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Comprehension for high school students

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Comprehension

1) Answer the following questions :(1.5)


- Why are some Asian countries responsible for unemployment in America and Europe?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
- What are the advantages of using robots and computers in factories?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
- Why can tomorrow qualified workers expect to change careers or expect his job to disappear?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
2) Complete the following sentences: (1.5)
- Job nowadays require the worker to use both……………………
- Continuous training and education are necessary if a worker……….
3) Find in the text words or expressions that mean the same as: (1.5)
- Money that the government give to jobless people (paragraph 1)………………..
- Pushed (paragraph 2)………………………
- Exhausting (paragraph 3)………………
4) What do the following words in the text refer to: (1.5)
- Them (paragraph 1, line 2)………………………………………
- His (paragraph 3, line 5)………………………………………

Language

1) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words in the list: (1.5)

challenges – networking – vital – preserve – progress – go up

- No …………………………will happen if developing countries do not join their efforts in all fields.
- During Ramadan, the prices of some products………………………..because of the increasing demand
for them.
- Good governance and the involvement of youth and women are ………………..for our development.
2) Choose the right form of the word for the given sentences: (1.5)
- Morocco has made a lot of (improve)…………………………………..in the field of ICT.
- The TV should have an (education)………………………………..and informative role.
- Selling drugs like Hashish in schools is completely (legal)……………..
3) Put the verb between brackets in the correct tense: (1.5)
- By the end of the next month, I (learn)……………………………..many useful English idioms.
- If I (know)……………………………….you would come, I would have gone to the airport to meet you.
4) Rewrite the following sentences beginning with the given words: (1.5)
- Although I worked in that company for many years I was fired out a month ago.
In spite of ………………………………………………………………………………………
- ” The government is going to take serious measure to stop the phenomenon of brain drain”
A minister said…………………………………………………………………………………
- You should learn English seriously this year.
English ………………………………………..

1. I don’t agree with you at all. a. Responding to good news


2. If only he hasn’t refused that offer b. Expressing regret
3. You’ve passed the BAC.”Congratulation!” c. giving clarification & checking for understanding
4. Do you see what I mean? d. disagreeing

5) Match the expressions with their functions: (4 )

WRITING (4 ) -
Write a coherent paragraph (an introduction for an article) about brain drain, its causes and solutions.
High unemployment has become one of the greatest problems in most countries nowadays. In
Western Europe, more than twenty million workers are on the dole, and are nearly half of them
have been out of work for more than a year. In the USA about nine million people are jobless
and the economy does not seem to recover. For the first time, millions of workers have part-
time or temporary jobs that they may lose at any time and in which they have no social
guarantees such as health and retirement benefits.

The rise of unemployment is partly due to the economic crisis. Because of the competition with
Japan and the other countries which produce better quality goods at a minimum cost, thousands
of factories in America and Europe have been forced to close or to reduce the number of their
workers. On the other hand, millions of unemployed people are jobless because the work they
once did is now necessary or has been made easier and faster by machines: farming,
automobile assembly and banking rely more and more on robot and computers.

To fight unemployment, people have to adapt to a fast-changing job market. More importance
now is given to information, education and knowledge. Although workers still use their hands,
their work is less physically tiring, but they also have to think and take more important
decisions when doing a task. As an expert in economy said: “The future belongs to people who
use their heads instead of their hands.” It is estimated that tomorrow’s young qualified worker
can expect to change careers six times during his working life. If a worker learns a job today,
within ten years or less, this job will probably disappear. The best way for people to prepare for
these changes is through continuous training and education while they are looking for a job in
their place of work.

High unemployment has become one of the greatest problems in most countries nowadays. In
Western Europe, more than twenty million workers are on the dole, and are nearly half of them
have been out of work for more than a year. In the USA about nine million people are jobless
and the economy does not seem to recover. For the first time, millions of workers have part-
time or temporary jobs that they may lose at any time and in which they have no social
guarantees such as health and retirement benefits.

The rise of unemployment is partly due to the economic crisis. Because of the competition with
Japan and the other countries which produce better quality goods at a minimum cost, thousands
of factories in America and Europe have been forced to close or to reduce the number of their
workers. On the other hand, millions of unemployed people are jobless because the work they
once did is now necessary or has been made easier and faster by machines: farming,
automobile assembly and banking rely more and more on robot and computers.

To fight unemployment, people have to adapt to a fast-changing job market. More importance
now is given to information, education and knowledge. Although workers still use their hands,
their work is less physically tiring, but they also have to think and take more important
decisions when doing a task. As an expert in economy said: “The future belongs to people who
use their heads instead of their hands.” It is estimated that tomorrow’s young qualified worker
can expect to change careers six times during his working life. If a worker learns a job today,
within ten years or less, this job will probably disappear. The best way for people to prepare for
these changes is through continuous training and education while they are looking for a job in
their place of work.

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