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ABBIRAS ENNACERI HIGH SCHOOL level/stream: 2 nd LLE

Date: 03- 12-2018 Time: 10h-12h


First Term Exam
Part one: (14 point)
A/ Comprehension/ interpretation: (7 pts)
Read the text carefully then do the following activities.
One World, Many Cultures
To travel the streets of Los Angeles is to glimpse America’s ethnic future.
At the bustling playground at McDonald’s in Koreatown, a dozen shades of kids
go down the slides not much minding that not two of them speak the same
language. Parents of grade-school children say they rarely know the colour of
their youngsters’ best friends until they meet them; it never seems to occur to
the children to say, since they have not yet been taught to care.
Most schools are teaching students to celebrate diversity and search for
common ground. Inglewood High School (90% white 20 years ago and 90% black 10 years ago) is 48% Latino
today. “We have the same challenges and I’ve learned to see that if everybody united, we could be a big force”,
says Efrain Nava, a 16-year-old Mexican American. “We are all minorities, but together we are a majority.”
California is an ethnic landscape. As recently as 1980, California was 76% white. During the past ten
years, the Hispanic community grew nearly 70% and the Asian community 127%, so that by last year’s census,
California was only 57% white. It is clear that early in the next century there will be no racial majority at all. The
children may have no trouble adjusting, but their parents still have much to learn.
California is, by any measure, America’s most colourful state. The richness of its culture, the liveliness of
its fashions and the ruthlessness of its politics all reflect the mix of races and cultures that blend and clash
throughout the state. This is the land where Asian dragons dance at Cinco de Mayo parades, where viewers can
tune in to the evening news spoken in Tagalog.
Source: Time (abridged and adapted

1) Choose the right answer. (0,5 pt) The text is:


a) Descriptive b) expository c) narrative

2) Answer the following questions using your own words as far as possible.
① What reasons may exist for parents not to know the colour of their children’s friends?
② Why won’t there be a racial majority in California in the next years?
③ What are the features that contribute to multiculturalism in the state of California?
④ Is it easy for different cultures to get along easily? State your reasons.
3) Match the headings with the right paragraph.
paragraph
① A multicultural state.
② Language plays no big role in friendships.
③ Birds of a feather flock together.
④ Walking towards diversity
4/ what / who do the underlined words in the text refer to?
Their (§1) we (§2) the land (§4)

5/ Find synonyms in the text for the following words.


a) Have a quick incomplete view b) Problem c) Cruelty
6/ which words are the following definitions:
a/of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, religious, or cultural origin or
background.

b/ full of lively activity .


B/ Text Exploration :( 7 pts)
1/ Complete the chart:
Verb Noun Adjective
To speak ………………. ……………………
…………………… liveliness ……………………

2-Complete the sentences with should /should have /mustn’t /do not have to/ can/can’t/could /be able to + one of
these verbs climb, win, do and Come.
1. I’m afraid I ………………………to your party next week end.
2. There’s an elevator in the building, so we ……………………………. the stairs.
3-We lost the game, but we …………………………………….. .our team was better than theirs.
4. I’m sorry that I didn’t follow your advice. I ……………………………what you said.

3-Rewrite the following sentences as suggested below.

① People think that obese people suffer, because of their image.


It…
② The girl didn’t have both legs but she was an extraordinary athlete.
In spite of…
③ My friends help the homeless but they don’t care about the handicapped.
My friend…
④ He is a racist. He even discriminates against his daughter’s friends.
He is.................
⑤ I can’t participate in the forum, because I lost the debate on multicultural societies.
I lost the debate……….
⑥ In spite of being a multicultural country, Australia also has a large native population.
Although…
4 -Fill in the gaps with one of the following words.

 Identities  racial  discrimination  equal  multiculturalism

 Ancestry  citizens  belonging  societies  cross-cultural

Multiculturalism is fundamental to our belief that all (1) _____________ are (2) ___________. Multiculturalism
ensures that all citizens can keep their (3) ________________, can take pride in their (4) ________________ and have a
sense of (5) ________________. Acceptance of diversity helps us develop a feeling of security and self-confidence.
Multicultural (6) ________________ have proven that (7) _________________ tends to encourage (8)
__________________ and ethnic harmony and (9) ________________ understanding and discourage ghettoization,
hatred, (10) ________________ and violence.

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