UCAC-ICAM INSTITUTE
Entrance Examination- May 2018 – International and Intercultural GENERALIST
ENGINEER COURSE
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Notice :
Carefully read the text and answer all the questions below.
Put a cross on the square in front of the right answer :
For every right answer, you will be allocated (1mark) ;
For any wrong answer or a question without an answer, you will be subtracted (0.25mark).
COMPREHENSION
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it
SMOKING AND TEENAGERS
Few teenagers these day seem disinclined to do what adults want them to do even when they
know it is for their own good. The failure of campaign to discourage teenagers form smoking is a
good example. They know, as well as we do, the connections between smoking and lung cancer,
not to mention such lesser hazards as smokes’ cough, sore throats, breathlessness and eventually
chronic bronchitis. Yet many teenagers persist in smoking, or at least experimenting with smoking.
Perhaps, they feel they will be able to break the habit whenever they wish. But they should ask
confirmed smokers about this. It is the first cigarettes (that starts it all off. One now and again
quickly follows and before they know where they are hooked).
A recent survey has shown that teenagers smoke off to look big and glamorous, to show how
sophisticated and though they are, and to help them to look older than they really are. All these
chiefly to impress their friends, to prove how mature they are. More subtly still, they think that to be
a smoker acts as a signal that they are mature enough to be interested in the other sex.
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The survey shows that habitual teenage smokers differed from teenage non-smokers in a number
of ways. They mostly came from homes where permissive attitudes were held towards children’s
smoking. The parents were likely to be smokers, as were older brothers and sisters. The teenagers
themselves tended to be poor achievers at school, to have a circle of friends in school and out who
were smokers, and to lead a social life similar to that of older teenagers-going out regularly with
member of the opposite sex, frequenting dance halls, coffee bars, spending money on clothes, pop
records, etc. 65% of these habitual teenage smokers believe they could get lung cancer from
smoking, yet it did not discourage them. 25% of teenager non-smokers had been deterred by
cancer risk. The rest had chosen not to smoke because of personal reasons, and the most
important reason because of the cost.
(John Boothroyd)
QUESTIONS
1. Campaign aimed at discouraging teenagers from smoking is a failure because:
a) Teenagers seem disinclined to do what adults want them to do.
b) Teenagers smoke off to look big
c) Teenagers have stop smoking
2. Teenage smokers are conscious of the effects of smoking.
a) True b) False
3. One of the situation that encourage teenagers to smoke is that:
a) They tended to be poor achievers b) The parents are likely to be smokers
c) They want to be glamorous
4. Some of the effects of smoking are:
a) Lung cancer, sore throats, stomach ache
b) Sore throats, chronic bronchitis, breathlessness
c) Malaria, lung cancer, cough, chronic bronchitis
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5. Four reasons why teenagers smoke are:
a) They want to prove how mature they are
b) To impress their friends
c) All of the above
6. Another synonym for ¨teenagers¨ is:
a) Orphans b) youths c) children
7. These teenagers habitually smoke. The antonym of the underlined word is:
a) Often b) Rarely c) Never
8. The adjective that comes from ¨ greatest¨ is:
a) Great b) greater c) greatest
9. Give the opposite of the underlined word in the sentence: ¨…as were their older brothers
and sisters.
a) Eldest b) younger c) young
10. ¨they know where they are hooked¨. In which tense is conjugated the underlined sentence.
a) Simple past tense b) past perfect tense c) present perfect tense
ESSAY WRITING (10 MARKS)
Write an essay of about 200-250 words on the topic that follows.
Write an article to be published in schools magazines in which you put forward reasonable
arguments for banning smoking in schools, homes and public places.
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