ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT
Ministry of Education
General Secondary Education Certificate Examination, 2003
( First Stage - second Session )
First Foreign Language : ENGLISH (1) Time : 3 hours



1-Supply the missing parts in the following dialogue:
Tarek and three of his friends are going to spend a week in Sharm El Sheikh. Tarck is phoning the hotel receptionist to book rooms.
Receptionist : A! Salam Hotel. Can 1 help you?
Tarck: ............(!).............
Receptionist :Ok. sir. Single or double? Double, please. ............(2)............?
Tarck: For one week. Six nights, please.
Receptionist :The rate is LE 30 per night for one room. Is that OK, sir?
Tarck: Yes. (hat's Fine ............ (3) ............?
Receptionist :Certainly, sir. What sort of card is it?
Tarck: It's a Visa card.
Receptionist : ............(4)............?
Tarck: The name is T. A. Morsy and the number is 118 967 75.
Receptionist : Thank you Mr. Morsy. Your rooms are booked.

1. Say where these mini. dialogues take place and who the speakers are
Place:……………
Speaker A:………
Speaker B:………

1) A : How was your flight. sir?
B : Excellent.
A : Welcome back to Egypt.


Place:……………
Speaker A:………
Speaker B:………

2) A : May I get in, sir?
B : You are late.
A : Sorry, sir. 1 won't be late again.


3- Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:
1 - Environmental conditions arc necessary in ......... buildings.
a) damaging b) demolishing c) designing d) destroying
2 - You can see what you are typing on the .........
a) net b) screen c) web d) keyboard
3 - The eagle ......... the same nest every year.
a) returns to b) turns c) returns d) turns to

4 - I'm bored ..... . this book. I think I'll read another one.
a) with b) to c) from d) at
5 - If he hadn't bought a car, he ......... that accident.
a) didn't hove b) wouldn't have had
c) would have d) wouldn't have
6 - The meeting, started with a reception just to ……...... the ice.
a) break b) break down c) break- in d) break out
7 - The summer Olympic Games take place ......... four years.
a) each b) every c) within d) all
8 - Cars arc twice as ......... as they were a few years ago.
a) more expensive, b) most expensive.
c) expensive d) less expensive.
9 - Tourists come to The Red Sea holiday ......... to sec the fishing villages.
a) rivers b) resorts c) roubles d) reefs
10- I would be ......... if you could type this for me.
a) blamed b) bored c) terrified d) grateful
11-Atomic bombs produce deadly ..........
a) fossil b) infrared c) radiation d) thunder storm
12- Nobody knows the ......... of his death.
a) reason b) operation c) cause d) function
13-She couldn't understand ......... he said.
a) what b) why c) who d) which
14- ......... the students are studying French, no one speaks it well.
a) Because b) Unless c) Although d) In spite of
15- My aunt is amazing. She worked full-lime as a doctor and ....... up five
children.
a) raised b) look c) sent d) brought
16- I am very ......... because there is an organic fanner in my village.
a) good b) lucky c) fortunately d) unlucky


4- Rewrite the following sentences, using the words in brackets, to give the same meaning:
1-Last week we went to the club and the cinema. (besides)
2 -Ali said that Huda had broken the window. ( accused )
3 -Please clean the kitchen after preparing dinner. ( grateful )
4 -My mother gave me a gold ring for my birthday. ( received )
5 -I'll be angry with you if you don't come. ( unless)

5. Read the following passage and complete the notes:
Joseph Lister was born in 1827, the son of a rich British merchant. After graduation, Lister worked as a surgeon. Lister 'was shocked at the number of people who died after surgery. He came across Pasteur's findings about bacteria in the air. At first surgeons worked in ordinary clothes with dirty instruments. Lister discovered carbolic acid which would kill bacteria in wounds and maybe in the air of the operating room. He used carbolic acid in dressings on wounds and heat to kill bacteria on surgical instruments.
Nationality
His job
Father's job
What shocked him
Problem
Solutions
1
2
3
4
5
6

6. Read the following passage and answer the questions:
Video and television are responsible for the declining interest in reading among the young. While they may be harmless in themselves, they do nothing to build up reading skills. If some of the hours children spend watching television were devoted to reading, the population would be better educated. Watching a story is a totally passive pastime. Someone else has made the decisions about everything in the story. Reading a story is an active partnership between writer and reader. Ideas arc sketched and the mind of the reader creates the rest. Watching something is easier.
The problem is that many children read very slowly. They decode a page or two in a class and about the same again for homework. It is hardly surprising that such children then declare that they find reading boring and prefer to watch television. Their difficulty is not reading the words - it is interpreting them. They need to be able to read fast enough to feed the mind's hunger for a story. That means practice. Only by reading daily will a child become a strong and independent reader.
Parents need to be convinced of the importance of preventing their children from wasting their hours on inert viewing. Without the television the child is likely lo turn to books for entertainment
Answer
1 - What is the writer's main objection to video and TV ?
2- Why is watching a story easier than reading it ?
3- How can children be good readers ?
4- The writer believes that visual images, such as watching television,
spoil the imagination. Do you agree ? Why?
Choose
5- The underlined pronoun "they" refers to ..........
a) the young b) video & television c) children d) reading skills
6- The writer say that the population would be better educated if children .......... .
a) do their homework, b) watch TV.
c) read much. d) read slowly
7- According to the writer's view, TV is .......... means of entertainment.
a) not an effective b) an encouraging c) an effective d) not a cheap

7- The Novel
J- Where do spiders usually live ?
2- What difficulties did Wafaa and the officer face in Sinai ?
3- Why didn't the bites of the female spider kill Ayman ?

4- Read the following quotation, then answer the questions:
" Keep very still, Lamia. I want to take a photo."
1- Who said these words ?
2- Why did the speaker ask Lamia not to move ?
3- What happened to the speaker after taking the photo ?
5- Complete the following sentences:
1- In the second Wadi in Sinai, the cars couldn't speed up because .......... .
2- The female spider tried to release itself by .......... .
3- Captain Osama used the towrope for...........

8-Write a paragraph of eight sentences on:
Look at the number of people who are part of your society, house, school, club ... imagine that twice as many people arc there. What effects would the increased population have on the way you live, play. travel. learn. eat and work?

9- A- Translate into Arabic:
Great efforts have been made towards equality between men and women. Women demand equal pay for equal work. Although women have gained many of their rights, they still have a long way for complete equality

B- Translate into English:
تولى الحكومة اهتماماً كبيراً لإقامة المشروعات فى توشكي و الوادي الجديد