KURDISTAN REGION GOVERNMENT -IRAQ

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
HIGH COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL EXAMINATION

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH

Subject: Enlgish Language / Time:3.00 hours

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Academic year (2024-2025) Grade twelve

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Choose the correct option (Two marks for each correct answer)

1.

Peter felt very uncomfortable when he …………………….. .

2.

According to the passage, which statement is true?

3.

What Peter was trying to say about the debt was that the shopkeeper ……..………….. .

4.

The underlined word ‘ argue ’ in the story means …………..….….. .

5.

New York began growing faster, and by 1830 it was ………..………… .

6.

Important developments in ancient human history happened near Erbil. Therefore, the mound …….…. .

7.

According to Dr. Sally Dale, a good way to understand complicated ideas and information clearly is to ………….…..……. .

8.

SchoolNet was first developed in Canada and it provided both ………………. and ………..…. sites for schools to share.

9.

Which statement is not true about the Great Pyramid of Khufu?

10.

The ‘Oklahoma Dust Bowl’ disaster shows that …………………. .

11.

To save money, people in Guatemala ………...………. .

12.

The new leader of the government gave a great ……………..……. that made the whole country feel he was the right man for the job.

13.

...................... is an example of (repairing), but ‘ using materials again, often to make something different ’ is …………..…... .

14.

Asia has many great rivers - the Tigris and Euphrates, for ………….…….. .

15.

Choose the correct option:

16.

At drama schools, young ……..………. do all sorts of strange activities and exercises to help them learn to ……….…….. well.

17.

In the word ………………., the letters (th) are not sounded / θ / .

18.

There is no silent letter in the word …………..…….; but in the word ……………..... the letter (w) is silent.

19.

The underlined letters in the word ( exhausted ) are sounded ………………… and …………….. . .

20.

Choose the correct phonetic symbols for the letter ( i ) in the words ( sir ) and ( sit ) .

21.

The letters (ea) in the word ………………. are pronounced / eə / .

22.

…………………. to get a job yet? // Yes, I ………..……….. for a publisher since I arrived.

23.

…………………. that early humans have lived here for 8000 years. ( Choose the formal way of introducing the opinion )

24.

(Paris , which is known as the City of Light , is a beautiful place to visit.) In the underlined part of the sentence …………..…. .

25.

( …………..….. ) is equal to (5%) .

26.

He took a map …………………….. get lost in the city.

27.

Steve …………..……… his precious time.

28.

Life in little towns like Grass Valley is ……………….. than it is in New York.

29.

The workshop and café equipment ……….....…….. . It ………….…… by the end of next week.

30.

You …………..… weight ……..…..….. you eat less and exercise regularly.

31.

About tomorrow’s ‘ sky dive ’, how …………………. you ……..……..……?

32.

Which statement is incorrect?

33.

We could have spent the whole weekend at the campsite if only we had brought enough food and water. (The underlined part of the sentence means ……………….. . )

34.

…..…..…….. her medicine everyday?

35.

No one knows for sure, but the ancient boat that was carrying the jewellery ………….….…. up to ten metres long.

36.

( Your brother is too young to know right from wrong. ) If we use (enough) to express the same meaning, we say: ( Your brother …………..…… to know right from wrong . )

37.

Which of the underlined preposition was not correctly used?

38.

What about ..................... in the countryside?

39.

Tom ………….……… his books away after he’d finished his homework, ………………….?

40.

In which of the following sentences, the relative pronoun is the object of the relative clause?

41.

He ……………… to work when he ………………… the accident.

42.

To learn a new language, it is better to live in a country ………………. the language is spoken.

43.

Long John Silver had ………….………., so he knew all the sailors in Bristol.

44.

When Pew sent his men inside the Admiral Benbow, they found …………….. but the ……………….. had already been taken.

45.

Silver’s parrot (Captain Flint) was named after ………………… .

46.

As soon as Ben Gunn saw the flag on the stockade, he asked Jim to ……………… .

47.

Dr. Livesey was on his way to ……………….. at the Admiral Benbow inn when Bill had his first stroke.

48.

When Tom said ‘ I’d prefer to lose my hand than turn against my duty.’, we understood that ……………. .

49.

……………….. was the one who cut the anchor from the ship and ………………… on board her.

50.

Captain Smollett said that they should attack the pirates ……….………… .