NAVOI STATE PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE
FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE
Mid-term assessment 1 on Reading and Writing
Semester 3
Writing (Questions)
Reading (Questions)
Total time allowed: 1 hour 20 minutes
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Variant I
Writing Part
1. Find the Controlling Idea
Below are ten topic sentences. For each sentence, underline the topic and
circle the controlling idea.
1. Learning to type takes more practice than talent.
2. Shakespeare’s plays are difficult for today’s students.
3. Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the cities in the Sunbelt that is experiencing
significant population growth.
4. Half a dozen new health magazines are enjoying popularity.
5. The importance of good preschool programs for children has been sadly
underestimated.
6. The disposal of toxic wastes has caused problems for many manufacturers.
7. Censorship of school textbooks is a controversial issue in some towns.
8. Finding an inexpensive method to make saltwater drinkable has been a difficult
problem for decades.
9. Developing color film is more complicated than developing black and white.
10. The cloudberry is one of the rare berries of the world.
Total: 10 /___
2. Find the Topic in a Topic Sentence
Find the topic in each of the following topic sentences. For each sentence, ask
yourself this question: What topic is the writer going to discuss? Then
underline the topic.
1. Remodeling an old house can be frustrating.
2. College work demands more independence than high school work.
3. A well-made suit has three easily identified characteristics.
4. Growing up near a museum had a profound influence on my life.
5. My favorite room in the house would seem ugly to most people.
6. The huge trade imbalance of the United States has several sobering
consequences.
7. One of the disadvantages of skiing is the expense.
8. Spanking is the least successful way to discipline a child.
9. An attractive wardrobe does not have to be expensive.
10. Of all the years in college, the first year is usually the most demanding.
Total: 10 /___
3. Find the Topic Sentence of a Paragraph
The topic sentence is missing in each of the following four paragraphs. Read
each paragraph carefully and circle the letter of the best topic sentence for
that paragraph.
1. I would probably have lived my entire existence within a one-mile
radius of where I was born. I would undoubtedly have married a woman of
my identical religious, socioeconomic, and cultural background. I would
almost certainly have become a medical doctor, an engineer, or a software
programmer. I would have socialized within my ethnic community and had
cordial relations, but few friends, outside that group. I would have a whole
set of opinions that could be predicted in advance; indeed, they would not
be very different from what my father believed, or his father before him.
a. If I had remained in India, my destiny would to a large degree have been
predictable.
b. If I had remained in India, I would have been very happy living in the
neighborhood
where
I
grew
up.
c. If I had remained in India, I would have married someone very like my
own
mother.
d. If I had remained in India, I would have had an excellent education.
2. It is not that poor people in the Third World don’t work hard. On the
contrary, they labor incessantly and endure hardships that are almost
unimaginable to people in the West. In the villages of Asia and Africa, for
example, a common sight is a farmer beating a pickax into the ground,
women wobbling under heavy loads, children carrying stones. These people
are performing very hard labor, but they are getting nowhere. The best they
can hope for is to survive for another day. Their clothes are tattered, their
teeth are rotted, and disease and death constantly loom over their horizon.
a. Poor people from the Third World live in small villages in Asia and Africa.
b. The lives of many poor people in the Third World are defined by an
ongoing
struggle
to
exist.
c. Disease is a constant threat to poor people in the Third World.
d. Poor people in the Third World work constantly.
Total: 2 /___
Reading Part
Answer sheet:
Writing
Total number of correct
Reading
1
answers out of 22:
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Type of the task
Max
points
Writing test
22
Reading test
13
Total:
35-31.5 – “excellent”
31.4-24.5 – “good”
35pts
24.4-21 – “satisfactory”
20.9-0 – “failed”
Gained
points