Why was it easy to find Ding Jinhao?
I. Reading: Read the following passage and answer the questions. Circle A, B or C.
A Chinese tourist on holiday in Egypt was shocked to see graffiti in Chinese on a 3,500-year-old monument in Luxor. A photo of the graffiti was soon on his blog on the Internet. People in China couldn’t believe it!
They were angry and there was a big hunt to find the person responsible.They could find him easily because the message wasn’t very imaginative or clever. It was basically ‘Ding Jinhao was here’. That was enough for Internet users to find this particular Ding Jinhao, a teenager in Nanjing. His parents were quick to tell a local newspaper that their son was very sorry for his actions.
Ding’s graffiti was a terrible idea. It is a serious crime to write on a historic monument in Egypt. You can go to prison for a year for doing it. But in the past, people could write on monuments and no one was angry about it. At Giza there is an example of graffiti on a temple wall from 1244 BC. It says ‘Hadnakhte … came to make an excursion and amuse himself on the west of the Memphis, together with his brother, Panakhti’.
1. Why was it easy to find Ding Jinhao?
A. Because it was on a monument.
B. Because he wrote it on his blog.
C. Because it was basic and clear.
2. What is the attitude today to tourist graffiti in Egypt?
A. People can’t believe it.
B. It is considered a crime.
C. People are sorry for this action.
3. What does the pronoun “It” in the second paragraph refer to?
A. the monument
B. the message
C. the blog
4. What is the word “particular” in the second paragraph closest in meaning to?
A. specific
B. usual
C. definite
5. What is there at the top of Giza?
A. a drawing of the pyramid
B. a photo of graffiti
C. an example of graffiti II. WRITING: For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use the word in brackets. You may need to change the word. Write no more than three words.
1. I wish I had more money; I would be having a vacation in Hawaii.
→ If I ____________________ I would be having a vacation in Hawaii.(have)
2. If I lived in the USA when I was small I would have a native-like accent.
→ I would ____________________ accent if I lived in the USA when I was small. (American)
3. I didn’t understand what those English people were talking about.
→ They were ____________________ so I couldn’t understand them. (dialect)
4. If you had a wider range of vocabulary, you could write better.
→ Your ____________________ better if you had a wider range of vocabulary. (could)
5. If English were not spoken by economic powers, it wouldn’t be so popular.
→ Were English ____________________ economic powers, it wouldn’t be so popular. (not)
A Chinese tourist on holiday in Egypt was shocked to see graffiti in Chinese on a 3,500-year-old monument in Luxor. A photo of the graffiti was soon on his blog on the Internet. People in China couldn’t believe it!
They were angry and there was a big hunt to find the person responsible.They could find him easily because the message wasn’t very imaginative or clever. It was basically ‘Ding Jinhao was here’. That was enough for Internet users to find this particular Ding Jinhao, a teenager in Nanjing. His parents were quick to tell a local newspaper that their son was very sorry for his actions.
Ding’s graffiti was a terrible idea. It is a serious crime to write on a historic monument in Egypt. You can go to prison for a year for doing it. But in the past, people could write on monuments and no one was angry about it. At Giza there is an example of graffiti on a temple wall from 1244 BC. It says ‘Hadnakhte … came to make an excursion and amuse himself on the west of the Memphis, together with his brother, Panakhti’.
1. Why was it easy to find Ding Jinhao?
A. Because it was on a monument.
B. Because he wrote it on his blog.
C. Because it was basic and clear.
2. What is the attitude today to tourist graffiti in Egypt?
A. People can’t believe it.
B. It is considered a crime.
C. People are sorry for this action.
3. What does the pronoun “It” in the second paragraph refer to?
A. the monument
B. the message
C. the blog
4. What is the word “particular” in the second paragraph closest in meaning to?
A. specific
B. usual
C. definite
5. What is there at the top of Giza?
A. a drawing of the pyramid
B. a photo of graffiti
C. an example of graffiti II. WRITING: For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use the word in brackets. You may need to change the word. Write no more than three words.
1. I wish I had more money; I would be having a vacation in Hawaii.
→ If I ____________________ I would be having a vacation in Hawaii.(have)
2. If I lived in the USA when I was small I would have a native-like accent.
→ I would ____________________ accent if I lived in the USA when I was small. (American)
3. I didn’t understand what those English people were talking about.
→ They were ____________________ so I couldn’t understand them. (dialect)
4. If you had a wider range of vocabulary, you could write better.
→ Your ____________________ better if you had a wider range of vocabulary. (could)
5. If English were not spoken by economic powers, it wouldn’t be so popular.
→ Were English ____________________ economic powers, it wouldn’t be so popular. (not)