Mock exam

Small doses of aspirin, taken regularly, may prevent fatal colon cancer, the American council society has concluded after a major study designed to help researchers find links between cancer and lifestyle.
The study, based on an American cancer society survey that began in 1982, involved 662424
People in all 50 US states, Puerto Rico and Washington DC and was published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr Michael J. Thun and his colleagues found that the people who took aspirin 16 times or more per month subsequently had a death rate from colon cancer that was 41 % lower than the rate among people who did not take the medicine.
Colon cancer kills about 53000 Americans a year. Among people aged 35 to 74, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among men and the third leading cause among women. Only lung and breast cancers are bigger killers.
If something as minimal as one aspirin every other day can reduce that number, then this could be an important public health intervention, said Thun, the society’s director of analytical epidemiology.
Many doctors already recommend an aspirin every other day to prevent heart disease. Among patients now following that advice, it is distinctly possible that they may reduce their risk of fatal colon cancer also, he said.
Besides aspirin, other nonsteroid drugs that fight inflammation may produce the same effect. But people who regularly took acetaminophen, the active ingredient Tylenol, did not see a reduction in their cancer risk.
Whether aspirin directly cuts the risk of developing a colon tumour, or whether the age-old drug simply increases the likelihood that a person will survive the disease, is not known because the Thun study only looked at death rates.

A. C O M P R E H E N S I O N : 15 MARKS
I- Answer the following questions: ( 2 MARKS )
1. What the biggest killing cancers in the United States?
2. Why do many doctors advise their patients to take an aspirin everyday?
3. What can prevent heart disease and colon cancer?
II- Find in the text words or expressions meaning the same as: ( 3 MARKS )
1. Particular way of living of a person (paragraph 1) …………………………………
2.connections (paragraph 2) …………………………..
3. Advise (paragraph 2) …………………………………
4. Moreover (paragraph 2) …………………………………
5. Probability (paragraph 2) …………………………………
III- Say whether these statements are ”true” or “false”. Justify:( 3 MARKS )
1.Becuse of colon cancer, more than 53000 Americans die a year.
2.A lot of physicians prescribe aspirin to prevent heart disease
3. people who suffer from colon cancer do not risk danger if they take aspirin regularly.
IV- Complete these sentences according to the text ( 2 marks )
1. Lung and breast cancers kill more………………………………………………………..
2. It is unknown that aspirin can………………………………………………………..
IV- What do the underlined words in the text refer to? ( 2 marks ) 1. medicine
2. that advice

B. L A N G U A G E : 10 MARKS
I- Rewrite these sentences beginning with the words given: (3 marks )
1.You shouldn’t expect immediate results from the experiment.
Immediate results ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .
2.I don’t earn much money .
I wish ------------------------------------------------------------------------- .
3.Morocco has lately launched a new channel. This channel aims to educate its viewers.
The new channel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------.

II- fill in the blanks with the correct word from the list: ( 3 marks )
Fall for – find out – put off - come across – pick up – tell off-
1. “I’ve lost my extra car keys. If you ------------------------- them while you’re cleaning the room, please put them in a safe place”.
2. The boss was obliged to ……………his secretary…………… for making private telephone calls from the office.
3. The football match was ………………….because of the bad weather .

III- Give the correct form of the words between brackets: (2 marks)
1. What is so impressive about European societies is the (efficient) of the public services.
2. The college is not able to expand because of (restriction) planning laws.
IV- Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word to form collocations: (2 marks)
During the war in iraq, the US army used harmful chemical (…1……) which led to a severe (…..2……..) among the (……3…..) population.

C. W R I T I N G: (15 MARKS))
“Before independence women’s place was at home but nowadays more and more women are working side by side with men”
Write an article to your school magazine showing the advantage and disadvantages of this social phenomenon.