Diagnostic Test Level 

: 4 MS Part one / Reading Comprehension

Read the following texts and do the activities.

Text 2 :
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Text 3 :
Travel agent : Good morning, sir. Can I help you ?
Ronald : I would like to travel to Tamanrasset,
Text 4 :
please. a village to have
Travel agent : Are you going by plane or by bus ? One day, Djeha stopped at
Ronald : By plane. lunch.
were unhappy
He noticed that the villagers
Travel agent : It’s 25.000 DA d all the rivers are
because there is no water an
Ronald : OK. Thank you. tomarrow if you
dry. Djeha said : « It’ll rain
Travel agent : You’re welcome. Have a good trip. they gave him a
give me a bucket of water ».
wash his shirt.
little water which he used to
when they saw
The villagers became angry
shirt to dry, it
Text 5 : that. But after Djeha put his
d him a lot and
From : Karim began to rain. They thanke
ned. Djeha said :
To : Rachid want to know how it happe
orm you about next shirt and every time
Hi Rachid, I’m writing to inf « It’s easy, I have only one
parture point will be our I wash it, i trains »
Friday’s excursion. The de
’ll visit many places in
school. We’ll meet at 7. We
rains ».
Algiers and Tipaza.
next Friday morning.
I look forward to seeing you
Karim.

Text 6 :
The Times Saturday,June 13th 2012
This report presents details of computer use by teenagers. I questioned 60 young people between 13
and 19 in order to know what they use the computer for. All of them said that they regulary used the
computer to play games. Some used it for their studies, some to keep their phone numbers and
adresses, but very few said that they knew how to programme this machine.
By H.Steve
Pupils’ names :
1 ……………………………………………………………….. 2 ……………………………………………………………………
3 ………………………………………………………………. 4 ……………………………………………………………………

Activity one : Put a cross  in the right column.

Text A A newspaper A narrative An e-mail A descriptive text A tale

type → dialogue article text
Text1
Text2
Text3
Text4
Text5
Text6

Activity two : Read the texts then answer the following questions.
Text2 → What was the child’s problem?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Text3 → Which means of transportation will Ronald take?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Text5→ What is the e-mail about?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Text6→ Who are the people questioned by the journalist ?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Activity three : Find in the texts the opposites of the following words.
Texts Words and opposites

Text 1 Big ≠ Domestic ≠

Text 2 Hot ≠ Rich ≠

Text 3 Hate ≠ Bad ≠

Text 4 Happy ≠ Difficult ≠

Text 5 Last ≠ Few ≠

Text 6 Adolescents ≠

Activity four : Find in the texts words that have the following meanings.
Text2→ A feeling of weakness caused by lack of food = ………………………………………
Text3→ A journey or excursion, especially for pleasure = …………………………………..
Text5→ A container made of metal or plastic; used to hold water = ………………………………
Text6→ An electronic device = ……………………………..