1. Underline the
right option
The text is about :
a. a school for white pupils.
b. The state of education in a school in a given
city.
c. Martin Luther King.
d. exams.
2. Has anybody told the writer to visit schools in the city ? Who ? What
for ?
Yes / school officials /
to see education at its very best.
3. Is Clark Junior High School really a good school ? Justify your
answer with only two details from
the text.
No
- Four of 14 ceiling lights
are broken.
- The corridor is filled
with voices.
- No schoolyard.
- 30 children in a space
made for 15.
4. Are all the students interested in the lesson ? Justify your answer
with two details from the text.
No - three students near me sleep through the
entire period - she is polishing her nails.
5. Tick the right answer (×) and justify your choice.
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x |
1. a useless duty to
perform ; |
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2. an important thing
to do ;
3. a way to improve the situation of the blacks ;
4. a significant event.
Justification : It does begin to seem perfunctory.
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6. Tick the right answer (×).
When she says, "it's like a terrible joke on history," she means :
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a- the speech ; |
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b- Dr King ; |
x |
c- The fact that the
school is named for Dr. King. |
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7. Tick (×) the two adjectives that best describe the black
pupils and justify your choice by means of short quotations from the text :
On the whole, the young black pupils seem :
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Quotations from the text
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a- confident in the future.
x b- irritated.
c- enthusiastic.
x d-
disappointed. |
1- Couldn't they find ....... poison ?
or why are all the dirty businesses here ? or a
school ....... but full of sewer water.
2- It's like a terrible joke on history.
- every student ...... is black.
- It does seem perfunctory.
- a school ..... but full of sewer water.
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8. Find the two words that mean the following:
a. he is giving his time and effort to his students (paragraph 2)
devoted
b. periods of ten years (paragraph 4)
decades
9. Underline the right option :
Sewer water (paragraph 6) is :
a. used water
b. sea water
c. drinking water
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