Médecins Sans Frontières: Doctors without borders.

English Exam

Second Term Test -2

Time: 45mn

Name: ……...………

Class

3

11/05/2012

Read the text carefully and answer the questions

Médecins Sans Frontières: Doctors without borders.

In 1971 there was a war in a part of Nigeria called Biafra, in western Africa. People were dying, children were hungry and there was a lot of disease. There were thousands of people who needed medical help – but there were no doctors or nurses to help them. Some doctors from France went to work as volunteers, and some of them decided to start an organization to help disaster victims all over the world.

That was when Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was born.

Since it started, Médecins Sans Frontières has helped people all over the world. The disaster might be war or an earthquake or a tsunami or a famine – anything that means people need help.

The organization’s headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. It is non-political – which means that no government controls it. About 90% of the money that MSF needs comes from individual donations;

the rest comes from governments and businesses. MSF helps everyone. It doesn’t matter what their race, religion or politics are.

MSF has about 3.000 volunteer doctors in nearly 60 different countries. These volunteers do many different things: some, of course, care for people who are sick or injured, and others train local doctors and nurses in their own countries. MSF also sends engineers to poor countries to help people to do things like making wells, so they can have clean water.

It is often dangerous work for the volunteers. They are sometimes attacked, or kidnapped, or killed, for example, five MSF volunteers were killed in Afghanistan in 2004.

In 1999, Médecins Sans Frontières won the Noble Peace Prize. This was in recognition of the work that MSF has done, and of the courage of the men and women who work for the organization.

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COMPREHENSION

I. Match the years to their events. (3pts)

1). 1971 a- MSF won the Noble Peace Prize.

2). 2004 b- There was a war in Biafra, Nigeria.

3). 1999 c- MSF volunteers were killed in Afghanistan.

II. Answer the following questions (4pts)

1- What nationality were the doctors who went to Nigeria to help the war victims.

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2- Where does the money for MSF come from?

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3- Who does MSF help?

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4- Why is it often dangerous work for the MSF volunteers?

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III. Match the words to their meanings. (3pts)

Word Meaning Answers 1- Injured (paragraph 4)

2- Headquarters (paragraph 3) 3- Volunteers (paragraph 1) 4- Was born (paragraph 1) 5- Famine (paragraph 2) 6- Care (paragraph 4)

a- To work without a salary.

b- Started.

d- Main offices e- Look after.

f- Badly hurt.

c- When there in not enough food for people to eat and live.

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GRAMMAR

A- Write sentences in the conditional type 1 using the verbs in (brackets). (3pts)

2. If you ……… (not clean) the yard, I……….(not give) you any money.

3. My mother………. (get) angry if I ………(come) late.

B- Complete the sentences with the correct question tag. (3pts) 1. You can speak English, ………?

2. Your parents are at work, ………..?

3. Mum doesn’t like spiders, ………?

WRITING

Write a letter to Mr. Blake applying for a job of your choice. (4pts)

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