MIhoub Abdelbaki Middle School, Oued Lili, Tiaret Thurday,November24th,2011
FIRST FINAL EXAM MS2 10:30 to 12:00
) 1791 – 1867 ) Michael Faraday Text :
Michael Faraday was born on September 22nd,1791 in Newington England, near
London. He was the second of four children in the family. His family was poor. When Michael was young, he asked questions continually to the point that his teachers and his father wanted him to stop questioning.
In 1821 , he invented the first electric motor with a wire turning around a magnet.He
refused to teach in the the University of London , continued his experiments and
developed the first dynamo in 1845. In 1861,he retired because his memory was so
poor. He died on August 25th,1867.
Section One: I/READING COMPREHENSION: (07 Pts.)
a)Read the text carefully and answer the following questions:( 03 Pts.)
1/ Was Faraday an English scientist?
2/ What did he invent?
3/ Did he have three brothers?
b) Fill in the table with information from the text: (02Pts.)
Dates of inventions death birth country Name
Faraday
c)LEXIS: Find in the text words or phrases opposite in meaning to the following words: (02Pts.) 1/ old ≠---------- 2/stopped≠----------- 3/ was born≠----------- 4/answered≠-----------
II/MASTERY OF LANGUAGE: (07 Pts.)
a) Use capital letters where necessary : ( 02 Pts.)
faraday liked the experiments of benjamin franklin and volta.
b) Write the correct form of the verbs: ( 02 Pts.)
1/ Pupils always ( to do ) Faraday's experiments at school.
2/ Faraday ( to be ) very famous in 1822.
c)Turn the following sentence in the negative form: (01Pt.)
He asked questions to his teachers.
d)Sort out verbs according to the pronunciation of the final ( ed ) : (02 Pts.)
retired- asked – wanted -developed
/ id/ / d / / t /
Section Two: WRITTEN EXPRESSION: ( 06Pts.)
Fill in the gaps with six of the following words to get a short biography of Louis Pasteur :
discovered - and - poor - vaccine- surname - boy - He - biologist
Louis Pasteur was a famous chemist and ----------.He was born in 1822 in Dole, France. -------studied at the Royal College in Besançon ------------- received the doctorate degree in 1847 there. Later, he married Marie Laurent and had five children with her. He ---------the first vaccine for rabies in 1885.This -----------saved a nine-year-old----------- Joseph Meister. Pasteur died on September 28th ,1895.
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