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OFFICE NATIONAL DES EXAMENS ET CONCOURS

Epreuve de : Anglais

Durée : 2H

Coef : 3

BREVET D'ETUDES DU PREMIER CYCLE - SESSION 2007

 

Two diseases that destroy in Africa

                All over Africa every year, millions of people are victims either of AIDS or of malaria. These two diseases have been responsible for a lot of damages in African   countries. Many people have died, that reduce largely the labour. Those who don’t die can’t produce as they hardly work. Because of this, African development can’t be effective and the continent has stayed the poorest.
               
            AIDS makes many orphans who are left in charge of the authorities in some    countries, of the families in others but sometimes those young children live in the street without any responsible. As they get no education, they have become delinquents, burglars, criminals,…ect.
               
            The women who lost their husband have difficulties to do with the children because of an insufficiency of revenues.
               
            AIDS is very dangerous as till now no medicine has been discovered to cure it, if not the “Tri-therapy” medicines which help seropositives to support it instead of curing it. Sensibilisation has been always done in order to make people know the ways they can be contaminated and how they can prevent from it. The two main ways of contamination are through sexual contact and the blood. So, to prevent we should avoid non-protected sexual contact and always test any blood before transfusing. As for malaria, the main cause of it is mosquitoes. All levels of society are concerned that brings down African economy because of the repetitive absences from work and from school; but contrarily to AIDS, it is a curable disease in spite of the uncountable deaths. Doctors use quinine, fansidar or coartem to treat it and in most of the cases it goes. Like AIDS, prevention is possible: first is basic hygiene as we should avoid dirt and stagnant water; then we can use the different kinds of insecticide sprays and finally we should always sleep under a mosquito net. Africans do need to respect the different doctor’s warnings in order to be safe from these two killers if they want to reach a real unexpected development a day.

Questions

Comprehension                                                                                                           (5 points )

1°- What happens to Africa every year?
2°- Give three of the damages done by AIDS and malaria
3°- Why is AIDS very dangerous?
4°- What is the difference between AIDS and Malaria?
5°- What must Africans do to be safe from the consequences of these two diseases?

Vocabulary

Change the underlined word with a synonymous                        (3 points)

Language expression

Complete the sentences with one expression                               (2 points)

1°- AIDS and Malaria
engender damages
are caused by damages
have no damage

2°- Street children
are correct children
have responsible
often do bad acts
      
3°- People get AIDS
                   a- from bussing other
                   b- by eating with seropositives
                   c- through sexual contacts

4°- To prevent from malaria, we should
                   a- keep dirt at home
                   b- take paracetamol
                   c- sleep under a mosquito net
            
Grammar

A -Tell what form are the sentences                                          (1,5 points)

1°- Sensibilisation has been always done
2°- All levels of society are concerned
3°- They can be contaminated

B - Put the sentences in past                                                                                                                    (1,5 points)

C - Put the verbs in correct tenses to have conditional II            (4 points)

1°- If people (keep) from having non-protected sexual contact, they (avoid) being contaminated
2°- If many young people (die), this (reduce) the labour
3°- AIDS (make) many victims if there (be) no sensibilisation
4°- Patient (take) fansidar, they relieve from malaria

D - Complete with an indefinite pronoun or adverb                         (3 points)

1°- When you find __________ on the floor, don’t hide it, but tell ________
2°- I lost my keys, I looked for them _________ but I didn’t find them ________
3°- We can hear ________ talking outside but we don’t know who is it
4°- Where did you leave your mobile phone? I left it __________ in my room

 

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