Farhat Hached Secondary Level: 2nd form Arts

End of term English

School December 2020
Test n° 1

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READING COMPREHENSION: [15 marks]
1) Read and tick (√) the right alternative: (1 mark)
The text is mainly about a Nepali girl who was: *exploited till the end of her life
*rescued from abusive work
*dead due to hazardous conditions of work
2) Complete the following table with reference to the text: ( 3 marks)

Name Age when she started work Job Period of work

Maya Waiba ………………………….. ……………………………………… ………………………………..

3) Find evidence in the text showing that the following statements are FALSE: (3 marks)
A* Maya accepted from the beginning to drop out of school.( § 1)
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B*The center’s mission is to find better jobs for children. (§4)
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C*The most important thing for Maya is to get a better job with a good wage. (§4)
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3) Read and answer the following questions: (2 marks)
*What were the harsh conditions that Maya had to bear at work ”?
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* According to Mrs Meunier, what are the possible measures to abolish child labour?
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4) Explain the underlined bolded expression in the text in your own words: (1 mark)
Maya was brought to Kathmandu on the empty promise of having a better life there
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….. 5) Find words having nearly the same meaning as: (2marks)
 poor (§1) : ………………………….
 shivers or shakes out of fear(§2)……………………
What does the underlined word in the text refer to: (2 marks)
 there (§2): ………………….
 its (§4): ………………….

7/ Give a personal justified answer to the following question: (1 mark)

Maya thinks that education is the key to a new life. According to you, how can education fight such
abusive crimes against children?
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LANGUAGE: [10 marks]

1-Fill in the blanks with 6 words from the box :(3marks)

Skills/ convenience / decrease / ready / slowly/ compulsory/ influenced/ increase

Over the past few years, computers have become a vastly popular household item. The luxury of
emailing messages as opposed to charging up the phone bill is more appealing .Checking news, weather,
and sports via the internet is a ------------------------ that many are taking advantage of. Our children’s
lives are already getting ----------------------------- by technology-and this is just the beginning. Computers
and the Internet are here to stay and software titles targeting young children continue to-------------------
Computer science has become a  -------------------------------subject in Indian schools. Today; we find
computers in use everywhere, whether we go to reserve a train ticket or to a bank. This is because it is
faster and helps us complete our work without mistakes. So parents too have realized the need to help
their children develop strong computer --------------------------- . Children are learning to read and write
with computer games instead of homemade flash cards. They are reading their bedtime stories online
instead of in bed with their parents. ----------------------------- traditions are being broken and the
computer is becoming a child’s learning tool.
2-Put the bracketed words in the right tense or form (4 marks)

Violence is a learned behaviour.  Children learn (violence) ------------------------- behaviours from

their family and peers, as well as (observation)  ------------------------------it in their neighbourhoods
and in the community at large.  These behaviours are (reinforcement) ------------------------------- by
what youth see on television, on the Internet, in video games, movies, music videos, and what they
hear in their music. When children are disciplined with severe corporal (punishing)  ----------------------
or verbal abuse, or when they are physically abused, or when they witness such behaviour in their
home, it is not (surprise) -------------------------that they behave (violent) ------------------------ toward
others. Each year, over 1.6 million people worldwide lose their lives to violence. Violence is among the
leading causes of (die)  ------------------------------for people aged 15-44 years worldwide, accounting for
14% among males and 7% among females. Recent research studies (show) ---------------------------
that aggressive behaviours can be decreased or even prevented if the risk factors are significantly
reduced or eliminated.
3-Circle the correct alternative: (3 marks)

Much of what is known of Madame Tussaud’s early life comes from her memoirs, which she
dictated to a friend, Francis Hervé, when she was in her late 70s. The work is full of  (colour/
colorful/ colours) details and anecdotes, some of which were never verified. Tussaud was very
conscious of her image, which she (care/ careful/ carefully) cultivated over the years, and may have
embellished. Hervé generously attributed this tendency to  (his/ her/ its) advanced age which led to
“recollections [that] must sometimes  (be/ to be/ being) in a degree confused and
impaired.”Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholtz in Strasbourg, eastern France, in 1761, months
after her father  (has been/ is/ was) killed in the Seven Years’ War. Her early childhood was spent in
the Swiss city of Bern, where her mother worked as housekeeper to the anatomist and wax modeler
Dr. Philippe Curtius. Having  (abandon/ abandoned /abandonment) medicine to pursue his art full
time, Curtius moved to Paris in 1765, and two years later, little Marie and her mother joined him.
Curtius’s waxworks had built a considerable following, and his first exhibition in 1770 grew so
successful that it was moved to the royal palace in 1776.
*Birth: 5, February 1985- Portugual
*Professional career: play- as forward- Juventus/
captain- Portugual National team
*Achievements: -nominated-best player- the world/
one –greatest players- all time
-win- five FIFA Ballon d’or
-get 29 trophies- career/ six league titles/ five UEFA
champions leagues
-score- over 700 goals-club- country
WRITING: [15 marks]

1-Develop the following notes to get a coherent biography of Cristiano Ronaldo. (5marks)

2-Nowadays many teenagers make friends through social networks and online chat rooms.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos
Write a 12- line article in your school cyber magazine to give your opinion about this issue
Aveiro
and ………………………………………………………………………………………….……
highlight the benefits and drawbacks of cyber friendship in order to make your
schoolmates aware. (10 marks)
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The text
(1) KATHMANDU, Nepal, 12 June 2009 –
Maya Waiba was still shy of her 10th
birthday when a labour contractor in her
impoverished village in the south of Nepal
promised her parents that she would
receive a decent salary and an education in
Kathmandu. What Maya got instead was a
back-breaking job as a weaver in a carpet
factory.

(2) Today, Maya, now 12, shudders when

she talks about her old life in the carpet
factory and how the contractor fooled her
and her parents. "Working there was awful. I
was beaten frequently, and had to work up to 18
hours per day in summer and winter," she says.

(3) The eldest of six sisters, Maya was brought to Kathmandu on the empty promise
of having a better life there. This promise only came true when she was rescued and
brought to a rehabilitation centre in Kathmandu for former child workers, which is
run by Rugmark Nepal, a UNICEF and International Labour Organization-funded
project to end child labour in the carpet manufacturing sector.

(4) The centre is called Hamro Ghar (Our House). Its mission is to give exploited
children a fresh start after their harsh labour in the carpet factories.

(5) "The long-term solution for eliminating child labour lies in reducing poverty, promoting access
to employment, improving the quality of education and expanding access to schooling for
disadvantaged groups," said UNICEF South Asia Regional Advisor on Child Protection
Guillemette Meunier. .

(6) "The best thing about my life now is getting an education," Maya says. "With an education, I
can get a much better life than I had, and I will make sure that my children will get an education
too, as I don't want them to have the same experiences I had."
By Sam Taylor and Sarah Crowe www.unicef.org
(Adapted)