اختبارفي مادة اللغة الانجليزية

Text:
An earthquake hit the Iranian town of Bam on December 26th.Before dawn, on Friday ,the Muslim day of rest , the sleeping town of Bam was all but razed by an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale .More than one third of the town’s 80.000 inhabitants were killed either immediately or later in the rubble of their homes.

The authorities were ill-prepared .New and old, public and private, the buildings of Bam had one thing in common, aftershocks; survivors clogged the roads to Kerman, the provincial capital.
The coordination of the emergency teams dispatched from 26 odd countries and the actions of the Red Crescent were slow to com and put in practice. As a result, thousands of survivors spent two freezing nights without the tents they had been promised .The few bulldozers that arrived promptly to sift through the rubbed stopped working at nightfall. Most “rescue operations” were in fact exhausted by the bereaved, using their bare hands.

On the evening of December 28th, as supplies rolled belatedly into Bam, the authorities abandoned hope of finding more survivors and foreign helpers prepared to go home.
(Adapted text form The Economist, Jan.3rd.2004)
Part One:
I/Comprehension Interpretation :(07pts)
1-Write the letter which corresponds to the right answer:
The text is:
A- a short story. B-a news article.

2- Are these statements true or false, correct the false ones:
a-The Iranian authorities were wisely prepared for disasters.
b- All the Iranian buildings were unprepared for earthquakes.
c-The Red Crescent acted immediately after the disaster.

3- In which paragraph is it mentioned that:
a-A huge number of survivors spent a couple cold nights without tents.
b-It was dawn time when the earthquake had hit Bam.

4-Who or what do the underlined words refer to in the text?
a- their (1st §) b- they (3rd §) , c- that (3rd§) .

5- Give a title to the text.


II/ Text Exploration (08pts)

1-Match words with their opposites:
1-Foreign a- late
2-Slow b- dusk
3-Dawn c-native
4-Promptly d-quick

2-Devide the following words into roots and affixes:
ill-prepared, disregard, anti-earthquake, provincial.

prefixes roots suffixes





3-Rewrite sentence B so that it means the same as sentence A:
1) a-The eye-witness said :” three children died last night in this plane crash”.
b- The eye witness said that ……………………………………………………..
2)a-An earthquake hit the Iranian town of Bam.
b- The Iranian town of Bam ……………………………………………………..

4-Underline the silent letters in the following words:
Sleeping, two, nights, more.

5-Imagine what A says so that the dialogue makes sense:
A/……………………………………………………?
B/ I think that you should know the safety measures.
A/……………………………………………………?
B/Well, I mean what you should do in case of fire, for example.
A/…………………………………………………….?
B/Yes, I have some pieces of information about what should be done in case of natural catastrophes.

Part Two: Choose one of the following topics (05pts)

Topic One: write a short announcement to our classmates, in which you give them some pieces of advice about what should be done before and during exams.

Topic Two: Imagine you were a police officer; write your report about the road accident using the following notes:
-On October 21st, 1999.
-A school bus and a lorry collided in the high way of Annaba.
-No respect for the traffic sign.
-25 pupils died, and 15 were seriously injured.
-The lorry driver became paralyzed.