Anglais : Session 2015

BACCALAURÉAT DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT GÉNÉRAL

Épreuve de : ANGLAIS
Durée : 02 heures 30 minutes
Coefficient : Bonification ; Série C-D

TEXT: In the post 

Publicity is everywhere. It fills our letterboxes; it’s all our TV screens, our buses, our magazines, and even our clothes. We usually accept or ignore it. But it sometimes causes problems. Half of the post that arrives in our letterboxes is publicity. Ninety million trees are cut down to make the paper for it. Most of it goes in the bin without being read. American’s junk mail makes five million tons of rubbish every year, causing serious pollution problems. But in spite of that, we really get more you? Well, in the United States? they can. People just have to write to an organization called the Direct Marketing Association, saying that they don’t want to receive any publicity. D.M.A. will inform all done it already. And they’ve saved thousands of trees.

Extracted from Bernard LACOST Move up!

A- READING COMPREHENSION 

I- Find In text

1. The equivalent of “garbage”
2. The opposite of “to send”

II- Choose the best statement. referring to the text

I- Publicity makes people:

1. have a good environment.
2. pollute the environment.
3. save thousands of trees

II- The Direct Association can:

1. stop people making publicity.
2. stop big advertising companies receiving publicity.
3. stop big advertising companies sending publicity.

III- Say if the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answer 

1. The reasons why some people do not like publicity is that it disturbs their work in their post. 
2. People have lost too many trees for publicity. 

IV- Fill each of the blanks with a word from the text: 

1. We must plant ……to protect the soil from rainwater.  
2. There is no development…………science. 

V- Answer the following questions 

1. What principal problem is the text talking about? 
2. Why does publicity become a danger for people’s life? 

B- GRAMMAIR IN USE 

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate grammatical item:

Wastewater treatment saves millions upon millions of people from pathogenic infections …. (1) ………the past; typhoid, cholera…… (2) ……. other waterborne diseases ran rampant worldwide. Interesting modern treatments is ……… (3) ………naturel process often using little or ……… (4) ……. chemical additives.

C- INDIRECT TEST OF SPEAKING  

I- Make the following sentences more formal: 

1. Open the window. 
2. Do you want a cup of tea? 

II- Complete the following dialogue:

Deborah: You know Susan, Frank and I have decided to get married at last. 

Susan: Frank? I don’t know him, …………… (1) ……………?

Deborah: He is tall, with blue eyes and a rather long nose. 

Susan:     ……………… (2) …………………?

Deborah: He’s a doctor. By the way could you come to my wedding? 

Susan: …………… (3) ………………………(accepting).

D- WRITING 

The knowledge of English is a must in our days. What is your opinion about it? (In about 80 words)