Baccalauréat de l'enseignement
général
Madagascar
Session 2011
ANGLAIS – Série : A
TEXT: Water and Soil
All living beings must
eat and drink. For this reason, two things have always had to be studied very
carefully everywhere in the world where people live. One of these things is
water. The other is the soil where food is grown in.
Plants must drink, too,
and systems of irrigation have existed right from the early times in our
history. In modern times, in places like the valley of the Nile of the River
Volta, irrigation systems are being constructed now to make the work of the
farmers much more efficient and much less likely to be spoilt by drought than
it used to be. All over the world water is being used more efficiently than
ever.
Nowadays, farmers are
helped in their work by experts. All these experts have been trained in
agricultural colleges or at special centres. Some of them study the problems of
erosion. In some parts of Africa, the heavy rain which falls in the rainy
seasons carries the good soil away from the fields where it is not needed and
only leaves stones and poor soil on which can grow very few crops. When the
soil is carried away from the fields, we say that erosion is happening in them
and that it must be prevented.
QUESTIONS
A- READING COMPREHENSION (07
points)
I. Find in the text:
1- the synonym of “dwell”
2- the opposite of “in the old
days”
II. True, False or ING. Justify if
true or false
1-All living beings need to eat
and drink.
2- Heavy rain makes the soil
good.
III. Answer these questions
1- What has always been done to
help the farmers in their work?
2- Explain
in your own words, what is erosion?
IV. Complete with a word from the
text
1- Taking vitamins and calcium is
___________ when people want to prevent from diseases.
2- People suffer from the
environmental destruction such as drought and____________.
V. Reorder the following ideas as
they appear in the text:
1- In
addition, plants need water.
2- But, the
problems of erosion appear after the heavy rain.
3- Water and
food are very necessary in human beings’ life.
4- This is
why farmers built irrigation systems.
B- GRAMMAR
IN USE (02
points)
Fill
in the blanks with the most appropriate grammatical items.
Our globe (1) warmer and
warmer (2) of the following reasons: (3) , the
environment (4) been destroyed by ourselves ; next , drought (5)
melting of the ice appear. But, most of us
(6) not know (7) will happen (8)
the future.
C-INDIRECT TEST OF SPEAKING (04
points)
I. Match
the corresponding utterances
A B
|
1. What’s the Town Hall like?
2. My mother’s at the hospital.
|
a) Oh dear! What happened?
b) I like chocolate.
c) It is one of the most
beautiful buildings in town.
d) Hospital is a health centre
|
II. Complete the following
dialogue.
Ken: (1)
?
Phil: 1m 60, I’m small.
Ken: (2)
?
Phil: About 45 kilos.
Ken: I think you should eat healthy food.
Phil: (3)
?
Ken: It’s a pleasure.
D-WRITING: (07
points)
Do you think that young people
should always ask their parents to guide them?
(in about 120 words)