Sujets d’anglais LV1 du BAC 2020, séries A1 et A2, avec corrigé

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

1. Match the words from the text in Column A with their meanings in Column B according to the text. There are more words in (B) than in (A). Write your answers like in the example.

   Example: 1 - d
   1- attempts (line 2)

   1. 2- banned (line 3)

   2. 3- deter (line 10)

   3. 4- available (line 10)

   4. 5- glow (line 19)

   5. 6- entail (line 21)

   6. 7- raising awareness (line 23)

   7. 8- standards (line 26)

   8. 9- flaunting (line 27)

   9. 10- enforce (line 29)

   10. 11- widespread (line 33)

   1. avalues, norms
   2. bcan be found
   3. ctemptations
   4. dactions
   5. eshowing
   6. fgeneral
   7. gprohibited
   8. hbrightness
   9. imake people apply
   10. jsensitizing
   11. kdiscourage
   12. limply

2. Choose the right option according to the text and write it down on your answer sheet. Write your answers like in the example.

   Example: 1 - c

   1- How did the Ivorian government react to the use of depigmentation products by men and women?

   a. It tolerated that practice
   c. It proscribed that practice

   b. It encouraged that practice
   d. It did not react

   1. 2- The author suggests that cosmetics cannot cause high blood pressure and diabetes when used

   2. 3. In paragraph 2, which of the following is NOT an element of the banned products?

   3. 4. The dangers related to whitening products

   4. 5. Whitening product users can be identified by

   5. 6. According to the text, people with lightened skin can be met

   6. 7. The sellers of whitening products are

   7. 8. Why do business people in cosmetics think that the prohibition of these products will be useless?

   8. 9. When reading advertisements like "Glow and White" and "Body White" people clearly understand that these products are for making their skin become

   9. 10. In paragraph 4, which of the following elements is NOT listed as a means of advertisement of cosmetics?

   10. 11. According to the text, the new law is an empty shell because

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

Exercice 2 · PART TWO : LANGUAGE IN USE (30%) · 6 points

1. Language

   This is part of an article about skin lightening. To make it meaningful, fill in the numbered gaps with the appropriate words from the box below. There are more words than gaps. Write your answers like in the example.

   Example: 1- covers

   their - because - lighten - as well - on - covers - of -
   daily - more - with - bleaching - fairer

   After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she (1) … her entire face. Solomon, 32, is (2) …………… her skin. She believes (3) …………… skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to (4) …………… her pigment. This has been a (5) …………… routine for the past 15 years. She says her new skin makes her feel (6) …………… beautiful and confident.

   Solomon is not alone. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 77 percent **(7)** …………… women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world's highest percentage. That compares **(8)** …………… 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent in Senegal. The reasons for this are varied but most people say they use skin-lighteners **(9)** …………… they like "white skin". It's not only women though who are obsessed with bleaching **(10)** …………… skins. Some men too are involved in the practice. Skin bleaching comes with hazardous health consequences. The dangers associated with the use of toxic components for skin bleaching include blood cancers such as leukemia and cancers of the liver and kidneys **(11)** …………… as severe skin conditions.
   

   Adapted from Al Jazeera.