: الثانية بكالوريا 2nd Term G. Test for 2nd year bac

Awatif Morsy will never forget the day she heard that a new school was to open in her village. “Someone came to the house asking for the names of the children who weren’t attending class,” she recalls. “My mother gave them my name. I was so excited.” Like most eight year-olds in the village of Beni Shara’an, Awatif’s life until that important day was divided between back-breaking work in the fields or at home. To girls like her, the new school- a single classroom on the ground floor of a converted house- was a dream come true.
Not everyone in the village was so enthusiastic, at least initially. Some farmers complained that the school would deprive them of the cheap labour the children provided. Even Awatif’s own step-father, Abdelwadoud, was unconvinced. “What does a girl need to study for?” he would ask. Happily, that wasn’t the view of Farouk Abdel Naim, the elderly merchant who was persuaded to donate the premises for the school to use. “I’ve come to believe that a girl’s education is more important even than a boy’s,” Mr. Abdel Naim says. “A man can always make something out of his circumstances, but a girl can’t. She needs to be educated in order to get on in life”.

I. COMPREHENSION : (7 pts) BASE ALL YOUR ANSWERS ON THE TEXT.
A. Choose the right answer from the list given : (1 pt)
a. An interview . b . a play c. a newspaper .
B. Are these sentences true or false ? (2 pts)
1. Awatif was 8 years old when the new school opened ……………………………………………………………………..
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2. All the people in Beni Shara’an were happy about the school at first …………………………………………
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C. Answer these questions : (2pts)
1. How did Awatif spend her days before the school opened ? …………………………………………………………
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2. What was Abdelwadoud’s reaction to sending girls to school ? ……………………………………………………
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D. Find in the text words meaning the same as : (2 pts)
1. remembers : ……………………………………. 2. convinced : …………………………………..

II. ******** : (7 pts)
A. Give the correct form of the words between brackets 1 pt)
1. Some parents show a lot of (tolerant) ………………………… towards their kids’ behaviour .
2. Excessive use of mobile phones can be (harm) ………………………… to your health .
B. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words from the list : when /who / which / where : (2 pts)
1. He wants to know ……………… country will organise the next Olympic Games .
2. The young man ……………… is next to me in the picture is my neighbour .
C. Rewrite these sentences as indicated : (2pts)
1. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook.
Facebook …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………….
2. He wasn’t able to install the printer . Jawad read the instructions carefully .
Although …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………
D. Fill in each gap with an appropriate word from the list (2 pts) : agreement / global /prevent / fun :
1. Many world leaders attended last year’s conference on ………………………warming .
2. We should do our best to …………………………… people from employing children .

III. WRITING 6 pts) Write an e-mail to your friend telling him / her about what you do in your free time.