COMPREHENSION 1

هذا أول نص نورده في هذا البلوڭ. لذا سأذكر ببعض المسائل الأساسية:
ـ تكون قراءة النص بتأني و بعد تحديد هدف للقراءة أي سؤال نحاول الإجابة عليه.
ـ يجب الإجابة على الأسئلة كما هي مطروحة و ليس فقط نقل جمل من النص.
ـ هناك نوعان من الأسئلة: أسئلة حول الفكرة العامة (تمرين واحد) و أسئلة حول التفاصيل(4 أو 5 تمارين)
ـ يطلب في أسئلة الفكرة العامة اختيار عنوان للنص  title أو تحديد غاية الكاتب purpose of the writer أو تحديد مصدر محتمل للنصthis text is probably taken from ... . يستحسن ترك هذه التمرين إلى أن ننتهي من التمارين الخاصة بالتفاصيل

ـ تمرين صحيح/خطأ و علل true/false and justify 

*ينبغي قراءة الجملة بتركيز و الإلمام بالفكرة المعبر عنها ليسهل إيجاد التعليل.

* عند كتابة التعليل يجب فتح مزدوجتين "  ".

* سطر تحت الكلمات المهمة. إذا ا كان هناك ضمير اكتب بين مزدوجتين (   )  على ماذا يعود الضمير. 

تمرين أجب عن الأسئلة التالية answer these questions from the text 

*اجعل جوابك ملما و مختصرا

* انتبه إلى الكلمة التي يبدأ بها السؤال 

إذا كان السؤال يبدأ ب…	يبدأ الجواب ب...
Why	Because السبب  so as to الغاية
How	By أو  Adverb
What …do	فعل  Verb
Where	مكانPlace
What	شيء  thing
How many	عدد number أو كلمة تفيد العدد a lot, a few, several …
when	ظرف زمن أو زمن حدوث شيء ما

سنواصل التطرق لباقي تمارين الفهم قريبا.
إليكم هذا النص للتدريب (الشكر للأساتذة الذين أعدوا هذا النص من نيابة الخميسات)

          Kofi Annan of Ghana, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, is the first to be elected from the ranks of the U.N staff. His first five-year term began on  January 1st, 1997 and, five years later, he was re-appointed for a second term by the U.N member states. He gave high priority to revitalizing the UN through a comprehensive programme of reform; strengthening the organization’s traditional work in the areas of development and maintenance of international  peace and security; advocating human rights and restoring public confidence in the organization.

           Kofi  Annan and his twin sister Efua were born in a family of gold merchants in Ghana in 1938. His uncle and both his grandfathers had been tribal chiefs.  Upon his retirement, Annan’s father, who worked as an export manager for the cocoa exporter Lever Brothers, was elected governor of Ghana’s Asante province. As a boy, Kofi Annan was sent to an elite private boarding school, and as a young man he studied economics and management at university. He is married to a Swedish artist and lawyer. He has got one son and two daughters.

          A lifelong U.N bureaucrat, Annan started working for the UN while studying in Geneva in 1962. Early on, he famously wrote that he would be running this organization one day. For the next few decades, Annan took on a variety of UN assignments involving budget and finance. In the wake of the Iraq-Kuwait-USA war, he was sent to find suitable solutions and negotiate the release and equity of hostages, the quick exit of half a million stranded Asian workers in difficult circumstances, and the priority of selling humanitarian supplies to Iraq.

            Annan’s wife, a Swedish artist and lawyer, is interested in two issues of particular concern to her: HIV/AIDS prevention and the education of women. The first black UN Secretary-General was working under Boutros Boutros Ghali from Egypt when he got the big post in 1997. Kofi Annan is also fluent in English, French and several African languages.
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I.              COMPREHENSION: (15 points)

(BASE YOUR ANSWERS ON THE TEXT.)

A.   Choose the right answer from the list given : (1 point.)

Tick the right answer (√)

1.    The text is taken from :

     a-a magazine

     b-a web site

     c-a newspaper

B.   Answer these questions (3 points.)

1- When was Kofi Annan first elected Secretary General of the UN ?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2- What sort of school did Kofi  Annan go to ?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3- How old was Kofi Annan when he first worked for the UN ?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

C.   Are these sentences true or false? Justify. (3 pts)

1- Kofi  Annan comes from a rich family.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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2- Kofi Annan once knew that he would become UN Secretary General.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3- Boutros Boutros Ghali was elected UN Secretary General after Kofi Annan.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

D.   Complete these sentences :(3points)

1-    As a young student, Kofi Annan studied ……………………………………………………………………………

2-    During the Gulf War, one of Kofi Annan’s missions was to help the  Asian workers who …………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3-    Kofi Anna’s wife is particularly interested in both ……..…………..…………………………and …………………………………………………………………………………………..……..

E.    What do the underlined words in the text refer to? (2 points.)

1- His: ………………………………..        2- Her: …………………………………………

F.    Find in the text words or expressions that mean the same as:(3 points.)

1.        a government official (parag 2): ………………………………………….

2.       in the beginning of (parag 3): …………………………………………………………

3.       special interest (parag 4): ……………………………………………………………….