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de l’Education nationale

INSPECTION D’ACADEMIE DE KAOLACK

COMPOSITION DU PREMIER SEMESTRE 2024/2025

DISCIPLINE : ANGLAIS NIVEAU : TLVI DUREE : 3 HEURES

PRENOM(S) ET NOM DE L’ELEVE : ……………………………………………………………………………………..

CLASSE: ……………………………………………………

TEXT: Smoking and your Health

I believe smoking is one of the greatest dangers to young people today. While the percentage of American
high school students smoking cigarettes has fallen, while the sales of cigarettes in the United States have also
gone down, the problem has become worse and worse in many other countries. American companies spend
millions of dollars advertising cigarettes all over the world, and young people believe the message. The
advertisements tell them that smoking is cool, sophisticated, sexy, and done by attractive people. Smoking is
the best way to attract a lover. This is what too many young people believe, but this is not the truth. What is
the real truth about smoking cigarettes? The real truth is that smoking cigarettes is the fastest road to pain,
suffering, incredible medical bills, and an early death. Is that gift you want to give your family?

You may ask, what is it that makes smoking so dangerous? Actually, there are three deadly parts of the
smoke you breathe in when you smoke cigarettes. They are nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide. Nicotine is
what makes you want to smoke, but it is not what hurts you the most. Tar is also found in tobacco smoke, and
it is the major cause of lung disease and cancer. The third part of cigarette smoke is carbon monoxide. This
chemical hurts the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. It can cause disease of the blood pathways called arteries.

How about the effects of smoking over a long period of time? People who continue are in danger of getting
many serious diseases. These include chronic bronchitis, heart disease, lung cancer, and many other kinds of
cancer as well. According to the American Cancer Society, cigarette smoking is responsible for 87 percent of
lung cancer cases, and causes 30 percent of all over cancer deaths. There are many long, slow and painful
deaths from what many people think of as just a bad habit. When you add the gigantic medical costs of
hospitals, special treatments, medication, and doctor’s care, the tragedy of smoking gets even bigger. Even
with insurance, families can lose everything they have when one member dies from cancer or lung disease.
Companies lose money, too. When they lose workers, their work slows down. It’s not a pretty picture.

Yet, one more cost of destruction from smoking is not possible to calculate in terms of money. That cost is
emotional. When a family loses a parent or a brother or a sister, everyone suffers from the sadness and
personal loss. Please, the next time you think of lighting up a cigarette, don’t think about being cool or
fashionable. Don’t think about being one of the trendy people, and don’t think about your short-term
pleasures, either. Remember your family, your friends, and all the people who care about you.

Adapted from Words in Motion: An Interactive Approach to Writing.By David Olsher. 1996. NewYork:
Oxford University Press, p. 9
 I- READING COMPREHENSION: (8marks)

A- Vocabulary in context: 2marks

1) Which word in the first paragraph means the same as decreased? …………………………

2) Which word in the second paragraph means the same as mortal? …………………………

3) Pick from the last paragraph two adjectives that have the same meaning: …………………………….
== …………………………………..

B- Find in the text 3 diseases associated with smoking: 1.5marks

Diseases

4. ………………………………………………………..

Smoking

5. ………………………………………………………..

6. ………………………………………………………..

C- This statement is TRUE. Justify it by quoting a specific passage from the text.1marks)

7. Not all the costs of smoking can be financially calculated.

Justification: …………………………………………………………………………………

D- Complete the table with the right information from the text: 2.5marks

Substances Effects

8).……………………………………………..

Carbone monoxide

9).……………………………………………….
 10).………………………….. lung cancer

11).…………………………………………………………….

Nicotine makes you feel good in a few minutes

E- What do the following words or phrases refer to in the text? 1mark

12) this chemical (P1) refers to ……………………………………………………

13) Their(P3) refers to ……………………………………………………………….

II- COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: 6marks

F- Word building: Use the correct form of the words in brackets to complete this paragraph
(2marks)

Beware! Cigarette smoking is bad. It is very 14 (danger) ………………….for your health, because
when you smoke many cigarettes a day, it will 15 (hurt)………….………your lungs. Cigarette smoking
causes a lot of diseases; and it can even be responsible for your 16 (die)……………So, I suggest you
should stop smoking if you don’t want to 17 (destruction)………………your life.

G- Dialogue completion: Select the best words from this list to complete meaningfully this
dialogue between Pape and Ndiaga.( 2marks)

Started –don’t stop smoking -have been smoking –die

Pape: I like smoking. It makes me feel grown-up.

Ndiaga: Be careful! Cigarette smoking kills 2.5million people every year. Many of them
18
………………………from lung cancer.

Pape:19 I …………………….smoking when I was 12 years old. Really, I don’t believe all that stuff
about smoking and lung cancer.

Ndiaga: You mean that you 20 …………………………………for 20 years now.

Pape: Anyway; I am not going to stop.

Ndiaga: If you 21…………………………………………….…you’ll die painfully.

H- Functions and notions: Match the following sentences with their corresponding functions.
2marks

Reproach – recommendation – prohibition –possibility–obligation

SENTENCES FUNCTIONS

22-Pape had better stop smoking to preserve his health a-……………………….

23-No smoking here! b-……………………….

24-Pape suffers from cancer, he should have given up c-……………………….

smoking.

25-The authorities have to set up severe measures to fight d-……………………….

against smoking in public places.

e-……………………….

III- WRITING: (6marks)

Choose one topic.

Topic 1: Papis smokes a lot! He thinks that smoking has good effects but his friend Abdou insists
on the negative aspects of cigarettes. Imagine and write down their conversation.

Topic 2: Write a letter to the Minister of Health to complain about the dangers of cigarette
smoking.

ANSWER KEY TL LV1

Smoking and your health

I- READING COMPREHENSION: 8marks

A- Vocabulary in context: 1= fallen or gone down 2= deadly 3= fashionable /trendy

B- 3 diseases associated with smoking:

Diseases

Smoking 4- cancer

5- lung disease

6-arteries

7- C- True or False: 5- (line 27/28 “Yet one more cost of destruction….in terms money”)

D- Right information from the text:

Substances Effects

Carbon monoxide 8- hurts the blood’s ability

9- arteries

10-Tar Lung cancer

11-stimulates your heart and nerves

nicotine - makes you want to smoke

E- References: 12- this chemical refers to carbon monoxide 13- their refers to companies

II- COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: 6marks

F- Word building:

14= dangerous 15= hurt 16= death 17= destroy

G- Dialogue completion:

18= die 19= started 20= have been smoking 21= you don’t stop

H- Notions and functions:

22= recommendation 23= prohibition 24= reproach 25= obligation

III- WRITING: 6marks

Content: 1pt Coherence : 1pt Language: 1pt

Organization: 1pt Originality: 1ptcohesion: 1pt