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Level: TCL1 School Year: 2014- 2015 English evaluation test
Humans like us may have lived on earth for more 300.000years. For a long time people thought the earth was so huge that it could easily absorb human wastes. And they thought that the earth’s natural resources would never be used up.
In prehistoric times, people killed animals for food and built fires to cook food and keep themselves warm. They cut down trees for fuel, and their fires released pollution into the air. But there were few people that their activities had little impact on the environment.
In modern times, the world’s population has been growing very fast. In 1850 there were around a billion people in the world. In 1950 there were around 2.5 billion, and in 2001, there were more than six billion. Their activities have put a strain on the
environment.
Section One: A/- Reading and Interpretation: (7 pts)
1) - Say if these sentences are true or false according to the text: (1, 5)
a- people thought the earth was so immense that it could easily absorb human wastes.
b- Many people had little impact on the environment.
c- The world’s population now is bigger than it used to be in the past.
2) - Answer the following questions according to the text: (3 pts)
a- Why did people’s activities have little impact on the environment in the past?
b- Does the environment consist of living things only?
c- Did people in the past think that earth’s natural resources were everlasting?
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3) - what do the underlined words refer to in the text?
us (§1) =……….. it (§1)=………..
They (§1) =………..
4)-Choose a suitable title to the text: (1 pts) a- Natural resources.
b- Pollution
c- People and Environment.
B/- Text Exploration: (8 pts)
1) - Match each word with its equivalent: (1 pts) Impact increasing
Growing ancient
Modern influence
Prehistoric present
2) - Find in the text words that are opposite in meaning to the following :( 1 pts) Cold (§2) ≠……… less (§3) ≠……….
3) - Complete the chart: (3 pts)
Noun verb
Invitation Discussion
……….
……….
……….
……….
Correct meet
4) - Put the verbs between brackets into the correct tense: (1,5) a- If you (heat) ice, it (melt).
b- If you (not drink), they (get) thirsty.
c- I (ask) John if I (see) him.
5) - Mark intonation at the end of these sentences:
a- Have their activities put a strain on the environment?
b- Why did people kill animals?
c- Why did they cut trees?
Part Two:
Fill in the gaps with the given words: burn- major- other- air- busses.
Air pollution is a dirtying of the ………..caused by toxic chemicals or
………..materials. It can injure health, the enjoyment of life, or the working of ecosystem.
The ………sources of air pollution are cars, trucks and …………. Waste incinerators, factories, and electric power plants, especially those that ………….fossil fuels, such as coal.
adjective Noun Friendly
………..
happy
………
danger
