Moudaa El-Hachemi Secondary School Level: 2nd Year L/ Ph
Duration: 2 Hours School Year: 2024-2025
First Term English Exam
Part One: Reading (15 pts)
/A. Comprehension (7 pts)
Read the text carefully and do the following activities.
Discrimination happens when a person is treated less favourably than another. This unhuman
behaviour often causes disputes between people that come from different ages, races, ethnicities, cultural
backgrounds or even towards people with disabilities. In recent years, more and more cases of
discrimination have been reported than ever, this is due to the big diversity in communities, schools and
workplaces.
In the workplace, there are often regulations that protect employees; however, discrimination may
still exist directly or indirectly, and things become worse when one doesn’t know his own rights.
Sometimes, right-abusive companies recruit women to do the same job as men, only to pay them less
because they are a different gender, other times they prevent black people from climbing the promotion
ladder because they perceive them as an inferior race, let alone recruiting children to work in bad
conditions for a low income because they do not know and cannot defend their rights.
Human rights organizations and labour unions are required to collaborate more often nowadays to
sensitize people about the abuse of human rights in the workplace, and also to spot and punish those
who deliberately practice such behaviours to remain in possession of wealth and power. As long as
everyone is united in the fight campaign against discrimination in the workplace, we remain optimistic
that the end of this phenomena is closer than ever.
Adapted from: https://employsure.com.au/guides/discrimination-harassment-and-bullying/discrimination
1. Choose the right answer. The text is about:
a-Discrimination and its Different Forms.
b-Discrimination towards the Black Race.
c-The Role of international organizations in fighting discrimination.
2. Say whether the following statements are True or False
a-Discrimination fosters relationships between people.
b-The reported cases of discrimination have decreased recently.
c-In the workplace, employees may be discriminated directly or indirectly.
e-Doing the same job as others with a lower payment is an abuse of human rights.
3. Answer the following questions according to the text
a. Why have the rates of social discrimination grown recently?
b. What are the various forms of right abuse in business?
c. Is the battle of fighting human rights abuse limited to only human rights organizations? Justify
4. Find what or who the underlined words in the text refer to.
a. This (§1) b. They (§2)
B/Text Exploration (8 pts)
1. Find in the text words or phrases that are closest in meaning to the following
a. Hire (§2) = b. revenue (§2) =
2. Divide the following words into roots and affixes
Disabilities – malpractices – abusive- discrimination
3. Complete sentence B so that it has the same meaning as sentence A
a. Human rights organizations managed to fight racial discrimination.
b. Human rights organizations…………………………………………………………….
a. It is obligatory to join the anti-discrimination associations
b. We………………………………………………………………………………………
a. It is prohibited to treat people differently based on their skin colour
b. You …………………………………………………………………………………….
4. Fill in each gap with the appropriate word from the list given.
Black people - race - allowed - prejudice - freely
Social discrimination refers to the unfair treatment or ……….against certain groups based on
factors such as social status, ethnicity, or………. It has direct and indirect deep consequences on
society as a whole and individuals. A society where discrimination is……….. or tolerated is a
society where people are deprived from exercising………. their rights.
Part Two: Written Expression Choose ONLY one topic (5pts)
Topic One
Peace is a fundamental precondition for social and economic development . Write a composition
of about 80 to 100 words in which you inform your classmates about how to live in peace. Use
the following notes
Solving problems peacefully with negotiations.
Democracy, freedom, equality, justice and brotherhood between people.
Spreading peace principles. / Teaching the importance of peace
Practice understanding and solidarity/ support peace advocates
Participating and joining peace associations.
TOPIC TWO: Bullying is a bad behaviour which harms others. Write a composition of about 60 to
80 to raise awareness about how to deal with and avoid it. (Use modals of ability and obligation)
