Al Arbi Ben’Mhidi High School Third Term Test First Year / Literary

First Name : …………….. Family Name: ……………. Class: …………….

Read the text carefully then do the activities:

Barber or Doctor?
The father of Joseph Mallord William Turner , the nineteenth- century famous English landscape
painter, was a hairdresser. People used to go to his barber shop for a variety of different services.
Firstly, they used to go there for shave or a haircut. Turner's father had a peculiar way of shaving
his customers. Before starting to shave them, he used to cover their faces with soap and water. He
then used to put two small glass balls into their mouths, one in each of their cheeks in order to have a
firmer surface to shave with his sharp razor. When he had finished shaving his customers, he used to
take a container of water and throw it over their faces to rinse off the soap.
Like his fellow barbers, Turner's father used to work as a dentist because there didn't use to be
professional
Dentists at the time. People suffering from toothache went to his shop to have their decayed teeth
pulled out with pincers and without any anesthetic.
Apart from doing all these services, Turner's father used to exhibit his son's paintings for sale in the
window of his shop. It is thanks to him that his son Joseph Mallord became famous as a painter.
(Adapted from Graham Reynolds, Turner, Thames and Hudson)

1- Are the following statements true or false?

a- People used to go to the barber's shop to shave only. ……………………………………………………..
b- Turner's father was a lazy man. …………………………………………………………
c- Turner's father used to help his son in his work. …………………………………………..
2- Answer the following questions according to the text:
a- Who is the painter?
………………………………………………………………………
b-What was common between barbers at that time.
………………………………………………………
c-How many sentences express habits in the past in the first paragraph?
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2- Find in the text words that are synonyms in meaning to:
a- Various = § 1 ……………… , b- Exceptional=§ 1 ……………. ..
4- Transform the underlined sentence in the text into the negative then interrogative forms:
a- Negative: …………………………………………..
b- Interrogative: …………………………………………
5- Put the verbs in brackets in their right tense:
a- Muslims often (to go…………………….) to the mosque on Fridays.
b- In the past, people ( to believe……………………..) in speculations , but now they don't.
c- This film is making me feel very sad. I (to cry……………………….)
6- Fill in the blanks with will if you are sure and might if not:
a- A: Where are you going this weekend?
B: I don't know yet. I ………… go to Tim's party.
b- She ……….be 28 on the 24th of November.
7- Spot the mistake and correct it:
Last weak, eye used too ask hour teacher a lot of questions because he was very patient. He urged us to
right everything from the bored.
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8- Reorder the following words to make a coherent sentence. Be careful for punctuation:
Through, / was / very / 2007, / rich. / published / Getting / which / in / is
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