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COMPLEXE SCOLAIRE PRIVE AÏR /ARLIT & AKOKAN TEL : 20 45 20 71 BP : 12 ARLIT EXAMEN BLANC BAC 2014 EPREUVE D’ANGLAIS SERIE A4 DUREE : 3 HEURES COEF. : 3 MOCK EXAM / ENGLISH PAPER I) LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE A) Put the verbs in parentheses into the best tense (2.5pts): 1) It is high time you stop (smoke). 2) When I (ring) him up yesterday, he (work) in his garden. 3) My best friend (be) 18 years old next month. 4) How long you (wait) when the bus finally came? 5) You (not, remember) your lesson now. B) Turn these sentences into passive voice (2.5pts): 1) They are repairing the bridge now. 2) I would have asked them a lot of questions if I had been there. 3) Someone has given him that interesting book. 4) We did a difficult test last week. C) Choose the correct word that best completes the following sentences (2.5pts): 1) I haven’t eaten (something-anything-nothing) since morning. 2) We met (in-on-at) the dancing party. 3) He is (the helpfullest-the more helpful-the most helpful) boy I’ve ever known. 4) I wish I (remember-can remember-could remember) his address. 5) They went to hide in a barn after the (robbery-robbers- rob). 6) The girl was punished for (cheat-cheating-cheated) during the test. 7) Were he wealthy, she (will marry-married-would marry) him. 8) Nothing grows in the desert, (has it?-does it?-doesn’t it?). 9) (Provided-Though-Despite) their difference in age, they had become very close friends. 10)My mother (must-would-will) tell me a story before I went to sleep. II) READING COMPREHENSION Text: The concept of the Third World Sometimes language lags history. Take the Third World. Did we ever have another name for the poor, unstable nations of the south? In fact, Third World is a 1950s coinage, invented in Paris by French intellectuals looking for a way to lump together the newly independent former European colonies in Asia and Africa. They defined the tiers monde by what it wasn’t: neither the First World (the West) nor the Second (the Soviet block). But now the cold war is over, and we are learning a new political lexicon, free of old standbys like ‘’Soviet Union’’ that no longer refer to anything. It’s good time to get ride of Third World, too. The Third World should have been abolished ago. From the very beginning, the concept swept vast differences of culture, religion and ethnicity under the rug. How much did El Salvador and Senegal have in common? And what did either share with Bangladesh? Nevertheless the Third World grew. Intellectuals and politicians added socioeconomic connotation to its original geopolitical meaning. It came to include all those exploited countries that could meet the unhappy standard set by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore in 1985: ‘‘poor, strife-ridden, chaotic.’’ (That was how Latin America got in the club). There is a tendency now to repackage the Third World as ‘’South’’ in a global North-South, rich-poor division. To be sure, in this sense the Third World does refer to something real: vast social problems-disease, hunger, bad housing-matched by a chronic inability to solve them. And relative deprivation does give poor nations some common interests: free access to Western markets, for example. By Charles Lane, in Newsweek of April 27, 1992. Page21. A) Say whether the statements below are true or false (1.5pts): 1) The Third World stands for ‘’le tiers monde’’ 2) The Third World is a theoretical concept with no real basis. 3) From the very start, the concept took into account the different cultures, religions and ethnicities of the former European colonies, in Asia and Africa. 4) As mentioned in the text, in parentheses, the word ‘’club’’ means the same as ‘’Third World’’. 5) The addition of the socioeconomic connotation to the geopolitical meaning did not change status of Latin America at all. 6) The ‘’South’’ refers to something real which means: vast social problems, diseases, hunger and bad housing-matched by a chronic inability to solve them. B) Answer these questions in complete sentences (3pts): 1) Which countries were first categorized as the Third World? 2) What are the main permanent social problems that the Third World countries face? 3) What is another name for Third World? III) TRANSLATION Translate this paragraph into French (3pts): Fighting AIDS In recent years initiatives to fight AIDS have multiplied. New strategies have been set up though national plans to fight the disease and some countries obtained good results. However, the current response is not commensurate with the gravity of the situation. For instance, less than a third of young people in the worst-affected countries use condoms with non-regular partners. Access to life saving drugs for HIV/AIDS is now considered as a crucial element of comprehensive response to control this epidemic. But less than five percent of the people who need these medicines have access to them-and fewer than one percent in the worst affected areas in sub-Saharan Africa. This percentage is even lower when it comes to the simple one-dose treatment during labor, which could have prevented half the 800,000 infants infections last year. IV) WRITING Guided composition: write a composition of about 250 words (5pts): Topic: Juvenile delinquency. a) What is juvenile delinquency? b) How could we say that society is affected by juvenile delinquency? c) Is it not a counter-production to the development of your country? Why or Why not? d) What could be done to remedy the problem of juvenile delinquency? uploads/s3/ epreuve-d-x27-anglais-serie-a.pdf