test 2 for 2as

El-jadida high school. Date:…………………….

levels :2nd years Duration: hr.

class:……………. Name:……………………


Part One: A/ Comprehension//Interpretation:
Read the text carefully then do the tasks that follow:
Text:
Air pollution is actually the addition of any harmful substances to the atmosphere, which causes the damaging of the environment, human health and the quality of life. With the development in industry, came along the increase in air pollution, which occurs inside homes, schools, offices even in the countryside. Consequently there has been an increase in the death rates resulting from various diseases caused by air pollution varying from breathing problem to lung cancer. Air pollution does not only affect people but it also damages the whole ecological system in which plants and animals are harmed as well. Air pollution has reached such a critical stage where it affects the earth's atmosphere as it lets in more harmful radiation from the sun .

Consequently, our polluted atmosphere is becoming a better insulator, thus, preventing heat from escaping back into space. That is why there is a global rise in temperature which scientists refer to as " global warming". As a result of this rise in temperature the world food supply and sea level will be affected, also there is the probability of increase in the tropical disease.

1//The text is about:

a)Measure taken to fight air pollution
b)The causes of air pollution
c)The effects of air pollution (circle the right answer)
2/Answer the following questions according to the text
a)What is air pollution? ……………………………………………………………………………………
b)What does it affect? ……………………………………………………………………………………..
c)Who is responsible for this phenomenon?..................................................................................................
d)Where does it take place?............................................................................................................................ ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
e)Why are temperatures rising?.......................................................................................................................
3/The text above is :a)descriptive. b)expository. c)argumentative (circle the right answer)
Justify your answer?.......................................................................................................................................





B/Text Exploration:
1/Mach the words below with their definitions(rewrite the definitions in front of the words):
Words:
1.Crucial……………………………………………………………………………………………………
2.Insulator……………………………………………………………………………………………………
3.Affect………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4.radiation …………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Definitions:
*Powerful and very dangerous RAYS that are sent out from radioactive substances
*serious, uncertain and probably dangerous
*a material or device used to prevent heat, electricity or sound from escaping from something
*To produce a change

2/Find in the text words opposite in meaning to:

fall=/=……………………. letting =/=………………..
3/Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form:
*If we continue polluting our environment, we (lead)………………..to our destruction
*If man isn’t so greedy, we (live)………………………………………….a better life.


4/Rewrite sentence “b” so that it may mean the same as “a”:

1/. a. we should protect our human resources

b. ……………………………………………………………………………..

2/ a. the world food supply and sea level will be affected

b. the rise of temperature……………………………………………………



4/use The following suffixes to build adjectives:-ous –able/ible -al –ive -ic -ing -ful/less
Pollute(……………….)_ poison(……………………..)_ probability(………………..)_hope(…………..)






5/Mark the stressed syllable in the words below(or underline it):
Destroy- destruction- affect- affection