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************ EXAMENS BLANCS 2024
DÉLÉGATION RÉGIONALE PROBATOIRE A4/C/D/TI : ANGLAIS
DES ENSEIGNEMENTS SECONDAIRES
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Coef: 4(A4)
3(C/D/TI)

ANGLAIS
ANSWERS ALL THE QUESTIONS

SECTION A: GRAMMAR (10 marks)

l. Complete the dialogue between a student and her teacher with appropriate expressions formed
with: the words in the brackets. (5 marks)

Student: Please sir, for the past one month people (1) _________________________(talk) about good
governance. What does it mean?
Teacher: It is a new idea. Good governance (2) _________________________(practice) in our families,
in schools, at home work, in short everywhere.
Student: How can good governance be practiced in our school?
Teacher: When we come early to school, pass our examination
without(3) ____________________(cheat).
When you are honest, hardworking and polite, it is good governance.
Student: Let’s look at good governance in the country.
(4)
Teacher: When you are free to elect your leader. If they don't perform _____________________
(good).
you (5) _____________________________ (not re-elect) them. Transparency is also good governance.
Bribery and corruption is bad governance.

II. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the word in the brackets. (5 marks)
1- Computer illiteracy is the ___________________________ thing for anybody in this modern age
(bad).
2- Modern technology has ___________________________ communication easier for everyone (to
make)
3- The dream of many young people is to have their own computers. I believe that if they have
computers, they __________________________ emails to their friends and carry out research using
the internet (Write)

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 4- Some youths prefer____________________________ smart phones to computers because of their
love for the social media. (to buy)
5- Alexis told me that he___________________________ using the social media because it is
unreliable. (not like)

SECTION B: VOCABULARY (10 marks)

I. To complete each sentence, choose the appropriate word from those in the brackets. (5marks)
1. Most companies provide ________________________ and services to their customers. (goods,
cargo, business, allowance)
2. During _______________________ sales the articles go to the highest bidders. (public, seized,
auction, open)

3. In small market shops customers buy articles from ________________________. (details, sailor,
clients, retailers)
4. Though government has privatized our electricity company, it still has many
_____________________ in it. (parts, quota, dividends, retailers)
5. After _______________________ with the seller, I bought two bags of rice at a reduced price.
(agreeing, bargaining, conniving, tiring)

II. Use a word of your own to complete each sentence so that it makes sense. (5 marks)
1. Kelvin has always failed in his life, he has never known___________________________
2. I do not have money anymore, I have to __________________________ some money from my
friend. He always lends me some money whenever I do not have any.
3. I have forgotten all of my friend’s telephone numbers. I have to look for them in the
telephone___________________________
4. If you want to make a phone call, you should first of all ___________________________a
number
5. My father earns a very low salary. That is why he often goes to the bank to get a
____________________________to pay our school fees.

SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION (10 marks)

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Use correct English
sentence, as for as possible, your own words.
For decades, Ebola haunted rural African villages like some mythic monster that every few years
rose to demand a human sacrifice and then returned to its cave. It reached the West only in nightmare
form, a Hollywood horror film that makes eyes bleed and organs dissolve and doctors despair because
they have no cure.
But 2014 is the year an outbreak turned into an epidemic, driven by the very progress that has
paved roads and raised cities and lifted thousands out of poverty. This time it reached crowded slums in
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 Liberia, Guinea and Siena Leone; it travelled to Nigeria and Mali, to Spain, Germany and the U.S. It
struck doctors and nurses, in unprecedented numbers, wiping out a public-health infrastructure that was
weak in the first place. One August day in Liberia, six pregnant women lost their babies when hospitals
couldn't admit them for complications. Anyone willing to treat-Ebola victims ran the risk of becoming
one.
There was little to stop the diseases from spreading further. Governments weren’t equipped to
respond; the World Health Organization was in denial. First responders were accused of crying wolf, even
as the danger grew. But the people in the field, the special forces of Doctors without Borders (DWB), the
Christian medical relief workers of Samar-Ram's Purse and many others from all over the world fought
side-by-side with local doctors and nurses, ambulance drivers and burial teams.
Ask what pushed them, and some talk about God; some about country; some about the instinct to
run into the fire, not away. “If someone from America comes to help my people and someone from
Uganda,” says Iris Manor, a Liberian nurse, “then why can’t l?” Foday Gallah, an ambulance driver who
survived infection, calls his immunity a holy gift. “I want to give my blood so a lot of people can be
saved,” he says. “I am going to fight Ebola with all of my might."
DWB nurse’s assistant, Salome Karwah stayed at the bedsides of patients, bathing and feeding
them, even after losing both her parents - who ran a medical clinic - in a single week and surviving Ebola
herself. "it looked like God gave me a second chance to help others,” she says. Tiny children watched
their parents die. and no one could so much us embrace them. because embraces could kill. ‘You soc
people facing death without their loved ones, only with people in space suits," says DWB president Dr.
Joanne Liu. “You should not die alone with spacesuit men."
Those who contracted the disease encountered pain like they had never known. “It hurts like they
are busting your head with an axe. “ Karvah says. One doctor overheard his funeral being planned. Asked
if surviving Ebola changed him, Dr. Kent Brantly turns the question around. “l still have the same faults
that I did before", he says. “But whenever we go through a devastating experience like what l’ve been
through, it is an incredible opportunity for improvement of something. We can say, “How can l be better
now because of what I’ve been through? Not to do that is kind of a shame.”
The Choice by Nancy Gibbs
Called from Time Magazine Dec 22/Dec 29 2014

Questions
l) How was Ebola considered in rural Africa? ( 2mks) ____________________________________
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2) In which year did Ebola become an epidemic? (0.5mk). How was it epidemic? (1,5 mks)
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3) Name any two difficulties encountered in the fight against Ebola. ( 2mks)
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 4) What motivated those who are fighting this disease? (1mks)
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5)Describe how an Ebola patient feels. (2mks)

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SECTION D: COMPOSITION (10 marks)

Write an essay of between 150 and 180 words in any ONE of the following topics.
1. Your best friend, Sanda Mohamadou, wrote a letter to you telling you about the many problems
they have concerning health. They lack poor drinking water and there is a cholera outbreak. They eat
poorly and many have developed diseases. Write a reply to this letter. In your reply, imagine that you are
medical personnel. Give him advice on how to purify drinking water, what to do with sick cases and what
to eat to stay healthy. You are called Minkoulou David, and you live in Limbé.

2. “Social media brings us closer together.” This is a topic of debate in the English Club of your
school. Write an essay expressing what the social media is, how it brings people together and how it
separates people.

3. You attended your friend’s birthday party. You liked certain aspects and did not like some.
Write an essay narrating the events that took place, bringing out what you liked and did not liked and how
you can improve on aspects you did not like. Your friend’s name is Andela.

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