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FIRST TERMINAL EVALUATION (MODEL)

ENGLISH

Questions 1-5. Read the excerpt from A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and answer the questions that follow.

(5×1-5)

One morning Elisenda was cutting some bunches of onions for lunch when a wind blew into the kitchen. Then she went to the window and found the angel in his first attempts at flight. These were so clumsy that he was on the point of knocking the shed down as he couldn’t get a grip on the air. But then, he did manage to gain altitude.

Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, when she watched him pass over the last houses. He was holding himself up in some way with the risky flapping of a senile vulture. She kept watching him even when she was through cutting the onions. She kept on watching until it was no longer possible for her to see him. He was no longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea.

1. What was Elisenda doing when the wind blew into the kitchen?

2. What did Elisenda see when she looked out of the window?

3 . What is the angel compared in the flight ?

A. A strong cagle

B. A fast air plane

C. A senile

4. Why did Elisenda feel relieved?

5. How did the angel appear to Elisenda at the end?

A. A big shadow in the sky

B. A dot on the sea horizon

C. A bird in a cage

D. A star in the sky