Devoir de Anglais pour la 3ème Année Secondaire, 1er Trimestre 2022. Sans corrigé. 2 pages.
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A/ COMPREHENSION Read the text carefully and do the activities Bribery, is a form of pecuniary corruption constitutes a crime and is defined as the offering receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in discharge of a public or legal duty. The bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient conduct. It may be any money, good, right in action, property privilege, advantage,or merely a promise or undertaking to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official public capacity. The offence may be divided into two great classes: the one where a person invested with power is induced by payment to use it unjustly; the other, where power obtained by purchasing the suffrage of those who can impart it. Likewise, the briber might hold a powerful role and control the transaction; a bribe may be effectively extracted from
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the person giving paying it, although this is better known as extortion. The forms that bribery takes are numerous. For example, a motorist might bribe a police officer to issue a ticket for speeding, a citizen seeking paperwork or utility line connections might bribe a functionary for faster service. Bribery may also take the form of a secret commission, a profit made by an agent, in the course of his employment, without the knowledge of his principal. Bribers and recipients of bribery are likewise numerous although bribers have one common denominator and that is the financial ability to bribe. 1. The text is: a. narrative? b. argumentative? c. expository? 2. Say whether the following statements are true or false according to the text (2pts) a. Bribery is giving a valuable item to influence the recipient conduct. b. Bribery is a lawful activity c. Bribery can take different forms d. bribery can be done only with money LEVEL: 3rd year / science / maths / gestion October 2021 First year English test 3. Complete the following table with information from paragraph three (3). (3PTS) Who uses bribery Who receives the bribe Why do they use bribe? 4. Answer the following statements according to the text (3pts) a. How is bribery defined? b. What are the effects of bribery? c. What characterize bribery? 5. What do the underline words refer to: (1,5pt?) a/ it ( §1) --- b/ the one (§2) --- c/ his (§3) 6. What type is the text? (0,5pt) a) Narrative … b) expository … c) prescriptive B/ TEXT EXPLORATION 1/ Find in the text words closest in meaning to the following: (2pt) a) Effects (§1) b) unfairly (§2) c) looking for (§3) 4) large number (§3) 2/ Complete the chart as shown in the example. (2pts) VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE To corrupt corruption corrupt To influence Financial 3/ Combine the following pairs of sentences using the given connectors. Make necessary changes. (3pts) a/ Specialists consultancies help multinational companies. Multinational trade more ethically. (providing that) b/ There is a lot of corruption in Algeria, our government have to take action. (It’s high time) c/ Local authorities are encouraging citizens. They want them to be more active. (to) 4/ Fill in the blanks with one word from the list: (2pts) Person - seeks - abuse - honesty - advantage - poverty Corruption means any …1… of a position of trust in order to gain an undue …2… This involves the conduct of both sides that of the person …3… who abuses his position of trust as well as that of a person …4… to gain an undue advantage by this abuse.
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