tipo icfes 4 3a parte pre icfes

Pre-icfes

preguntas tipo 4

Teacher : Rodolfo pacheco

Eleventh Grade

2013

PARTE 4

Read the text. Pag.55

Choose the best word (A,B,or C)for each space.

For questions 21-28 Mark A,B, or C on your answer sheet.

JOHN SNOW

John Snow 21)____born in 1813 in york, England and was the eldest of nine children. When he 22)____fourteen, he started working for a surgeon and went on to study madicine.

In 1855, a lot of people started dying in an area of london of the illness cholera and john snow went there to study what was23)____.

21. A: is B: was C: had

22. A: has B: had C: was

23. A: happen B: happened C: happening

He discovered that the people who had died were drinking 24)____same water.

Before this study, no one 25)____ how people got the illness. The results of his study 26)____important because they 27)____ how the illness spread and also 28)____ to start the science of public health.

24. A: a B: as C: the

25. A: knew B: was knowing C:knowing

26. A: is B: was C: were

27. A: explaining B: explained C: to explain

28. A: help B: helping C: helped

PARTE 7

Read the text.pag.59

Choose the best word (A,B,C or D)for each space.

For questions 41-50 mark A,B,C or D on your answer sheet.

It pains us to find that corruption 41)____ increased very much in our country. Everyday new cases of corruption 42)____ unearthed. This is a sad sign 43)____ immorality 44)____ is eating our society like white ants. Perhaps, it is the laxity of the administrative machinery that is indirectly responsible 45)____ this.

41.A: has B: had C: have D: does have

42. A: is B: are C: were D:was

43. A: from B: by C: of D: in

44. A: what B: that C: which D: where

45. A: about B: for C: by D: because

Laws are there 46)___ they are circumvented with impunity. Our education has failed to turn out citizens of character. The culprits 47)____ be punished in accordance 48)____ the laws. Honest officers must be rewarded 49)____ the dishonest punished. Only 50)____ we will be able to contain the rising corruption in our society.

46. A: but B: because C: despite of D: though

47. A: mustn´t B: must C: should D: shall

48. A: to B: with C: by D: that

49. A: and B: also C: the same as D: as well as

50: A: then B: by C: also D: because

PARTE 4

Read the text. Pag.62


For questions 21-28 mark A,B, or C on your answer sheet.

JUNGLE GIRL FOUND

A girl 21): ____ disappeared 22): ____ she was eight 23)____ old has been found 24)____cambodia, according to 25)____ father.

21. A: which B: who C: she

22. A: when B: while C: during

23. A: year B: years C: age

24. A: at B: in C: on

25. A: his B: her C: their

. Eighteen years after she disappeared, a woman was 26)____ in a village in the Ratanakkiri province trying to steal food.

The woman who was found looks 27)____ other members of the family.

She can´t speak 28)____ language that has been identified and is very frightened, but her family hopes that she will adjust and settle down.

26. A: find B: found C: founded

27. A: as B: as if C: like

28. A: any B: no C: the

PARTE 7




The color of your skin 41)____ on how much pigment, or coloring matter, you have in it. All people have 42)____ brown and some yellow pigments in 43)____ skin. But different people have diferent amount 44)____ each pigment.

41. A: depending B: is depend C: depend D: depends

42. A: some B: many C: much D: tons

43. A: his B: her C: our D: their

44. A: by B. from C: of D: in

The amount you have depends on 45)____ amount your parents have. 46)____ people have such differents of the two pigments; many shades of skin color exist in the world. “Black” people have a lot of brown pigment in their skin, and not 47)____ yellow. “ White” people have a small amount of 48)____ pigment in their skin. Oriental people 49)____ a lot of yellow 50)____ a smal amount of brown pigment.

45. A: a B: an C: the D ___

46. A: after B: though C: and D: because

47. A: many B: much C: few D: little

48. A: every B: one C: each D: both

49. A: has B: hasn´t C: haven´t D: have

50. A: too B: also C: and D: from

PARTE 4

Read the text.pag.68.


For questions 21-28 mark A,B, or C on your answer sheet.

Researchers in Kenya have found 21)____ a fish could be an effective weapon in the fight to reduce the spread of malaria. A fish that is 22)____ eaten was introduced to several places 23)____ the west of the country. The fish eats mosquito larvae, 24)____ are young mosquitoes before they have wings.

21. A: which B: who C: that

22. A: normal B: normality C: normally

23. A: on B: in C: at

24. A: which B: were C: that

People have known 25)____ a long time that this fish eats mosquitoes, but this was 26)____ first time that researches had looked at how the fish could be used 27)____ control malaria, which 28)____ 300 million people ill and causes a million deaths worldwide every year.

25. A: since B: for C: from

26. A: at B: his C:the

27. A: for B: to C: under

28. A: makes B: make C: made

PARTE 7




CHILD LABOR

Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile 41)____ in conditions described as close to slavery to produce clotes that appear destined for one the major high street 42)____

Speaking to a British newspaper, the children described long hours of 43)____ work and threats and beatings.

41. A: facility B: factory C: office D: bureau

42. A: warehouse B: retailer C: warehouses D: retailers

43. A: inpaid B: unpaid C: without pay D: without payment

The company said it was unaware that clothing intended for its 44)____ had been improperly 45)____ to a 46)____ that used child labor. It further announced it had withdrawn the garments involved until it had investigated the alleged 47)____ of the 48)____ code it imposed on manufacturers three years ago.

44. A: warehouses B: stores C: outlet D: branch

45. A: outsource B: outsourcing C: outsources D: outsourced

46. A: association B: sweatshop C: closed shop D: retailer

47. A: breaches B: errors C: mistakes D: wrong doings

48. A: ethic B: ethnic C: ethical D: ethnical

The discovery of these children working in appalling conditions in the Shahpur jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the 49)____ by some large ratail chains of their 50)____ production to india, recognized by the United Nations as one of the world´s hotspots for child labor. According to one estimate, over 20 percent of India´s economy is dependent on children, which comes to a total of 55 million youngsters under 14 working.

Consumers in the West should not only be demanding answers from retailers about how their goods are produced but also should be looking into their consciences at how they spend their money and whether cheap prices in the West are worth the suffering caused to so many children.

49. A: outsource B: outsourcing C: outsources D: outsourced

50.A: garment B: raiment C: garments D: raiments

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