second year test

Teacher fouad zina

The first test .

Secondary Education : year two literary streams

Text :

Hectares of the world’s forests are destroyed for ever. Why is this happening? There are two reasons: land and wood. In many countries, the trees have been cut down as the land was needed for animals or crops. In other parts of the world, the trees are felled in great quantities because their wood is used by the local people for firewood or exported to Japan, Europe or North America where it is used for buildings or made into furniture.

Unfortunately, in most places, the trees are not replaced and as a result; the soil is washed away by the rain or blown away by the wind. Soon the forest becomes a desert. When the forest is destroyed, the homes of millions of animals and plants are destroyed too. What is more fearful about that is that we may cause our own destruction .Who is to bame for this disaster? The answer is simple: all of us of course.



A/ Comprehension / interpretatin :

1-How many passive sentences are there in the first paragraph? .......................

2- Are these statements true or false?

a- Forests are disappearing because man needs land only. ...........

b- The destruction of the forests causes the problem of desertification. ............

c- Only those who cut down trees are responsible for this disaster ...........

3- Answer the following questions according to the text.

a-why do local people use land ?

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b- What happens when felled trees are not replaced by new ones?

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c- Is the author worried about the problem of deforestation? Justify your answer.

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B/ Text exploration :

1- Vocabulary :

Match words and opposites.

Words	Opposites
Destroyed Endanger Simple Soon	Complex Lately Built Save

2-Grammar :

Turn the following sentences into the passive.

a- CFCs deplete the ozone layer. The ozone layer........................................................

b- We shouldn’t cut down plants and trees. Plants.......................................................................

c- Man hasn’t replaced the felled trees by new onces. Felled trees..............................................

3-Sound system :

Classify the following words according to the pronouncation of the final “ed”

Destroyed - exported - washed - felled - used - blamed

/ t /	/ d /	/ id /

4- Discourse:

Reorder the following sentences.

a- Through deforestation, over grazing, poorly designed irrigation system.

b- Many people think that desertification is caused by a change in climate ,

c- To fight desertification, forestation programmes for stabilizing the soil have to take place.

d- But the truth is that deserts are provoked by human actions.

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