1. 3rd
ESO CIL/European Sections 2014/2015
Exam 2
Name________________________________ Date_______________
READING ___________2 MARKS
Walls: an illusion of security from Berlin to the West Bank
By Jon Henley
The Great Wall of China was refortified during the Ming dynasty to repel Mongolian raiders. It is
now China's most popular tourist attraction.
As long as mankind has been building, we have been building walls: around
cities, along borders, across disputed lands; to protect, keep out, demarcate
and divide. Jericho, on what is now the West Bank, threw up its walls as early
as 8000BC. China built stretches of its Great Wall by 700BC.
But walls and fences have not stopped going up. Since Berlin wall came
down a quarter of a century ago, the world has been busy building separation barriers at a rate perhaps unequalled in history: at least
6,000 miles of wire, concrete, steel, sand, stone, mesh; anything to keep peoples out – or in.
It is not just walls separating divided communities in cities such as Belfast and Homs, or enclosures hermetically sealed to divide
rich from poor such as in São Paulo. The vast majority of barriers are going up on borders.
Most strikingly, some of the world's leading democracies including the US, Israel and India have, in the past decade, built thousands
of miles of barriers along borders both recognised and disputed. Since 2006, the US has erected 600 miles of fence along its
Mexican border. Israel is building a 400-mile West Bank barrier, plus another 165-mile fence along its Egyptian border. India has
built a 340-mile barrier along the so-called Line of Control of its disputed border with Pakistan, and is busily constructing another
2,500-mile fence on its frontier with Bangladesh. Last year, Greece threw up a four-metre-high wall along its short land border with
Turkey.
What is odd is that this building is happening at a time when less-physical walls appear to be crumbling. This is the age of the global
economy, multinationals, vanishing trade barriers; of "the free movement of goods, capital, services and people", unprecedented
mobility and instantaneous communication.
So why build new walls – especially when, as history shows, the old ones rarely did what they set out to do? For there is almost
always a way through, under, over or round a wall.
Adapted from the Guardian
I) According to the text, say whether the following statements are True or False. Provide evidence from
the text to justify your answers. ___________/ 0'80 marks. (0'20 each correct answer)
1. The building of walls has decreased in the last 25 years
T / F _______________________________________________________________________________
2. Most walls are built in frontiers
T / F _______________________________________________________________________________
3. Most walls in the last ten years have been built in countries governed by dictators.
T / F _______________________________________________________________________________
4. India has built walls with one neighbouring country
T / F _______________________________________________________________________________

2. II) Answer the following question based on the text and with your own words _______/0'60 marks.
(0'30 each)
1. Why does the author of the article say that walls give an illusion of security?
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2. What is the paradox of building physical walls nowadays?
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III) Look in the text for synonyms of the following______________/ 0'60 marks (0'06 each correct
answer)
1. humans (noun) 6. frontier (noun)
2. to prevent from getting in
(vb)
7. weird, strange (adj)
3. to be occupied (vb) 8. collapsing (verb)
4. speed (noun) 9. commerce obstacles
(noun)
5. great (adj) 10. seldom, in few ocasions
(adv)
WRITING_________/ 3 MARKS
Write a narrative either beginning or ending with the following (between 160 and 180 words):
• Beginning
I had been longing for that day for more than 10 months. Sunday morning, I was lying in bed on my
first day of holiday listening to the birds chirping in the garden when “ Oh ... no, not again!” My
noisy neighbours had decided to play...
• Ending
... I promised to myself that I would never go again to a concert with Michael.

3. 3rd
ESO CIL 2014/2015 Exam 2
Name________________________________ Date_______________
LISTENING_______1 mark
Todd asks Rebeca about Australia and stereotypes http://www.elllo.org/english/0851/T873-Reb-Aussie.htm
1. How does Rebecca describe the stereotypical
Australian (0'40)
1. clothes :_______________
2. shoes: ________________
3. place: _________________
4. activity: _______________
2. What is important to Australians? (0'10)
1. boddy image
2. summer fashion
3. leisure time
3. What does Rebecca say about work?(0'10)
1. they are very lazy
2. they actually work a lot
3. they work less than most
4. How much time does Rebecca have for holiday?
(0'10)
1. 2 weeks
2. 4 weeks
3. 6 weeks
5. What is September known for?(0'10)
1. time off work
2. people working hard
3. the start of school
6. What is the American saying Rebecca
thinks fits Australian people (0'20)
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USE OF ENGLISH____________/2 MARKS
Fill the gaps with the correct tenses.______________________/ 2 marks (0'20 each correct answer)
I __________________________________(learn) English for seven years now.
But last year I__________________________(not / work) hard enough for English, that's why my
marks_____________________________(not / be) really that good then.
During my last summer holidays, my parents ___________________(send) me on a language course to London.
It ___________________(be) great and I___________________(think) I ___________________(learn) a lot.
Before I ___________________(go) to London, I___________________(not / enjoy)learning English.
But while I___________________(take) the language course, I ___________________ (meet) lots of young
people from all over the world.
There I ___________________(notice) how important it___________________(be) to speak foreign languages
nowadays.
Now I ___________________(have) much more fun learning English than I ___________________(use/have)
before the course.
At the moment I ___________________(revise) English grammar.
And I___________________(begin / already) to read the texts in my English textbooks again.
I ___________________(think) I ___________________(do) one unit every week.
My exam ______________________________(be) on 15 May, so there's not much time left