Baja High School Mid-Term Examination 1 Economic Stream

School Year : 2019/2020 Student’s name :

Immigrants past & present
If we go back far enough, we can say that everyone who lives in Britain today has origins
somewhere else. Many of us can probably trace the immigrants in our own family
histories. Some may have been among the various invading armies - Roman, Saxon, Viking
or Norman. Others had little choice about coming: Africans were brought to Britain by
force in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as slaves or servants; and thousands of
people arrived at various times as refugees from France, Ireland, Russia, and other
countries, escaping from persecution or famine in their own countries. Most people
probably came because they thought they could make a better life for themselves here.
Before 1914, when the First World War broke out, there were fewer restrictions and it was
possible to travel to many countries without passports, visas or work permits. People
could just decide to make a new life somewhere else, provided they had enough money
for the passage. Often they were encouraged by the monarch or government because
immigration was a way of dealing with local shortages of capital, skills or labour. At any
one time, newcomers have only been a tiny proportion of the British population. Even
today, only about 7% of the population were not born in Britain. Newcomers have often
met hostility, hatred and resentment, yet even a quick study would show that they have
brought skills and qualifications, set up businesses and created jobs, not only for
themselves but also for local people. Many have been willing to do jobs that have been
difficult to fill locally. What is remarkable and often not understood is that the
contributions immigrants and their immediate descendants have made, and continue to
make, to Britain are out of all proportion to their numbers.

I. Comprehension: (6 pts) 1. Are these sentences true or false ? justify (2pts)

b. Immigrants needed visas, passports, and a lot of money to pass to Britain.

c. Immigrants were unskilled and not well qualified.

2. Answer the following questions. (3pts )

a- According to the text, why did immigrants go to Britain?

b- How did British people treat the newcomers?

c- The last sentence of the third paragraph means :

a. What immigrants have done for Britain is much greater than their numbers.

b. What immigrants have done for Britain is as great as their numbers.

c. What immigrants have done for Britain is less great than their numbers.
4-FIND IN THE TEXT WORDS WHICH MEAN THE SAME AS.

1-Roots : _____________(paragraph 1 ) 2-Only if (paragraph 1) ____________

3-Restrictions : ______________(paragraph 1)

5-WHAT DO THE WORDS BELOW REFER TO?

They : ____________(paragraph 1) They ____________(paragraph 1)

2-PUT THE VERBS IN THE SIMPLE PAST OR PAST PERFECT SIMPLE.(4pts)

LANGUAGE (10PTS)

1-PUT THE VERBS BETWEEN BRACKETS IN THE CORRECT FORM:GERUND

AND INFINITIVE.(3pts)

a-You should not ------------------(waste) money.

bYou need ------------------(find) other friends and interests.

c-Women can’t ---------------(go) out without make up.

d-She is used to------------------- (live) in Rome.

e-No one enjoys -------------------(stay) at home for long time.

f-Yoga helps me -----------------(relax).

2-PUT THE VERBS BETWEEN BRACKETS IN THE CORRECT TENSE.(3pts)

2- a-Sarah (lose) _____________her job two months ago.

b-After she (have)____________ a hot shower,Sarah (call) _____________her best friend.

c-By the time Philip (have) ____________some sleep ,he (receive) ___________a bad news.

d-Last summer,I (spend)______________my holiday in Sweden.

e-Dinasours were (extinct) _______________long times ago.

3-WRITE A SHORT DIALOGUE BETWEEN YOU AND AN AMERICAN WHO WANTS TO KNOW

SOME INFORMATION ABOUT MOROCCAN CULTURE.(4pts)

American : ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

You : …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

American :………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

You :………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

GOOD LUCK!