got his diploma in 2006. He’s been looking for a decent job but in vain. By the end of next June, he ______ (to be) jobless for about three years. Now, he regrets studying nuclear Physics and wishes he ______ (to study) something else.
Rewrite the following sentences as indicated: (3 pts)
- A lot of youngsters decide to go abroad because they are jobless.
- Due to…
- The authorities are taking new measures against illegal immigration.
- New measures…
- ‘Solutions can be found if we join efforts,’ said a government spokesman.
- A government spokesman said…
Give the correct form of the words in brackets: (2 pts)
- If our (govern) ______ wants to (power) ______ women, it has to foster (literate) ______ programs and cooperative (organize) ______.
Match each sentence with its appropriate function: (2 pts)
- Although many efforts have been made, our environment is still in danger.
- You had better stop smoking.
- Concession
- Expressing advice
- Giving opinion.
- Expressing advice.
- Concession.
- Expressing certainty.
III- WRITING: (10 points)
Today, brain drain is a serious problem facing the developing world. Write an article to be published in your school magazine about the major causes and effects of brain drain and suggest some possible solutions to limit this phenomenon.
These suggestions may help you:
- Low wages and salaries
- Lack of dynamic and innovative ideas
- Discrimination in employment
- Dependence on foreign expertise
- Search for better living and working conditions
- Financial support/job opportunities
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