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[1] Clark Junior High school is regarded as the top school in the city. I visit, in part, at the request of school officials who would like me to see Education in the city at its very best. [2] "We spend the entire eighth grade year preparing for the state exams, "a teacher tells me in a top - ranked English class. The teacher seems devoted to the children, but three students sitting near me sleep through the entire period. Four of the 14 ceiling lights are broken. The corridor outside the room is filled with voices. Outside the window, where I see no schoolyard, is an empty lot. [3] In a Mathematics class of 30 children packed into a space that might be adequate for 15 kids, there is one white student - the first white student I have seen in East St-Louis. She is polishing her nails with bright red polish. A tiny black girl next to her is writing with a one - inch pencil stub(1). [4] Uncertain where to start, I ask the students what they've learned about the Civil Right campaigns of recent decades. [5] A 14 - year - old girl with short black curly hair says this : "Every year in February, we are told to read the same old speech of Martin Luther King. We read it every year. I have a dream … It does begin to seem - what is the word ? "She hesitates and then she finds the word : "perfunctory(2)." [6] I ask her what she means. "We have a school in East St. Louis named for Dr. King", she says. "The school is full of sewer water and the doors are locked with chains. Every student in that school is black. It's like a terrible joke on history"… And then she says : "why are all the dirty businesses like chemicals and waste disposal here ? This is a big country. Couldn't they find another place to put their poison ?" Life on the Mississippi, Jonathan Kozol Glossary : (1) stub : short end of something the main part of which has been used.
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1. Underline the right option The text is about : 2. Has anybody told the writer to visit schools in the city ? Who ? What for ?
3. Is Clark Junior High School really a good school ? Justify your
answer with only two details from
4. Are all the students interested in the lesson ? Justify your answer
with two details from the text.
5. Tick the right answer (×) and justify your choice. The young black girl is convinced that reading Martin Luther King's speech every
year in February has become : Justification:
..................................................................................................................................... 6. Tick the right answer (×). 7. Tick (×) the two adjectives that best describe the black
pupils and justify your choice by means of short quotations from the text :
8. Find the two words that mean the following: a. he is giving his time and effort to his students (paragraph 2) 9. Underline the right option : Sewer water (paragraph 6) is :
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1. Fill in the 6 blanks with the 6 words listed in the box : lured - settled - move - employment - nation - conditions Some social scientists attribute American's interest in genealogy to the mobility that has always characterized American society. From the beginning, America has been a ................. of movers. Once immigrants reached the United States, they often kept moving, ................. by the hope of better ................. or greater prosperity or driven by deteriorating social or economic .................. After the western territories were ................., Americans continued to move from the city to the suburbs and from city to city. Indeed, the idea of being on the ................. approaches something of a national ethic.
2. Underline the correct alternative : Everyone knows that a woman who smokes during pregnancy (must - may - should) harm (a fetus - the fetus - fetus). It now appears that secondhand smoke (must - ought to - can) do the same. In tests (at - on - with) newborns, those (whom - whose - which) mothers worked or lived with smokers had twice the level of (nicotine - relating ; nicotine - relation ; nicotine - related) compounds in their system (like - than - as) those who had mothers living in a (smoke - free ; free - smoke ; free - smoked) setting. 3. Math 4 words from column A with 4 words from column B to get 4 meaningful pairs :
4. Put the verbs in brackets in the right tense and / or form : Last week, UNICEF published its 50th anniversary issue on the state of the
world's children, focusing on the plight of children (catch) ................. up in wars
and conflicts.
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1. In the following letter, there are : - four grammar mistakes - three word order mistakes - two missing capital letters - one spelling mistake - two missing words Write the mistakes and their corrections in the table below the letter.
Love
2. On April 7th, 1995, Mr. J.N. Edwards, 21, Beacon Road,
Brighton, sent an invitation for Mr Fenton Scott, Villa Selmore, Cambridge. In the letter,
Mr. Edwards says that he is planning to have a dinner to celebrate the fifth anniversary
of The Selmore English Teachers' association on the 20th of April 1995. Write Mr Scott's reply to Mr Edwards's letter on the 15 th of April 1995 (10 lines).
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