MS4 level Test 1 (3rd tem) Date: April 2915

Name : Class :

Text :

AL-KHWARIZMI

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer geographer and a

scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. He was born in Persia of that time around 780. Al-Khwarizmi was

one of the learned men who worked in the House of Wisdom which was a scientific research and teaching center.

Al-Khwarizmi developed the concept of the algorithm in mathematics (which is a reason for his being called

the grandfather of computer science by some people).

To al-Khwarizmi we owe the word “algebra,” from the title of his greatest mathematical work, His “ab al-

Jabr wa-al-Muqabala”. The book, which was twice translated into Latin.

He also wrote an important work on astronomy, covering calendars, calculating true positions of the sun,

moon and planets, tables of signs and tangents, spherical astronomy, astrological tables, parallax and eclipse

calculations, and visibility of the moon. - Al-Khwarizmi died in 850.

http:most-famous-muslim-scientists-and-their.

Part One : A/ Reading Comprehension.(7pts)

Read the text then answer the following activities.

Activity One: Complete the form with information from the text.(3pts)

Name :

Nationality :

Date of birth:

Activities : 1………………… 2…………………

Date of death:

Activity Two: Read the following statements and write “true” ,”false” or “not mentioned” (2pts)

1. Al-khawarizmi was a great Islamic scientist.

2. Al-khawarizmi invented the computer.

3. Al-khawarizmi travelled a lot.

4. Al Khwarizmi died at the age of 70.

Activity Three: Lexis (2pts)

1- Find in the text words that are closest in meaning to the following.(1pt)

a- Scientist = b- correct=

2- Find in the text words that are opposite in meaning to the following.(1pt)

a- Out =/= b- false =/=

…./…..

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Part One : B/ Mastery of language ( 7pts)

Activity One: Combine the following sentences using : “ which – who – where”(3pts)

1. Al- khawarizmi was a mathematician.

2. Al- khwariszmi wrote the first book about algebra.

1. Al- Khawarizmi developed algorithm.

2. Algorithm is used in computer science today

Activity Two: Write the correct form of the verbs in brackets.(2pts)

Ibn Sina (to be)…………..born in 980 in Persia ( Iran now). He (to do)………..many works in the field of

medicine.He (to write)………..his famous book “The Canon of Medecine”. Ibn Sina (to die) ………in 1037.

Activity Three: Pick out from the text four 4 verbs and complete the table according to the

pronunciation of their final “ed”

/t/ /d/ /id/

1- 1-

2-

1-

Part Two: Written Expression (situation of integration) <6pts>

Your friend is making a project work on famous personalities and needs your help.

Help your friend to write a short biography about One of the following personalities(use the

relative pronouns “who – where –which”.

Name Ibn Badis Alfred Bernhard Nobel Moufdi Zakaria

Birth December 4, 1889 21 October 1833 12 June 1908

Place of birth Constantine -Algeria Stockholm, Sweden Ghardaia - Algeria

Job Imam Chemist Poet

Activities Father of the Algerian

renainssance-poet –wrote many

books and newspapers

inventor of dynamite.

Established the Nobel Prize

Author of the Algerian

national

anthem "Kassaman"

Poet of the Algerian

Revolution

Death April 16, 1940 10 December 1896 17 August 1977

The paragraph.

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