Classes: 2 AS

Third Term Exam (May 2010)

More than 1450 people have been killed by Wednesday's quake that struck at 7:44 p.m. in
northern Algeria, while more than 7000 have been injured. Hundreds - perhaps thousands of people -
may still be trapped under collapsed buildings. The hardest-hit cities were the capital, Algiers, and the
towns of Rouiba City and Boumerdes, both of which lie east of Algiers.
During this massive earthquake, which is the strongest to have hit the North African country in 23
years, most Algerians were in their homes. People in Algiers and in all the towns and villages in the
earthquake zone felt the quake in waves, with vibrations that lasted 40 to 50 seconds, getting
stronger, weaker, then stronger again. Everyone was panicking.
The Algerian Red Crescent Society responded with help, and the International Federation of the
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it would send a team to help evaluate the damage and the
needs of the population. Trucks were called into service as ambulances to transport the injured and
the bodies of the dead from devastated Algiers neighbourhoods and surrounding towns and villages.
Doctors treated patients in the streets because hospitals did not have enough beds to accommodate all
of the injured. Hospital officials asked for blood donations, doctors and paramedics.
Assistance has come from Britain, France, Japan, Spain, Italy and Switzerland, Algeria's foreign
minister said. They have sent search and rescue teams, in some cases including sniffer dogs.
SECTION ONE: Comprehension (8pts)
1. How many negative sentences are there in the third paragraph? .........................................................
2. Give a title to the text. …………………………………………………………………………
3. Say whether the following statements are true, false:
a. 7000 people have been injured in the earthquake.
b. This earthquake is the strongest to have hit the North African country in twenty years.
c. Helicopters transported the injured and the dead from devastated Algiers .
d. Many African and Asian countries helped Algeria in this disaster.
4. Answer the following questions:
a- What did hospital officials need? …
b- What kind of assistance has come from the different countries?
5. What do these words refer to in the text:
a…..it would send a team…..(§3): ………………………………………………………………………..
b. They have sent …………..(§4): ……………………………………………………………………….
6. Match the words with their synonyms: carry / injured / fell down / caught / help / hit
Word Synonym Word Synonym
Assistance ……………………….. Trapped ……………………………
Collapsed ……………………….. Wounded ……………………………
Struck ……………………….. Transport ……………………………
SECTION TWO: Mastery of Language
1. Supply capitals and punctuation where necessary:
We need medicaments food and clothes said a woman to the journalists

2.Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first one given.
a. More than 1450 people have been killed by Wednesday's quake.

Wednesday's quake …………………………………………………………………………………………

b. The Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies said that they would send a team to help evaluate
the damage.
 * The Red Cross and the Red Crescent said: "We ……………………………………………………………"
c. Doctors treated patients in the streets because they did not have enough beds.
* If they had enough beds, doctors……………………………………………………………………………….
d. A man in Boumerdes said: "All my neighbours and I left our homes after the quake."
* He said………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Add two words to the list:
a. Earthquake – volcano – ………………….. – ……………………
b. Hospital – psychologist – ……………….… – ….………………..
4. Fill in the gaps with the words given: (victims / homeless / world / hit / popular / disaster )
The natural phenomenon of tsunami was little known before it had ……………… The South East Asian
shores on December 26,2004. Since then, tsunami has become one of the most ………….…..Japanese
words across the …………… Thousands of TV channels covered for more than a month the ………….…….
that it had caused. It had made more than one hundred thousand ……….......……….. It had left thousands
of other ...……………… and had wiped out the industrial infrastructure of many towns.

5. Divide the words into roots and affixes (prefix-suffix):

Words Prefix Root Suffix

Research …………………… ………………............. ……………………
Interestingly …………………… ………………………. ……………………
Disagreement …………………… ………………………. ……………………
6. Reorder the following words to get a coherent sentence:
clothes – and – food – with – other – each – help – should – people – earthquake – an – during
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

SECTION THREE: Written Expression

Choose one of the following topics:
Topic 1: Complete the following conversation:
A: Did you watch television last night?
B:………………………………………………………………………………….
A: A terrible earthquake hit Japan, yesterday.
B: ………………………………………………………………………………….
A: A few kilometers far from the centre of Tokyo.
B: ………………………………………………………………………………….
A: Its magnitude was 7.8 degrees on Richter scale.
B: ………………………………………………………………………………….
A: Fortunately, there weren't so many casualties. Japanese buildings are famous for their
resistance to
earthquakes.

Topic 2: Using the following notes, write a composition of about 80 words on the following
topic.
What will you do to help people if an earthquake takes place in your town ?