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School

Stream :
First Year literary Classes
Time duration : 02 hours

Second term exam

Part One: Reading

Read the
text carefully then do the activities:

Carbon Dioxide ( CO2) in
the atmosphere helps stop the sun’s heat from escaping back into space. It
therefore helps maintain the temperature of the atmosphere.

The amount of CO2 is yet increasing
rapidly. Rising populations are making this happen. They are doing so by
burning more fossil fuels in order to run factories and cars, to cook and to
keep warm. To create new farmlands, people are also cutting and burning the
largest store of CO2 of all- the forests.

If the amount of CO2
rises, more of the sun’s heat will be held. Many scientists compare this to the
effect of a greenhouse. The glass of the greenhouse lets in the sun’s heat and
does not let it out again. Gases like CO2 act in the same way and
they are called greenhouse gases. A greenhouse does a very simple but task: it
allows plants to grow when outside temperatures are low. If the same thing
happens to the world, however; this greenhouse effect will not be good for
people. In 50 years time, a lot of species will have disappeared because of the
toxic gases.

Most scientists agree that the
global warming has been happening. Until recently, though; they did not agree
about the cause. For many of them, it was just a natural phenomenon.

But in last few years, most
scientists have agreed that the greenhouse effect is man-made and is increasing
and that the results may be very serious. They now speak about climate changes,
rising sea levels and coastal floods.

The politicians too have made a
start. In December 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan, 160
countries agreed to pass legislation to reduce the production of the greenhouse
gases. This will not be easy and it seems that we must either learn to use less
energy or pay for newer, cleaner technologies.

A/ Comprehension and
Interpretation

1/ Are there any conditional sentences in the
text? If yes, how many?

2/ Are the following statements true or false?

a) Carbon Dioxide
maintains the temperature of the atmosphere.

b) The greenhouse effect
is man-made.

c) The greenhouse effect
is a natural phenomenon.

d) Netheir scientists nor
politicians agree about the real causes of global warming.

3/ Answer the following questions according to
the text:

a) What does CO2
do in the atmosphere?

b) What did scientists
disagree about until recently?

4/ Give a title to the text.

5/ Find in the text synonyms to the following
words:

* rising (§2) * inundations (§5)

B/ Text Exploration

1/ Find in the text opposites to the following
words

*ineffective (§3) *in (§3)

2/ Classify these expressions in the table
below.

Gases, global warming, oil spills, chemical
wastes, diseases, acid rains, pesticides, depletion of the ozone layer.

Causes

Effects

3/ Write sentence (b) so that it means the same
as sentence (a)

a) If the amount of CO2
rises, more of the sun’s heat will be held.

b) He said that if ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

a) The air we breathe is
polluted because factories are burning extremely dangerous gases.

b) Factories are burning
extremely dangerous gases; ---------------------------------------

4/ Classify the following words according to
the pronunciation of their final ‘ed’

Flooded, warmed, increased, attacked, helped,
affected.

/t/

/d/

/Id/

5/ Put these sentences in the right order so as
to know the causes and effects of global warming.

a) the polar ice-caps
melt

b) the earth becomes
warmer

c) islands and coastal
towns are flooded

d) the percentage of
greenhouse gases rises

e) the sea-level rises

f)
pollution increases

Part Two: Written Expression

Choose only
one topic:

Topic one: In a paragraph of about 10 to 12
lines expose the causes and effects of pollution.

Topic two: Renewable energies are the best
solution to stop global warming. What are these energies and what are their
sources?