Mock exam

Families displaced by Hurricane Katrina are suffering from mental disorders and chronic conditions like asthma and from a lack of prescription medication and health insurance at rates that are much higher than average, a new study has found.
The study, conducted by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the children’s health Fund, is the first to examine the health issues of those living in housing provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Based on face-to-face interviews with more than 650 families living in trailers or hotels, it provides a grim portrait of the Hurricane’s effects on some of the poorest victims, showing gaps in the tattered safety net pieced together from government and private efforts.
Among the study’s findings: 34 per cent of displaced children suffer from conditions like asthma, anxiety, and behavioural problems, compared with 25 per cent of children in urban Louisiana before the storm.
Fourteen percent of them went without prescribed medications at some point during the three months before the survey, which was conducted in February, compared with 2 percent before the Hurricane.
Nearly a quarter of school-age children were either not enrolled in school at the time of the survey or had missed at least 10 days of school in the previous month. Their families had moved an average of 3.5 times since the storm.
Their parents and guardians were doing no better. Forty-four percent said they had no health insurance, many because they lost their jobs after the storm, and nearly half were managing a least one chronic condition like diabetes, high blood pressure or cancer.

Aftermath*: the period which follows an unpleasant event or accident, and the effects which it causes.
A. C O M P R E H E N S I O N : 15 MARKS
I- Choose the appropriate answer from the list given: ( 2 MARKS )
1. This text is most probably taken from:
a- an encyclopaedia b- a children’s magazine. c- an American newspaper d- a novel
2. What is the writer’s purpose?
To show that Hurricane was dangerous.
To shed light on the suffering of families after the Hurricane.
To persuade people not to live in Louisiana.
To urge people to help the victims of the Hurricane.
II- Find in the text words or expressions meaning the same as: ( 3 MARKS )
1.Permanent. (paragraph 1) 2.Subjects (paragraph 2) 3. security (paragraph 2)
III- Find in the text words or expressions meaning the opposite of:( 3 MARKS )
1.favourable (paragraph 2). 2.tranquility (paragraph 3) 3.stayed (paragraph 5)

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المستـــــوى : الثانــــــي الشعبــــــــة : العلوم التجريبية السنة الدراسية : 2005/2006.

IV- What do the underlined words in the text refer to? ( 2 marks ) 1.It (paragraph 2) 2.they (paragraph 6)

V- Are these statements True or False? Justify your answer: ( 3 marks) 1. The study presents a horrible image of the Hurricane’s consequences.
2. More than a quarter of displaced children suffer from conditions like asthma, anxiety and behavioural problems.
3. The parents’ situation didn’t aggravate after the Hurricane.
VI- Answer these questions according to the text: ( 2 marks )
1. What did the study discover?
2. What are the institutions which lead the study?

B. L A N G U A G E : 10 MARKS
I- Rewrite these sentences as indicated: (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.