LEVEL: 1ST YEAR LITTERARY AND SCIENTIFIC STREAMS

FIRST ENGLISH EXAM



TEXT
THE OAK TREE AND THE REEDS
Once upon a time there was a giant oak tree which grew beside a river. One day a rainstorm broke out and uprooted it. While it was floating down a river, it noticed some reeds which were growing near the bank, and cried out to them, “My Goodness! How did it come that such small plants as you have managed withstand the rainstorm, while I haven't?"
"It was easy enough", answered the reeds. "Why did you stand stubbornly stiffly against storms as you did? Look at us, we bowed down to wind and storms when they broke out in order to let them pass. So we saved ourselves from their violence." "You had only yourself to blame," the reeds added.
(Adapted from Jean de LaFontaine's Fables)

SECTION ONE:

1- Which type the text is?
a- an article b- a story c- a letter
2- Read the text and state true or false. Correct the false statement:
a- An earthquake broke out a giant oak tree.
b- Some reeds were growing when the river was floating down.
c- Reeds protected themselves by bowing down to the rainstorm.
3- Read the text and complete the following table:

Characters Place and time Weather





4- Read the text and answer the question:
Why did reeds bow down to wind and rain?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
5- Find in the text opposites to:
a- small≠ ………… b- for≠………………… c- lost≠……………………..

SECTION TWO:

1- Rewrite the sentences to express obligation and absence of obligation in the past:
a- We must have our baccalaureate to go to the university.
……………………………………………………………………..
b- They don’t have to accept your excuse.
……………………………………………………………………..
c- Teachers have to be patient with their students.
……………………………………………………………………..
2- Write three sentences using: in order to / so as to / so as not to:
1- ………………………………………………………………………….
2- ………………………………………………………………………….
3- …………………………………………………………………………..






3- Complete the sentences with the appropriate reflexive pronoun
(himself-ourselves-herself-itself-yourself-themselves)
a- The teacher respects …………………….
b- Students enjoy …………………………..
c- You have to introduce ………………….

SECTION THREE
Choose one topic:

Topic one: use the following notes to write a paragraph about the story of titanic

Tragedies – first trip of the ship titanic- 2000 people-from America to England-April 4th, 1912 crashed into iceberg- huge hole in the bottom of the ship- sinking rapidly-1500 people lost their lives.

Topic two: write a short paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of computers.


Your paragraph here under: