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Echebbi Secondary School Teacher : Hatem Ben Salah END OF TERM TEST N° 2 Date […]

Echebbi Secondary School

Teacher : Hatem Ben Salah

END OF TERM TEST N° 2

Date : March 7 th , 2019

Time allotted : 2 hour

Name : ………………..……….. 1 st year secondary education Mark : ………. / 40

I) Reading comprehension: ( 15 marks)

How Well Do You Know Your Kids?

[1] In survey after survey, many Kids say that they feel increasingly lonely, unable to connect

with their parents, teachers and sometimes even classmates. They are in great need of guidance, and

when they don’t get what they need at home or school, they immerse themselves in a universe out of

their parents’ reach, a world defined by computer games, TV and movies, where brutality and

violence are so common.

[2] In fact, of all the problems that trouble adolescents, loneliness ranks at the top of the list.

University of Chicago sociologist Barbara Schneider has been studying 7,000 teenagers for five years

and has found that they spend an average of 3 ½ hours alone every day. Teenagers may claim they

want privacy, but they also crave and need attention- and they’re not getting it. In the teenage years,

the relationship between parents and children is constantly evolving as the kids edge toward

independence. Early adolescence is a period of transition, when primary school kids move from one

teacher and one classroom to a different teacher for each subject. In puberty, they’re moody and

irritable. “This is a time when parents and kids argue a lot.

[3] When they are isolated from parents, teens are also more vulnerable to serious emotional

problems. Surveys of high- school students have indicated that one in four consider suicide each

year, says Dr. David Fassler, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Burlington.

[4] In the teenage years, parents should try to understand what their children are going

through. Parents shouldn’t force their children to be something they want them to be, but help their

children to be who they are. Finally, parents should seize any opportunity to talk to them- in the car,

over the breakfast table and watching TV.

Tick ( ) the right alternative. (1)

This article is about :

a- TV addiction

b- Celebration

c- Adolescence

For each of the following statements. Pick out one detail showing that it is false. (3 marks)

a) Children can easily communicate with their (paragraph 1)

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b) Adolescents are happy and (paragraph 2)

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c) Parents had better impose their opinions on their (paragraph 4)

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Answer the following questions. (2 marks)

a) What do the teenagers do when they don ’ t get what they want at home or at school?

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b) Why does the writer think that video games, TV and cinema are bad for teenagers?

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Focus on the second paragraph (2) and complete the following table (4marks)

Who made the search?Job Period of observation

The result of the research

………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………… …………… ……………..

Find words in the text that mean nearly the same as:

a) children: (paragraph 1)

……………………………………….

b) Killing oneself intentionally (paragraph 3) ……………………………………….

What do the underlined words refer to ?

a) Where (paragraph 1) refers ………………………………

b) It (paragraph 2) refers to

……………………………….

Who do you think is responsible for the bad communication, the parents or the kids? Why?

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II- LANGUAGE: ( 10 marks )

1) Circle the correct alternative (4)

The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time,

I needed to check my (e-mail / Internet / connection) for an important reply I was expecting. After

some frustrating time passed, I happened to notice that there (is / are / was) a Wi-Fi signal available.

I have no idea to (what / which / who) the service belonged but I suspected it belonged to one of my

(neighbours / neighbourhood / neighbour) . It had a generic name of “NETGEAR” and it was

unlocked. I decided (see / to see / seeing) if it was accessible and it was. I was able to check my e-

mail and (upload / download / share) the important document that was attached to it. Now my

question to you is if I did anything wrong by (use / used / using) my neighbor’s unlocked Wi-Fi signal

to get my email and do a little web (surfing / swimming / finding) afterward.

2) Put the bracketed words in the correct tense or form. (3 marks)

If you ’ ve decided to donate blood for a specific reason or you just want to help out, you may be

curious about what to expect. Blood donation is an easy and (save) …………..……..….. operation.

Frequently donating blood (allow) …………..……..….. the donor to get mini medical check-ups.

Before (donate) …………..……..….. , one has to go through several physical checkups which include,

the blood pressure, temperature and weight. If everything is right some of your blood becomes

available in a blood bank and it can be (use) …………..……..….. . A drop of blood can save some

patients from (die) …………..……..….. There ’ s no risk for your health because the amount of blood

taken is quickly replaced by your body. Every (donate) …………..……..….. should give his/her blood

because more lives need to be saved every day.

3) Fill in the blanks with words from the following list: (3 marks)

sent / in / quick / internet / where / communicate / copy

With the invention of the personal computer and the Internet, a new age in communication began.

Now people could …………..……..….. faster and more easily than ever before. Writing, editing, and

storing information have become …………..……..….. and easy. It was no longer necessary to write

draft after draft when changes could be made so easily using a word processor program. Messages

could now be …………..……..….. in no time to anywhere in the world, without addressing envelopes

or licking stamps. Centuries earlier, around the year 1450, a similar revolution in communications

had occurred …………..……..….. Germany. This happened when Johannes Gutenberg invented the

printing press. Gutenberg was not the first person to use printing to …………..……..….. a piece of

writing. Printing was already being invented in China, …………..……..….. they used clay to print

oriental characters.

III- WRITING: (15 marks)

1- Use the following notes to write a biography of the historian and sociologist Ibn Khaldoun. (5

marks)

Date

Event

1332

Birth, Tunis.

Education: Zeytouna University. Receive certification in linguistics, maths, logic…

1356

Move to Fez, Morocco to write the history of its king Sultan Mohamed.

1382

Move to Cairo, Egypt.

1377

1406

Write “ Muqaddimah ”

Death in Egypt.

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2- Essay (10)

You have noticed that your classmates are overusing the internet. You decide to write an article to

your school magazine to warn all the pupils in your school against the drawbacks of internet.

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