Ben Ayou Ali Middle School

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The second term Exam

Ibn Sina was bom in the year 980 near Bukhara (Iran). He is known by his latin
name ‘’Avicenna ‘’.

He learnt the Coran before he was ten. His father Abdullah was a governor at the same
village and his mother Setareh was a house wife.

At the age of 13 he started studying medicine. At the age of 17, He was lucky in curing the
king of Bukhara of an illness in which all the well-known doctors gave up hope. The
grateful sultan allowed to Ibn Sina to come to his private library for reading different
books of medicines. At the age of twenty, he became a famous doctor.

He travelled around the Arab world. He invented “the Science of Anatomy ‘’ and wrote
the book of “Canon of Medicine”, a popular work, it was translated to many different languages and serves as a
foundation of medical learning in European universities, He wrote also ‘’ Kitab A Shifa ‘’ and other books.

Finally, he retumed to Hamadan where he died in 1037.

Adapted from: www.1001 inventions.com/ Muslim Scientists

Part One: Reading comprehension. (7pts)

Activity one: Read the text and complete Ibn Sina’s ID card .(3pts)

Name Date and place of birth Famous books Date and place of death

Ibn Sina .......... ........... ............

Activity Two: Read the text again and answer the following questions.(2pts)

1- What did Ibn sina invent ?

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2- Did he memorize Coran at an early age ?
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Activity Three :

a) Find in the text words that are closest in meaning to : (1pts)

Began = ................. Disease= ...................

b) find in the text words that are opposite in meaning to : (1pts)

Far ≠ ....................... Unknown ≠ .........................

Mastery of language . (7pts)

Activity One: Supply the punctuation and the capitalization where necessary (2pts)

While al-khawarizmi was living in baghdad he was staying at the ‘’House of Wisdom‘’

Activity Two: Complete the Table : (3pts)

Infinitive Past Simple

To write ...................

................... discovered

To be ...............
Activity Three: Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final ‘’ed’’ (2pts)

Visited / Stayed / Passed / Founded

/t/ /d/ /id/

Part Two: Situation of integration. (6pts)

The Islamic heritage is rich of outstanding figures in all domains. Alzahrawi is one of them.use the following
information and write a short biography about him

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Best of luck

Teacher: NAKOURI SARAH