Scholastic year :201 7/201 8
9th Second term :
grade level Second control test : Language / Writing
Teacher : Hajer Bouden
Puplil’s name :- - - Number :- - -
Language ( 1 4 marks )
1 /Complete with the the missing words in the box . Watch out ! There are 2extra words . ( 4 marks )
Nowadays in the “west” the able bodied are constantly reminded that disabled people have rights just like everyone else and they mustn’t discriminate against them in any way. Public 1--- have to have ramps and toilets big enough for wheelchairs. Bus drivers are supposed to announce every stop so that 2--- --- people know when to get off. One is not allowed to refuse a person a job on the grounds that he or she has only one leg, or cannot 3--- We use phrases like “4---challenged” instead of crippled or spastic. We avoid 5---the word “dumb” to mean stupid - and this is not just us trying to be “politically correct”. Things like the Para Olympics have done wonders to raise people’s
6--- with so many positive images and perceptions of 7 --- people genuinely have changed. Not that Western society doesn’t still have a long way to go, but disabled people are far less marginalised, far more 8 --- than in the past when they were confined to institutions, out of sight and out of mind.
Integrated/ mature / awareness/buildings/ physical /physically / blind / disabled / speak / using
2/ Circle the correct option .(3 marks )
The RSPCA :Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; was the first organisation dedicated to the well-(done /exists / being )of animals
anywhere in the world. In England and Wales alone, the RSPCA employ more than three hundred inspectors ( which /whose /that ) job it is to investigate
reported cruelty to animals. The SPCA was (establish /starts/ set up) in
London in 1824. At this time it was considered ( weird / typical /stranger ) that people should care about cruelty to animals. They were regarded as either food, transport or sport. In 1840 Queen Victoria (has given /gave/is giving ) the organisation permission to be called a royal society: The RSPCA. These days there are almost two hundred branches in the UK.
The RNIB:
3- Reinsert the deleted parts in the paragraph (3marks )
Royal National Institute of the Blind; is the UK’s leading charity for the blind. Sight (loss /lose /blindness) is one of the most common disabilities in the UK with over a million people suffering from either partial or total
blindness.
Be careful ! There’s an extra part !
Britain is a nation of animal lovers. From the cute and cuddly to slimy and scary, we love them all.
1-...the animals that become part of the family. But here at the Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service, they are wild about wildlife.
2...but it’s also home to many wild animals and sometimes they can get hurt.
Here at the centre, 3...or very young animals and then hopefully get them well enough so they can go back into the wild.
It’s hard work looking after them. 4...is serving breakfast.
Most of the people who work here are volunteers.5 ...They help out and provide their time for free, 6...
a- for the love of the animals.
b- The first task of the day
c- Some of us have a passion for our pets d- London is home to millions of people e- the staff look after injured
f- raised funds .
g- None of them are paid
4/Complete with the right form or tense (4marks )
Disabled people’s own self esteem has risen enormously in recent years .They have become much (assertive) 1 - . . . on their rights, and their ability to compete with everyone else. Even the words “disabled” and
“handicapped” are (challenge) 2- . . . is a blind person disabled when he or she can function just as well as everyone else? New technology of course
( make) 3- . . . a huge difference day after day. Instead of clumsy wooden legs, for example, new materials and designs in prosthetic limbs enable people to walk and run as ( fast) 4- . . . as everyone else. High tech hearing aids exist for the deaf, as well as laser surgery for the very short sighted. Scientists (already/adapt) 5. . . cars so that people can drive them with only one hand, or even no hands at all. In 2001 scientists (insert) 6- . . . a chip into the brain of a person paralysed from the neck down enabling him to move a cursor on a screen (simple)
7- ...by looking at it. This means he can now do all sorts of things - switch the television and the lights on and off, type, surf the internet, even send e-mails. Who knows what (be/able) 8- . . . he. . . to do next?
Drive a car?
