Sujets d’anglais LV1 du BAC 2013, séries A1 et A2, avec corrigé

Exercice 1 · PART ONE : READING 40% · 8 points

1. Match the words in box A with their synonyms or meanings in box B.
   One item in column B is not concerned. Write your answers like this:
   Example: 10. retaliation = a. counter-attack.
   10. retaliation (L. 29)

   1. 1. abuse (L. 3)

   2. 2. triggered (L. 4)

   3. 3. occurred (L. 5)

   4. 4. witnesses (L. 8)

   5. 5. estimates (L. 8)

   6. 6. accounts (L. 18)

   7. 7. conducive (L. 21)

   8. 8. gossip (L. 21)

   9. 9. pubs (L. 25)

   10. 11. smash up (L. 31)

   1. acounter-attack
   2. bbars
   3. cstories, reports
   4. dbreak into pieces, crush
   5. efavourable
   6. fhappened
   7. gcaused
   8. hjudgment, opinions
   9. ismall talk, chat
   10. jinsults
   11. kspectators
   12. lstab

2. Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the text, then justify your answers with the right lines. Write your answers like this: 1 – F (L. 1).

   1. 2. The Indians were the ones who started the insults.

   2. 3. The young men started the fight with broken bottles.

   3. 4. A gang of white men came to help Horsfall.

   4. 5. Witnesses said there were four white teenagers against the Indians.

   5. 6. The young Indian men were four in number.

   6. 7. Bhupinder Singh killed Horsfall with his fists.

   7. 8. The young men stopped the fighting when they saw some blood pouring.

   8. 9. The fighting took place one fine Sunday morning.

   9. 10. Rumours transformed the incident into ritual sacrifice.

   10. 11. Middle-aged women tried to calm down the 800 to 1,000 furious people.

Le corrigé de cet exercice est offert, à la fin de l’énoncé

Exercice 3 · PART THREE: LANGUAGE IN USE 20% · 4 points

1. A

   Choose the correct word to make the text below meaningful. Write your answers like this: 1 – at

   Mrs Penniman took herself off with whatever air of depreciated merit was (1. at/to/in) her command, and went to Catherine's room where the poor girl (2) …………… closeted. She knew all about her dreadful night, for the two had (3) …………… again, the evening before, after Catherine left her father. Mrs Penniman was (4) …………… the landing of the second floor when her niece came (5) …………… stairs; it was not remarkable that a person of (6) …………… much subtlety should have discovered that Catherine (7) …………… been shut up with the Doctor.

   It was still less remarkable that she (8) …………… have felt an extreme curiosity to learn the result of this interview, and that this sentiment, combined (9) …………… her great amiability and generosity, should have prompted her to regret the sharp words (10) …………… exchanged between her niece (11) …………… herself.

   From Washington Square, Henry James, p. 128.

2. B

   Choose the most appropriate words from the box to fill in the numbered gaps.
   Write your answers like this: 12 – cook.

   was – wearing – wide – calabash – cook – navel – half –
   loose – blowing – She – meet – wore – holding

   (11): the word expected is not in the box; write it yourself.

   The people were all sleeping. A man was snoring, and saliva flowing like an okra soup out of his mouth's corner. A woman wearing an accra suit, (1) …………… sleep, (2) …………… firmly (3) …………… her little boy sitting astride her lap. (4) …………… was going to Sologa to (5) …………… her husband. A fat man with a belly like an oily (6) ……………, was breathing like a man (7) …………… a fire, with his mouth (8) …………… open. He was (9) …………… a dark singlet reaching down to only his (10) ……………. His boasting was gone, taken by sleep . (11) …………… least he did not expect those around "to (12) … his food".

   From The Voice, Gabriel Okara, p. 58.
   (African writers series, 1964)