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Ben Azzouz Abdel Hamid Middle School 2AM1/2AM2 Full name:………………………. Class: 2AM........ First Term English Exam MARIE SKLODOWSKA was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her father was a teacher of Physics and Mathematics. She was a good student. She went to France in 1891. She studied Physics and Mathematics at the Sorbonne, the famous French university. Marie had a very difficult life in Paris, so her father often sent her money from Warsaw for her education. Then she got a job as a research scientist. She met Pierre Curie and married him in 1895. They celebrated the wedding in France. They had their first child in 1897. They called her Irene. Pierre and Marie worked together and discovered radium in 1898. In 1903, Marie and Pierre Curie won the Nobel Prize for Physics. A tragic event happened the same year: Pierre died in a street accident. In 1906, Marie became a teacher at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to get that job. MARIE CURIE continued her researches and won the Nobel Prize again for Chemistry in 1911. She died in 1934. PART ONE: (14pts) Section one: reading comprehension (7pts) Activity one: read the text and answer the following questions (2pts) 1) What was Marie Curie’s job? ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2) Did she win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry? ………………………………………………………………………………………………… Activity two: read the text and make notes (3pts) Dates Activities 1867 1891 1895 1897 1903 1906 1934 Marie Curie was born in Warsaw …………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………. …………………………………………………………………….
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Ben Azzouz Abdel Hamid Middle School 2AM1/2AM2Full name:……………………….Class: 2AM........ First Term English Exam
MARIE SKLODOWSKA was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her father was a teacher of Physics and Mathematics. She was a good student. She went to France in 1891. She studied Physics and Mathematics at the Sorbonne, the famous French university. Marie had a very difficult life in Paris, so her father often sent her money from Warsaw for her education. Then she got a job as a research scientist. She met Pierre Curie and married him in 1895. They celebrated the wedding in France. They had their first child in 1897. They called her Irene. Pierre and Marie worked together and discovered radium in 1898. In 1903, Marie and Pierre Curie won the Nobel Prize for Physics. A tragic event happened the same year: Pierre died in a street accident. In 1906, Marie became a teacher at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to get that job. MARIE CURIE continued her researches and won the Nobel Prize again for Chemistry in 1911. She died in 1934.
PART ONE: (14pts)Section one: reading comprehension (7pts)Activity one: read the text and answer the following questions (2pts)1) What was Marie Curie’s job?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………2) Did she win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
Activity two: read the text and make notes (3pts)Dates Activities1867189118951897190319061934
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw……………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………….
Activity three: (2pts)a) Find in the text word there are closest in meaning to the following (1pts)
was born ≠ ………………… bad ≠ …………………..b) Find in the text words there are opposite in meaning to the following (1pts)
occupation = ………………… named = ………………….
Section two: Mastery of Language (7pts)Activity one: What do these sentences express? (3pts)(Inability in the past), (Inability in the present), (Asking for permission), (Polite request), (Ability in the past), (Ability in the present)1) Could you lend me your book? (………………………………)2) Can I use your phone? (………………………………..)3) I couldn’t swim when I was 6 years old. (…………………………..)4) Pupils can’t do this exercise. It’s too difficult. (………………………………)5) We can speak English (…………………………….)6) His grandfather could play football when he was younger. (…………………………….)
Activity two: write the correct form of the verbs between brackets (2pts) Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malagga. He (be) ……………….a Spanish painter, but also a sculptor and a ceramist. Very young, he (slow) ……………….exceptional artistic talents. In 1907, he (paint) ……………. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and (start) ……………the Cubism period or movement. Activity three: Classify these words according to their vowel sounds: (2pts) they / died / life / same / ai / / ei /1)2)
1)2)
PART TWO: Written Expression (6pts) Your teacher asked you to write a biography about a famous scientist/inventor for your school project. Use the table below and write a short paragraph about Alexander Graham Bell.
Dates Activities18471863
1873
18761922
(be) born (Scotland)(go) to Canada(teach) deaf people(become) a teacher (Boston University)(make) an artificial ear(invent) the telephone(die) in Beddeck, Canada
Alexander Graham Bell was …………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
