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    The document is an English test containing reading comprehension and language mastery questions about a passage on people and the environment. The passage discusses how in prehistoric times, people's activities had little impact on the environment due to the small population size, but that modern times the growing population has put a strain on the environment. It notes that while people once thought the Earth's resources were endless, the population has grown from 1 billion in 1850 to over 6 billion in 2001.

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    The document is an English test containing reading comprehension and language mastery questions about a passage on people and the environment. The passage discusses how in prehistoric times, people's activities had little impact on the environment due to the small population size, but that modern times the growing population has put a strain on the environment. It notes that while people once thought the Earth's resources were endless, the population has grown from 1 billion in 1850 to over 6 billion in 2001.

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    The document is an English test containing reading comprehension and language mastery questions about a passage on people and the environment. The passage discusses how in prehistoric times, people's activities had little impact on the environment due to the small population size, but that modern times the growing population has put a strain on the environment. It notes that while people once thought the Earth's resources were endless, the population has grown from 1 billion in 1850 to over 6 billion in 2001.

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    Level :2ASGE School Year :2011-2012

    Second Term English Test

    The text:

    People And Environment

    Humans like ourselves may have lived on earth for more


    300.000 years.For along time people thought the earth was so huge that
    it could easily absorb human wastes and pollution. And they thought that
    the earth's natural resourses would never be used up.

    In prehistoric times, people killed animals for food and built


    fires to cook food and keep themselves warm. They cut down trees for
    fuel, and their fires released pollution into the air. But there were so few
    people that their activities had little impact on the environment.

    In modern times, the world's population has been growing


    very fast .In1850 there were around a billion people in the world.In1950
    there were around 2.5 billion, and in 2001, there were more than six
    billion. Their activities have put a strain on the environment.

    A)-Reading Comprehension:

    1-Read the text carefully then answer the following question:

    a-What do the underlined words refer to in the text?

    .....................................................................................

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    b-Why did people's activities have little impact on the environment in the past?

    .......................................................................................

    c-Does the environment consist of living things only?

    ......................................................................................

    d-Did people in the past think that earth's natural resourses were
    everlasting?

    .......................................................................................

    2-Are these statements True, False or Not Mentioned:

    a- All our surroundings are parts of the environments.

    b-The sunlight is not part of the environment.

    c- In the past people thought the earth was so immense that it could
    easily absorb human wastes and pollution.

    d-The world's population now is bigger than it used to be in the past.

    3-Match each word with its equivalent:

    impact increasing

    growing ancient

    modern influence

    prehestoric present

    Siège : 115, Hai Galloul Alger Plage - 021 86.11.63/021 87.19.57- Fax 021 87.16.89 –Mail: [email protected]
    B) Mastery of language:

    1)-What do these sentences express?

    a- Soon, the oceans of the world can suffer from a serious decrease of
    vitality.

    b- We must preserve our environment.

    c- Human beings don't need the emissions of dangerous gas.

    d- Governments can make decisions to ban the illegal fishing.

    2)-Complete the sentences by the following verbs using the correct


    tense of the passive (past/present): damage/show/cause/surround

    a- Many accidents.....................by dangerous driving.

    b- The roof of the building.....................in the storm a few days ago.

    c-A cinema is a place where films..................... .

    d-You can't see the house from the road. It ......................by the trees.

    3) Rewrite the following sentences in the passive:

    a- Somebady cleans the room everyday.

    ................................................................

    b-How do people learn language?

    ....................................................................

    c-They cancelled all flights because of the fog.

    .....................................................................

    Siège : 115, Hai Galloul Alger Plage - 021 86.11.63/021 87.19.57- Fax 021 87.16.89 –Mail: [email protected]
    d-The inhabitants don't use this road much.

    ......................................................................
    4) Pick up from the text words with the following sounds: /ai/ /ei/

    -................... .-.................... -..................... -........................

    4) Fill in the gaps with the given words: burn/ major/ other/ air/ buses

    Air pollution is a dirtying of the..............caused by toxic


    chemicals or ..................materials. It can injure health, the enjoyment of
    life, or the working of ecosystems. The.............sources of air pollution are
    cars, trucks and................waste incinerators, factories, and electric
    power plants, especially those that.................fossil fuels, such as coal.

    Siège : 115, Hai Galloul Alger Plage - 021 86.11.63/021 87.19.57- Fax 021 87.16.89 –Mail: [email protected]

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