RSfE - Aufnahmetest Englisch (Übungsaufgaben)
I. Reading Comprehension
Read the following text and do the given task. You can use your dictionary and make notes in the text if you want to.
Lesen Sie den folgenden Text und machen Sie Aufgabe 1. Sie können das Wörterbuch benutzen und Notizen im Text machen, wenn Sie möchten.
The next morning, Dad drove me the twenty-two miles to Reardan.
“I’m scared,” I said. “I’m scared, too,” Dad said. He hugged me close.
“You don’t have to do this,” he said. “You can always go back to the rez1 school.”
“No,” I said. “I have to do this.”
I remembered what my old maths teacher on the rez had told me. “You’re a good kid,” he had said. “You deserve2 the world. All the people on the reservation have given up. But not you. You can’t give up. You won’t give up.”
My father loved me so much. He hugged me even closer.
“This is a great thing,” he said. “You’re so brave3. You’re a warrior4.”
It was the best thing he could have said.
So I stood alone on the sidewalk and watched my father drive away.
Then the white kids began arriving for school. They stared at me, the Indian boy, like I was Bigfoot or a UFO.
Reardan was the opposite of the rez. It was the opposite of my family. It was the opposite of me.
“Okay”, I said to myself. “Here I go”.
I walked into the school, found the front office, and told them who I was.
“Oh, you’re the one from the reservation,” the secretary said.
“Welcome to Reardan High School. Here’s your schedule and a student ID.”
I put everything in my backpack and hurried down to my classroom.
When I walked inside, everybody stared at me.
Like I was bad weather.
“Take your seat”, the teacher said.
I went and sat in the back row and tried to ignore all the stares and whispers until a blonde girl leaned over to me.
“What’s your name?” she whispered.
“Junior,” I said. She laughed.
I had no idea that Junior was a weird name. It’s a common name on the rez.
“Arnold Spirit,” the teacher said. “Here,” I said as quietly as possible.
“I thought your name was Junior,” the blonde girl said.
“My name is Junior,” I said. “And my name is Arnold. It’s Junior and it’s Arnold. I’m both.”
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Quelle: Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Berlin: Cornelsen 2009 (adapted and abridged)
1 rez: Kurzform für reservation; Reservat; Land, das für Indianer reserviert ist
2 deserve: verdienen
3 brave: tapfer
4 warrior: Krieger
1. What is the text passage about? Tick the three correct statements only.
Wovon handelt der Textausschnitt? Kreuzen Sie nur die drei richtigen Aussagen an.
The text is about…
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… an American Indian reservation. |
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… American Indian warriors. |
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… not giving up. |
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... the feelings of an outsider. |
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e. |
… American Indian culture. |
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… the American school system. |
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... the experience of an American Indian boy at a white school. |
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II. Grammar and language
2. Put in the correct article: a, an, the, or no article (---).
Fügen Sie den richtigen Artikel ein: a, an, the, or no article (---).
a. Arnold loves ___________ school.
b. ___________ life of an Indian student at a white school isn’t as difficult as you may think.
c. ___________ life isn’t easy – neither for Native nor for white Americans.
d. Arnold travels 20 miles to school twice ___________ day.
e. After school Arnold plans to go to ___________ university.
f. Arnold’s mother works as ___________ nurse.
g. Do you know anything about ___________ American history?
h. ___________ Indian will never be a white man – and why should he want to be one?
3. Put the words and phrases into the correct order!
Setzen Sie die Wörter und Satzteile in die richtige Reihenfolge.
(a) the supermarket – in the evening – goes to – sometimes – Rebecca
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(b) in Glasgow – has been living – she – for – more than 12 years
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(c) didn’t – any – yesterday – we – have – fortunately – problems
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(d) cards - after dinner - they - with their friends - play
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