Daghoussa Secondary School.

Level: 1st year Scientific ENGLISH EXAM N3

Part 1: Reading: Read the text carefully then do the activities.
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27 th, 1822 in Dole in France. He was the son of humble
parents. His father was a tanner. As a boy he was in no way unusual. His teachers described him a
good average pupil and one who never affirmed anything of which he was not absolutely sure. His
father worked hard and was able to send him to the Ecole Normale in Paris to study Chemistry.Later;
he did advanced work at the Sorbonne. (1)
In1849, Pasteur got a job as assistant teacher at Strasbourg University where he began his
work on fermentation. There, he also met his future wife Marie who patiently helped him with his
experiments. In 1860, he went back to Paris where he was appointed as Director of Science .Pasteur
worked on pasteurization, a process named after him. This consists of heating liquid food to 55 C to
destroy bacteria.(2)
In 1863, Pasteur became a member of French Academy of Medicine. In 1865, Louis went to Ales,
in the south of France where he investigated the disease of silkworm which was ruining the French
silk industry. His research saved the centre silk industry of the country. Three years later, despite
serious health problems, Pasteur continued his research on microbes while experimenting with
chicken cholera .He found out that people could be protected against diseases by injecting them with
weakened microbes.(3)
From 1882 to 1885, he devoted himself to research on rabies, a deadly disease spread by the bite
of rabid animals such as dogs. In 1887, he was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Academy of
science. He died in Paris at the age of 73.(4)
A): Comprehension and Interpretation .
1/ Write the letter which corresponds to the right answer, The text is:
A story B- an article C a biography

2/ Are these statements true or false according to the text?

A/Pasteur started his work on fermentation at Strasbourg.

B/Pasteurisation is heating liquid food on 55 C to destroy bacteria

C/Pasteur could not save the center of silk industry.

3/ Answer the following questions according to the text:

A*was Louis Pasteur born to a rich family?

B* What characterized Pasteur the pupil?

C*When did he discover that injecting people with wakened microbes is a way to protect
them against diseases?.

4/What or who do the underlined words refer to in the text?

His (1) there (2) them (3)

5/Fill in a table from the text.

Inventor Date /place of birth His works Date/place of death
Louis Pasteur

B/TEXT EXPLORATION

1*Find in the text words that are synonyms of the following:

Called=..(2) illness=(3)

2*Classify the following in the table

Unusual- heating- research-disappearance

prefix root suffix

3*Connect the pair of sentencesusing the connectors between brackets.Make changes

where necessary.

1-Louis Pasteur is famous all over the world./Everybodyknows about Louis Pasteur.(so..that)

2-Alexander Fleming formulated the penicillin./He was from Scotland.(who)

4*Fill in the blanks with words from the list

Disease-experimented-experiments-dogs-dog-virus

To get supplies of virus, Pasteur kept mad.(1)in his laboratory which was dangerous
thing to do.If a.(2) had rubies,even a drop of its spit on a cut or scratch mean
death.After many dangerous.(3),he found out that the virus was strongest in the
spiral cord of diseased animals.He was able to breed the ..(4) and inject it to healthy
animals so thatwould catch the disease.

5*Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of its final ed

Invented-studied-announced-helped
/t/ /d/ /id/

PART 2: WRITTEN EXPRESSION (5marks)

Choose one of the following topics:
TOPIC 1:
Use the notes below about Albert Einstein and write a short biography .
*Name: Albert Einstein
*Date and place of birth:1879/Germany
*The discovery:Theory of relativity.
*Date of discovery:1905
*Jobs and rewards:
- to become Professor in1909
-member of the Institute for Advanced stydy from1933 to 1945
-To get Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922
*Date of death:1955.
TOPIC2:
Write a short paragraph to talk about the invention of the telephone.