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Exam: 6
Arab Republic of Egypt
Ministry of Education
General secondary Education Certificate Examination, 2003
[First Stage- Second Session]
First Foreign Language: English (2) Time: 3 hours
اللغة الأجنبية الأولى: الإنجليزية (1)
A - Language Functions
1- Supply the missing parts in the following dialogue(4.M):
Tarek and three of his friends are going to spend a week in Sharm El Sheikh. Tarek is phoning the hotel receptionist to book rooms.
Receptionist : Al Salam Hotel. Can I help you ?
Tarek : ……………..(1)……………..
Receptionist : Ok, sir. Single or double ?
Tarek : Double, please.
Receptionist : ……………..(2)……………… ?
Tarek : For one week. Six nights, please.
Receptionist : The rate is LE 30 per night for one room. Is that OK, sir ?
Tarek : Yes, that’s fine. …………..(3)……………… ?
Receptionist : Certainly, sir. What sort of card is it ?
Tarek : It’s a Visa card.
Receptionist : ……………..(4)……………… ?
Tarek : The name is T.A Morsy and the number is 11896775.
Receptionist : Thank you Mr. Morsy. Your rooms are booked.
2- Say where the two mini-dialogue are taking place and who the speakers are (4.M):
1- A: How was your flight, sir ?
B: Excellent.
A: Welcome back to Egypt.
Place :…………...........................
Speaker A:...........................................
Speaker B:...........................................
2- A: May I get in, sir ?
B: You are late.
A: Sorry, sir I won’t be late again.
Place :…………...........................
Speaker A:...........................................
Speaker B:...........................................
B- Vocabulary and Structure
3-Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:
1-Environmental conditions are necessary in……………….buildings.
a) damaging b) demolishing c) designing d) destroying
2- You can see what you are typing on the……………. .
a) net b) screen c) web d) keyboard
3- The eagle……………the same nest every year.
a) returns to b) turns c) returns d) turns to
4- I’m bored……………..this book. I think I’ll read another one.
a) with b) to c) from d) at
5- If I hadn’t bought a car, he………………that accident.
a) didn’t have b) wouldn’t have had c) would have d) wouldn’t have
6-The meeting started with a reception just to……………….the ice.
a) break b) break down c) break in d) break out
7- The summer Olympic Games take place……………….four years.
a) each b) every c) within d) all
8- Cars are twice as………………as they were a few years ago.
a) more expensive b) most expensive c) expensive d) less expensive
9- Tourists come to the Red Sea holiday……………to see the fishing villages.
a) rivers b) resorts c) roubles d) reefs
10- I would be…………….if you could type this for me.
a) blamed b) bored c) terrified d) grateful
11- Atomic bombs produce deadly……………… .
a) fossil b) infrared c) radiation d) thunder storm
12- Nobody knows the…………….of his death.
a) reason b) operation c) cause d) function
13- She couldn’t understand……………..he said.
a) what b) why c) who d) which
14- ……………….the students are studying French, no one speaks it well.
a) Because b) Unless c) Although d) In spite of
15- My aunt is amazing. She worked full-time as a doctor and………up five children.
a) raised b) took c) sent d) brought
16- I am very……………..because there is an organic farmer in my village.
a) good b) lucky c) fortunately d) unlucky
4-Rewrite the following sentences using the word(s) in brackets without changing the
meaning:
1- Last week we went to the club and the cinema. (besides)
2- Ali said that Huda had broken the window. ( accused)
3- Please clean the kitchen after preparing dinner. ( grateful)
4- My mother gave me a gold ring for my birthday. (received)
5- I’ll be angry with you if you don’t come. ( unless)
C-Reading Comprehension
5-Read and then complete the table:
Joseph Lister was born in 1827, the son of a rich British merchant. After graduation, Lister worked as a surgeon. Lister was shocked at the number of people who died after surgery. He came across Pasteur’s findings about bacteria in the air. At first surgeons worked in ordinary clothes with dirty instruments. Lister discovered carbolic acid which would kill bacteria in wounds and maybe in the air of the operating room. He used carbolic acid in dressings on wounds and heat to kill bacteria on surgical instruments.
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6-Read the following passage and then answer the questions:
Video and television are responsible for the declining interest in reading among the young. While they may be harmless in themselves, they do nothing to build up reading skills. If some of the hours children spend watching television were devoted to reading, the population would be better educated.
Watching a story is a totally passive pastime. Someone else has made the decisions about everything in the story. Reading a story is an active partnership between writer and reader. Ideas are sketched and the mind of the reader creates the rest. Watching something is easier.
The problem is that many children read very slowly. They decode a page or two in a class and about the same again for homework. It is hardly surprising that such children then declare that they find reading boring and prefer to watch television. Their difficulty is not reading the words - it is interpreting them. They need to be able to read fast enough to feed the mind’s hunger for a strong and independent reader.
Parents need to be convinced of the importance of preventing their children from wasting their hours on viewing. Without the television the child is likely to turn to books for entertainment.
A) Answer the following questions:
1- What is the writer’s main objection to video and TV ?
2- Why is watching a story easier than reading it ?
3- How can children be good readers ?
4- The writer believes that visual images such as watching television, spoil the imagination. Do you agree ? Why ?
B) Choose the correct answer:
5- The underlined pronoun “They” refers to…………….. .
a) the young b) video & TV c) children d) reading skills
6- The writer says that the population would be better educated if children………….. .
a) do their homework b) watch TV c) read much d) read slowly
7- According to the writer’s view, TV is………….…..means of entertainment.
a) not an effective b) an encouraging c) an effective d) not a cheap
D- Novel
7-A) Answer the following questions:
1- Where do spiders usually live ?
2- What difficulties did Wafaa and the officers face in Sinai ?
3- Why didn’t the bites of the female spider kill Ayman ?
B) Read the following quotation and then answer the questions:
“Keep very still, Lamia. I want to take a photo.”
1- Who said these words ?
2- Why did the speaker ask Lamia not to move ?
3- What happened to the speaker after taking the photo ?
C) Complete the following sentences:
1- In the second wadi in Sinai, the cars couldn’t speed up because…… .
2- The female spider tried to release itself by…………. .
3- Captain Osama used the towrope for………….. .
E- Writing (6.M)
8- Write a paragraph of eight sentences about:
Look at the number of people who are part of your society, house, school, club … imagine that twice as many people are there. What effects would the increased population have on the way you live, play, travel, learn, eat and work ?
F- Translation
9- A) Translate into Arabic:
Great efforts have been made towards equality between men and women. Women demand equal pay for equal work. Although women have gained many of their rights, they still have a long way for complete equality.
B) Translate into English:
تولي الحكومة اهتماما كبيرا لإقامة المشروعات في توشكى و الوادي الجديد.
