engli exam bac 2011

TERPRETING (8pts)
Educating children is a wonderful, noble and important task, but how much of our teaching
will be left in these young and innocent minds? Because the family circle is only a part of the
training of our children who get the biggest part of their education from school, the street and
through the radio and T.V programmes.
They have to adapt themselves to the society in which they were born. However, this society
nowadays is not a model of perfection, but rather a circle full of contradictions, hypocrisy, in
which no emphasis is put on good or evil, and the parents are, very often, too busy with their
occupations and problems to take care about the education of their children. In this century, man
is competing against time. The individual is always in a hurry and has not enough time to relax
and think about his destiny. A man, born in such a society, has difficulties to live in harmony and
peacefully with the other people because he lives in a jungle.
What about the children who are illegitimate or are unwanted by their own parents? Do they
receive the amount of affection and care that any child normally receives?
Nowadays, the moral, humanistic and religious values of the past are replaced by materialism,
profit and interest. How can we condemn a young delinquent in a society where violence and
crime are a daily routine? Yes, of course, man has been given intelligence and is responsible for
his actions, but his society, his family circle and the way he has been brought up have the greatest
part of responsibility in what this individual has become. Man’s choice is limited since he is the
product of the community in which he is living.
A- Read the text carefully then do the activities
1- How many interrogative sentences are their in the above passage?
2- In which paragraph is it mentioned that our society has a deep influence on children?
3- Answer the following questions according to the text:
a- Where do children get most of their education?
b- Do parents take care of their children? Why or why not?
c- Why does the writer compare modern society to a jungle
4-Who do the underlined words in the text refer to?
B_:TEXT EXPLORATION: (7pts)
1-Match each word with its opposite:
words opposites
full
Against
Receive
Peace
Give
Empty
For
Violence









1/2 2- Supply punctuation ,apostrophes and capital l