Grade Four Olympiad  Tests    Name: ………………………………….…………….

Part A: Grammar

1. I went to the university ……………… I was 18 years old.

a. since                   b. whether                   c. when                     d. because

2. We got more and more tired ……………… we climbed the mountain.

a. whether              b. as                             c. for                         d. since

3. The teacher made the students ……………. their homework.

a. to do                   b. doing                      c. do                         d. done

4. The plants …………… around the playground make a nice scene over there.

a. are grown            b. to grow                   c. which growing    d. grown

5. They can increase their products by ………… modern technology.

a. to employ            b. employing              c. employed             d. employ

6. The story ………… to everyone here is one that has actually happen.

a. told                      b. is told                     c. telling                   d. it is told

7. The weather is ……… bad today that we can't go on a picnic.

a. too                       b. such                       c. so                         d. very

8. I've come early ………… I can talk to your father.

a. so that                 b. since                       c. in order to            d. while

9. I like football ……………  my brother likes music.

a. when                   b. therefore                c. because                d. whereas

10. I am sure my teacher will let me …………… his library for a week.

a. use                      b. to use                      c. uses                     d. using

Part B: Vocabulary

11. Today unemployment is a very real ………… for university graduates in our country.

a. struggle                  b. problem                    c. interest                  d. service

12. The ………………… of the heart is to pump blood though the body.

a. effect                      b. activity                      c. observation           d. function

13. It is …………… difficult to find a good job nowadays without a university degree.

a. probably                 b. economically            c. extremely              d. finally

14. We should …………… trees to reduce air pollution.

a. climb                       b. fell                             c. cut                          d. plant

15. I am sure that you will ………. all the difficulties if you keep on working like this.

a. concentrate            b. overcome                    c. emphasize              d. improve

16. The number one fear of most people is speaking in ………..

a. peace                 b. public                         c. practice                   d. program

17. Some insects as well as other kinds of animals …………… food.

a. improve             b. stretch                          c. increase                  d. store

18. The importance of the test will sometimes increase the ………… of the students.

a. nervousness       b. expression                  c. movements             d. gesture

19. Exercising is a good way to ………… your stress, anger, and worries.

a. increase             b. release                         c. encourage              d. explain

20. They are …………… heavy rain in the north for tomorrow.

a. floating             b. shaking                        c. predicting              d. providing

21. One of the……………. of birds is their ability to fly.

a. samples             b. features                        c. bases                       d. phases

22. I believe ……………. life is usually more peaceful than city life.

a. prefect                b. available                      c. rural                       d. unions

Part C: Cloze Passage

Fill in the blanks with the best choice.

Industrial Revolution occurred first in Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century. England became an industrial …23… . Many factories were …24… and large quantities of cheap …25… were produced. At first people thought that this …26… would result in a better life for everybody. They …27… that the new factories could …28… everybody’s needs and that most English people would get …29… . But this did not happen. A few

people became richer, but many people became …30… , even rich industrialists sometimes lost their money when factories produced goods which people didn’t want or couldn’t buy.

23. a. city           b. capital          c. country          d. village

24. a. destroyed b. built          c. closed down d. discovered

25. a. goods          b. jewels          c. carpets          d. ropes

26. a. agreement b. entertainment c. disappointment d. development

27. a. told          b. asked           c. believed           d. ordered

28. a. consume b. supply           c. equip           d. delay

29. a. rich          b. lost                      c. wet           d. sick

30. a. better          b. fewer           c. poorer           d. fatter

Part D: Reading comprehension: Passage (1)

The economic and social changes of the past few decades have changed the European family. What was once normal – two parents, father employed, mother at home, stable financial situation – is now exceptional. Today, half of all marriages end in failure, and about half of all children spend several years in a single – parent family. Some mothers never marry again, some parents lose husband or wife through death and some single women and men adopt children. It means that they decide to raise other people's children. Single mothers are greater in number than single fathers.

A single – parent family is at a greater risk for much negative outcomes as decline in income, poverty, and behavioral problems. Most single parents find it difficult to meet all their financial duties. A decrease in income may require  them to move the family to a less

expensive home in a different neighborhood, transfer the children from one school to another, and spend less money on goods.

While the pressures on the single – parent family are great, problems don’t always occur.

If a single mother can manage the different tasks of taking care of her children and herself, her family can not only survive but also advance a lot.

31. The first paragraph is mainly about ……………… .

a. the problems of today's children

b. how to help single – parent families

c. recent economic and social changes in Europe

d. the change in the structure of the European family

32. According to the text, in the past normal European family had ……………. .

a. so many children                                    b. a father at work and a mother at home c. no financial problems                              d. people to take care of the children

33. The word "them" in line 10 refers to …………. .

a. duties                     b. problems           c. single parents           d. negative outcomes

34.The word ……… has been defined in the passage

a. adopt                       b. decade              c. outcome                   d. neighborhood

35. The word "exceptional" in line 3 is closest in meaning to ………. .

a. interchangeable       b. ordinary            c. unstable                 d. uncommon

Passage (2)

The environmental matters that are worrying me most is the pollution of the sea. I think that the pictures we saw recently on the TV news while Easter holidays, still exist in our minds; all the accidents of the sea’s vital and natural resources are caused by letting petrol

– oil in to the sea from big tankers concerning the fact that every day a big part of the sea is destroyed from similar accidents which happen all over the world, we could measure that in half century there will be no part of the sea without pollution. As a result, fish

which is one of the healthiest foods will be unsuitable for people. Furthermore, many

kinds of the sea’s vital and natural resources will disappear, people won’t   be able to swim and  entertain themselves at sea and so on. Some possible solutions of these misfortunes are: 1) careful control of ships, which carry dangerous things, 2) all factories must clean their unwanted materials which are near the sea, and 3) research must be done by scientists in order to find ways for cleaning the already polluted parts.

36. The main point of the passage is about ……………… .

a. pollution of the sea                                   b. unwanted materials

c. environmental matters                             d. pictures recently shown on  TV

37. According to the passage, in a half century, there will be no ……………… .

a. foods at all                                     b. natural resources left

c. clean areas in seas                         d. accidents happening in seas

38. The sea pollution is mainly caused by ………………… .

a. dangerous things            b. not finding a proper way to clean seas   c. not cleaning the already polluted            d. entering oil into seas accidentally

39. The word “entertain” underlined in the passage means to………….

a. improve               b. amuse                 c. explain              d. excite

40. The writer says the pollution of the sea is ………. day after day.

a. reducing              b. increasing          c. evaluating          d. ending

Good luck                Rahimian