موضوع الإنجليزية — مناظرة التاسعة، دورة 2003

THE TEXT

"I'm your wife, not your housekeeper!"

① Christine met Terry in 1991 when she was just divorced from her first husband. She was a single mum to Sarah, then 15, Robert, 13, and Laura, 9.

"He moved in with us and, although he worked hard, as a mechanic, he was more than willing to do his fair share of housework," she recalls. "I had a job and we shared the cooking, cleaning and childcare. I felt lucky to have such a modern man."

② A year after they married, in January 1992, Christine gave up her job as a classroom assistant and became a full-time housewife.

" Suddenly, Terry stopped putting his dirty dishes in the sink… He also refused to help with the shopping and made unreasonable demands. He wanted tea every hour and his dinner at six sharp. He wouldn't even let me vacuum because he hated the noise," says Christine.

③ " At first I thought he was tired but it soon became clear he was just being lazy. I was horrified when he told me that housework was women's work, that he did his job during the day and didn't expect to play housemaid at home," she says.

④Terry, who's 39, says : "I love Christine but nothing could make me change again. It's her job to stay at home and look after the kids. Some might say I have antiquated ideas – but I prefer to call them traditional."

Adapted from Woman
5 February 2001

1. READING COMPREHENSION (7 points)

1/ Complete the table with information from the text (0.5 x 4 = 2 pts)

2/ Tick (✓) the correct alternative (0.5 x 2 = 1pt)

a. When Christine met Terry, she was living

• with her first husband. [ ]
• with her three children. [ ]
• with her parents. [ ]

b. Christine stopped doing her first job

• when she was divorced from her first husband. [ ]
• after she married Terry. [ ]
• before she married Terry. [ ]

3/ Complete the following statements with details from the text. (0.5 x 4 = 2 pts)

a. Christine is complaining about Terry because he ………… ,
he ………… and he ………… .

b. According to Terry, a woman's place is at home ………… after
her children and doing housework.

4/ Tick (✓) the right alternative (0.5 x 2 = 1pt)

a. "He moved in with us" (paragraph 1) means :

• he helped us to find a new house. [ ]
• he started sharing housework with us. [ ]
• he started living with us in the same house. [ ]

b. "Some might say I have antiquated ideas" (paragraph 4) means:

• interesting. [ ]
• ordinary. [ ]
• not modern. [ ]

5/ What do the underlined words refer to ? (0.5 x 2 = 1pt)

a- They (paragraph 2) refers to ………… .

b- Them (paragraph 4) refers to ………… .

II. LANGUAGE (8 points)
1/ Fill in the blanks with words from the box. (0.5 x 6 = 3 pts)
(Be careful ! There are 2 extra words).

dressed – before – however – crazy – after – mad – on - designers

Tracy is a teenager. She's fashion- …………
When she goes to parties and ceremonies, she wears clothes
made by famous ………… . She spends a lot of money
………… clothes, ………… , she also likes
putting on jeans, trainers, sweatshirts and baseball caps. She thinks it's a
great relief ………… being ………… up all day.

2/ Match the sentence parts in Column A with the appropriate ones in Column B. Write your
answers in Column C. (0.5 x 4 = 2 pts)
(Be careful ! There is an extra sentence part in Column B)

3/ Fill in the blanks with the right alternative from the lists on the right (0.5 x 6 = 3 pts)

Of all my relatives, I like my aunt
Emily the best. She's my mother's youngest
① …………
She has never ② ………… and lives
alone in a small village near Bath. She likes
③ ………… and gardening, and
she still goes for long walks over the hills. She's
a very ④ ………… person.
She's extremely generous, but not very tolerant
with people ⑤ ………… don't
agree ⑥ ………… her.

① niece – sister - friend
② married – marry - marries
③ read – reading - reads
④ active – lazy - inactive
⑤ when – which - who
⑥ of – with - on

III. WRITING (5 points)

Your school has a monthly magazine. Students write articles for the magazine, and the best ones are published.

The topic for this month is going to be ' keeping fit '.

Write a short article for the school magazine, suggesting ways that will help people keep fit and healthy. (8 lines)