TASK 1 : Circle the correct alternative . ( 4 )

In Balkan culture , ( grow / grown / growth ) men don't cry . ( Yet / Because / Despite ) Rexhep Pajazitaj , 63 , cried as he sat in a hut near the village of Golubovac in Kosovo . Three months ago , the Serbs (have destroyed / had destroyed / destroyed ) his native hamlet to drive out ethnic separatists . Now Pajazitaj , 17 members of his family and most of his former neighbours ( live / lived / are lining ) in a camp , ( any / many / too ) terrified to go home . " We thought we would be back home in a week or two , but the police are still ( anywhere / everywhere / any when ) ," he says . Now we're almost ( out / at / in ) of food , and I don't think the children ( had survived / will survive / have survive ) the winter ."

TASK 2 : Put the bracketed words in the right tense / form . ( 4 )

Grant Ulysses Simpson , 18^th President of the US , ( raise ) ……………………... on an Ohio farm . After his ( graduate ) …………………... from the US Military Academy he served in the Mexican War . His intemperate drinking ( lead ) …………………. to his resignation from the army in 1854 and for the next years he lived in St Louis , Missouri , ( earn ) ……………………. a scanty substance by farming and dealing in real estate . In 1860 , he moved his family to Galena , Illinois , where at the outbreak of the Civil War he ( clerk ) ………………………. in his father's leather store . Commissioned a colonel of volunteers , he ( short ) …………………… became a brigadier general . His capture of Fort henry and Fort Donelson in the western theatre , the first major ( unify) …………………. victories , brought him to the attention of Lincoln , who (make ) ……………….. him a major general .

TASK 3 : Match a word from 'A' with another from 'B' to get meaningful expressions . ( 2 )

TASK 1 : Reorder these expressions to get a meaningful sentence . ( 2 )

made - Being - return to - most foreign students - home countries - their - a hard system of education - confronted with .

TASK 2 : Find the defect in the following sentence and correct it . ( Rewrite the whole sentence ) ( 2 )

It was because they were paid so much less than men , it was because they had less chance of education and it was because they had no vote in elections that women struggled for equal rights .

TASK 3 : Use the information in the chart below to write an essay about students' part-time jobs in the United States . ( Use the appropriate cohesive devices and start as shown . ) ( 6 )

Many students may gain a lot from taking part-time jobs ……

However , many other students think that this new formula is not convenient at all ……