Global Exam – Semester II




           Immigration is frequently an uneven transaction. When a scientist from India or a professor from Guatemala or a physician from the Philippines moves to the U.S.A, America’s gain is the native land’s loss. Since few American professionals head out to settle elsewhere in the world, the redistribution of talents serves only to widen the gap between the land of plenty and the lands of poverty. Worse still, the cycle tends to perpetuate itself: as more people leave their country for the U.S., more are likely to leave, to join relatives or cash in on connections or simply follow examples.
        Though nothing new, the brain drain has recently seemed more than ever to be taking from the poor giving to the rich: whereas 30 years ago most well-qualified newcomers to the U.S. arrived from Europe, now they stream in from the poorer countries of the Third World. Even among unskilled workers, the U.S tends to attract the most enterprising – those who are adventurous enough to quit their homes and strike out for new opportunities in America.
       The first to leave are outstanding students who win admission to U.S. universities and who, not surprisingly, accept challenging jobs and high salaries in America upon their graduation. Each year, for instance, some 6,000 Taiwan Chinese arrive to study in the U.S.; no more than 20%even return home. Many of the top achievers at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur are snapped up by the U.S. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). These students are a treasure to any country, and it is a shame that their homes sometimes don’t have the resources to nurture and hold on to them.
      No less costly to Third World nations is the steady migration of well- trained professionals in search of a life, any life, in America. The wage differential between the U.S. and Mexico, for example, is 15 to 1. For many others, even poverty in the U.S. is preferably to an uneasy prosperity at home: thus lawyers and doctors form Central America may be found washing cars or working as porters in Miami hotels.

I- COMPREHENSION (6 pts)           
A.     Answer these questions according to the text         (2 pts)
1.     Give two reasons why immigrants go to the U.S.
2.     Do all the immigrants in the U.S. get good jobs? Explain
B.     Are these sentences True or False? Justify         (2 pts)
1.     Now, most well-qualified immigrants go to the USA from Europe.
2.     The majority of the Taiwan Chinese immigrants return to their native country.
C.     What do the underlined words in the text refer to ?         (1 pts)
1.     "those" (paragraph 2) : ……………………………………………
2.     "their" (paragraph 3) : ……………………………………………
D.    Find in the text words or expressions which mean the same as          (1 pts)
1. Inexperienced  (paragraph 2) : …………………….
2. Excellent (paragraph 3) : …………………….
II- LANGUAGE (9 pts)           
A.     Rewrite these sentences as suggested         (4 pts)
1. She was always late to work. Consequently she was dismissed.
     - If………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. UNESCO awarded Morocco the Confucius Prize for Literacy in 2006
     - Morocco ……….………………………………………………………………………………..…   
3. I didn’t  turn off my mobile phone while in the meeting.
     - I wish ………………………….………………………………………………………………….…  
4. “Our benefits have gone down last month”
     - The manager revealed   ………………………………………………………………………..
B.     Fill in the blanks with the correct phrasal verb from the list :        (2 pts)
Look after- Look up – come across- put off
1. I ……………………....  an old friend while I was walking down the street the other day.
2. Because of the heavy rain, the football match was …………………... for another day.
3. Can I have your dictionary, please? I’d like to …………………...  some words.
4. In most families women ................... the children while the men go to work.
C.     Fill in each blank with one word/expression from the list below:          (2 pts)
consequently – whom – nevertheless – which – whose – therefore – although – thanks to
1.            The Red Cross helped the people ……….. houses had been bombed in the war.
2.            She was very hardworking. ……….. she was dismissed from her job.
3.            The country could overcome the economic crisis ….. the wise policy of its prime minister.
4.            ………. I was ill, I went to school.
 D.   What would you say in the following situations?                (1 pts)
Your friend damaged your CD player. Complete the exchange expressing complaint and apology
- You: ................................................................................... (complain)
- Your friend:  …………………………………………………………….( Apologize)
ІІІ-WRITING (5 pts)           
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Write an article to your school magazine about the major causes and effects of brain drain and suggest some possible solutions to limit this phenomenon.



Teacher : A. ELYAAKOUBI