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English test Niveau : 3 ème

PART ONE : READING AND COMPREHENSION(8 points)

Read the text below and do all the activities that followon your answer sheet.
MY VILLAGE OR THE CITY?
Ten days ago, my parents sent me here to my uncle for some family problems. I found the
city life so exciting. Everything is so nice here! The skyscrapers, the traffic lights, the tarred roads,
etc. It’s all mud and dust in the village. I wanted to stay. So I decided to visit some other parts.
But as soon as I got off the bus, someone bumped into me and stole my purse. I was shouting for
5 help when the police arrested me and here I am in this police station.
But now I’ve made up my mind to go back to the village. I have a big farm there. Many people
living in the countryside think that life is easy in the city. That, all you have to do is to bend down
and pick up money on the ground. I realize that is not true. Life is more complicated in the city
than in the countryside. In the village, we are all brothers and sisters. Although tilling the soil isn’t
10 a joke, I’d rather go back to my village.
Adapted from the Adventures of Boli and Dinna, episodes 9; 10

A- VOCABULARY CHECK (4 points)

The words in column A are from the text. Match each of them with its opposite in column B. An
example is given
Column A Column B Answers
1 Exciting (L2) a Simple 1-
2 Tarred (L2) b Seriousness 2-
3 Dust (L3) c Got in 3-
4 Stay (L3) d Bumpy 4-
5 Got off (L4) e Annoying 5-c
6 Countryside (L7) f Cleanness 6-
7 Bend down (L7) g Leave 7-
8 Complicated (L8) h City 8-
9 Joke (L10) i Look up 9-

COMPREHENSION CHECK (4 points)

Read the text again and give short answers to the questions below. (Two lines maximum)
Example: 1- In the city
1. Where is Chagao(the speaker) presently?
2. How does he find the city?
3. Give two differences between the city and his village mentioned in the text.

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 4. Describe his misadventure. (2 lines maximum)
5. What decision has he taken in the end?
PART TWO : LANGUAGE IN USE (6 points)

Task 1: The sentences below are from the text. Rewrite them beginning with the words given.
Example: 1. “I found the city life so exciting” Chagao said that………….
- Chagao said that he had found the city life so exciting

2. “Someone stole my purse”. He said that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3. “I have a big farm in my village”. Chagao explained that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. “In the village we are all brothers and sisters”. He told us that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Task 2: As you read the passage below, fill in each gap with the suitable word from the box.
Example:1 - Want

Than – so – food – of – want – to – manufactured - that

Everyone’s dream is to see their village develop into a modern city, just like parents….(1)…their
children to become more important…(2)….they have been. But what is strange is that while
nourishing….(3)….wish, they also want their village…(4)…stay culturally the same. Hundreds and
hundreds…(5)…people go so far as to say that village….(6)…is safer than city food or…(7)….food.
Adapted from E.F.S – Book3, p87

PART THREE : WRITING (6 points)

Your friend Kodj who had left school and is living in a village wrote you a letter to tell you that he
decides to go to live in a big city. You decide to reply and give him some advice.
In your letter:
- Say what you think about his decision
- Give two (2) reasons of your opinion.
- Give him two (2) pieces of advice he could follow.

Not more than 12 lines.