Global English Tests - Test Number 17

Exercises and Tests: Global English Tests – Test Number 17

This is Global Test Number 17. Please do it and check the answer key.

Global English TEST Number 17

This global test assesses students’ reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary proficiency. It targets upper-intermediate to advanced learners and focuses on:

A reading passage.
Language knowledge.
Writing task

Test Information

Level: Beginner Learners
Skills Assessed: Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing
Language Focus: Tenses, Concession, Expressing Purpose, Passive Voice, Vocabulary…

I – READING COMPREHENSION: (15 points)

In Britain, a recent Market Research Society survey found that only 10% of husbands help with washing and ironing. Two in ten do some of the cooking, and just under half manage the shopping. Anne Wicks, a director of the society, says, “It’s just not true that today’s woman is turning her back on household chores and child-rearing to find fulfillment and self-expression outside the home. Being a housewife is not a thing of the past. It’s not that women are no longer at the kitchen sink, but that nowadays they are under the impression that they should not be there.”

Britain’s ‘Mrs. Average’ is Rosalind Hines, a 33-year-old mother of two young children who lives in Islington, North London. The insurance company, Legal and General, who scoured their computers to find her, gave her this name. It was part of a publicity campaign to show how much a man would have to pay others to do the work of his wife if she died. The total was £370.25 a week: a man’s average weekly wage is rather less – at £205.20.

“So-called equality is such a long way off,” says Rosalind. “I don’t see myself as a housewife. I’m a full-time mother. I’m not here for the chores; I’m here for the kids. This is the hardest job I’ve ever done, and you’re insulted with titles like ‘Mrs. Average’ – i.e., dull and ordinary. You’re treated as if you’ve lost your brains along with giving birth. I do most of the everyday chores, but I don’t do any more than most women – and some of them have a career as well. My husband Chris does his bit when he’s here, and I’m lucky he doesn’t have expectations of what life should be like in the home like many other men.”

So, why do women still assume responsibility for household chores? We asked our psychologist, Dr. David Lewis. “It’s these expectations that cause problems,” he explains. “If a man was brought up in a home where his father was waited on hand and foot, he may come to expect the same kind of treatment. In addition, women do feel more guilt about housework than men. If a woman goes out leaving the bed unmade or brings friends home and the washing-up is still in the sink, she may feel guilty – a man usually won’t.

“Often housework is tied with a woman’s ideal image of the person she wants to be seen as – a good woman, a good wife, a good mother.”

Base Your Answers on the Text

A- Choose the right answer from the list given: (1 pt)

The text is:

a) Letter
b) A story
c) An article
d) A book review

B- Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? (2 pts)

Women and power.
Women in the past and present.
Housework: whose job is it anyway?

C- Answer these questions (4 pts)

Does Rosalind Hines’s husband help her with the house chores when he can?
David Lewis suggests two arguments to explain why women still assume responsibility for housework. What are these arguments?

D- What do the underlined words in the text refer to? (2 pts)

There (paragraph 1): ______
Them (paragraph 3): ______

E- Find in the text words or expressions meaning the same as: (2 pts)

salary (paragraph 2): ______
Regarded (paragraph 3): ______

F- Complete the following sentences (2 pts)

______, ______, ______, and______ are some of the chores the ‘new man’ is expected to do.
90% of British men don’t______

G- Are these sentences TRUE or FALSE? Justify. (2 pts)

A recent British survey showed that men prefer managing the shopping to doing the washing or ironing.
Ann Wicks believes that nowadays women are more concerned with being working mothers than housewives and full-time mothers.

II – LANGUAGE: (15 points)

A- Replace the wrong words with correct alternatives. (2 pts)

Africa’s efforts to (achievement) sustainable (develop) have been hindered by conflicts, (insufficiency) investment, limited market access opportunities, corruption, unsustainable debt burdens, historically declining levels of official development (assist), and the impact of AIDS.

Wrong word: achievement / develop / insufficiency / assist
Correct alternative: ……….. / ……….. / ……….. / ………..

B- Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word: (2 pts)

Equity / coexistence / appropriate / initiative / tolerance / cooperation

The world must always remain an example of ……….. between Christians, Jews, Muslims, and people from other religions.
The world must also be a land of ……….. where the faithful can freely and respectfully worship.

C- Match the words to make collocations: (3 pts)


1. Gender	A- citizenship
2. Communication	B- technology
3. School	C-uniform
	D-discrimination

D- Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form: (4 pts)

Ask the kids to stop (make) ……….. so much noise.
The children were so tired because they (play) ……….. all day.
By the year 2020, computers (replace) ……….. teachers in school.
Girls in rural areas should (send) ……….. to school.

E- Rewrite the sentences as suggested: (2 pts)

The government has introduced a new plan to eradicate illiteracy.
- A new plan ………..
Although Zahra’s parents were illiterate, they sent her to school.
- In spite of ………..

F- Join these pairs of sentences: (2 pts)

He stays up late. He wants to take part in chat groups on the internet. (so as to)
The weather was bad. So, we didn’t go on an excursion. (due to)

III – WRITING: (10 points)

“Do you think that technological inventions have made life easier?” Write an article for your school magazine giving your opinion and supporting it with examples (approximately 200 words).