BAZINA SCHOOL 2005– 2006

Comprehensive Test N° I
HAMADA SARHANE & SOUILHI HAFNAOUI
Section : ARTS - LEVEL : 4th Form
EPREUVE : ANGLAIS DURÉE : 2 heures

WORLD RISKS “WATER SHORTAGE BY 2025”

[1] If action is not taken soon the world could face enormous problems from
dwindling or poisoned fresh water sources as early as 2025, according to a recent study.

[2] Two non-profit environmental research groups … used sophisticated computer

modelling to project the fate of the world’s fresh water sources and the repercussion of their
disappearance. The institutes found that by 2025 the world could see annual losses of up to
350 million tons of food, slightly more than the entire US annual grain crop, from lack of
fresh water.

[3] “Unless we change policies and priorities, in twenty years, there won’t be enough
water for cities, households, the environment, or growing food”, warned Mark Rosegrant,
leading author of the report and senior research fellow at the Food Policy institute. “Water is
not like oil. There’s no substitute. If we continue to take it for granted, much of the earth is
going to run short of water or food – or both”. By 2025 developing countries will increase
their food imports from 107 million tons in 1995 to 245 million in 2025 - if they can afford
it.

[4] “If countries continue to under-invest in building strong institutions and policies to
support water governance and approaches to give better access to water to poor
communities, growth rates for crop yields will fall worldwide in the next 25 years, primarily
because of water scarcity”, said Frank Rijsberman.

[5] But a crisis “is not inevitable”, Rosegrant argued. “The world can both consume less
water, and reap greater benefits. To achieve sustainable water use, we must act now. The
required strategies take not only money and political will, but time as well”.

Abridged from Monday Morning, October 28, 2002

 BAZINA SCHOOL 2005– 2006

Comprehensive Test N° I
HAMADA SARHANE & SOUILHI HAFNAOUI
Section : ARTS - LEVEL : 4th Form
EPREUVE : ANGLAIS DURÉE : 2 heures

I / READING COMPREHENSION: ( 14 marks )

1) Tick [ √] the right alternative: ( 1 mark )

The text is :

- a scientific report
- a political speech
- an extract from a novel

2) Focus on paragraphs 1 and 2 and complete the following : ( 3 marks )

To show how dangerous the shortage of water is, the study reveals that water sources are
……………………and that by 2025 they will have ……………………………..
The world could lose huge quantity of ……………………………… Moreover the study
urges people to …………………………………in less than 20 years, if not, the earth
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3) Circle the appropriate meaning of the following expressions: ( 3 marks)

-“ Water is not like oil” means - water is less valuable than oil
- water is more valuable than oil
- water is of no value

-“ if they can afford it” means - if they can find it

- if they can provide for it
- if they can sell it

- “a crisis is not inevitable” means - a crisis that can be avoided

- a crisis impossible to avoid
- a temporary crisis

4) Correct these false statements with reference to the text: ( 2 marks )

 a) The report states that the world’s water resources are safe.
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b) If water dwindles, we can use other resources to replace it.
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5) What do the underlined words refer to: ( 2 marks)

- dwindling ( paragraph 1) refers to = ………………………………

- their ( paragraph 2) refers to = ………………………………
- it ( paragraph 3) refers to = ………………………………
- they ( paragraph 3) refers to = ………………………………

6) Give a personal answer to the following question: ( 3 marks)

How can we save our water sources?
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II / LANGUAGE: (16 marks)

1) Circle the appropriate option: (4 marks)

Throughout the world, vast areas are becoming unfit for human habitation. These lands
are being despoiled either through long-term (environmental – environment –
environmentalist) degradation or by brief but (catastrophic- catastrophe – catastrophes)
events. Unsustainable land use practices, for example, have (reduced – reduction –
reducing ) the ability of ecosystem to support life throughout the Third World. At the same
time, high risk (technologies – technological – technical) have sometimes ( result –
resulted – resulting ) in accidents, such as the Chernobyl (explosion – explode – exploded)
, that leave ( hole – whole – howl) regions uninhabitable for extended periods. Moreover,
the expected rise of sea level because of global ( warmth – warming – warm ) threatens to
reduce the planet’s habitable area a grand scale.

2) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words( there’s an extra word) : ( 4 marks)

[ planning - practice - starting- introduced -from- contraceptive - obtained - loss – in ]

China was the first country to reach one billion people. There is now 1.3 billion people
in the country. But the growth rate is falling, and it is due to the controversial ……….…….
of compulsory family ……………….. . China has a “ one child per couple policy”
………………..in the late 1970’s. Before ……………….a pregnancy a permit must be
………………..by the couple the local authorities. Women must be sterilized or use
………………..devices after they have had the first child. Additional children can
result………………..heavy fines or the………………..of housing or government jobs.

3) Put the bracketed verbs in the right tense or form and circle the right preposition:
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Emily, who is almost four, was born with a poorly recognised heart defect. This disease (be)
…………………… known as Long QT syndrome that (cause)…………………… abnormal
rhythms (in – by – on) the heart. The worst thing is that the doctors don’t know much about
it. Emily was (to put) …………………… on beta blockers and allowed home a week later .
We (have) …………………… no one to turn to and our days and nights (be)
…………………… spent watching the rhythm (of – of – at) her chest, her mother said.
Today thanks ( to – on – of) her medication which she takes, Emily leads a normal life

4) Match the sentence parts in A with their completions in B : ( 4 marks)

The parts in A are in the correct order and there is an extra option in B

A B

a- of adults illiterate in the world has

1- Literacy and education are
2- literate people are empowered to
3- Economic development and the
4- Over the past 30 years, the percentage
Answers:
1+….. 2+….
declined steadily.
b- make better choices and lead fuller lives.
c- social progress and human freedom
depend on a basic literacy all over the world.
d- the foundations upon which our endeavour
must be built
e- Women literacy is crucial problem.
3+……. 4+…….

III / WRITING: (10 marks)

Task 1) Develop the words and phrases in a, b, c - given in the right order – into
coherent sentences to get a coherent paragraph. Add any missing words and put the
verbs in the right tense or form. ( do not change neither the order of the words nor of
the sentences) ( 3 marks)

a- It – to be believed – water scarcity – be – to endanger – lives – many – people

b- Experts – be – to try – to solve – problem – as – an – attempt – to save – many – lives.
c- They – warn – us – of – dangers – we – to face – in the future – if – actions – not to be –
to take – now
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Task 2)
Write an article in which you speak about the importance of Women Literacy in the
building of the present and future of societies. ( 7 marks)

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