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وزارة التـربيـة الـوطنيــة ثـانويــة هـواري بــومدين التقنية - آفـلـو آفلــو
امتحـان الـدورة الأولـــى ( دسمبـــر 2008 )
الشعب : فلسفـــة و آداب المـدة : سـاعـتـان
اختبار في مـــادة الإنجليزية
Read the passage carefully then do the activities
Ancient Greece homeland of the Greek civilization that flourished c.800-300bc.it spread by Greek settlement across the Mediterranean (1050-500 bc )and then across Asia to north –western India through the conquests of Alexander the great in the 4th century bc.Until c.500bc its main centres were the Greek cities on the western coast of Asia and the larger island of the Aegean Sea ; from 600 bc onward it was the mainland city of Athens that was the hub of the Greek world. In these two focal points of Greek civilization there developed democracy and philosophy, athletics, the theatre, tragedy and comedy, ideas of freedom and autonomy, and the practice of politics.
This civilization arose within the framework of a basic social unit, the polis (literally”city”),which was not so much a town or city state as a citizen-community. It becomes accessible to us when writings survive from it, first in the epic poems of Homer (written probably in the mid-8th century bc )and the religious and practical poetry of Hesiod (dating fom the late 8th century bc).The polis arose in Greece in the 8th century bc and was certainly established by 735bc. By 800-750 bc, Greeks had also invented an alphabet and begun to be literate. However, both of these fundamental changes occurred late in the history of Greek as a language and of Greek-speakers as settlers in Greece. Their earlier history goes back another 1,000years or so, and is known only through archaeology.
PART ONE : Reading and Interpreting
1. Choose the title that you think is the most appropriate .
b - The conquests of Alexander the Great .
c - Democracy in Ancient Greece .
a - The Greek civilization .
2. Say whether the following statements are true or false according to the text .
a - The Greek civilization spread through the conquests of Alexander the Great .
b - Athens was not an important city in the Greek world .
c - Democracy was practiced by the Greeks .
d - The Greek did not know writing .
3. Answer the following questions according to the text .
a -What was the most important Greek city ?
b - How did the Greeks call a city ?
4. What do the underlined words refer to in the text ?
a - ……… its main centres … (§1)
b - This civilization arose…. (§2)
أقـلـب الصفحــــة 2/1 الصفحــــة /
5. Match words and their definitions .
Words Definitions
archaeology - the central and most important part of a particular place or activity
civilization - a state of human society that is very developed and organized .
hub - that can be reached , entered , used , seen , …etc
accessible - the study if cultures of the past , and of periods of history by examining the remains of buildings and objects found in the ground .
6.Complete the following chart .
Verb Noun Adj Adv
develop ……………. ……………..
…………… civilization ……………..
…………… …………… …………… practically
7. Give the opposite of these words keeping the same root .
certainly - practical - accessible - literate
8. Link the following pairs of sentences using the given connectors .
a - The Romans were conquerors . They learned a lot from the Greek heritage ( though )
b - The Greeks conquered Egypt . They built a great library there ( who )
9. Spot the mistake in each sentence and correct it .
a - Much different dynasties ruled Egypt aver almost 3000 years .
b - Greeks travelers borrowed cultured & scientific ideas from Ancient Egypt .
10. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of the final “ ed”
ruled - established - provided - invented - worshipped - occurred
/ d / / t / / id /
Section Three : Written expression
Choose ONE of the following topics .
Topic one : You have read a text about the Ancient Egyptian civilization .
- Write a summary of this text .
Topic Two : Write a composition in which you compare the life style in our modern
civilization with that of the past .
بـالتــوفيــق 2/2 الصفحــــة انتـهـــى
الموقع
العمل/الترفيه
