Name: ___________________________ Group:
____
Section: ____
Faculty of Economics & Political Science
Cairo University
Readings in English
First Year – Arabic Section
Date: November
20th, 2011 Time:
1 Hour
First:
Comprehension Passage (4
marks)
In
1940, the year Charles Edward Merrill founded the firm we now know as Merrill
Lynch & Co., he was 54 years old and had already lived an extraordinarily
productive and visible life. A poor boy from the backwaters of Florida, Merrill
was forced to leave college by lack of funds, but he schemed his way to Wall
Street and made himself wealthy by the time he was 31.
He was
the first investment banker to realize that chain stores would one day dominate
retailing, and he got rich by underwriting (and often controlling) such future
powerhouses as K Mart and Safeway Stores. He set up one of America's first wire
houses — brokerage firms with branch offices in different cities connected to
the main office by Teletype.
Choose the correct answer:
1. Backwaters are:
a) poor area c)
rural areas
b) places not influenced
by new ideas d) places
along bays
2. Underwriting
means
a) agreeing to c)
protecting by insurance
b) buying out d)
joining with
3. Teletype was
a) a computer printer c)
computer typewriting
b) a typewriter that got its data over the
telephone d) the telegraph
4. Merrill was
primarily
a) an investment banker c) a
broker
b) an underwriter d)
a partner
Second:
Vocabulary (4
marks)
Choose the
correct answer:
1. The prices of houses
and flats rose sharply last year.
a. soured b. soared c. insulated
2. They are keen to foster
trading links with the West.
a. inhibit b. initiate c. develop
3. There wasn't a
trace of evidence for the claim.
a. a pillar b. a vestige c. an access
4.
Lower taxes would spur
investment and help economic growth.
a.
Delay b.
start c.
encourage
Third: Terms (6 marks)
Write the economic terms for the following definitions:
1.
a
decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies:
___________________
2.
net
income from one or more assets for a given period, reckoned after taxes and
other disbursements: _____________________
3.
a
country or commercial enterprise to whom money is owed: ___________________
Write the
exact words that stand for the following abbreviations ILO:_________________________________________________________________
OECD:_______________________________________________________________
Fourth:
Grammar (8 marks)
A. Fill in
using a suitable preposition:
1-
We‘re
having a rest now, but _____ this evening we’re going to a concert, which
begins _____ 8:30 PM.
2- I’m so busy _____ Christmas that I have to prepare
everything _____ advance.
B.
Identify the subjects, complete verbs and prepositional phrases in the
following sentences.
1- In the playground were thirty-four
screaming children.
2- The papers in the
wastebasket should be emptied into the trash can outside.
3- The variety of shows available at the
flick of a switch is practically limitless.
Fifth: Writing (6
marks)
Read the paragraph carefully and then
identify its essential parts as follows:
No matter how you slice it,
there are only 24 hours in a day. To be successful at university, students need
to learn good time-management skills. The first skill is not taking on more
than you can handle. If you are a working part-time, have a family and are
involved in a community organization, then taking a full course-load at
university will be too much. Another time management skill is reasonably
estimating the time required to perform each of the tasks at hand. Finally,
actually doing what needs to be done seems obvious, but is a very difficult
skill. By learning time management skills your university study will be
successful and most importantly enjoyable.
Topic sentence:
Controlling word/phrase:
Supporting sentences:
Logical connectors:
Concluding sentence:
Good Luck
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