Mbarak Lmili Secondary School – Ain Babouche Level: 2nd Year Literary Stream

English First Term Test 01

Name and class: ...................................................... Mark: ......../20

Read the text, and then do the activities after it.

There are now over one million child refugees because of the war in Syria. The United Nations called
this number "a shameful milestone". The children were forced to leave Syria because it is too dangerous for
them to stay in the country. Most of them are in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. They have recently started
escaping to Europe and North Africa. The United Nations said: "This one millionth child refugee is not just
another number. This is a real child ripped from home, maybe even from a family, facing horrors we can only
begin to comprehend." Another 2 million children in Syria have no home. Half of Syria's 2 million refugees are
children. Over 740,000 of these are under the age of eleven.
Syria's civil war started in March 2011. The UN says it is the worst refugee crisis for 20 years. The last
situation as bad as Syria was the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The UN high commissioner for refugees, Antonio
Guterres, told reporters: "The youth of Syria are losing their homes, their family members and their futures.
Even after they have crossed a border to safety, they are traumatized, depressed and in need of a reason for
hope." The UN warned the world that the children face many dangers. Many are now used illegally for child
labour. Others are sold for early marriages .Very few of the children can go to any kind of school. The UN said
just 118,000 of the children are in education.
From http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com/1308/130824-refugees.html
1) Say true or false
a) The UN said it was shameful there were so many child refugees.
b) Most of the children have escaped to North Africa and Europe.
c) The UN said the one millionth child refugee is just another number.
d) The UN said Syria's refugee crisis is the world's worst in two decades.
a B c d

2) Answer the following questions according to the text:

a) Why are the children leaving Syria?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
b) To which new places are the children escaping?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
c) Is the Syrian refugee crisis as bad as the Rowanda genocide?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
d) What did the UN say the children needed?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

e) How many of the child refugees go to school?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3) In which paragraph is it mentioned that” The UN said Syria's refugee crisis is the world's worst in
two decades.”………………………………………………………………….
4) What or who do the underlined words refer to?
a) Them §1
b) Their §2
a b
……………………………… ……………………………………………..
B-TEXT EXPLORATIN
1) Find in the text words closest in meaning to the following:
a-Due to §1 b-running away §1 c-sad §2 d-schooling §2
a b c d

2) Complete the table

adjective Noun

Dangerous …………………

………………………. Safety

…………………………. Horror

…………………………. Hope

3) Rewrite sentence ”b” so that it means the same as “a”

1-a-This winter, too many children are obliged to live in freezing conditions in refugee camps.

b-too many children……………………………………………………………………………………………

2-a-Many Syrian refugees were able to free Syria because of the war.

2-b- Many Syrian refugees………………………………………………………………………………………

4) Fill in the gaps using the words given: lost- difficult- COVID-19- forced- education.

After nine years of war, more than half the population of  Syria has been (1)……………… to
flee their homes, with 6.6 million people currently internally displaced and 5.6 million refugees. Many
Syrian children have (2)……………… a close relative or have a parent or sibling, and thousands have
been orphaned or separated from their families in the chaos of war. Many have missed years of (3)
……………, with 2.1 million children in Syria currently out of school. Even before (4)……………..
limited medical supplies and bombed-out health facilities made it (5)……………. for families to get the
basic care needed to survive. Now, as food prices have soared, a whole generation of children are facing
the risk of malnutrition.