American Digital School / English Department

National Section 2022 / 2023

First Assessment

Student’s Name:__________________ Date:--------------------

Teacher’s Name: Mrs. Amna Abu Al -Teen Grades :8 A. B .C

For examiner’s use only

Reading Vocabulary Grammar Writing Reading Total Mark

Comprehension
10 10 10 5 5 40

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Reading Comprehension: (___ /5 marks )
:Q1. Read the text carefully and then answer the questions

CCTV cameras were initially developed as a means of security for banks. In

Britain, they first appeared in 1953 and by the 1960s, there were already a few
cameras in major streets in London. Today, there are more than four million
CCTV cameras across the country. That’s one camera for every fourteen people.

The cameras are there to film dangerous or illegal behavior. With new
software, they can automatically recognize the faces of known offenders, and a
new kind of CCTV in the Netherlands can detect angry voices and automatically
.warn the police of trouble

Some CCTV cameras can even interact with the people they are
watching. But these cameras don’t just watch criminals; they watch all of us,
almost all of the time. Every time we go into a shop, use a cash machine or travel
.on public transport, a camera records our actions

The amount of Surveillance in towns and cities across Britain is

increasing because it is thought to deter crime. Some goods in shops now have
RFID tags ( radio frequency identification tags) attached to them When you pick
up one of these items, the RFID tag sends a radio message to a CCTV camera and
the camera starts filming you. Shops say that this technology helps to catch
.shoplifters- but only by treating everybody as a potential criminal

What were CCTV cameras developed initially for? (___/ 1 mark) .1

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How does the new CCTV camera in Netherlands work? (___/ 1 mark) .2

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Where can we find CCTV cameras? (___/ 1 mark) .3

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 Are the following sentences true or false? (___/ 2 marks) .4

------- .a. All goods in shops now have RFID tags

------ .b. Cameras and mobile phones are ways of monitoring actions

The underlined pronoun refers to -------------- ( /1 ) .5

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Q2. Read the text and then answer the questions that follow ( /5 marks )

On July 2003, a 35-year-old English man called Doug Bruce

walked into a police station in Coney Island, New York, and told the
police that he didn’t know his name. He had woken up a few minutes
earlier on a subway train, with bumps on his skull and a headache,
and had no idea where he was going, where he had been, or who he
was. “I was scared” he said later, when talking about the experience.
.“I didn’t know anything. It was like being in the darkness
Doug went to the police station because he had nowhere else to go.
He was wearing a T-shirt, shorts and flipflops and he had a rucksack with a
few possessions in it: a Spanish phrase book, a bunch of keys and a map of
New York. The police were baffled.” We’d never had anything like this
before.” says Lieutenant Pete Pena. They sent Doug to Coney Island
.”Hospital. On his name tag the nurse wrote” Unknown white male

Q1. Define “ Amnesia” and write what can cause it. ( /1)

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Q2. Why did Doug Bruce go to the police on Coney Island ? ( /1 )

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Q3. Describe Doug after the accident . ( /1)

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 Q4. Find the word from the text that means : ( / 1)

a. The bone in the head that protects your brain. ( )

b. A bag that you carry on your back. ( )

Q5. Do you think Doug is really suffering from Amnesia? Why ? Why not?

( /1)

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Vocabulary ( /10)
Q1. Fill in the gap with the correct word from the list below. One word is
extra. (__ /5 marks )

) citizen – vulnerable – potential –work out – initially –tags (

.Stan --------------- wanted to go to medical school .1

.I'm not a ------------------- of the country, so I can't vote for you .2

.She drew her legs up, feeling ------------------ and scared in the strange place .3

.We spent the next hour discussing ------------------------ rainy day activities .4

.There were ----------------- on most of the clothing, and the styles were from fall .5

Q3. Choose the correct answer for the following. ( /2)

1. Could you ------------------------ ? I can’t hear you.

a. pick up b. speak up c. give up
2. When I ------------------------, I want to be just like you.
a. grow up b. turn up c. get up
3. The children need to ------------------------ the classroom .
a. speak up b. give up c. clean up
4. Carl is really happy --------------- his mobile phone.
a. at b. with c. in

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