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 - cooks - 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
موضوع: اختبار الفصل الثالث والاخير في الانجليزية للثالثة ثانوي تسيير واقتصاد 
الأربعاء مايو 12 2010, 18:34
