BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM LINKING WORDS / CONNECTORS 6

BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM

LINKING WORDS / CONNECTORS 6

FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT LINKING WORD / CONNECTOR

01- It was cold and wet. _____, Jane put on her swimming suit


and went to the beach.

A) Although

B) Despite

C) Nevertheless

D) Therefore

02- _____ the extremely bad weather in the mountains, we're

no longer considering our trip.

A) Because

B) Due to

C) Since

D) Although

03- It is almost impossible to learn to speak a language

really well …………you live among people who speak it as their

mother tongue.

A) while

B) unless

C) in order to

D) as well as


04- ____ Jason became famous, he has ignored his old friends.

He shouldn't do that.

A) If

B) Ever since

C) Even though

D) Whereas


05- _____ the stress of examinations and interviews is over,

we can all relax for a while.

A) Now that

B) Lest

C) Although

D) Despite

06- Leave the heating on _____ the house gets cold while we're out.

A) so as to

B) so that

C) in case

D) such as

07- Your application form was incomplete; _____, you were not

interviewed.

A) still

B) yet

C) therefore

D) however

08- There is a widespread belief that a lot of wars must

be fought …………assure world peace.

A) in order to

B) therefore

C) due to

D) furthermore

09- It is always a good idea to dress well for a job

interview; …………,you may not be taken seriously.

A) however

B) moreover

C) otherwise

D) therefore


10- You should have no problem on your exam …………you keep

calm and don't panic.

A) in case

B) so long as

C) otherwise

D) as soon as

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BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM LINKING WORDS / CONNECTORS 6

BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM

LINKING WORDS / CONNECTORS 6

FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRCT LINKING WORD / CONNECTOR


ANSWERS:

1= C) Nevertheless

2= B) Due to

3= B) unless

4= B) Ever since

5= A) Now that

6= C) in case

7= C) therefore

8= A) in order to

9= C) otherwise

10= B) so long as

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BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM LINKING WORDS / CONNECTORS 4

BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM

LINKING WORDS / CONNECTORS 4

FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRCT LINKING WORD / CONNECTOR

01- In many parts of Morocco, it is always a good idea to

have a big water storage tank …………the water is cut off without notice.

A) while

B) despite

C) whichever

D) in case

02- …………people start using their cars less, there will never

be an end to traffic jams.

A) Unless

B) Since

C) However

D) Even

03- We are so late that …………how fast we drive, we will not

get there on time.

A} even though

B) not only

C) no matter

D} whether

04- I'm happy to go to …………restaurant you want because I know

they are both good.

A) wherever

B} however

C} whichever

D) whatever

05- …………all his wealth, he had never been happy, and his

suicide last week after the break-up of his third marriage

did not surprise anyone.

A) Because

B) In case

C) Whereas

D) In spite of

06- …………had they got off the plane …………their problems began.

A) Hardly /when
B) Both/and
C) Whether/or
D) The sooner/the more

07- Many countries are facing a shortage of teachers; …………

the rapid growth in population will only make this problem

worse in coming decades.

A) since

B) instead

C) nonetheless

D) moreover

08- We were cold and hungry …………the beauty of our surroundings

made us forget our discomfort.

A) nor

B) or

C) so

D) yet

09- …………we arrived at the airport two and a half hours early,

there was already a long queue at the check-in counter.

A) Although

B} Since

C) Despite

D) No sooner

10- Nowadays too many people work too hard in offices and get

too little exercise; …………they tend to eat unhealthy convenience

food because they do not have time to shop or cook.

A) furthermore

B) the opposite

C) otherwise

D) on the contrary

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BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM LINKING WORDS / CONNECTORS 4

BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM

LINKING WORDS / CONNECTORS 4

FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRCT LINKING WORD / CONNECTOR

ANSWERS:

1= D) in case

2= A) Unless

3= C) no matter

4= C} whichever

5= D) In spite of

6= A) Hardly /when

7= D) moreover

8= D) yet

9= A) Although

10= A) furthermore

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EXPRESS READING ERRADICATE POVERTY

EXPRESS READING

ERRADICATE POVERTY

Eliminating poverty is largely a matter of helping children

born into poverty to rise out of it. Once families escape

from poverty they do not fall back into it. Middle-class

children rarely end up poor. The primary reason poor children

do not escape from poverty is that they do not acquire basic

mental skills. They cannot read, write, calculate or articulate.

Lacking these skills, they cannot get or keep a well-paid job.

The best mechanism for breaking this vicious circle is to

provide the poor with better educational opportunities.

Since children born into poor homes do not acquire the

skills they need from their parents, they must be taught

these skills in school.

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EXPRESS READING WOMEN’S STATUS

EXPRESS READING

WOMEN’S STATUS

In the early 1970s, there was a great deal of optimism about

improving women’s position, ending male privilege and doing

away with gender divisions and even gender difference. Equal

opportunities legislation was enacted in many countries, and

the voice of the women’s movement was heard criticising

discrimination between the sexes in every sphere of working

life. Now it is clear that legislation can make only a marginal

difference to entrenched patterns of job segregation and inequality.

The voices of feminism, too, are varied; some demand equality

with men while others pursue the revaluation of women’s skills

and ‘womanly’ virtues.

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EXPRESS READING ARE BOOKS DYING?

EXPRESS READING

ARE BOOKS DYING?

In theory, the multimedia age should be killing off bookshops.

Who still has time to read books, what with surfing the Internet,

viewing scores of new digital television channels, and putting

in ever-longer hours at work? And presumably those few people

who do still read books will be buying them on the Internet.

After all, Amazon, a bookseller, is the most cited example of

a successful online retailer. So much for the theory. What

about the practice? This week the largest bookshop in Britain

opened up in the old Simpson's of Piccadilly in London. With

265,000 titles and 1.5 million books, the new branch of Waterstone's

stretches over seven floors. A department store, which once

sold everything from sushi to plus-fours, is now devoted entirely

to one product - books. The new Waterstone's is almost next

door to Hatchards, a mere five-storey bookshop, with a

well-established clientele, and two smaller bookshops. It is

also less than a mile from Borders, another huge bookstore in Oxford Street.

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EXPRESS READING ADS AND THE CONSUMER SOCIETY

EXPRESS READING

ADS AND THE CONSUMER SOCIETY

Does advertising encourage waste by persuading consumers

to buy goods that they do not need? In reply to this, it

has been pointed out that all the consumer really needs,

is a bare minimum of clothing, food and shelter, and that

one of the distinguishing marks of any civilized community

is that it lives well above the minimum subsistence level.

Most advertising is designed to influence the consumer's

spending power. In western countries, advertising has

played a great part in bringing laboursaving equipment,

and so a degree of leisure, and even luxury, to millions.

Advertising that encourages the public to want more is

also claimed to act as an incentive making people want to

earn more in order to buy the goods advertised, and

therefore making them work harder. For this reason

advertising has been defended as having an essential part

to play in the move towards higher standards of living.

The defenders of advertising also point out that it is

not solely concerned with encouraging the public to spend.

Banks, insurance companies and building societies are

amongst the commercial advertisers who encourage saving.

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EXPRESS READING AMERICANS AND FAST FOOD

EXPRESS READING

AMERICANS AND FAST FOOD

Fast-food is such a omnipresent part of American life that

it has become synonymous with American culture. Fast-food

was born in America and it has now swollen into a $106-billion

industry. America exports fast-food worldwide and its attendant

corporate culture, has probably been more influential and done

more to destroy local food economies and cultural diversity

than any government propaganda programme could hope to accomplish.

No corner of the earth is safe from its presence and no aspect

of life is unaffected. Fast-food is now found in shopping malls,

airports, hospitals, gas stations, stadiums, on trains, and

increasingly, in schools. There are 23,000 restaurants in one

chain alone, and another 2,000 are being opened every year.

Its effect has been the same on the millions of people it feeds

daily and on the people it employs. Fast-food culture has

changed how we work, from its assembly-line kitchens filled

with robotic frying machines to the trite phrases spoken to

customers by its poorly paid part-time workforce. In the

United States, more than 57 per cent of the population eat

meals away from home on any given day and they spend more

money on fast-food than they do on higher education, personal

computers, or even on new cars.

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EXPRESS READING GENDER GAP

EXPRESS READING

GENDER GAP

Although women have made huge strides in catching up with

men in the workplace, a gender gap still persists both in

wages and levels of advancement. Commonly cited explanations

for this gap range from charges of sex discrimination to claims

that women are more sensitive than men to work versus family

conflicts and thus less inclined to make sacrifices for their

careers. Now, however, two new studies suggest that another

factor may be at work: a deeply ingrained difference in the

way men and women react to competition that manifests itself

even at an early age. Apparently, females tend to be far less

responsive to competition than males - a tendency with important

implications for women and business. It may hurt women in highly

competitive labour markets, for example, and hinder efficient

job placement - especially for positions in which competitiveness

is not a useful trait.

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