Enoncé Epreuve d' Anglais

TEXT

[1] "It was all his own idea,"says Pat Peters, the 38-year-old wife of high school football coach Bob Peters, 39. Bob had just drawn up a "motherhood contract"- a document stating that for 70 days this summer he would take over the care and feeding of the couple's four children, plus all household chores. Although he didn't even know how to make coffee when he signed, he was supremely confident. (He thought the experience would make a cute book (1).)



[2] After 40 of the 70 days, he was ready to give up. "I was beaten down, completely humbled (2),"admits Peters. Three weeks later, he spoke to the local press (also part of the bargain), stating, "Not only is motherhood a difficult task, not only is it never - ending, it is an impossible job for any normal human being."



[3] Bob and Pat were high school sweethearts. After they were married in 1960, she worked as a secretary to help him put through university. Since then Bob has been the football and wrestling coach at Paolo Alto's Cubberley High while Pat raised the kids.



[4] Then two years ago Pat went back to work as a secretary at Cubberley. "I had been around children so much,"she sighs, "I couldn't talk to a grown-up."She continued to run the household, however - until Bob signed the contract, whereupon she decided to relax and enjoy it.

[5] Now that Bob has publicly admitted he was wrong, he is routinely sharing the child - raising and household tasks with Pat. The tentative title of his book about the summer is taken from something he shouted at the kids one day : "wait till your mother gets home !"

(From an article by Nancy
Faber in People weekly, adapted)

Glossary :

1. a cute book : a nice book.
2. completely humbled : completely defeated

I. READING COMPREHENSION

1. What, in the text, shows that the following statements are false ?

a. Bob was obliged to take over the care of the children. ................................................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................
b. When Pat went back to work she refused to continue to run the household. ................................................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................
c. Bob enjoyed the 70-day experience so much that he decided to continue to run the household alone. ................................................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................

2. Focus on "when he signed" in paragraph 1. What did he sign ? what did that mean ?

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3. After his experience, what does Bob think of running a household and raising children ?

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4. What do these words refer to ?

a. couple (paragraph 1) refers to .................................................................................
b. The experience (paragraph 1) refers to ...................................................................

5. Find in the text words meaning the same as:

a. person (paragraph 2) : ................................................................................................
b. a person who trains athletes (paragraph 3).............................................................
c. children (paragraph 3) : ...............................................................................................

6. Tick (×) the right option. Justify your choice with suitable information from the text.

Running the household is :
a. the wife's business.
b. the husband's business.
c. both partner's business

Justify : ....... ............................................................................................................................................

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7. What does Bob intend to do now that the summer experience is over ?

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8. There is a humorous detail in paragraph 5. What is it ?

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II. LANGUAGE

Task One : Fill the blanks with the words given in the box.

threatening - tribes - them - border - civil - refugees

    Hundreds of thousands of ............................. fleeing Rwanda's ....................... war fled across the .................. into Zaire yesterday, an avalanche of human misery that is ............................... to destabilise all of central Africa. From dawn, as rebel forces took the final stronghold, the hordes swarmed into Zaire. Most of .............................. were from Hutu ...........................

Task Two : Put the words in brackets in the correct tense or form.

    The soldiers fired semi-automatic weapons but the crowds were unstoppable. It was one of the ( large ) ....................... flows of refugees that Africa had ever ( see ) .................. Children wandering ( no aim ) ................................. were searching for their parents. The screams of babies (hear) ............................. everywhere. Some refugees, ( exhaust ) ............................... from their long trek, (collapse) ......................... and tried to sleep. Some sat (stare) .............................................. blankly ahead.

Task Three : In the paragraph below there are seven words missing. They are provided in the margin. Insert each word where appropriate. (Do not rewrite the paragraph)


The missing words :

   A big monkey grabbed a tourist and stripped off his clothes he strolled in a park. The monkey pulled off the Frenchman trousers and shirt he stood next his wife. As the monkey fled into the woods the clothes, the man ran to the park office he borrowed clothes other tourists.

where
as
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from
with

Task Four : Match words from column A with words from column B to obtain 8 meaningful phrases in             column C.

A B C

   -mail
   -interest
   -save
   -set
   -adopt
   -go
   -married
   -deliver

   -speech
   -couple
   -bankrupt
   -money
   -fire
   -law
   -delivery
   -rate
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III. WRITING

1. Achieve parallelism by correcting one underlined wrong construction in each sentence.

    Working while to attend American universities has become a tradition in the U.S. In fact, the students living away from home and who get insufficient financial help from their parents have to work and earn money in order to learn.

Correct constructions : 1. ..................................................... 2. ..................................

2. Read the paragraph carefully and correct the 8 mistakes in the appropriate columns : 2 word order mistakes, 2 wrong preposition mistakes, 4 spelling mistakes.

    Education never can be seperated of all the other problemes that exist in society. If more money is spent on education, then less money is spent on houses, factories, roads and machines farm. Yet many people beleive that education is the most important thing in society because it has such a great influence for the quality of our lifes.

mistakes corrections

   word order

1.
2.

1.
2.

   preposition

1.
2.

1.
2.

   spelling

1.
2.
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4.

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3. Writing a letter (10 lines) :
       Read the ad below, then write a letter of application using the instructions below the ad.

The ad

European Investment Bank is currently seeking secretaries, males and females. Applicants should possess a high school degree and must be fluent in either English or French.
Applicants must not exceed the age of 25. Applicants are requested to send their applications together with a photograph.
Salary : Very tempting
Write to : European Investment Bank,
               Advertisement N° ET/PM 9202
               16, Jesus Green, Oxford

Instructions :
        Supposing that your name is Joseph (or Josephine) Smith and your address is 32, Park Road, Leeds, England, write a 10-line letter to European Investment Bank to apply for the job.





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				J. Smith