Department of Education Zarka Area School :... Date :.../.../ 20... Achievement Test for Diagnostic Purposes Time : one hour Grade 10 Name : A B C D 100 1 a b c 2 a b c 3 a b c 4 a b c 5 a b c 6 a b c 7 a b c 8 a b c 9 a b c 10 a b c 11 a b c 12 a b c 13 a b c 14 a b c 15 a b c 16 a b c ANSWER SHEET 17 a b c 18 a b c 19 a b c 20 a b c 21 a b c 22 a b c 23 a b c 24 a b c 25 a b c 26 a b c 27 a b c 28 a b c 29 a b c 30 a b c 31 a b c 32 a b c 33 a b c 34 a b c 35 a b c 36 a b c 37 a b c 38 a b c 39 a b c 40 a b c 41 a b c 42 a b c 43 a b c 44 a b c 45 a b c 46 a b c F. Composition :Write a paragraph about ( Thomas Edison ) using the following table. [ /8 points ] Date of birth 1847 Nationality American Inventions light bulb - movie camera Important started a newspaper - 14 events a telegraph assistant - 16 Date of 1931 death... Diagnostic 10 1
Department of Education Zarka Area School :... Date :.../.../ 20... Achievement Test for Diagnostic Purposes Time : one hour Grade 10 Name : A B C D 100 I) Reading [ / 24 ] Read the following texts carefully, then answer the questions below. Text ( A ) The first Olympic games began in 776 BC.The games took place every four years at Olympia in ancient Greece, but they stopped in 393 AD. In 1896, a Frenchman called Pierre de Coubertin started the Olympic Games again. There were about 300 athletes, representing 13 countries. They took part in events such as cycling, sprinting, weight-lifting, swimming, put shot, gymnastics and the marathon. The five rings on the Olympic flag represent the five continents and the friendship between nations.in 2008, 202 countries and 11,099 athletes took part in the last Olympics in Beijing. 1. The text is about... a. the Olymoic flag b. Pierre de Coubertin c. the Olympic Games 2. How many years are there between each Olympic Games? a. 4 b. 2 c. 33 3.One of the following sports wasn t in 1896 : a. sprinting b. swimming c. football 4. Where did the last Olympic Games take place? a. Athens b. Paris c. Beijing 5. The underlined pronoun ( They ) refers to... a. the Olymoic Games b. athletes c. the five rings 6. took place line 1 means... a. gave b. happened c. marathon 7. One of the following sentences is wrong : a. The first modern Olympics started in 776 BC. b. The Olympic flag is the symbol of the friendship between nations. c. The number of athletes who took part in the 2008 Olympics was bigger than their number in the 1896 Olympics. 8. The writer believes the Olympic Games make more... a. enemies b. wars c. friendships Diagnostic 10 2
Text ( B ) It s true that as we grow older, it becomes harder to remember things as quickly as we used to. But there are many techniques we can use to memorise names and numbers such as acronyms, association, acrostics and chunking.acronyms are words or phrases made from the initial letters of other words. BBC, for example, stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation.Association also helps us memorise names. When you meet someone called Mike,for example,try to visualise a microphone to remember his name.the next time you meet him, you ll immediately think of a microphone. 9. Association and chunking help us. a. surf the Net b. remember things c. speak fluently 10. The acronym used for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is... a. Mike b. NATO c. BBC 11. The verb visualise, line 6, means : a. help b. forget c. imagine 12. The underlined pronoun ( him ) refers to... a. Mike b. microphone c. chunking II. Vocabulary : [ / 10 ] Complete this paragraph with the correct words from the list below. Jordan is in the Middle East, south of Syria. Its ( 1 ) is over 5 million. Its ( 2 ). is Amman. Its ( 3 ). is called the dinar. Commonly spoken ( 4 ). are Arabic and English. The colours of the Jordanian ( 5 ) are black, white, green and red. 13. a. currency b. population c. capital 14. a. capital b. population c. flag 15 a. currency b. flag c. language 16. a. cities b. exports c. languages 17. a. capital b. flag c. country III. Pronunciation : [ / 6 ] 18. The underlined letter in ( pilot ) is pronounced as the underlined one in : a. think b. find c. sit 19. The underlined letters in ( tree ) are pronounced as the underlined one(s) in : a. name b. way c. mean 20. The letter we don t pronounce in ( talk ) is : a. t b. l c. k IV. Grammar : [ / 24 ] 21. He. a doctor. a. are b. is c. am 22. My brother to his friend at the moment. a. is talking b. talked c. talks Diagnostic 10 3
23-Fawzia s mother in a bank. a. work b. works c. are working 24. Nadia didn t to school yesterday. a. go b. went c. are working 25-While they TV, someone knocked at their door. a. are watching b. watch c. were watching 26-Yousef isn t as as Ibrahim. a. tall b. taller c. tallest 27.They in Amman since 1996. a. have lived b. has lived c. has living 28. The man was driving the car too. a. quickly b. quick c. quicker 29. A shop assistant is a person. sells things in shops. a. where b. which c. who 30.Omar. visit his sister because she was ill. a. had to b. must c. should 31. They stood.. a tree because it was raining. a. on b. under c. over 32.The Eiffel Tower in France was in the 1880s. a. built b. build c. building V. Writing : [ / 36 ] A. Which sentence has the correct word order? 33. a. You what doing are? b. What are you doing? c. What doing you are? 34. a. Plastic made calculators of are. b. Are plastic made of calculators. c. Calculators are made of plastic. 35. a. I ll meet you as soon as I finish my homework. b. My homework as soon as I ll meet you I finish. c. As soon as my homework I ll finish meet you. B. Which sentence is punctuated correctly. 36. a. have you ever been to Palestine. b. Have you ever been to Palestine? c. have you ever, been to Palestine? 37. a. Omar bought potatoes, tomatoes and bananas last Friday. b. Omar bought potatoes tomatoes and bananas last friday. c. Omar bought potatoes, tomatoes and, bananas last Friday. Diagnostic 10 4
C. Which word in each group is spelt correctly. 38. University Subjects : a. Arabik b. History c. Medisine 39. Shapes : a. sqware b. raund c rectangular 40. Animals : a. girraffe b. elephant c. laion 41. Weather words : a. sunny b. kold c. raini 42. Months : a. Jone b. August c. Sebtemper D. Choose the correct translation of the following sentences. لقد بحثت في كل مكان عن كتابي لكني ال أستطيع أن أجده.43 a. I ve looked everywhere for my book, but I can t find it. b. I ve looked anywhere for my book and I found it. c. I ve looked for my book somewhere, but I lost it. ىذا ىو البرنامج الذي يحبو أبي.44 a. This is the programme which my brother likes. b. This is the programme which my father hates. c. This is the programme which my father likes. E. What does each sign mean? 45. 46. a. Cross the road a. Cross the road b. Go straight on. b. Go straight on. c. Turn right c. Turn right F. Composition :In your ANSWER SHEET, write a paragraph about ( Thomas Edison ) using the following table. Date of birth 1847 Nationality American Inventions light bulb - movie camera Important events started a newspaper - 14 a telegraph assistant - 16 Date of death 1931 [ 8 points ] - Best Wishes - Diagnostic 10 5