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A Test on English Proverbs

Q1. Below are sentences that are the paraphrasing of proverbs.

In each case, encircle the proverb that matches with the

Paraphrasing best :( 2 marks for each item)

1. Usually people of the same type tend to be together.

(a) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

(b) Birds of a feather flock together.

(c) Every bird likes his own nest best.

(d) Eagles catch no flies.

2. Sometimes things are not as valuable as they appear to be.

(a) All that glitters is not gold.

(b) Liberty is better than gold.

(c) Today gold, tomorrow dust.

(d) Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

3. You must always try not to plan the successful results of something

Until those results actually occur.

(a) Divide and rule.

(b) Life is not a bed of roses.

(c) Good finds good.

(d) Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

4. One should take care of one's own family, friends, or fellow citizens

Before helping other people.

(a) You reap what you sow.

(b) Nothing hurts like the truth.

(c) Charity begins at home.

(d) It takes two to tango.

5. Don't form an opinion about something based on appearance alone.

(a) We soon believe what we desire.

(b) Don't judge a book by its cover.

(c) Seeing believes.

(d) Two wrongs don't make a right.

6. When there is evidence of a problem, then there probably is a

Problem.

(a) Where there is smoke, there is fire.

(b) A burnt child dreads the fire.

(c) Of two evils choose the least.

(d) Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

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7. People in general think that nothing can be accomplished without

Effort.

(a) Look before you leap.

(b) No man can serve two masters.

(c) No pain, no gain.

(d) To run one's head against a stone wall.

8. When you hurry too much, you are likely to do a poor job, and you

May waste time doing it over.

(a) It is hard to please all parties.

(b) Necessity knows no law.

(c) Misfortunes never come alone.

(d) Haste makes waste.

9. When a group of people with the same goals work together, they can

Accomplish more than individuals can do.

(a) Misery loves company.

(b) Too many cooks spoil the broth.

(c) In unity there is strength.

(d) Two's company, but three's a crowd.

10. Its better not to try to improve something that is already satisfactory.

(a) Make hay while the sun shines.

(b) Leave well enough alone.

(c) Strike while the iron is hot.

(d) Don't cry over spilt milk.

Q2 Complete the following: (3 marks for each item).

1. Actions speak louder than words.

2. If you can't beat them, join them.

3. Easy come, easy go.

4. You can't teach stupid new tricks.

5. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

6. One man’s meat is another man's poison.

7. A cat has nine lives.

8. Blood is thicker than water.

9. When the cat's away the mice are near.

10. No news is good news.

Introducing Myself

My name is Sargis, I’m 17 years old. I was born in Yerevan and now I live there with my family. I study at Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educatinal Complex. My favorite subjects at school are math and ecology I like video games, listening to music. When I grow up I want to become game programmer. I have already started to make games. I want to create games with stunning graphics and good gameplay. That’s why I study programming in my school.

                                                            What is Happiness.

                                  

Humanity has given few questions more thought than, "What is happiness?" What stands between us and an answer to this deceptively complex question is the problem of subjectivity – happiness means different things to different people. Through the course of investigation by myriad disciplines among science and the humanities, it has become clear that happiness means different things to different fields as well.

To behaviorists, happiness is a cocktail of emotions we experience when we do something good or positive. To neurologists, happiness is the experience of a flood of hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival. According to the tenets of several major religions, happiness indicates the presence of God.

                                    The greatest place in the world Mount Roramia

Mount Roraima is a pretty remarkable place in Portuguese . It is a tabletop mountain with sheer 400 – meter high cliffs on all sides. There is only one easy way up, on a natural staircase – like ramp on the Venezuelan side – to get up any other way takes and experienced rock climber. On the top of mountain it rains almost every day, washing away most of the nutrients for plants to grow and

creating a unique landscape on the bare sandstone surface. This also creates some of the highest waterfalls in the world over sides (Angela falls is located on a similar tabletop mountain some 130 miles away). Though there are only a few marshes on the mountain where vegetation can grow properly, these contain many species unique to mountain, including a species of carnivorous pitcher plant.