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2024 ‫מועד אביב‬ - 45 - ‫ פרק שני‬- ‫אנגלית‬

6. In November 2014, construction workers digging up a road in Iceland's Thingvellir

National Park paving stones from a road built in 1907.

(1) unearthed
(2) disgraced
(3) convicted
(4) outweighed

7. Reviews of the 1995 film adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel The Scarlet

Letter were unfavorable, describing it as at best.

(1) omniscient
(2) jubilant
(3) arbitrary
(4) mediocre

8. In September 2012, the German government media reports that it planned to stop

using the Euro as the national currency, claiming they were absurd.

(1) dismissed
(2) imposed
(3) obtained
(4) accommodated

Restatements (Questions 9-12)

This part consists of several sentences, each followed by four possible ways of restating the
main idea of that sentence in different words. For each question, choose the one restatement
which best expresses the meaning of the original sentence.

9. Every year, a hundred million monarch butterflies from across eastern North America

converge on Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, where they spend the
winter.

(1) A hundred million monarch butterflies come from all over eastern North America
each year to Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve for the winter.

(2) Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve was created as a winter habitat for
the hundred million monarch butterflies of eastern North America.

(3) During the winter, Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is home to a
hundred million monarch butterflies, most of them from eastern North America.

(4) Each year, a hundred million monarch butterflies arrive at Mexico's Monarch
Butterfly Biosphere Reserve after spending the winter in eastern North America.

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