ATS Anglais 960 2017
ATS Anglais 960 2017
ATS Anglais 960 2017
-SESSION 2017-
É P R E U V E D ’A N G L A I S
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I Grammar and vocabulary: choose the right answer
1) The last time I………a…………..her was the day she married my ex-husband.
3) Are you sure those clothes …………………a…………………….in France and not abroad?
a) have been made b) are make c) have been making d) have made
a) has just left b) is just left c) is just leaving d) was just leaving
a) was being cleaned b) was cleaning c) had been cleaned d) had been cleaning
9) This country is all the ........b.............interesting to visit as it has such unusual customs.
10) Sincere and crazy in love as he…………a……………….be, she will never ever marry him.
11) As soon as she……b……………eighteen, her parents will buy her a Mini Cooper.
14) With this beautiful blue sky, it is very ………………c……………..to rain, isn’t it?
a) going b) to go c) to going d) we ‘d go
17) He has a lousy job and a very bad salary, so he cannot make …………b…………meet.
20) If you want to have a good job and an international career, you………b…………..become an
engineer.
21) If only he could give me………………b………………with my car which has broken down!
23) If I had known you were coming to Paris, then, I……………………c………….a lift.
a) would give you b) would be given you c) would have given you d) would given you
25) What a shame we have to go but we have very………c…….time left before the bus comes
27) The managers…………c…………….the good news about everyone getting a pay raise.
28) He has just lost his contact lens but it is…………d……………to be found. How very strange!
29) Due to the terrorist attacks, the customs agents go……d…people’s bags very meticulously.
30) I’m sorry, the vending machine does not take bills. You have to have the exact………d………
31) When she married…………c………him, she was still very young and immature.
a) to b) with c) ……. d) at
33) Steven is a really good skier, but he skis………b………….when the snow is packed.
34) He has been unemployed for a long time, but is still actively seeking……c……….a new job.
a) even as b) such as c) as d) as if
a) you will get off b) to get off c) getting off d) you to get off
47) They can’t help ………b……….that they made the wrong decision.
a) how many times b) how much time c) how long d) how frequent
51) If I had the time, I would have called him so much earlier.
A B C
52) Before submitting your demission to the manager, have you thought it through?
A B C
A B
54) Last year, she moved closer of her workplace as she was sick and tired of commuting
A B
55) When you will be eighteen, what are you thinking of doing ? I would reverse the order
A B
56) How long has she been travelled for ? Just over a year, I believe.
A B
57) He very politely asked me if I must to open the window for a bit of fresh air.
A B C
58) He had began his career as a shop assistant and then became a manager.
A B
A B
60) He has been talking to her since ages; it looks like he fancies her!
A B
61) Let’s wait for her; she texted me that she would be here in any time.
A B C D
62) He has moved into a new house and needs to buy lots of furnitures.
A B
63) “Who are you going at the cinema with tonight?” “Both my brother and sister.”
A B
64) Look at Anna’s baby. It is the cutest baby I have never seen!
A B
65) “Do you enjoy walk in the forest?” “Yes I do; but I much prefer walking on a sandy beach.”
A B C
A B C
67) There used to having many red phone boxes in Britain but there are fewer and fewer now.
A B C
A B
69) “Have you ever seen a ghost?” “Of course I didn’t! Do you think I’m crazy or
A B C
something?”
70) We couldn’t stand live in such miserable, wet and cold weather, so we left Ireland!
A B C
III. Reading Comprehension
Read the following text carefully and choose the answer that best corresponds to the text.
Text 1
Just as physics is not a list of facts about the world, history is not a list of names and dates. It is a way of
thinking that can be powerful and _71_
Some things about physics aren’t well _72_ in a physics education. Those are the messy, rough edges
that make everything difficult : dealing with people, _73_ or in groups, misunderstandings, rivals and
even allies who don’t fall in line. _74_ often do not see such issues as contributing to science itself. But
social interactions really do influence what scientists produce. Often physicists learn that lesson the
hard way. Instead, they could equip themselves for the actual collaborative world, not the idealized
solitary one that has never existed.
History can help. An entire academic discipline- history of science -studies the rough edges. We
historians of science see ourselves as illustrating the power of stories. How a community tells its history
changes the way it thinks about itself. A historical _75_ on science can help physicists understand what
is going on when they practice their craft, and it provides numerous tools that are useful for physicists
themselves.
Research is _76_people. And people have likes and dislikes, egos and prejudices. Physicists like_77_, get
attached to their favourite ideas and _78_them perhaps long after they should let them go. A _79_ case
is the electro magnetic ether, an immensely fruitful concept that dominated physics for most of the 19th
century. Even as it became clear that ether theory was causing more problems than it _80_, physicists
continued to use it as a central explanatory tool-even for many years after Einstein’s 1905 theory of
special relativity declared it _81_. The _82_of physics is littered with beautiful theories that commanded
great loyalty.
People come from places too, and physicists want to protect their homes as much as anyone else. It is
easy to forget that 100 years ago during World War I, British scientists refused to talk to their
German_83_on the other sides of the _84_._85_ the end of the fighting, Germans and their wartime
allies were officially forbidden from joining international scientific organizations. During World War II,
the specter of an atomic bomb in the hands of Adolf Hitler _86_allied physicists _87_opening the
Pandora’s box of nuclear weapons. Many of the scientists _88_ bemoaned their actions afterward, but
war and nationalism made for a potent impetus.
Those incidents are _89_ exceptions. Physicists are not disinterested figures without political views,
philosophical preferences, and personal feelings. A more human physics is a good thing. For _90_, it
makes physics more accessible, particularly for students. Many promising students _91_ of the sciences
because the material seems disembodied and disconnected _92_ their lives.
73) a) singly b) together c) individual d) by himself
Text 2 :
Dead Turtles Equipped with GPS Trackers to Solve the Mystery of Their Own Murders
Hundreds of dead sea turtles wash up on the shores of Chesapeake Bay each year. Strangely, these
events known as strandings seem to occur more often along certain stretches of shoreline. But even
while so many turtles wind up in these spots, no one knows exactly where they’re coming from or how
most of them died.
To try to figure it out, a master’s student is setting a handful of GPS-equipped turtle carcasses afloat in
Chesapeake Bay this summer. Bianca Santos, a graduate student at William and Mary’s School of Marine
Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, released two so-called « drifters » from a boat last
week and hopes to launch up to 10 this season.
She hopes that by tracking how the carcasses are pushed along by wind and ocean currents, she can
figure out where those hundreds of beached turtles floated in from, and whether some spots in the
ocean might prove more deadly to turtles than others.
In Chesapeake Bay, between 250 and 350 turtles are stranded each year. That count is likely an
underestimate because many deceased turtles never make it to shore. All five of the turtle species
found in Chesapeake Bay are either endangered or threatened.
« There’s plenty of turtles that we just can’t tell what killed them, so having location information would
be helpful », says David Kaplan, a fisheries scientist at VIMS and Santos’ advisor.
Admittedly, no one knows if the experiment will work ; Santos and Kaplan are only running a small batch
of tests, since turtle carcasses are difficult to obtain. Even if they successfully retrace the paths of
stranded turtles, that exercise may not lead them to obvious causes of death (…)
Already the scientists have had trouble recovering one of the two GPS units from each drift as they wash
ashore and attach those units to a new carcass or drifter for another run. To rescue the other one,
Santos had to drive for more than an hour and knock on the door of someone whose private stretch of
beach their carcass had landed upon. Last week the team launched a GOFUNDME campaign partly to
raise funds to help replace equipment lost on each drifter that escapes.
By summer’s end, Santos wants to use their data to identify where most stranded turtles that wind up
on the beach are originating. To do that, they’ll pair an open source Java tool originally developed to
predict the movement of plankton in oceans, which can be used to stimulate winds, waves, and
currents.
a) laying eggs
b) dying giving birth
c) fighting to the death
d) washed ashore dead
95) The person who took an interest in understanding the problem and finding out the reason for this
phenomenon is:
a) David Kaplan
b) a famous American scientist
c) a master’s student
d) a former student from William and Mary’s School of Marine Science
99) The experiment may work but the main problem is that:
a) live turtles
b) rocks that are located deep in the sea
c) turtle carcasses which were devoid of the animal’s internal organs
d) turtle-like drifters made of pine wood
101) How did Maria Santos manage to find one of the lost GPS trackers ?
a) someone got in touch with her at the Institute and handed it back to her
b) it was lost, could not be found and so she had to replace it
c) she had to drive a long way and ask for it back from someone whose private beach the GPS
tracker had landed upon
d) David Kaplan found it and gave it back to her
102) How do they manage to have enough money to keep the project afloat?
103) To help them know where the stranded turtles are originating from, Santos:
a) has devised a new system using a Java tool that is very efficient
b) will soon use a Java tool that has previously been used in a different context
c) will soon welcome a team of Russian scientists specialised in Java tools
d) will be helped by diving experts specialised in deep sea waters
TEXT 3:
Arun Kumar had never shaken hands with a foreigner nor needed to wear a necktie. He vaguely
thought that raising a toast had something to do with eating bread. But Mr Kumar, 27, and six other
engineers were recently recruited by the Hyderabad offices of Sierra Atlantic, a software company
based in Fremont, Calif. And before they came face-to-face with American customers, the new
employees went through a challenging four-week training session aimed at providing them with global-
employee skills like learning how to speak on a conference call and how to address colleagues. As more
and more service jobs migrate to India, such training programs are increasingly common. Sierra Atlantic
says that one-fourth of its 400 employees working out of Hyderabad offices are constantly interacting
with foreigners.
a) 7
b) 6
c) none
a) more and more common as more and more companies migrate to India
b) not so common as they are very costly for the company
c) essential for the company’s image
110) At Sierra Atlantic’s Hyderabad’s offices, the number of employees constantly interacting with
foreigners
a) is very low
b) is very high
c) is quite high