Exam type: final examination

Read the text and choose the correct answer.
Do you often use shampoo or put ketchup on your food? Have you ever visited a sauna? If you think these words are originally English, you’d better think again. In fact, each of these words comes from a different language! Shampoo, for example, is actually a word from the Hindi language in India. This word originally meant “massage.” In hair shops in India, barbers massage your head while washing your hair. Over time, British people in India used this word to mean a liquid that cleans hair.
Almost everyone knows what ketchup is. People all over the world like to pour this tomato sauce on French fries or sandwiches. This word is originally Chinese (from ketsiap, a fish sauce). In the 1600s, British and Dutch sailors brought this fish sauce to Europe. Over time, people changed the sauce by adding tomato flavor to it, but the name basically stayed the same.
Sauna, a popular type of public steam room and shower facility, comes from the Finnish language. During one of the European Olympics, athletes from Britain and Germany saw Finnish athletes use saunas after training. Later, the general public all over Europe started using this style of bathing, too. Now, we still use this word to describe all kinds of steam rooms.
English is full of many wonderful borrowed words from many languages. Perhaps English should change its name to Eng-hin-chi-fin-fre-ger-ital-span-ish!
21. What is the main idea of this reading?
a. English words in other languages
b. Words from India
c. Usage of words from other languages in English
d. The most popular borrowed words
22. Which of the following words is from Hindi?
a. Shampoo b. Sauna c. Ketchup d. Massage
23. What did the original word for ketchup mean?
a. A red tomato sauce b. A hair shop c. Fish d. A kind of fish sauce
24. Why did people start to use the word “sauna”?
a. Athletes made it popular at home.
b. The public liked the Olympics.
c. The Finnish traveled a lot.
d. It was good after training.