2910 violence at school test

BIR ZITOUNE PREPRATORY SCHOOL
END OF TERM TEST No1
NAME and SURNAME………………………………………………… No….
GRADE:9B……….

Teacher:
MRS. Tlili

A/ READING COMPREHENSION (6m)
Read the following text and do as indicated.
School Bullying
Bullying is becoming a very serious problem in more and more
schools.
Bullies are very mean people. They are violent and enjoy
seeing victims' fearful faces. It makes them think they are
stronger than others. Bullies always choose victims who are
small, weak, or scared because they know these students
probably won't tell school officials.
In my high school years, a group of students bullied anybody
during breaks or lunch time. Sometimes, they even took money
from the students they bullied.
These bullying situations went on for a long time; however, school officials did not know
about it because it happened only in isolated places. The victims never tried to tell the
teachers because they were afraid the bullies would take revenge.
Finally, one student told a teacher about that group of students who hit him during the
break and took his packed lunch. The bullies were suspended for a week, but after they
returned to school, they made that student’s life miserable; they taunted him, told jokes about
him and made fun of him in all places .The poor kid had to move to another school. After that,
none of the other students tried to intervene because they were afraid of being the next
victims.

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1- Tick the correct alternative.(1.m)
The text is about…
a- violence at school.
b- friendship at school.
c- relationships between students and teachers.
2- Answer the following questions. (1mk)
Did victims usually tell the teachers when they got bullied? Why?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
3- Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false. (F) (2m)
a- School officials knew everything about bullying in their schools.


b- When they were punished, the bullies stopped annoying the other students.

4- How are bullies and their victims like? Find in the passage 2 adjectives to describe
each in the table below.(2m).
Bullies

Victims

B/ LANGUAGE (8 marks)
1- Fill in the blanks with the right words from the list (there are 2 extra words)(3m)
Pretended/ had to/ mad/ shake/ unless/ accent/ grades /believe

Peter doesn’t like school very much. One day, he ……………………. participate in a spelling
competition with his class and he didn’t want to. So, in the morning, when his mother came to
wake him up, he ……………………………….. to be sick and said he didn’t feel well. Of course his mother

didn’t ………………………………. him, instead, she got really ………………………. at him and told Peter she
would stop giving him any pocket money ………………………………. he worked harder and got better
……………………..
2- Put the bracketed verbs in the right tense or form (2.5m).
When I was in third grade, we had a science teacher whose name was James Garner.
All the pupils were afraid of Mr. Garner because he ( to be ) ………………………… very strict and
would spank any one who (not/ to behave) ………………………………….well in class or was caught day
dreaming . He also used (to give ) ……………………………..us a lot of homework every day and punished
any one who came without ( to do ) ………………………… it. But all his pupils were very good at the
subject he was teaching. And now I (to know) ………………………… that it was because he was an
excellent teacher. But no pupil believed that at that time.
3-Circle the correct alternative (2.5m)
I have never been very intelligent and lessons take me longer to understand ,so
school life isn’t a very happy time for (my/ mine/ me). I have to work ( hard / hardest/
harder ) than the other students . My grades are never high but I (don’t/ do/ does) my best


to improve my school results because I ( intend/ thinks/ will ) to succeed and make my family
proud ( of/ for/ from )me.

C/ WRITING (6mks)
Your pen friend wants to know your dreams about your future. Write him/ her a letter and tell
him/ her about what you want to be and what you intend to do to make it happen.
-Use expressions of obligation, intention and future plans.

Dear ……………………
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