Epreuve d Anglais (1h) Exemple de sujet Admission en 4 ème année

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1 Epreuve d Anglais (1h) Exemple de sujet Admission en 4 ème année Cet examen est composé de 3 exercices dont les solutions sont à choisir, pour chaque question, parmi les 4 réponses proposées (A, B, C ou ) : exercice I : choisir l élément qui, inséré dans l espace laissé en pointillé, permet de constituer une phrase cohérente et grammaticalement correcte exercice II : trouver l élément incorrect exercice III : choisir l élément correspondant au contexte. Marquez la réponse exacte dans la case correspondante (A, B, C, ou ) de la grille de réponse. Il ne peut y avoir qu une solution correcte pour chaque question. Le barème utilisé est le suivant : réponse juste : 1 point ; réponse fausse ou réponses multiples : 0 point ; pas de réponse : 0 point I. Fill in the blanks 1. Unless retailers. paying more attention, crime will increase. A. start B. were to start C. started. would start 2.. committee has been set up to monitor attempted bribes. A. A three-man B. Three-men C. A three-men. A three-manned 3.. action is eventually agreed, it will come too late for many of those in southern Kosovo. A. Whenever B. However C. Whatever. Whatsoever 4. Talks aimed. the dispute are expected. tomorrow. A. to settle / to resume B. to settle / to resuming C. at settling / to resuming. at settling / to resume 5. Both radio stations have promised to provide full, live commentary of all the games involving France -. there will be at least three. A. which B. among which C. of which. out of which 1

2 6. Police officers are considering. in the number of radar cameras installed on roads. A. 30-fold increase B. a 30-fold increase C. 30-folds increases. a 30-folds increase 7. Since he. the company.its sales to more than 100m. A. was hired / doubled B. has been hired / doubled C. was hired / has doubled. has been hired / has doubled 8. The number of households in Britain will rise 4.4m between 2011 and A. by B. in C. of. to 9. What. you say if I. you that you. to be promoted? A. would / tell / have B. will / had told / are C. will / am telling / had. would / told / were 10. Which of the following words would best replace the underlined word, keeping the meaning of the sentence? The supervisor waived Lon s English language requirements. A. was preoccupied with B. noted and wrote a message about C. signaled. dispensed with II. Identify the error 11. After the man looking for work completed the application, he was told that it was necessary that he included a resume. 12. The suggestion that taxes were cut was vetoed by the mayor, who foresaw a deficit that was not yet public knowledge. 13. The visiting delegation which inspected the new facilities was surprised to find the building it was so large. 14. While be covered by warranty for the next two years, the product is guaranteed to be free of defects. 15. Businesses are looking for software that they can adapt and applied immediately to their company s proper accountancy. 16. The journalist asked the elected official presently to make a statement, but he refused to comment. 2

3 17. Our partner, being business oriented, provided us with the information we needed to start our own commerce venture. 18. An unexpected raise in the cost of living has created a need for economic reforms. No error. 19. Please send me the smallest, most recently published and less expensive dictionary available. 20. There are more potatoes cultivated than any the other vegetable crop worldwide. III. Lisez le texte suivant et les questions qui s y rapportent. Marquez sur la grille les réponses qui correspondent bien au texte. A chaque numéro ne correspond qu une bonne réponse. Beyond The Bottom Line; Rumeet Toor Is Part Of A Growing Number Of Entrepreneurs Combining Profit And Charity ec 7 th 2010 From National Post (1) The idea that capitalism and social causes can co-exist may be anathema to some, but a growing number of businesspeople are using their corporate savvy and innovation skills to address sweeping social or environmental issues alongside the traditional business goal of generating profits. It's called social entrepreneurship, a 30-year-old term that is still gaining awareness even by those who practice it. "I had to Google it," says Rumeet Toor, owner of Jobs in Education, an online employment board that also helps fund her Toor Centre for Teacher Education, a teacher's college and general training facility in Kenya that opened earlier this year. (2) efinitions aside, Toor is a textbook example of someone using use her skills and earnings as an entrepreneur for a broader social purpose. A year after Toor bought Jobs in Education in 2004 as a 21-year-old undergrad student at the University of Toronto, she decided that her business model would include two bottom lines: profit and social impact. "Businesses can fail," she says. "I wanted to create a legacy beyond my company, something I could be proud of." (3) So far, she's on the right track. Revenue earned from companies posting their listings on her job board grew by 21% in the 18 months after she took over, pushing the company's revenues over the six-figure mark. And traffic to her company's site over the past six years has doubled to 30,000 views per month. The chief beneficiary of that growth? The Toor Centre. Toor figures she has spent roughly $50,000 of company and personal revenue on the centre for such things as building renovations, her travel costs and school supplies among other miscellany. And, she adds, business has improved. "When we made the shift to incorporate social impact in the business model, the company actually grew," she says. "Our clients value education." (4) A social enterprise can be a typical bottom-line business. In some cases, revenue is streamed back to the organization to further its social aims. Other for-profit companies -- such as The Body Shop or fair trade coffee companies -- market socially responsible products or support ethical business practices. Social endeavours can also be non-profit, or a combination of profit and charity, as with Toor, whose business revenues support her social ventures. (5) "It was a reality check," she says about a trip to Ecuador in "I realized that you don't really know what's happening in the classroom -- if the students are getting quality teachers, if the kids can afford the uniforms and their textbooks." (6) As a result, Toor was no longer satisfied with simply "building four walls," and like a true entrepreneur, crafted her own vision of how to foster education abroad. In 2010, she launched the teacher's college. "Since people from the rural centres can't easily get to the cities to be trained, the idea was to bring the teacher's college to the community," she says. The centre opened in May to the community, and the first batch of students is expected to start classes in January

4 (7) Social entrepreneurship has also become something of an emerging movement in business schools over the past decade as more young people seek to align their business ambitions with a social purpose. "It's the Generation Ys and millennials, people in their 20s and early 30s, who are more inclined to give back," says Nancy Langton, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business in Vancouver. "They're more socially focused having watched their parents be unemployed and scramble for jobs." (8) Top business schools around North America also offer MBA programs with specializations in sustainability and non-profit leadership, or actual courses in social entrepreneurship. Those academic efforts reflect a generational do-good mindset, but also the demands of young consumers for green, socially responsible products and corporate practices. (9) But for all their change-the-world ideals, social entrepreneurs aren't averse to turning a profit. Nor should they be. "People often think that social businesses can't be profitable," says Langton. "But you don't have to write off profit." Indeed, as Toor's experiences illustrate, social entrepreneurship is about more than pitching in for charity. It's about solving social problems, Langton says. "They start a business in order to make society better in some way." 21. The words sweeping (in paragraph # 1) is closest in meaning to A. fast-moving B. intensive C. far-reaching. indiscriminate 22. The word a legacy (in paragraph # 2) means A. heritage B. inheritance C. heirloom. heiress 23. The word roughly (in paragraph # 3) is closest in meaning to A. crudely B. irregularly C. unevenly. approximately 24. The word shift (in paragraph # 3) is closest in meaning to A. shuffle B. change C. turn. variation 25. A synonym for social ventures (in paragraph # 4) could be A. civic projects B. neighbourly stakes C. civil speculations. civic propositions 26. A synonym for foster (paragraph # 6) could be A. sustain B. harbour C. patronize. feed 4

5 27. The term mindset (in paragraph # 8) is closest in meaning to A. attention B. perception C. fixation. inclination 28. The word write off (in paragraph # 9) is closest in meaning to A. cancel B. dismiss C. formulate. depreciate 29. According to the text which of the following is incorrect? A. The combination of financial gain and development is loathsome to people. B. Few people are fully knowledgeable about these development opportunities. C. Young people today are are bound to turn their backs on this theory which does not assure a sound financial future.. A balance of eco-friendly policies, ethical business ideals and making money are what future business leaders are seeking. 30. Which of the following best summarizes the text? A. Future business entrepreneurs are remorseful about attending top-ranking higher education facilities and yearn to defray society. B. The bottom line is the essential element in this charitable, social experimentation. C. Entrepreneurs must plough much personal revenue back into these projects.. This new theory is widespread among the new generation due to ethical plights of many. Writing Exercise: Cette section comprend une épreuve d expression écrite. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le sujet. Vous serez noté aussi bien sur la qualité «technique» de votre expression (grammaire, vocabulaire, syntaxe) que sur la pertinence de vos idées. Votre essai doit être présenté de façon claire et logique et devrait avoir une introduction, un développement, et une conclusion. Votre essai ne doit en aucun cas dépasser une page. Votre réponse sera notée sur 10. Sujet : What is Corporate Social Responsibility for you? Why should countries, governments, companies or individuals be concerned about corporate or social responsibility? Express your views with practical, concrete examples from your knowledge of, or experience in, NGOs and/or the business world. MARK YOUR ANSWER ON THE ANSWER SHEET PROVIE. 5