SHKOLLA E MESME, VITI III DHE IV

GJUHË ANGLEZE

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Testi nga Gjuha angleze përbëhet nga katër pjesë

Koha për zgjidhje Numri i pikëve Numri i pikëve

të fituara

Të dëgjuarit rreth 15 minuta 20

Të lexuarit 25 minuta 25

Leksiku/gramatika 30 minuta 25

Të shkruarit 50 minuta 30

Koha për zgjidhjen e testit është 120 minuta.

Mjetet e lejuara janë lapsi grafit (i thjeshtë) dhe goma, lapsi kimik me ngjyrë të kaltër ose të

zezë. Pranohen vetëm përgjigjet e shkruara me laps kimik. Nëse gaboni, vendosni një vijë të

kryqëzuar mbi përgjigjen e dhënë dhe përgjigjuni sërish. Gjatë kohës së punës në test nuk

lejohet shfrytëzimi i fjalorit.

Nëse ndonjë pyetje/detyrë nuk mund ta zgjidhni menjëherë, kaloni në pyetjen tjetër.

Nëse ju mbetet kohë, mund të ktheheni përsëri në pyetjet e pazgjidhura.

Ju dëshirojmë sukses të plotë!

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L I S T E N I N G C O M P R E H E N S I O N

A) Listen to an excerpt from an episode of a radio show The Ubiquitous Mr.

Lovegrove which explores the difference between extroverts and introverts, and

then complete the grid below. Tick (√) the relevant boxes in each row.

Extrovert Introvert

better students

persuasive

Gandhi

contemplative

quietly spoken

higher grades

JK Rowling

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B) Complete the following sentences from the excerpt. Use ONE WORD for each

answer.

1. We tend to think of great leaders as people who naturally take to

..............................................., who draw other people to them by their

............................................... presence.

2. If they become leaders, it's not because they want to be the centre of attention, it's

because they feel ............................................... to act.

3. If they're the boss, they .............................................. space for the ideas of others to grow

because they're not trying to make their ...............................................

c) For sentences 1-4, decide if each statement is TRUE or FALSE by putting a tick

(√) in the appropriate box.

True False

1. “Great leaders are typically men” is a common prejudice people hold.

2. According to the speaker, being drawn to extroverts comes easy to most people.

3. Thinking up good ideas is more challenging when you’re surrounded by people, says the speaker.

4. The speaker is adamant that group projects do not favour extroverts.

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R E A D I N G C O M P R E H E N S I O N

A. Read the following text about how cursive, which carries both social and

cognitive benefits, has become the latest craze. Then read the instructions below

the text and do the exercises that follow.

The Return of Handwriting

1 As holiday shoppers browse the handmade notecards out front, a group assembles

in the back of a bright, old-fashioned letterpress shop near Harvard University. The

dozen strangers, from their 20s to their 50s, drag stools to the edges of two big

classroom-style tables, conspicuously put aside their phones, and then — fueled

with passionfruit-flavored spring water — start practicing their penmanship.

2 Organized by a company called Sip & Script, this 90-minute class is part of a slow,

but sure revival of handwritten communication, a resolute response to the

impersonal nature of emails, texts, and online holiday messages and birthday

greetings. “It has so much more meaning when it comes in handwriting,” says the

instructor, a former elementary school teacher named Jessica Glazier, as her charges

bend over their tracing paper. “We are slowly reintroducing it and showing its

benefits to everyone”, she says.

3 They’re not the only ones, as yet another discarded relic from a forgotten age is

brought back, dusted off and imbued with a newfound sense of purpose – the

cursive. There are monthly get-togethers in a bar in Brooklyn, called Pints & Postage

nights, at which stationery is laid out for patrons to send handwritten messages;

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they may feel inclined to mail off a note wishing friends and family a happy National

Handwriting Day on January 23.

4 What’s the allure of handwriting? Handwriting “is very precious to people,” says

Lizzie Post, great-great-granddaughter of the etiquette authority Emily Post. “I really

want it to be intimate and more personal. It’s so much more meaningful than a text

message. And I think we put an even higher premium on it in the age of everything

digital.”

“It’s like going for long walks and eating your vegetables,” says Post. “There’s a kind

of sense that it’s good, it makes you feel good, and it’s a good skill to have.”

5 Donovan Beeson, co-founder of the 15,000-member Letter Writers Alliance, which

encourages handwriting, says: “What people are looking for, in all aspects of their

lives, is authenticity in things,” says Beeson. Handwriting is about “the fuzzy feeling

you get when you realize that someone actually sat down and thought of you, or

when you write something for yourself.”

6 Trouble is a lot of people are out of practice. Newlywed Hannah Slafsky has come to

Sip & Script to brush up on the cursive she says she’ll use in all the thank-you notes

she plans to send for wedding gifts. “You can tell that somebody took some time. It’s

just more thoughtful,” Slafsky says as she unsteadily practices her ovals, slants, and

downcurves.

7 No surprise there. Many public elementary schools have dropped cursive; it was

famously left out of the Common Core standards and, other than in Arizona and

North Carolina, it is no longer mandatory. “Instead of being taught cursive, you’re

taught typing,” Beeson says. That being said, Beeson adds, one recent study has

shown that the students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual

questions than students who took notes longhand. This was in large part because

the ones with computers went into mental autopilot: “Laptop notetakers’ tendency

to transcribe lectures verbatim rather than processing information and reframing it

in their own words is detrimental to learning.”

8 Nancy Martin, an events planner at MIT, who came to Sip & Script to finesse her

handwriting skills recalls writing a welcome note, by hand, to a newly hired 22-

year-old colleague. “He came over and said, ‘Wow, this is cool! I’ve never seen

anybody do this before!’” Martin says she fears, “It’s going to be our secret language.

When we’re old, the kids won’t understand it.”

9 The painstaking pace of handwriting has many advantages, say people who are

passionate about handwriting. Firstly, they all just like the idea of slowing down.

Secondly, the revival of writing by hand is also surprisingly social. At those Pints &

Postage nights in Brooklyn, “You have every kind of person — the jock, the

romantic, the hipster, the lonely,” says Handwritten’s founder, Brett Rawson. “No

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group is immune to the charms of handwriting” When a museum in Manhattan held

a handwriting event, demand was so high “they had to drag out more tables and

more chairs,” says Madges.

10 And lastly, “the thing with handwriting is that it turned out to be contagious and

catching,” says Rawson. “I’m inspired every time I’m in a coffee shop working on my

laptop trying to meet a deadline and I see someone writing something by hand,” he

says. “I’m like: that’s what I want to be doing.”

Adapted from: www.forge.medium.com

A) Use the information in the passage to match the people (listed A – E) with the

quotes below. Write the appropriate numbers 1-5 in boxes A-D in the table

provided on page 8.

A) Brett Rawson

B) Hannah Slafsky

C) Jessica Glazier

D) Lizzie Post

E) Nancy Martin

1. “We’re trying to bring that back, a little at a time”.

2. “I still want to see my best friend’s loopy handwriting on a card”.

3. “I am a little bit rusty, though.”

4. “Everyone has a handwriter inside them”.

5. “Youngsters do not use it as much as we used to”.

B) Do the following statements agree with the information given in the text? In

boxes B) 1-5 provided on page 8 write:

T if the statement agrees with the information

F if the statement contradicts the information

NG if there is no information on this

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1. Learning cursive is gaining momentum.

2. Not only is cursive a discarded relic, but no school insists

upon students knowing it.

3. Older people are more inclined to the unhurried and

elaborate process of handwriting.

4. How we take notes makes no impact on the acquisition of

knowledge.

5. People tend to bond over their shared interest in

handwriting.

C) Read the questions and choose the correct answer(s) (AE). Write your answers

in the table on page 8.

1. What TWO things about handwriting appeal to people most?

(A) It is a new craze – why not jump on the bandwagon?

(B) It is an expression of authenticity that people long for.

(C) It is less empathic than other forms of communication.

(D) It is undeniably and unmistakably personal.

(E) It is a marketable skill to have these days.

2. According to the article,

(A) companies often mass-produce notes that appear hand-written.

(B) people often miss the point of handwriting.

(C) holiday time is the best time to start practicing handwriting.

(D) handwriting is an uplifting activity.

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3. According to the passage, the revival of handwriting is

(A) staggering.

(B) swift.

(C) inevitable.

(D) absolute.

4. The word “detrimental” in paragraph 7 is NOT synonymous with:

(A) adverse

(B) unfavourable

(C) dependent

(D) inimical

5. Which of the following is NOT true about the article?

(A) The author voices his personal opinion on the matter.

(B) Handwriting does not prompt more handwriting.

(C) Sip & Script class is a counterattack on side effects of digital era.

(D) Some people are worried handwriting may become extinct.

D) Find the words or expressions which are closest in meaning to the following

words or definitions. Write the words in the table provided on page 8.

A) a person or thing entrusted to the care of someone (paragraphs 1 and 2)

B) writing and other office materials (paragraphs 3 and 4)

C) to practice or improve your knowledge of something (paragraphs 6 and 7)

D) in exactly the same words as were used originally (paragraphs 7 and 8)

E) extremely careful and thorough, involving a lot of effort (paragraphs 9 and 10)

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READING COMPREHENSION ANSWER SHEET

A)

B)

C)

D)

A) B) C) D) E)

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

A) B) C) D) E)

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U S E O F E N G L I S H

A. Transform the following sentences by using the given word(s) so that they have a similar meaning. You can use no more than five words including the given word.

1. What used to be my playground is now an apartment building.

TURNED

My old playground ………………………………………………………………………… apartment block.

2. Rachel didn’t seem to be at all scared when she drove the motorbike.

DISREGARD

Rachel ………………………………………………………………………… own safety when she drove the

motorbike.

3. If he hadn’t liaised closely with them, we would have found ourselves in a pickle.

BUT

………………………………………………………………………… with them, we would have given up.

4. We persuaded him not to hand in his resignation.

OUT

We ………………………………………………………………………… in his resignation.

5. People think it was he who sowed the seeds of dissension.

THOUGHT

He …………………………………………………………………………the seeds of dissension.

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B. Complete the text using the proper form of the appropriate verbs. You must

draw inferences on which verbs to use based on the context. (In some sentences you

will need to use an auxiliary verb, while in some instances you may need a full, lexical

verb).

A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people

who are going (1) ............................................... our country in a few decades are like. Faculty

members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them e-mails,

inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups. I would go to sleep in my hotel

room at around midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of

replies—sent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m.

In our conversations I asked the students when they got around to (2)

................................................ One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke

up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she (3)

............................................... to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep. She

simply had to master it! As she was falling asleep, she would recite a math problem or a

paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke

up, the problem might (4) ................................................ I asked several students to describe

their daily schedules, and their replies sounded like a session of Future Workaholics of

America: crew practice at dawn, classes in the morning, resident-adviser duty, lunch,

study groups, classes in the afternoon, tutoring disadvantaged kids in Trenton, a

cappella practice, dinner, study, science lab, prayer session, hit the StairMaster, study a

few hours more. One young man told me that he had to schedule appointment times for

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chatting with his friends. I mentioned this to other groups, and usually one or two

people would volunteer that they (5) ............................................... the same thing. "I just had

an appointment with my best friend at seven this morning," one woman said. "Or else

you lose touch."

Adapted from: www.theatlantic.com

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C. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in brackets, positive or

negative.

Attention, parents: There’s no need to feel guilty for giving your child a time-out or

asking them to sit on the thinking step.

That’s according to new research, anyway, which suggests there’s no harm done by

giving (1).............................. (behave) kids a time-out, either to the child’s mental wellbeing

or to their relationship with their parents. Researchers compared the emotional and

behavioural health of children whose parents used time-outs versus those who didn’t,

tracking them over eight years. Children’s mental health, social skills, creativity, and

feelings of positivity and negativity towards their parents were all tracked, along with

any signs of depression, (2).............................. (anxious), aggression, rule-breaking

behaviour, (3).............................. (hope) or difficulties with self control. It turned out there

was no difference between these two groups, which suggests that time-outs are a

perfectly fine tool to use to discipline children. Lead author and pediatric psychologist at

the University of Michigan Rachel Knight said: ‘Some reports in the media and by select

organisations have suggested that time-out is ineffective and even (4)..............................

(harm). ‘There are some alarming claims that time-outs can damage the parent-child

relationship and negatively affect emotional health. But the research simply doesn’t

support those claims. We did not find a relationship between time-outs and negative

side effects in children. However, there’s a wealth of research on how effective time-outs

can be in reducing problematic behavior when they are used appropriately. It’s a

parenting strategy that’s often (5).............................. (understand) and even abused.’ That

mention of appropriate use is key. Knight explains that consistency, structure, and a

calm demeanor are essential for effective and healthy time-outs.

Adapted from: www. metro.co.uk

1 BEHAVE

2 ANXIOUS

3 HOPE

4 HARM

5 UNDERSTAND

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D. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only

one word in each space (you have been given the first letter of each word and in

some instances, an additional letter to help you). Read the text through to check

that it makes sense with the gaps filled.

Beneath the relentless churn of steel, wood, and dust, the Indian railway is made

entirely of stories. For more than a century, it has w . . . . . s . . the infinite

expression of the human condition, borne the incalculable weight of separations, and

gently rocked the world-weary into ob . . . . . . and stupor.

“It’s fresh and beautiful and repulsive at the same time,” says National Geographic

photographer Matthieu Paley, who spent five days and four nights aboard the Vivek

Express documenting its ever-unfolding story. Starting at the southernmost tip of India,

the route st . . . . . . . 2,637 miles northward from Kanniyakumari to Dibrugarh under

the heavy g . . . of the equatorial sun. It is the longest train r . . . in the Indian

subcontinent.

“People want time,” Paley says. “We live in a world that wants to compress time and

make things faster and faster, and I love the train because it’s an environment where

you have to slow down.” Adapted from: www.nationalgeographic.com

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E. Some of the sentences below contain an error. Identify what needs to be

changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, put a symbol √ in

the space provided below the sentence. You need not rewrite the whole sentence;

simply point out what changes must be made to correct a sentence. An example

has been provided for you.

Irregardless of what you think, I am going to pursue my dreams and passions.

Irregardless of what you think, I am going to pursue my dreams and passions.

Regardless ........................................................................................................................................

1. Having read the original study, the article still remained unconvincing.

............................................................................................................................. ..........................................................

2. Ross allegedly confessed having had the opportunity to commit a robbery.

............................................................................................................................. ..........................................................

3. The manager specifically requested that she be charged with embezzlement.

............................................................................................................................. ..........................................................

4. I was still lying helpless in bed when the news about their rescue were brought to me.

............................................................................................................................. ..........................................................

5. “Neither the plates nor the serving bowl go on that shelf”, she said visibly annoyed.

.......................................................................................................................................................................................

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W R I T I N G

People have a variety of personality traits. What two traits do you feel are the

most important for a person to lead a fulfilling and purposeful life? And what one

trait may be considered the biggest hurdle in attaining that? Write an essay of 200

to 300 words and explain why you feel personality may (not) be conducive to a

happy life.

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