Nacer Addine Khaled Middle School Level : 4 MS….
Duration : 1h : 30Date: Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 20
Second Term Exam
Text:
We all need [Link] problem is there is often too much or too [Link] there are other
problems,when it rains a lot the level of the rivers [Link] water runs over the [Link]
[Link] cars and houses [Link] drown,[Link] big cities in Asia,Latin America and
Europe often have floods.
Sometimes it doesn’t rain for a long [Link] [Link] die,[Link] have no food .Many
countries in Africa have problems with [Link] year these droughts get worse and worse .
Industry always pollutes water with [Link] farmers use too many [Link] enter
the rivers and [Link] kill the plants and fish.
The world is getting warmer,so water levels are [Link] are [Link] countries are
becomimg hotter and [Link] affects agriculture.
People want to control global warming,but they can’t agree about the best solutions.
( By Susan Holden,from topics,MacMillan Education,2006 )
Part One (14pts)
A- Reading Comprehension (7pts)
Activity1: Read the text and answer the following questions. 3pts
1. Does it rain a lot in Latin America and Europe ?
2. Why do animals and plants die in Africa?
3. Do people agree about global warming solutions ?
Activity2: Match each idea with the corresponding paragraph. 2pts
Paragraph 1 Global warming effect
Paragraph 2 Lot of rain causes floods
Paragraph 3 Lack of rain causes droughts
Paragraph 4 Water pollution
Activity 3: Find in the input words that are opposite in meaning to the following words. 2pts
a- Colder =/= ……………… b- Few =/= ……………
c- disagree =/=…………….. d- the worst=/=……………
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B- Mastery of Language (7pts)
Activity1: Supply the punctuation and the capital letters where necessary. 2pts
( if we do not stop pollution the earth will be destroyed )
Activity 2: Put the verbs between brackets in the right form. 2pts
The Environment ( to contain ) many [Link] one part ( to change ) , this ( to affect )
the other parts. We must ( to think ) about the results of any changes now and in the future .
Activity 3: Spot the mistake and correct it .
Our planet didn’t used to be polluted ,it use to be cleaner and safer. 1pts
Activity 4 : Pick out from the text four (4) words that contain the following vowel sounds 2pts
/i/ /i:/ /a / /a:/
………………… ……………… ……………… ……………..
Part Two (6pts)
Written Expression:
Imagine you are a militant in a ‘Green’ political party .Write a paragraph of about seven lines to
announce the programme which your party will implement if it wins the elections.
You can start like this :
Our planet is in danger because of pollution, we should all agree about the best solutions to save it.
1. If you vote for us, we will ……. To plant trees / to ban traffic in towns / build recycling factories/
to clean the polluted rivers ……. .
2. As soon as we take office, we will... To oblige factories to re-use old bottles / to impose taxes on
Polluting factories / on cigarettes/ to create jobs for street sweepers.
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