Abd Elkadder Medakan Secondary School Date: 4th /3/2019

Level: 1st Year Lit. Ph Duration: 2 hours

Second Term English Examination

Part one: Reading (15pts)

A. Comprehension. (07pts)
Read the text carefully then do the following activities.

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Air pollution is actually the addition of any harmful substances to the atmosphere, e, which
hich causes
cause

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the damaging of the environment, human health and the quality of life.
With the development in industry, came along the increase in air pollution, n, which
hich occurs inside
ins

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homes, schools, offices even in the countryside. Consequently there has beenn an increase in the death
rates resulting from various diseases caused by air pollution varying from m breathing problem
pproble to lung

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cancer.
Air pollution does not only affect people but it also damages ges the whole
who ecological
ecol system in
which plants and animals are harmed as well. Air pollution has reached ched such a critical
cri stage where it

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affects the earth's atmosphere as it lets in more harmful radiation
adiation
tion from the
t sun.
s Consequently, our
polluted atmosphere is becoming a better insulator, thus, s, preventing
venting heat
h from escaping back into
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space. That is why there is a global rise in temperaturee which
ch scientists
scientis refer
As a result of this rise in temperature the world foodd supply and sea
se level
r to as ³Global Warming´.
le will be affected, also there is
e.
the probability of increase in the tropical disease.
n.
1- Circle the letter that corresponds to the right ght answer. (01pt)
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¾W The text is about:

a) Measure taken to fight air pollution.
lution.
at

tion.
b) The causes of air pollution.
ollution.
c) The effects of air pollution.on.
uc

2- Are these statements truee or false? alse? Wri

Write T or F next to the letter corresponding to the statement.
(02pt
(02pts)
amination of water
a- Air pollution is the contamination wa bodies like rivers and oceans.
d

dustry
b- Evolution of industry ry led to air ppollu
pollution.
people¶ health.
c- Air pollution affectss only ppeople¶s
-e

d-Because off Global

obal Warmin
Warming, tthe sea level is decreasing.
3-Answerr the he follow
following questions
que according to the text. (03pts)
cy

hat iss air polluti

a- What pollution?
b- What does it affect?
affect
c- What happen as a consequence of the augmentation of the temperature?
en

4- Who or w
what do the underlined words refer to in the text? (01pt)
a- which (§1) b- it (§3)
Te Exploration: (8pts)
B/Text

1- Find in the text words which are closest in meaning to the following: (01,5 pts)

Dangerous§1= Rise §2 = Damaged §3=

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2-@ Complete the following table: (1,5pts)

Verb Noun
to solve ««««««««
«««««««« Pollution
to destroy ««««««««
«««««««« emission

3- Rewrite sentence ³b´ so as it means the same as sentence ³a´: (01,5pts)

a) She asked me : ³Do you want to be a better reader?´
b ) 6KHDVNHGPH««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« ««


a )The researchers enquire : ³What is the average amount of time spent in front of the TV or computer?´ compute ´
computer?
.................
........
b ) The researchers enquired ......................................................................................................

a) The mother ordered him ³Don¶t take this car´

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4-Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets. (01,5 Pts)

a- If you (to mix) yellow and blue, you (to get ) green color.
b-W If the drought (to continue), plants and animals ( to die).

c-W If I (not to smoke) heavily, I ( to be) healthy.

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5- Classify the following words according to thee pronunciation
nunciation of their
t final ³s´: (1pt)
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beaches , factoriess , oceans , birds
bird .
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/s/ /z/ / Iz /
at

6- Fill in each gap with only one word

d from the llist, so
s that the text makes sense: (01pt)

(ocean - harmful
har ± waste- pollution ± factories )

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FDUU\DODUJHDPRXQ
DODUJHD  ««LQWRWKHVHD7KHVHDUHFHLYHVOot of chemical
IURP««  «««ZKLFKFRQWLQXHWRSRXUHYHU\GD\WRQVRIFKHPLFDOVDQG«««
«ZKLFKFRQWLQXHW
ZKLFKFRQWLQ  «««PDWHULDOV
*HRORJLVWVDUHQRZZRQGHULQJLIWKH«««
QRZZRQGHULQJLIWK
ZRQGHULQ  «««FDQEHXVHGDVZDVWHEDVNHWIRUORQJHU"

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Part Two: Expressi
Expression Choose ONE of the following topics. (05pts)
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pic One:
Topic Onene: Use the notes
no below to write a paragraph to say what will happen if we continue to pollute our
nc

environment.
ronment.
x Danger of poll
pollution/grow /rapidly.
x The cli
climate
climate/change.
xWDiseases
Dise
Disease
x Natural
at catastrophes.
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Topic Two: Nowadays, people and factories pollute the environment. Write a short paragraph in which you
discuss what should people do to stop pollution?

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