1992 VOCABULARY QUIZ 11  (T)
Name..................................................

Part A.  Recognition (1 each = 15 points)
Write the number of the word next to the correct definition.

1. tower	
2. toy	__ tall building	
3. team	__ a child plays with it 
4. theatre 	__ cars and trucks	 
5. toothache	__ group of players or workers
6. traffic		
7. term		

1. taste
2. tear	__ a) remove;  b) go up 
3. take off		 
4. try on	__ lower, make less
5. turn down	__ pull to pieces
6. turn back 	__ happen
7. take place

1. toe
2. thumb	__ part of your hand
3. towel	__ part of your foot
4. tongue	__ you use it after a bath
5. thunder	__ you use it to speak and taste
6. throat	

1. thirsty
2. tidy	__ clean, neat
3. thoughtful	__ not loose, close
4. tight	__ needing water
5. thick
6. tired


Part B. Cloze  (1 each = 10 points)
Choose from these words to complete the passage:

typical	ties	twentieth	
truth	total	toilet		
terrible 	taps	thousands
timetable	translated	twelfth	

Iqbal's Story 

Beautiful handmade carpets from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan are admired all over the world.  (1)......................................  of these traditional wool or silk carpets are sold every year.  Everyone knows what they look like and perhaps you even have one on the floor of your home.  But have you ever stopped to think how these carpets are made?  Who (2)...................................... the millions of tiny knots (              ) that make up a handmade carpet?  Too often the sad answer to this question is very young children.  Here is what happened to a young Pakistani boy called Iqbal Masih.   

Iqbal Masih was born in a poor Pakistani village.  His family was so poor and his father needed money so badly that he decided to sell Iqbal to a carpet maker.  He didn't get much money, only a few rials, because Iqbal was only four years old!  Young Iqbal's (3).................................... was long and hard.  He and the other children had to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week.  Their only breaks were to eat or to go to the (4)........................  The work damaged the children's eyes and some of them became blind.  To make sure that they didn't escape, the factory owner chained the child workers to the carpet-making equipment.  But after six years Iqbal somehow managed to escape.  He went to the city of Lahore where he found safety with a group of people who are trying to prevent the employment of child workers.  When Iqbal told his (5)...................................... story to journalists people in Pakistan were shocked.  But what was really shocking was the fact that Iqbal's story was not  unusual; in fact, his story is (6)..................... of what happens in many poor families there.  A study of the problem found that the (7)...................................... number of young Pakistani children working long hours for no pay may be as high as 10 million!  

Iqbal's story was (8)...................................... into many languages, and he became a voice for child workers everywhere.  So because of Iqbal, people all over the world realize that even now in the (9)...................................... century, many children are made to work hard at a young age. In 1994 Iqbal was invited to the United States to receive the Reebok Human Rights Award for Youth in Action.  He said he hoped to use the money to go to school and become a lawyer.  But there is a sad ending to this story.  Last week while Iqbal was bicycling near his village, someone shot him dead.  Why?  We don't know but perhaps a carpet factory owner was angry with him for telling the (10)...................................... about child workers in Pakistan.

--based on an article in Newsweek, May 1, 1995

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