Interactive Mock Bac Exam V.1 • Science Branches with Correction

Online Interactive Mock Bac Exam V.1 • Science Branches with Correction

📄 The Text: 1- (CNN) - It's a sunny April afternoon at the University Of Rwanda College Of Education in Kigali. Some students huddle in groups conversing; others hurry between buildings carrying books. Exams begin in a week. On a grassy knoll behind an office block, Jean Claude Nkusi is giving his 24 children a talking to. "Study hard everyone," he says. "If you work hard you can improve your life and make it better." This isn't your typical family. Nkusi is 23. None of his "children" share his DNA. In fact, the only thing linking them is that they're all genocide* survivors - ethnic Rwandan Tutsis who lost their families in the 1994 violence that killed 800,000 people.

2- Creating "artificial families" to help young genocide survivors cope is the brainchild of an organization called the Association for Student Genocide Survivors (AERG). AERG initially creates families from members based on the secondary school or university they attend, after which the newly- formed family meet to democratically elect a willing father and mother from among their ranks. Though they don't all live together, they do help each other out financially and attempt to pool their resources.

3- "(We) Rwandans, we used to have big families but during the genocide many people were killed," says Daniel Tuyizere, AERG's second vice coordinator at the University of Rwanda. "To fight against that, we have to build artificial families so that we can go back to the way we were," he adds. "That's why you can find a father with 25 children - it's because of history." AERG National Coordinator Constantine Rukundo explains that the concept stems from a basic necessity.

4- UNICEF estimates that 95,000 children were orphaned as a result of the genocide. Today many of these young people suffer disproportionately from poverty, homelessness, trauma and legal issues. Kelsey Finnegan, Project Officer at Survivors Fund, says: "Many for example have difficulties studying, maintaining relationships, or have issues with drugs and alcohol." But overall, it seems that they are in good hands.

5- Younger than several of his artificial offspring, Nkusi says that fatherhood is a lot of responsibility. "You have to know every situation that your children are in - if they're studying, if they're eating, everyday life. If one of them is sick I have to be the first one to know it." He has named their family Urumuri. "Urumuri," Nkusi says, "means to light something up. It's when something was dark, and now it is bright again."
By Sally Hayden, for CNN April 24, 2014 - Updated 0959 GMT CNN.com
Genocide*: the deliberate and systematic killing and extermination of a national, racial, political, or religious group.

📖 READING COMPREHENSION (12 marks)

1. Tick the most suitable title:

A. Families rebuilt. B. Families' worries. C. Families' interests.

2. Show FALSE statements:

a) Invented by Rwanda College of Education?

b) Children have no say in parents?

3. Complete with words from text:
"Brought together in Artificial families, the young of the Genocide, which took place in Rwanda in 1994, feel there is an urgent to fight against such as poverty, homelessness and trauma."

4. Answer:

A) What caused children to be orphaned?

B) Nkusi's view of his role?

5. Synonyms:

para 2) at first: para 5) children:

6. "it" (para 5) refers to:

7. Agree with Nkusi? Why?

🔤 LANGUAGE & GRAMMAR

1. Drag words into blanks:

series eruptions collide constantly threatening researchers

A tsunami is a of waves. Volcanic can generate tsunamis. They crush anything they with. Scientists are trying to anticipate them. A life- tsunami. persevere in studying.

2. Click the correct tense in the paragraph:

When a dark, swirling tsunami swamped vast swathes of Japan's northeastern coastline on March 11 two years ago, sweeping away houses, cars and tangles of telephone poles, few was were being able to predict its near biblical scale. Including, it seems, Japan's Meteorological Agency, which in the aftermath of the disaster was wide widely widen criticized for issuing a warning of a modest 10ft high tsunami – despite it reaching up to 131ft in places. Now, as the nation prepares prepared preparing memorials on the second anniversary of the disaster for the 19,000 lose lost losing lives, the same agency unveiled its new Tsunami Warning System, designed to ensure that such an underestimation would not happen again. Japan has long been famous as one of the world's most seismically active regions. Since the installation of its first tsunami warning system in 1941, Japan invests has invested investing heavily in high-end technology developed in respond response responding to its experience of centuries of natural disasters.

✍️ WRITING (12 marks)

Task One: Reorder the words (Eco-Driving)

Task Two: Health Quote Expansion

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you would rather not.” – Mark Twain

Expand this quote in a 12 to 15-line paragraph for your school magazine.

💡 Flip cards – arguments to help you:

📝 Sample Introduction: Maintaining good health often requires discipline and sacrifice, as Mark Twain humorously noted. True well-being comes from making conscious choices that may not always be pleasant.

📝 Sample Conclusion: In short, a healthy lifestyle is built on small, consistent sacrifices. By choosing what benefits our body over what pleases our senses, we invest in a longer, happier life.

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