Colonel Lotfi Secondary School

Level: 1st Year CC-Sc

Date: May 12th, 2014
Duration: 2 Hours
Third Term English Exam
Full Name: ................................................................................................. Class: .............................
Mark: ..............................
Part One: Reading
A. Comprehension (08 points)
Read the text carefully then do the activities.
Nowadays, drought has become one of the most difficult problems that the whole
world should handle seriously. Our environmental stability is doomed to suffer the
hardest of all times.
Drought is generally natural. It is due to the lack of rain. But the worst and the most
irreparable are the man-made causes. The massive overuse and waste of water
constitutes another major factor that leads to the shortage of water. Consequently,
drought makes life hard and a real ordeal for a lot of humans and animals. In addition
to this, drought gives birth to many socio-economic problems such as food crisis,
starvation, epidemics, rural exodus and extreme poverty.
As a remedy, everybody should do their best to preserve water through sensitizing
people of the importance of water for life so that everyone has his share. The
government also has to build dams to store and hold back and avoid wasting and
polluting it. Thus, the only one and most practical solution to face the dangers of
drought is by rationalizing water use.
People must keep in mind that we cannot live without water and worse we cannot
make it in laboratories although we can control Hydrogen and Oxygen separately. Isn't
water formula H2O? So our weakness in front of this vital element is twofold: We
cannot live without it and we cannot fabricate it.
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1. Choose the letter that corresponds to the right answer.
A) Drought is a problem because it makes the environment
a) stable b)
unstable c) difficult
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B) Drought is ............................................ problem. a) a natural b) a man-made
c) an environmental
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C) Water is vital because a) it sustains life b) it contains oxygen
c) it can
be fabricated
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2. Put the following ideas in the order as they occured in the text.
a) No one can do without water.
1-

2-

3-

4-

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.....

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b) A waste of water has a direct link with drought.

c) Drought is a serious problem that affects the environment.
d) Both people and governments should work together to protect water.

3. Answer the following questions according to the text.

a) Does drought affect the environment? Justify.
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b) How could people solve the problem of drought?

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c) Why does water make people so weak?

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4. Fill in the table with information from the text.

causes of drought
effects
natural
man-made
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2-.......................................................
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5. What do the underlined words refer to in the text?

a) that (2): .........................................................................
b) this vital element (4):
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B. Text Exploration (07 points)

1. Find in the text words that are close in meaning to the followings:
a) because of (2)= ......................................... b) protect (3)= ......................................... c)
though (4)= .........................................
2. Complete the chart as shown in the example.
verb
noun
adjective
Example
to stabilize
stability
stable
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reparable
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to waste

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............................
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life

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3. Combine the following pairs of sentences using the connectors in the list.
( if - because - but - in order to )
a) Cars are very useful. They pollute the environment.
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b) We must fight pollution. It generates a lot of destruction.

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4. Classify the following words according to their stressed syllables.

fabrication - stability - natural - preserve - epidemics practical
1st syllable
2nd syllable
3rd syllable
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5. Fill in the gaps with words from the list.

( that - of - necessary - enough )
Nature provides to the different forms of life all the ........................ elements they
need for their survival.
Thanks to the rain that falls regularly, human beings and animals have
........................ water to drink so as to keep alive while plants and trees receive their
share ........................ this precious liquid in order to grow and bear the products and
the fruit ........................ constitute the main item in the feeding of the whole
population.
Part Two: Written Expression (05 points)
Write a paragraph on the following topic:
Water pollution is a big phenomenon. What are its causes and consequences.
What solutions do you suggest to
solve this ecological problem?
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08 pts

1 :

0,5x3=1
,5
0,5x4=2
1
0,75
0,75
0,25x4=
1
0,5x2=1

07 pts
0,5x3=1
,5

A. Comprehension
1. The right answers:
A) unstable (b) B) a natural (a) C) it sustains life (a)
2. The order of ideas:
1-c
2-b
3-d
4-a
3. Answering questions:
a) Yes, it does. Just (1:2): "Our environmental stability is
doomed to suffer the
hardest of all times.
b) by sensitizing people of the importance of water (3:2-1) by building dams to
store and avoid wasting water (3:2-3) - by rationalizing
water use.
c) Because they cannot live without it and cannot fabricate it.
(4:3)
4. Table completion:
Causes of drought
effects
natural
Man-made
- lack of
- overuse
1- food crisis / starvation /
rain
and waste
epidemics
of water
2- rural exodus / extreme
poverty
5. Reference words:
a) that (2): another major factor
b) this vital element
(4): water

0,25x6= B. Text Exploration

1,5
1. Words of close meaning:
a) because of (2)= due to
b) protect (3)= preserve
c) though (4)= although
2. Completing the chart:
verb
noun
adjective
repair
reparation
reparable
0,25x2=
waste
wasteful
to waste
0,5
to live
living / alive
life
3. Combining pairs of sentences.
a) Cars are very useful, but they pollute the environment.
0,25x6=
b) We must fight pollution, because it generates a lot of
1,5
destruction.
4. Stressed syllables:
1st syllable
2nd syllable
3rd syllable
0,5x4=2
natural stability fabrication -

practical
preserve
5. Filling in gaps:
1. necessary
2. enough
Part Two: Written Expression
Form :
3 pts
Content: 2 pts

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epidemics
3. of

4. that