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Test N° 10 Answer Key READING COMPREHENSION

1. Complete the following table with information from the text.

Age Problem Country Charity

organisation

Wanjiru 3 Facial

Deformity (cleft lip)

Kenya Operation

Smile

2. Tick the title that best fits the text.

a- Surgeon Facing a Deadly Disease.

b- How to Join a Charity Organisation.

c- The Gift of a Smile.

3. Pick out complete sentences from the text to show the following statements are false.

a- Wanjiru comes from a wealthy family.

It has taken a year for her father to save enough money………the city.

I’ve been fixing bicycles………..to come here.

b-The goal of Operation Smile is to save children from civil war.

It’s to help transform the lives of children with facial deformities.

c- As soon as they are born, Kenyan deformed babies receive the necessary medical assistance.

……….Just one in four in the developing world.

d- Ankur Pandya is undertaking his first mission with Operation Smile.

He undertook his first mission a year ago and has completed three more since.

4. Complete the sentences with information from the text. Each dot stands for one letter.

After his own successful battle with cancer, Ankur Pandya who is a plastic surgeon feels commited to help and support the people who can’t get medical care.

5. What do the underlined words in the text refer to?

a-“this” refers to undergoing the surgical operation.

b- “we” refers to Ankur and his wife

6. Would you join medical volunteers as they help to transform the lives of deformed children wherever they are? Why? Why not? Yes I would, because I think it’s everyone’s duty to help needy people especially children wherever they are. No one can bear seeing children suffer, so if we can do something to make them happy, we mustn’t hesitate.

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LANGUAGE

1.Fill in the blanks with 8 words from the box.

less / stressful / workplace / top / valuing / whole / flexible / more goals / providing

Modern women are choosing home and family ahead of their careers, a survey reveals today. Families are their top priority, with only one per cent of women in their 30s saying work comes first. And despite the government’s efforts to get mothers into the workplace, just five per cent want to work full time, and more than a third want to be a stay- at-home mum. Sociologist Jill Kirby, author of Choosing to be Different, said: “There’s definitely a change in climate. There’s a general rejection of the whole Nineties hard work ethic and the consumerist agenda that goes with it. “This has made women more confident about valuing home and family life and deciding they want to fit their work around family life than the other way around. “They have tried it and found it difficult, stressful and ultimately unsatisfying. They identify themselves equally with men, they just have different goals. Sam Baker, editor of Red magazine which conducted the survey, said women were learning to manipulate the workplace to work for them, making the most of flexible working hours and better maternity allowances so they can enjoy home and family more.“Spending time in the kitchen is no longer frowned on by women with careers, it’s coveted.”

2. Put the bracketed words in the right tense or form.

After a long career with the British Army, Major Martin Birch will be heading for southern Spain to enjoy his retirement in five year’s time. Major Birch, 49, and his wife Karen, 45, have decided they will have a better quality of life outside Britain. “We both think that there are issues around yob culture, the high cost of living here and the climate which we don’t want to deal with,” said Major Birch, of the 47^th Regiment, based at Thorney Island, Hampshire.

“Our pensions will go further because food and energy bills are cheaper over there, and we’ll be able to buy a bigger home for less money. I suffer from arthritis so the climate will be a boon.” The couple said they were not surprised at the growing number of people leaving the UK. They chose Spain because it will be easy for their two sons to visit and they are planning to learn the language. He added: “It’s no surprise that increasing numbers of people are retiring abroad. Crime is a constant worry. “The bills, the taxes, the congestion charge in London, for example. It all adds up.”

3. Complete the unfinished words. Each dash stands for one letter.

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Olympic heroine Dame Kelly Holmes today launches an extra category in our Children’s Champions Awards – the Sports Award. “Sport gets kids off the street, helps with confidence, self-esteem, leadership and learning skills. The winner of this Award will be somebody who has dedicated their lives to helping kids in sport, whether it’s opening a boxing club or starting a football team. These people are changing youngsters’ lives by helping them reach their full potential.”

WRITING

1. Express the following sentences differently, starting as suggested. (5 marks)

a-“Paul, I know you cheated in your exam.”

She accused Paul of cheating in his exam.

b-I am sorry I could not attend the course.

I wish I had been able to attend the course.

c-We won’t be able to travel if he does not arrive in time.

Unless he arrives in time, we won’t be able to travel.

We won’t be able to travel unless he arrives in time.

d-There is no gadget as successful as the mobile phone.

The mobile phone is the most successful of all.

e-They cancelled the open air show due to bad weather conditions.

The show was cancelled due to bad weather conditions.

2. We are all aware of the rise of teenage violence in our society (at school, at home….).Write an article in your school magazine to raise people’s awareness to this issue and suggest solutions to curb teenage violence.

**Provide a “title” for your article

**Identify your audience: it’s for your school magazine (your classmates) 1. Draw readers’ attention to the rise of teenage violence

** At school: rude words/ bullying/aggressive behaviour (towards classmates and teachers)/fighting/disobedience/disrespect (school rules)

** At home: answering back(parents) / rude words/ aggressive attitudes(bad-tempered and irritable youngsters)…….

** In the streets/on the bus, train, tube: no respect for other people(elderly people) rude, aggressive……

2. Suggesting solutions:

The role of the parents

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**parental supervision: parents should know everything about their children:who they go out with/where they go/what they buy(expensive items?)

The role of the school(education)

** School programmes should teach young people how to “behave well in society”.

(textbooks/ workshops/ videos…..to avoid violence……..

The school should encourage sport very much. It gets kids off the streets (statistics show that sport plays a big role in declining the rate of violence and juvenile delinquency)

**An example: in the US. sport competitions are organised late at night to “put youngsters away from violence, bad company(hanging in the streets with delinquents) and even crime(ex: Crime Time Basketball: the match is played at midnight(we say that midnight is crime time)

The role of the media

** The media (TV/radio/newspapers) should play a “big” role to curb (reduce) violence choice of programmes/films/video clips/ads(advertisements)

3. Conclusion: We are all involved. We should all play our part in reducing violence, especially in children and teenagers.

Be optimistic about it.