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Sciences
Part 1: Reading ( 15pt)
Read the text carefully then do the activities:
A) Comprehension: (08pts)
The marketing of junk food and fast food has become big business—some have called the food industry the next Tobacco. Companies spend top dollar on advertising to make us keenly aware of their products. The aggressive advertising is working, Pepsi spends an estimated $2.1 billion a year on marketing, McDonald’s $1.2 billion, and Coca-Cola is not far behind at $895 million.
The average child watches 10,000 food advertisements per year on television; most are for junk food and fast food—only 2% are for fruits, vegetables, or beans. Advertisements for junk food and fast food can also be seen in magazines, movies (through product placement), stores, the Internet, and even schools. What impact is this having on youth? Recent statistics indicate that 14% of children are now seriously overweight. 60% of overweight children between the ages of 5-10 years of age already have at least one risk factor for heart disease, including elevated blood cholesterol, blood pressure or increased insulin, and type 2 diabetes.
However, today’s youth, particularly girls, get mixed messages from the media. On one hand, they are bombarded daily with advertisements for junk food and fast food on television and magazines, yet the same magazines and television shows that serve up these ads also celebrate the waif look by portraying pencil-thin models. This has created a state of confusion and potential danger for many young women (and men). The National Eating Disorders Association estimates that 81% of 10-year-olds are afraid of being fat and between “5-10 million girls and women and 1 million boys and men are struggling with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or borderline conditions.”
1/ In which paragraph is it mentioned that
a) Junk food is as dangerous as smoking?
b) people gain weight at an early age because of food advertisements?

2/ Complete the following table with information from the text.
Food advertisements are
financed by found in/on the cause of
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- -
-
- -
-
-

3/ Answer the following questions according to the text.
a) Why do companies spend large sums of money on food advertisements?
b) What impact do food advertisements have on youth?
c) Why are many young women in a state of confusion?
d) Do you find the mixed messages from the media ethical? Why?
4/ What do the underlined words refer to in the text?
a) their (§1) b) most (§2) c) they (§3)



B) Text Exploration: (07pts)
1/ Find in the text words whose definitions follow.
a) the activity of attracting public attention to a product or business (§1)
b) having excessive fat in the body (§2)
c) a white crystalline substance found in animal tissues and various foods (§2)
d) eating disorder mainly loss of appetite (§3)
2/ Add an appropriate suffix “-tion, or –er, -ment, -ing” to each of the verbs below to form nouns: each suffix can be used once.
a) product b) watch c) consume d) move.
3/ Combine these pairs of sentences using the given connectors.
a) Many children are overweight. Advertisements on food. ( due to )
b) Young women buy any slimming product. Commercials on weight loss are convincing.(so...that)
c) You will get slim. You do exercise regularly. (provided that)
d) You consume an excessive amount of fatty food. You will be overweight. (if)
4/ Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final S.
a) products b) watches c) movies d) stores.

/s/ /z/ /iz/


5/ Complete the following dialogue.
A: Hello, have you heard about the new slimming pills on TV?
B: Sorry ? Slimming pills? …………………………………………………………………………………..
A: But the advertisements have shown real people before and after using them!
B: ………………………………………………………………………………
A: Oh! I thought I could get slim easily thanks to this new invention, but now I am afraid of using it.
B: Listen, you shoud……………………………………… and ………………
A: You are right, I think…………………………………………………………..... Thanks for your advice.
Part 2: Written Expression: (05pts)
Choose one of the following topics.
Topic 1.
You are the president of The National Eating Disorders Association and you are giving a speech to children and their parents explaining the impact of food advertisements on their health. Imagine your speech. The following words might help you:
Dangerous – unhealthy – diseases – sport – walk – reading – watching TV – exercise – *****ng – diet- water – fresh fruits and vegetables- fish- energy balance- anorexia- obesity-school performance.

Topic 2.

One of your friends was a victim of food poisoning, you went to visit him or her and had a discussion about food safety, imagine the conversation.



Sciences/GE
Part 1 Reading ( 15 pts)
A) Comprehension (08pts)
Read the text carefully and do the activities.

The health time bomb of obesity is exploding. Already one in three UK children is obese or overweight. Unless we act, by 2050 over half of adults and almost half of children will be clinically obese. Given that obesity takes, on average, 13 years from the life of sufferers, this could lead to the first fall in life expectancy for over 300 years.

A key cause of the obesity crisis is our poor diet. The vast majority of UK children consume too much salt, fat and sugar and almost all of them don't get enough fruits and vegetables. In addition to obesity, poor diet is causing a rise in diabetes, heart diseases and other health problems.

It is no coincidence that children eat the foods they see on advertisements. Marketers spend over £ 300 million on food promotion - almost always unhealthy - on TV before 9 pm, and this money is not wasted. Children and parents both say the constant marketing of funk food is one reason why they consume so much of it. In fact almost three- quarters of parents say that junk food advertising influences their children's food choice. Of course children's diets are the responsibility of their parents. But hard-pressed mums and dads need some help.

To ban junk food advertising before 9pm is the best way to protect children. Over 70 per cent of children's TV viewing is outside the hours of children's TV (when the government's advertising restrictions apply). The commercial TV programmes that children watch most are Ant & Dec, The X Factor and Coronation Street. Unless we protect children from TV adverts during these programmes we will not tackle the obesity crisis.

1. Are the following statements true or false?
a. One of the three children in UK is obese.
b. Diabetes, hearth diseases and other health problems are linked to obesity
c. Children eat food they see on TV.

2. Answer the following questions according to the text.
1) What is the key cause of obesity?
2) How much money do marketers spend on promoting food?
3) What should be done to protect children from consuming junk food?

3. What do the underlined words refer to in the text?
a. this (§ 1)
b. they (§3)
c. they (§ 4)





B.Text Exploration (07pts)
1. Find in the text words that are opposite in meaning to the following.

a. slim (§1) b. healthy (§3) c. inside (§4)

2. Add two more words to each list of words.

consumer trader ………… …………
tasting Eating ………… …………
never Generally ………… …………
soda pizza ………… …………

3. Complete sentence B so that it means the same as sentence A.

a. Unless we act now, half of the children will be clinically obese.
b. If we .................................................. ............................................
a. He said, ‘we must avoid junk food.’
b. He said that ......................................
a. It is possible to buy and eat fresh food.
b. We .................................................. ........

4. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final S.

advertisers - ****s - diseases - promotes - newspapers - packages

5. Complete the following dialogue.

A: What have we got for lunch, mum?
B: .................................................. ...........
A: But you know that I hate vegetables.
B:. .................................................. ...........
A: Well, you adults always say that.
B: .................................................. ......
A: In fact, it is so tasty to eat junk food.
B: .................................................. ...........
A: Don’t worry mum, I’m still young.
B: .................................................. ..........


Part 2. Written expression (5 pts)
Choose one of the following topics.
Topic 1.
The next decades are likely to bring about radical changes in our life styles. Fast food and junk food are invading our houses.
In a short paragraph, say why this happens and what consequences of such changes are.

Topic 2.
Are you personally concerned about the food you eat?
Name, in a short paragraph, the foods you won’t eat and give the reasons why.


S/M/GE
PART ONE: READING (15 points)
A. COMPREHENSION (08pts)
Read the passage carefully then do the activities.

The story is one of tragedy and fraud. It started in May 1981, when travelling salesmen in Northern and central Spain started selling cheap olive oil. They guaranteed that it was pure, and had sold vast quantities around Madrid, Valladolid and Leon, before anyone realized that it was wrong.

Like most Mediterranean countries, Spain uses olive oil in its *****ng. When people started falling ill in May, nobody suspected that it was the *****ng oil which was the cause of the illness. It was a medical mystery: doctors and scientists were completely baffled by the spread of the disease.

There were several theories about what was happening. At first, it was thought that bad fish had caused food poisoning, and later, that it was rotten fruit. It was until June that children’s doctor in Madrid made the connection between the sickness and the oil. Immediately, the government started issuing public warnings, and offered to take any suspect oil, giving pure oil exchange. This stopped the spread of the poison. But it was too late for the thousands of people who had already eaten the contaminated substance. People who had been affected could not eat or sleep, had pains all over their body, suffered headaches and fevers, and had difficulty in breathing. Some of them even died.

Doctors and scientists were still not sure what the poison was. The most popular theory was that a Spanish company imported some industrial oil from France, and tried to remove the impurities by boiling it at 200°C. They mixed it with a small amount of olive oil to give it a taste, and then sent it to the salesmen to sell as pure olive oil. When they boiled the oil, however, they created a new substance, which was poisonous and unknown to the medical authorities. At one time, twenty thousand people in Spain were analyzing the oil, trying to find a cure for the poison. By March 1982, they had still not found a way of curing the illness caused by the oil. The Spanish health Ministry admitted that all antidotes so far tried had been unsuccessful. While the medical authorities were carrying out the various analyses, the police arrested fourteen people suspected of being responsible for the oil poisoning.

Adapted from Modern English International
Number 5, May 1982


1. Choose the letter that best completes the sentence.
The text is...
a. descriptive.
b. narrative.

2. Say whether the following statements are true or false.
a. Many Mediterranean countries consume olive oil.
b. Food poisoning was caused by bad fish.
c. All the contaminated people died.
d. By March 1982, doctors were unable to cure the disease.



3. In which paragraph is it mentioned that...
doctors were uncertain about the nature of the poison?
4. What or who do the underlined words in the text refer to?
a. This stopped...
b. ...had pains all over their body...
B.TEXT EXPLORATION (07pts)


1. Find in the text words or phrases that are closest in meaning to the following.

a. amounts=.................(§.1)
b. puzzled =................(§.2)

2. Find in the text words that are opposites in meaning to the following .
a. received=/=.............(§.4)
b. released=/=..............(§.4)

3. Which noun can be derived from each given verb?
verbs nouns
contaminate ...........................
remove ...........................
offer ...........................
create ...........................


4. Ask questions that the underlined words answer.
a. It started in May 1981.
b. The Spanish use olive oil in their *****ng.
c. Doctors were baffled.

5. Put the verbs between brackets into the correct form.
a. Advertisements of unhealthy foods (be) harmful.
b. Markets may (examine) consumer behaviour.
c. Some people are fond of (****).
d. If she (eat) a lot of fat and sugar, she will put on weight.

6. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final “S”.
uses scientists thousands substances
/s/ /z/ /iz/


PART TWO : Written Expression ( 5 pts)
Choose one of the following topics.

Topic 1.
A friend of yours is obese; he faces many difficulties in his daily life. Use the following notes to write a paragraph of about 80 to 120 words on the causes and the effects of obesity.
• eating a lot of fat and sugary
• consuming wrong kind of food
• lack of practising sport
• appearance of different diseases
• increase in the feeling of inferiority
Topic 2.
Are you for or against advertisements for fast food? Write a paragraph of about 80 to 120 words giving your reasons
Science
PART ONE (15pts)

A) Comprehension. (08pts)
Read the text carefully then do the activities.
The Children Who Don’t Know Chips From Potatoes

They are a staple part of the majority of children’s daily diets, but incredibly more than one in three youngsters don’t know that chips come from potatoes. Almost a tenth of those asked the question thought they were made of oil while others bizarrely believed they came from eggs, flour or apples. Children’s ignorance of food source was discovered in a survey of pupils aged between 8 and 16 made by the British Health Foundation.
When a group of children were asked by a chef to identify various fruits and vegetables, they were confused. However all of them were able to identify fast-food chain restaurants like Mcdonald’s,Quick and Pizza Hut from their logos
In the British Health Foundation survey 36 percent of the children claimed they did not know that chips were made from potatoes and a similar number didn’t realize cheese came from milk.
Kids have lost touch with even the most basic foods and no longer understand what they are eating. Banning junk foods or telling children not to eat them is not enough. We must engage children in understanding why certain foods are less healthier than others, and encourage them to become interested in what’s on their plate. This campaign is about talking to children in their ******** so that they think about what they eat and start demanding healthier foods.

Daily Mail, November 7th ,2017. p.7
1. The text is:

a.-a newspaper article
b.a radio news report.

2 . Choose the answer that best completes each sentence.

A) The children thought chips consisted of other ingredients but…………..
a. eggs b. potatoes c. flour.
B ) The aim of the compaign is to make children…………..their food.
a.know about b. refuse c. buy
C) Banning foods is not the suitable………………
a. ad b. solution c. manner

3 . Answer the following questions according to the text.

a. Do a lot of children eat chips?
b. What were chips made from according to those children?
c. What are McDonald’s and Quick?

4. Choose the general idea of the text.

a. Children’s knowledge of food source.
b. Children’s ignorance of food source.

B) TextExploration. (07pts)

1. Find in the text words that are closest in meaning to:
a. everyday (§1)
b. children (§4)


2. Complete the table below .

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE
noise ////////////////////////// ………………..
………………… ………………… motivated
hunger ////////////////////////// …………………

3. Rewrite each pair of sentences with the following connectors: (as a result - so )

a. He is obese because he eats fatty food.
e. Since you eat fresh fruit, you’ll stay healthy.

4. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Children love (drink ) fizzy drinks. If parents don’t stop (buy) them, the children (suffer)
from many health problems


6. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final –S.
a) choices b) chips c) potatoes d) diets
/ S / / Z / / IZ /



7. This is a conversation between two consumers. Imagine what A is saying.
A: ……………………............................
B : I think that adverts are not good at all.
A: …………………….......................................... ....................
B : Well, because they cause stress and a feeling of frustration
A: …………………….......................................... ............................
B : I mean that we can not buy all the nice thing that are advertised


PART TWO. Written Expression (5points )
Choose one of the following topics.
Topic 1.
Some people like eating in fast food restaurants while others refuse this idea. Write about the arguments of each group? What about you?
Using the notes below to write your paragraph:
No effort –food ready -time saving –sit and eat –pleasure to be served – unhealthy - restaurants dirty- food not delicious.

Topic 2.
Write an opinion article about the following topic.
Do you agree with advertisements that appear on TV between shows or films and also interrupt the programme at intervals? Do you believe in what they say?


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