DEVOIR STANDARDISE N°2 DU DEUXIEME SEMESTRE DU BASSIN ETAB
Epreuve d'Anglais : TROISIEMES
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Année Scolaire 2023/202
Reading Comprehension:
Durée : 2h
(8 marks)
Nowadays, the majority of world population is living in urban areas. While many people associate city life with
prosperity, urban dwellers actually have to experience various difficulties, including crime and environmental
pollution. From my perspective, governments should use counter-urbanization as a measure to ease the problems.
One of the common issues with living in a city is crime. In highly populated areas, the risk of encountering
criminals is much higher than in a small town. And, if the culprit feels protected by the anonymity that a large
city provides, he may commit more wrongdoings. Furthermore, air pollution is also a prevalent issue in major
cities. Surface transportation
is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions, which causes respiratory problems
to the people. This problem
is exacerbated by the sheer number of vehicles commuting daily in the city.
In
my
opinion, to tackle both the issues above, governments should promote the migration from urban areas to
rural ones. As the population density of a metropolitan area is reduced, so do crimes and air pollution. However,
city dwellers have
their reasons to stay in urban places to enjoy education and job opportunities. This is why
governments need to step in
because only they can introduce rural development policies. If countryside areas
have better infrastructures,
people will find less incentive to live in big cities.
In conclusion, crime and air pollution are two of the various problems of urban life. I believe that urban-to- rural
migration, promoted
by governments, is an appropriate solution for those issues.
A. Choose the right option: a, b, or c
1. The most appropriate title for the text should be:
a) Pollution in rural areas.
b) Problems in the city.
2. to ease the problem means:
b) to solve the problem
a) to accentuate the problem
B. All sentences are FALSE. Justify them by quoting the text
3. The majority of people think the city does not offer success opportunities.
2 marks
c) Rural migration.
c) to minimize the problem.
3 marks
4. The narrator thinks that migrating from the village to the city is the appropriate solution.
5. People in big cities do not suffer from air pollution.
C. Information transfer: read the text again then fill in the chart.
2 marks
Reasons
Living
6.
7.......
8.......
9.
Inconvenients
in town
E. Referencing: What or who do the following words refer to in the text? (1pt)
10. he (line 5) refers to...........
11. This problem (line 7) refers to