Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was an 8th century Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer who worked in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. He developed the concept of the algorithm and the word "algebra" comes from the title of his book on the subject. Al-Khwarizmi made important contributions to astronomy, mathematics and calendar systems. He wrote extensively on topics including astronomy, astrology, calendars and mathematics. Al-Khwarizmi died in Baghdad in 850.

1. MS4 level Test 1 (3rd
tem) Date: April 2915
Name : Class :
Text :
AL-KHWARIZMI
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer geographer and a
scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. He was born in Persia of that time around 780. Al-Khwarizmi was
one of the learned men who worked in the House of Wisdom which was a scientific research and teaching center.
Al-Khwarizmi developed the concept of the algorithm in mathematics (which is a reason for his being called
the grandfather of computer science by some people).
To al-Khwarizmi we owe the word “algebra,” from the title of his greatest mathematical work, His “ab al-
Jabr wa-al-Muqabala”. The book, which was twice translated into Latin.
He also wrote an important work on astronomy, covering calendars, calculating true positions of the sun,
moon and planets, tables of signs and tangents, spherical astronomy, astrological tables, parallax and eclipse
calculations, and visibility of the moon. - Al-Khwarizmi died in 850.
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Part One : A/ Reading Comprehension.(7pts)
Read the text then answer the following activities.
Activity One: Complete the form with information from the text.(3pts)
 Name :
 Nationality :
 Date of birth:
 Activities : 1………………… 2…………………
 Date of death:
Activity Two: Read the following statements and write “true” ,”false” or “not mentioned” (2pts)
1. Al-khawarizmi was a great Islamic scientist.
2. Al-khawarizmi invented the computer.
3. Al-khawarizmi travelled a lot.
4. Al Khwarizmi died at the age of 70.
Activity Three: Lexis (2pts)
1- Find in the text words that are closest in meaning to the following.(1pt)
a- Scientist = b- correct=
2- Find in the text words that are opposite in meaning to the following.(1pt)
a- Out =/= b- false =/=
…./…..
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2. Part One : B/ Mastery of language ( 7pts)
Activity One: Combine the following sentences using : “ which – who – where”(3pts)
1. Al- khawarizmi was a mathematician.
2. Al- khwariszmi wrote the first book about algebra.
1. Al- Khawarizmi developed algorithm.
2. Algorithm is used in computer science today
Activity Two: Write the correct form of the verbs in brackets.(2pts)
Ibn Sina (to be)…………..born in 980 in Persia ( Iran now). He (to do)………..many works in the field of
medicine.He (to write)………..his famous book “The Canon of Medecine”. Ibn Sina (to die) ………in 1037.
Activity Three: Pick out from the text four 4 verbs and complete the table according to the
pronunciation of their final “ed”
/t/ /d/ /id/
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2-
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Part Two: Written Expression (situation of integration) <6pts>
 Your friend is making a project work on famous personalities and needs your help.
 Help your friend to write a short biography about One of the following personalities(use the
relative pronouns “who – where –which”.
Name Ibn Badis Alfred Bernhard Nobel Moufdi Zakaria
Birth December 4, 1889 21 October 1833 12 June 1908
Place of birth Constantine -Algeria Stockholm, Sweden Ghardaia - Algeria
Job Imam Chemist Poet
Activities Father of the Algerian
renainssance-poet –wrote many
books and newspapers
inventor of dynamite.
Established the Nobel Prize
Author of the Algerian
national
anthem "Kassaman"
Poet of the Algerian
Revolution
Death April 16, 1940 10 December 1896 17 August 1977
The paragraph.
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