بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينيـــةPalestinian National Authority
وزارة التربية و التعليم العالي Ministry of Education and Higher Education
General Secondary Certificate Sample Test
Date:……….. اللغة الإنجليزية – الورقة الأولى English ********
Total Marks (75) Paper One Time: 2.30
This paper includes Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary:
I. Reading Comprehension )40 marks)
1. Read the following passage then answer the questions below:
The future is always hard to see clearly until it has become the present or, better, the past. One thing is very clear, though: we face a world of increasing change in ways that we live and work. What will tomorrow's world of work will be like for people who are trying to prepare for it today? We have to try to look into the future in order to be ready for it.
The key point is globalisation. This brings us all many benefits. The food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the machines and energy we use are often imported from far away. Globalization takes other forms, too. Cheap, rapid, modern telecommunications also move ideas, news and data around the world in seconds. However, globalised manufacturing is certainly not all good news. The shock of cheap goods, often from the Far East, has destroyed whole industries in other parts of the world because they cannot compete. In their fight to do so, many organisations have moved their own operations to regions with lower costs- again generally in the Fr East.
a. Answer the following questions: - ( 16 points)
1. What is the only thing that we are sure about in the future?
2. What do we have to do in order to be ready for the future?
3. What benefits does globalization bring us?
4. What are the other forms of globalization?
5. Why don't we have to travel?
6. Why does cheap globalised manufacturing often cause great damage??
7. What does the underlined pronoun It refer to?
8. Why do many organisations move their business to the Far East?
b. Choose the correct answer from a, b, c, or d : ( 6 points)
9. According to the passage we can see the future more clearly when it becomes---------------..
a. new b. past c. near d. soon
10. The closest meaning for the word "organisations" in line ten is ……………..
a. countries b. people c. companies d. workers
11. According to the passage many organisations move to the Far East regions because of their-------
a. excellent goods b. lower costs c. shock d. competition
c. Find from the passage: (8 points)
12. A word that means: a. information ………..… b. industry ………………..
c. fast ………………….. d. products ….……………….
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