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Fdration Europenne Des Ecoles - European Federation of Schools Janvier 2012 UC B4 Anglais - Sujet
UC B4 - ANGLAIS ECRIT
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1/ Questionnaire choix multiples Texte de comprhension n1 PEN PUSHERS OUT The Government vs. Civil Servants
Greece is being dragged kicking and screaming into confronting one of its biggest obstacles to reform an almost unsackable civil service. Civil servants working week has already been increased from 37.5 hours to 40 hours, a way of reducing overtime payments. A unified salary scale is about to be introduced, smoothing out differences between ministries and slashing allowances. It was supposed to have been brought in 13 months ago. Under pressure from the European Union, the IMF and the Central European Bank, Greece has agreed to arrange mergers and closures of 150 state organisations and to transfer thousands of workers to a so-called strategic reserve. They will be put on 60% of their previous salary. Those who do not find another publicsector job within 12 months will be fired. It is an embarrassing climb down for George Papandreou, the prime minister. He has tried to avoid dismissals of public-sector workers, who form a power base for his Panhellenic Socialist Movement. Worried party officials say the political cost of his decision will be high. The jobless rate hit a record 16.6% in May. But the government has run out of wiggle room. Without civil service cuts, the second bail-out, worth 109 billion and agreed in July could fall apart. It already looks shaky. Greece has agreed to cut 150,000 public-sector jobs by 2014. Mr Papandreou desperate to please creditors now is expected to oblige. Taken from The Economist September 10th 2011
2. Unsackable means:
a. b. c. d. uncontrollable not able to be made redundant packaged and delivered powerless
Fdration Europenne Des Ecoles - European Federation of Schools Janvier 2012 UC B4 Anglais - Sujet
9. Shaky means:
a. b. c. d. likely to fail needless steady resolved
10. The sentence Mr. Papandreou desperate to please creditors now is expected to oblige means that:
a. b. c. d. credit institutions are forcing Mr. Papandreou and his government to go bankrupt Mr. Papandreou will eventually be forced to resign from his position as prime minister credit is going to be allotted to pay for the political costs of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement Mr. Papandreou has to do whatever creditors ask in order to procure bail-out funds
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16. What turned out to be a pretty weak hurricane after some pretty strong hype shows that the author believes:
a. b. c. d. the information given to the public about Hurricane Irenes eventual impact was not exaggerated people were not informed early enough no one tried to predict the eventual impact the warnings given to the public about the hurricane turned out to be over-exaggerated
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2/ Texte complter
Its grim down South Young Greeks, Italians and Spaniards respond ____21______different ways to their plight. Although Spains ______22________-unemployment figures are the European Unions worst, those of Greece are not much better; along with Italy (which _____23______a little better on this particular measure) these Mediterranean economies share a savage distinction between older insiders with permanent employment and generous benefits---a class which definitely includes the _____24______ politicians ---and younger outsiders on short-term contracts with minimum ______25________. In Italy, where the government ______26_______ the idea of making it easier for firms to hire younger workers by ______27______some labor rules, the countrys largest trade-union federation shows what Italian youngsters are up______28_______: This would damage the rights of all workers in order to help the young, Vincenzo Scudiere of the CGOL told The Wall Street Journal. A notorious Greek law _____29______in 1992 forced new entrants to the workforce (and their employers) to pay higher payroll taxes than those already employed. Savas Robolis, head of research at INE-GSEE, a union-____30_______ thinktank, says that over two-thirds of Greek employees are 43 or older. Yet, _____31______their similar predicaments, the youth of Southern Europe has responded to the crisis in very different ways. When _____32________of young Spaniards emerged in May, apparently out of nowhere, to turn Puerta Del Sol, a square in central Madrid, into a tent city, the tenor of their complaint was far from revolutionary. The ______33_______ young protesters, dubbed indignados, devoted _____34_______ to talking through and voting on every issue that occurred to them; alcohol was _______35______ upon. Polls found that up to 80% of Spaniards had some sympathy with the peaceable young protestors, who have called without much controversy for a reform _____36_____Spains voting system to allow ____37_______ parties to break the current duopoly, an end to political corruption, mercy for mortgage-defaulters and a bit of a biffing for bankers. While young Spaniards have been demonstrating young Italians have been______38______. For some time Italy has been ______39_______more graduates than it imports. Italians of all ages feel a weary fatalism after a decade of almost ____40______economic growth. Spaniards and Greeks by contrast, have been whisked abruptly and painfully from boom to_______41_________. Indeed, the Greek journey has been the most dramatic of_____42_____, and a tradition of sometimes violent protest found ample opportunity for expression after May 2010, when the country accepted its first international bail-out. _____43_____then, youth unemployment has risen____44____ over a third. And behind the sound and fury of Greeces protests there is a growing sense____45_____ young people that they can do ______46________to improve their prospects. Rather than ______47______the idealism of their Spanish brethren, many are following the Italian example and seeking opportunities elsewhere. It wont be low-skilled workers leaving, ____48_____in the 1960s says Mr. Robolis: it ____49____the educated elite. The protesters accomplished nothing; they were just sent______50______ says a young woman standing in front of Greeces parliament handing out flyers advertising cash for gold; her job pays 4 Euros an hour, she says; she was lucky to get it through a friend. Abridged from The Economist September 10th 2011
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21. a. in b. by c. to d. with 22. a. youths b. youths c. youth d. youngsters 23. a. fare b. fair c. fairs d. fares 24. a. countries b. countries c. country d. countries 25. a. vows b. restraints c. entitlements d. liabilities 26. a. floating b. is floated c. has floated d. float 27. a. easing b. leasing c. annoying d. comforting 28. a. with b. against c. inside d. along 29. a. past b. has been passing c. passed d. passes
30. a. base b. basic c. basis d. based 31. a. despite of b. inspite c. despite d. in spite 32. a. ten of thousand b. tens of thousands c. ten of thousands d. tens of thousand 33. a. earnest b. earned c. earning d. earners 34. a. their selves b. themselves c. them d. themself 35. a. laughed b. called c. looked d. frowned 36. a. with b. to c. at d. in 37. a. fewer b. smallest c. littlest d. smaller 38. a. immigrated b. immigrating c. migrated d. migrating
39. a. exporting b. exported c. to exporting d. being exported 40. a. none b. of none c. few d. no 41. a. business b. bust c. bankrupt d. bottleneck 42. a. every b. each c. none d. all 43. a. For b. Since c. Ever d. While 44. a. in b. at c. by d. per 45. a. among b. between c. through d. along-side 46. a. a little b. few c. little d. a few 47. a. shun b. reject c. steer d. ape
48. a. similar b. alike c. like d. whereas 49. a. wont be b. is being c. will be d. is willing to be 50. a. away b. ahead c. beside d. over
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How do you think an austerity programmme can help a country to regain economic stability? At the same time, how influential are the protest movements such as Les Indignanos in Spain and Occupy Wall Street in America in todays economic crisis? Are their demands coherent and legitimate to you? In your opinion are these protests the last sign of real democracy in todays world or are they merely the usual expressions of youthful discontent?
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