ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA MANUEL TEIXEIRA GOMES
CURSOS CIENTÍFICO-HUMANÍSTICOS E CURSOS TECNOLÓGICOS
FORMAÇÃO GERAL
PROVA DE EQUIVALÊNCIA À FREQUÊNCIA
INGLÊS – Código 367
10.º / 11.º Anos
(Programa Novo – Dec. Lei n.º 74/2004)
1ª Fase
Duração da Prova: 90 minutos
Ano Lectivo 2008 - 2009
As respostas a todas as questões deste enunciado terão de ser obrigatoriamente escritas na folha destinada à execução da prova.
I - CHECKING ON READING COMPREHENSION AND VOCABULARY
A. Pre-reading activities
1. Match the words with the definitions below:
downpour
evacuated
havoc
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loot
sewage
fluke
supplies
1.1. _________________ an unexpected or unusual thing that happens by accident
1.2. _________________ a situation in which there is a lot of damage, destruction and confusion
1.3._________________ made to move away (from a dangerous place)
1.4._________________ valuable things that are stolen, especially after a catastrophe
1.5._________________ a very heavy shower of rain
1.6._________________ things such as food, medicines, etc. that are needed by a group of people to survive
1.7._________________ used water and waste substances that are carried away from houses / factories through pipes
2. Decide which is/are the correct collocation(s) for each of the underlined words:
6p
2.1. a)___________ victims of the floods had to b) _____________ refuge in public buildings.
a) Helpful / Persistent / Helpless
b) offer / seek / look after
2.3. Rescue c) ______________ are still looking for survivors.
c) workers / personnel / employers
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England under water
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Hampton Bishop may be a sleepy village in the west of England, but last July it looked more like a scene from a
Hollywood disaster movie.“My dad said we should put the furniture on crates to get it off the floor and move all our
stuff upstairs. So we took food, water and supplies upstairs and I got my rabbit from her hutch in the garden. It was
a bit frightening at first, when the flood waters started to really come close.” Lauren’s dad used a canoe to row to
flooded shops and buy more food for the whole family – before other shoppers cleared market shelves in panic. Not
everybody in the village was so lucky. Says Lauren:”Some of my friends’ homes were evacuated and they had to
go to the village hall or leisure centre.”
The floods of 2007 caused havoc in 32 counties all over England. Rivers burst their banks and whole towns were
drowned. The pounding rainfall was more than double the summer average – 382, 4 mm – breaking a record set in
10 1789. The deluge led to devastating property damage: The Association of British Insurers puts the total cost at £3
billion. 200,000 people were left without safe drinking water after the rain contaminated a water treatment plant –
600 mini-tankers rushed to affected areas to offer usable water. But thousands also rushed to stores, where
hoarding was reported. Thousands of others were left without power or electricity; many homes were simply
evacuated, in some cases a lifetime of possessions destroyed. Eunice Mann, who took in her homeless 89-year15 old mother, said afterwards, “We haven’t dared bring her home to her house. I don’t think she could bear to see
what’s happened.” Experts warned flood victims of the risk of dysentery and cholera from untreated human sewage
in the floodwater.
The emergency rescue effort was the biggest in peacetime Britain. Fire crews worked”to the point of collapse”, says
the Fire Brigades’ Union; British military battled around the clock to save people and property – and prevent looting,
20 or theft. The Royal Air Force used helicopters to pluck hundreds of stranded people to safety. “The scale of this is
beyond what we had ever planned for,” says emergency officer Ian Smith.
And the severe weather had experts asking: why did it happen, and is this the England of the future? A mix of
highly unusual weather conditions caused last summer’s downpours. But many scientists think that such freak
weather will become more common as climate change – now widely thought to be the result of human activity
25 trapping gases in the atmosphere - drives up global temperatures. Not all agree, though: “The July 2007 floods are
an extreme event,” says ecology expert professor Alan Jenkins; he sees no proof yet that such unusual weather is
a clear sign of climate change.
But a new disaster movie called The Flood imagines how such climate change might devastate London. And it may
not be just science fiction: a barrier built to protect the Thames River is in danger of over-flooding from rising sea
30 levels and the slow sinking of coastal land. “If you had a tsunami coming up the Thames, then the water would
have gone round either side of the barrier,” says Rachel Hill of the Environment Agency. But since many scientists
think that sea levels could rise between 1m and 4.2m in the next century, a freak tsunami would over-flood the
barrier and plunge London underwater. The only solution: huge investments in new flood defences, which could
cost up to £25bn, claims the UK Environment Agency. Whether last summer’s rain and floods were a mere fluke –
35 or an ominous sign of the future – only time will tell.
Ben Johnson - in Current Magazine – 2008 (abridged)
B. Skim through the text in order to MATCH the following headings with the corresponding paragraphs: 20p
HEADINGS
a) Unprecedented response
b) Prevention is the key
c) Devastating effects
d) First-person testimony
e) Lack of consensus
PARAGRAPH
NUMBER
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C. Write TRUE, FALSE or DON’T KNOW against the following statements.
1.
2.
3.
4.
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Last year’s pounding rainfall was the second highest ever in Britain.
Some people lost all their belongings in the floods.
Dysentery and cholera affected a small number of flood victims.
Many argue that the Thames protection barriers will be ineffective in case of a tidal wave.
D. Who is who? / What is what?
The following Dates/Numbers/Names are all mentioned in the text. What do they refer to?
15p
1. Hampton Bishop
2. 1789
3. 200,000
E. Understanding text cohesion
What do the following words refer to?
15p
1. it (line 2)
2. they (line 6)
3. her (line 14)
F. Reacting to the text
Answer the following question in no less than 35 words. Use your own words.
20p
“But many scientists think that such freak weather will become more common as climate change – now widely thought to
be the result of human activity trapping gases in the atmosphere - drives up global temperatures.” (lines 23-25)
1. In your opinion, what could be done to stop global warming?
II - CHECKING ON GRAMMAR
A. Rewrite the following sentences, beginning them as indicated below:
20p
1. We took food, water and supplies upstairs.
Food, water and supplies ______________________________________________.
2. Hampton Bishop may be a sleepy village, but last July it looked more like a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie.
Although __________________________________________________________.
B. Join the following pair of sentences by means of a relative pronoun.
10p
1. Many old people had to be evacuated. Their houses were flooded.
Many old people____________________________________________________.
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III - CHECKING ON WRITING
60p
Choose A or B. Write no less than 120 words
A. Write a LETTER OF COMPLAINT
Imagine you are Eunice Mann.
Write a letter of complaint to the emergency officer Ian Smith complaining about poor service provided during the floods.
The Emergency Office address is: The Emergency Office, Town hall, SW95 Hampton Bishop
Your address is: 87, Green Road, NW45 Hampton Bishop
B. Write an OPINION ESSAY
In case of an emergency, volunteers are called upon to help when needed.
Write an opinion essay on the following topic:
In today’s materialistic society, volunteers are the invisible heroes.
Don't forget to:
organise your ideas carefully
use appropriate vocabulary
use correct verb tenses
use some linking and attitude words to improve your style
check your punctuation
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