first term examination.4am

First term examination of English

Mustapha Sensaoui School Level : 4AM. El Bordj. Time: 1hour,30mn.
Date:30/11/2008
Text:
“ Bill Gates (chairman of Microsoft Corporation) is the richest man on Earth. When he was just eight years old, he was able to read “The Book Encyclopaedia”. (a quite large book) and finished it. During a family gathering, when Bill was 11, he was able to recite 107 verses out from heart. As a child, he discovered his interest in software and could write programmes for the computer at age 13”. In the ninth grade at school, he was able to get A’s in all the subjects he took which put him among the top ten students in the nation.
However, Bill didn’t finish his studies at the university. He started up his own computer company (Microsoft) and became a billionaire at 31.
Bill Gates is hoping that one day everybody will be able to have a personal computer in his pocket. Nobody will disagree with you if you say that Bill Gates can buy almost anything he wants.
Part one: 14 points. A/ Reading comprehension (7 points)
Activity one: 1) Read the text and fill in the table below: (4pts)

What people will be able to do in the future.	What B.Gates could do in the past/ was able to do.	What B. Gates can do now.

2) Find in the text statements which are the same as or closest in meaning to(03pts)
1- When he was still a child, he wrote computer programmes = ............................................
2- Everybody agree that Bill can buy anything = ..............................................................
3- Bill doesn’t have a university degree = ...........................................................
3) find in the text words or phrases that are opposite in meaning to the following:
Poorest ≠ ............. sell ≠ ....................

b- Mastery of language: (07pts)
Activity one: Complete the following sentences with the appropriate tag question.
1- People in Algeria do not eat pork ,…………?
2- Ali, you will buy some meat, ……………?
Activity two: Choose the correct modal verb.(may / can / might)
1- There are no clouds, but it ........rain. it’s the rainy season.
2- Doctors .........find medicines to cure cancer. They’re very close to that.
3- I ......... understand English people when they speak.
Activity three: Add the right prefix to form the opposites of the words
(im- in- dis- ir- il)
1- correct ≠ --------------- 2- legal≠---------- 3- satisfied ≠----------- 4- patient≠------------
Part two: Written Expression(06pts)

By the end of the year you’ll have the Brevet Exam. List the things that possible to happen if you succeed or fail in it.(about 10 lines).

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