Epreuve Bfem 2000

EXAMEN DU B.F.E.M.-ÉPREUVE: ANGLAIS LV1- SESSION DE 2000
DURÉE: 2H- COEFFICIENT: 2

TEXT.-
To a Kikuyu no woman is dearer or more beloved than his mother. For nine months she carries the burden of her child within her until she is relieved in the agony of birth. Then she nourrishes and cleans the child until it grows.
My mother had also striven desperately for my education all the days of my youth. it was eight years since I had last seen her, and she would never see now the fruits of her struggles. I had nothing, not even a photograph, to remind me of the charity, the beauty and wisdom of her face. She had once told me that it was her last dearest wish that she could see the girl I married, and that never be.
It is difficult to expalin the quality of my feelings to Europeans. We consider the relationship between a man and his wife as a partnership based on mutual respect and affection, the purpose of which is the upbringing of the children. This partnership often, but not necessarily develops into deeper alliance of spirit. But we have a saying: " the mother of a man is like second God and there is a sanctity about the relationship between a mother and her son that transcends other human emotions. There is no greater crime in our society than abusing or striking a mother, and the shame of it connot be compared with the consequences of a similar treatment of a wife.
The news of her death gave me greater pain than all than all the beating and the torture that I had been subjected to in all the camps put together. I learnt later that the others had not thought wise to tell me how she died, as they felt I might well do something terrible. Afterwards they told me that she first became ill during the twenty-three hour curfews that were imposed at the height of emergency. After treatment by the catholic missionaries she recovered, but she later had a relapse and months of deadful suffering were at last ended by her death.
J. M. Kariuki, Mau Mau Detainee.

Part one: Reading comprehension activities(07PTS)

A. Give a title to the text ( 0.5)
B. Say whether these sentences are true or false: justify by indicating the line number(1pt)
a. The narrator was eight years old when her mother died.
b. The nattator had not kept a photo of his mother.
c. The narrator's mother died when she was a prisoner.
d. The narrator's wife died before seeing her husband's mother.
C. Vocabulary (3.5)
1.Which words or phrases in the text are similar in meaninf to the following? ( 2pts)
a. make me remember=........ b. education=......... c.disrespectful,insulting=...... d.terrible=............
2. Word formation: fill in the table.
nouns verbs adjectives
freedom .......... ..............
............... die ....................
3. The following words or phrases are all about the same topic; which one? (0.5)
treatment- recovered- had a relapse- sufferings-.........................................
D. Quote a part from the text showing that the mother is more repected than the wife. (0.5pts)
E. Reference. What do the following words or phrases refer to?
a. That could never be(line8)....... b. we consider.......... c. similar treatment( line15)

Part two: Linguistic competence (7pts)

A. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with (can, may, must) in their appropriat forms.
a. You........... smoke in class. b. Ahmed failed his exam. He will.......... to repeat his class.
C. This child is too small. He won't ............ to carry this heavy bag.
Ali: ............. you lend me your pen, please? Daba: Here you are.
d. The teacher.......... punish you if you don't do your hoemwork.

B. Fill in the gaps on the following sentences with ( during, for, ago, in since) 1.5PT
e. Last week I went to my village..... two days.
f. She hasn't seen her mother......... her last trip to the village.
g. My brother worked in that factory........... the rainy season of 1994.
h. ..................the christmas holydays I 'll travel to Dakar.
i. This is the best meal I 've had........... I came here.
J. People last saw her eight hours.............

C. Rewrite the sentences without changing their meanings.

a. I had been subjected to a lot of beating and torture.
-They............................
b. "When did your wife arrive in Senegal?" his neighbour asked him.
-His neighbour wanted to know............................
c. We diddn't go to the theater; we went to the cinema.
- Instead of.......................
d. What a pity they couldn't come.
- I wish................
e. Kader can sing very well. So can Aicha.
- Both................
f. Waly hasn't got a job yet. Azize hasn't got one.
-Neither.................


PART THREE: WRITING.
Write 1OO-120 words on one of the following topics.

1. Write a letter to a friend about a recent event which deeply affected you.
2. Who do you prefer, your father or your mother? why?
3. Abdoul: You know, Mame Awa, mother is like a second God; she is not an ordinary person.
Mame: Heavens! How can you compare a person to God? She may be important but...........

Complete this dialogue in which everyone is trying to convince the other. ( 10 to 12 lines)