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2ο Γενικό Λύκειο Αιγίου

Τάξη Β

Ωριαία Γραπτή Εξέταση Β’ Τετραμήνου στα Αγγλικά

Τμήμα………..

Ονοματεπώνυμο……………………………………………………………………………….

Ημερομηνία ………………………………

Ομάδα B

Α. Reading comprehension

Read the following text and answer the questions:

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918- 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political
leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the
country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His
government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and
fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President
of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. A Xhosa (Bantu ethnic group of
Southern Africa), Mandela was born to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, British South Africa. He
studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand before working as a
lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics.
After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation
that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Mandela served 27
years in prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure, and with fears of a racial civil war,
President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk negotiated an end to apartheid
and organised the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and
became President. Leading a broad coalition government which promulgated a new constitution ,
Mandela emphasised reconciliation between the country's racial groups and created the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses . He is held in deep respect within
South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba, and described as the
"Father of the Nation". Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and social justice, he received more
than 250 honours, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

1. What was the innovation that Nelson Mandela brought in South African politics?

2. What was the most distinctive characteristic of racism in South Africa?

3. What were Mandela’s political beliefs?

4. What were Mandela’s origins?

5. How did Mandela become initiated in politics?

6. How would you define apartheid?


7. What was the price that Mandela paid for his political action?

8. How did Mandela and the apartheid government cooperate in order to end racial
discrimination in South Africa?

9. Was Mandela’s only goal to establish reconciliation between racial groups or did he take
further action?

10. What is Nelson Mandela’s status in South Africa?

B. Grammar/Vocabulary

1. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate word from the list below

division, creed, erupts, subsidies, hamper, mighty, illegitimacy, malnutrition, domination,


curvaceous

a. Poverty goes hand in hand with ……………………………………and disease


b. The present Government has always sought to ……………………………..Africans in their
search for education
c. One of their early acts, after coming into power, was to stop…………………………… for
African school feeding.
d. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of
its…………………………..
e. Let freedom ring from the ………………………………….slopes of California.
f. Political………………………….., based on colour, is entirely artificial and, when it
disappears, so will the ……………………………………of one colour group by another.
g. Let freedom ring from the ……………………………..mountains of New York
h. This leads to a breakdown in moral standards, to an alarming rise
in………………………………….., and to growing violence which
………………………..not only politically, but everywhere.

2. Circle the correct answer

1. Melis ____ obey the rules if she wants to stay with us.

A) would B) have to C) is to be D) used to E) should

2. I can't find my sunglasses. My sister must ____ them with her when she went out.

A) has taken B) to take C) have taken D) to have taken E) take

3. If you have an aquarium, you ____ give too much food to your fish.

A) must B) have to C) must not D) don't have to E) have got to

4. Your room is a mess, but you ____ clean it if you want to go out with your friends provided
that you do it when you come back.

A) must B) have to C) must not D) do not have to E) have got to


5. Since the match is postponed we ____ wait in the ticket queue.

A) needn't B) mustn't C) shouldn't D) shan't E) can't

6. You ____ stay up late tonight or you won't be able to get up early for work.

A) should not B) must not C) need not D) ought not to E) had better not

7. Ann is very ill, she ____ a doctor when I told her to do so.

A) might have seen B) had better see C) must have seen D) should have seen

E) could have seen

8. I made a mistake yesterday. I ____ the keys in my car and now it is stolen.

A) must not have left B) should not have left C) could not have left D) ought not to
leave E) had better not leave

9. We had our house painted, but it looks darker now. We ____ a different colour.

A) must have chosen B) didn't need to choose C) had to choose D) should have chosen
E) had better choose

10. Donald ____ at work early in the morning because his customers usually come in the
afternoon.

A) needn't be B) didn't have to be C) shouldn't have been D) can't have been


E) mustn't have been

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