COLLEGE PRIVE NDOLLI ALLA LEVEL: Form 4(3è)

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2021-2022 Duration: 2hours

TEST LOURD

Part one: Reading comprehension

Read the text and do all the activities that follow

The consequences of rural exodus

The rural flight or rural exodus is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into
urban areas. It is urbanization seen from the rural perspective. The person who practices the
rural exodus is called rural migrant.
Rural migrants to cities face several challenges that may hinder their quality of life upon
moving into urbanized areas. Many migrants don’t have the education or skills to acquire
decent jobs in cities and are then forced into unstable, low paying jobs. Employers offer lower
wages and poorer labor conditions to rural migrants, who must compete with each other for
limited jobs, often unaware of their labor rights.
Rural migrants often experience poor living condition as well. Massive influxes in rural
population can lead to severe housing shortages, inadequate water and energy supply, and
general slum-like conditions throughout cities.
Women, in particular, face a unique set of challenges. Some women undergo rural exodus to
escape domestic abuse or forced early marriages. They are sent to cities by their parents in
order to send remittances back home. In the worst of cases, unemployment may force
women into prostitution, exposing them to social stigma and the risks of sexually transmitted
diseases.
Adapted from Wikipedia

A.VOCABULARY CHECK
Match each word from the text with its definition or synonym in column B.
Example: 1-i
COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. Rural flight a) works
2. Areas b) geographical zone
3. Challenges c) expertise
d) insufficiency
4. Skills
e) confrontation
5. Jobs f) payment
6. Shortages g) not having a job
7. Remittances h) sickness
8. Unemployment i) migration of people from
9. diseases village to cities

B.COMPREHENSION CHECK
Read the text again and answer to the questions below

1. What is rural exodus?

2. What do the employers do to the migrants?
3. Who sent some women to the city?
 4. Give two consequences of the rural exodus.

Part two: Language in use

Task A: Complete the sentences below with phrases from the box:

Taking drugs everyday-difficult to do as an activity-which is not good for living

–where people can enjoy themselves-moving massively from the village to town-
wrong doing of young people.

1. Drug addiction is
…………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………..
2. Rural exodus is
…………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………
3. Juvenile delinquency is
…………………………………………………………………………………………
…………..
4. Attractive places
…………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………..
5. Bad living condition is
…………………………………………………………………………………………
……………..
6. Tiring work is
…………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………..

Task B: complete each sentence with: so, as and due to.

1. ………….rural exodus, there are no more youth in the villages.

2. …………..people live in a bad living condition, they are always sick.
3. It rained a lot yesterday ……………..the gutters are overwhelmed.

Part three: Writing

For your school English club magazine, write an article about rural exodus. In your article,

1. Say what rural exodus is;

2. Give three causes of the rural exodus;
3. Give three consequences of rural exodus;
4. Give three solutions to the rural exodus.

(10 lines maximum)