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I) Reading and Interpreting: (14pts)
Read this passage carefully then do the activities:
Education is central to preventing corruption. Even clear laws and regulations and well-designed
institutions will not be able to prevent corruption, unless citizens actively demand accountability from
government and institutions.
The attitudes and expectations of citizens are crucial in building a responsive public administration.
Therefore, developing attitudes that do not tolerate corruption is at the core of Transparency
International’s work. Ethics education for young people can help break the cycle of corruption, as
today’s youth will be the potential leaders of tomorrow.
However, anti-corruption education does not work in isolation. The environment in which children
grow up plays a decisive role in shaping their attitudes. Ethics education must be part of a broader effort
to improve governance and reduce corruption. Within this framework, children must have an appropriate
and conducive learning environment that values integrity.
Thus, in order to be credible, anti-corruption teaching must relate to the daily lives of students and
address real life dilemmas, conflicts of interests and corruption cases…
In conclusion, whether anti-corruption education takes place inside or outside the formal system of
education, it remains the most efficient way of fighting the growth of a Don’t-Care-attitude towards a
global phenomenon, which can lead to the destruction of our modern civilization.
(Adapted from Bettina Meier, Transparency International Secretariat,
Anti-Corruption Education, November, 2004
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1) Choose the answer (a, b or c) that best completes the following statements: (2pts)
A) This text is: a) Narrative; b) Expository; c) Prescriptive.
B) This text has been adapted from: a) The Internet; b) A Literary Book; c)A monthly magazine.
C) This text deals with: a) The importance of education in preventing corruption;
b) The importance of corrupting people; c) the punishment of corruption.
D) The best title to this text is: a) A New System of Education; b) Anti-Corruption Education;
c) Preventing Corruption.
2) In which paragraph are these statement mentioned? (1pt)
a) The importance of education in the prevention of corruption.
b) The duties of Transparency International.
3) Answer the following questions according to the text: (1.5pt)
a) What is important in building a responsive public institution?
b) Why can Ethics Education for young people help break the cycle of corruption? Quote from the text
to justify your answer.
c) How does anti- corruption education work? Justify your answer.
4) What do the underlined words refer to in the text? (1pt)
a)That §2; b) Which §3; c) their §3 ; d) it §5.
5) A) Find in the text words that are closest in meaning to: (1pt)
a) important §1; b) stop §1; c) bribing §2; d) moral issues §3.
B) Find in the text words that are opposite to: (0.5pt)
a) refuse §1 ; b) the least §5.
6) Fill in the following table with the appropriate missing words: (1.5)
Verbs******* nouns*******Adjectives
..eg: to help*****a help***** helpful
---------***** a) -----------******corruption
b) -----------******---------*******decisive
------------******------- c) to respond
7) Combine the following pairs of sentences using the link words provided: (1pt)
A) a) Corruption is an unethical practice.
b) Many organizations have played a role in making anti-corruption education a reality. (therefore)
B) a) Education is very important in preventing corruption.
b) Education is very important in forming future citizens. (either…or)
Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets: (1pt)
a) If we encouraged anti-corruption education, there (not be) so many corrupt people.
b) Unless we (combat) corruption, our country will never stabilize.
9) Reorder the following sentences into a coherent paragraph. One sentence is irrelevant,
Leave it out. (2pts)
a) As a student, he was unhappy with school conditions in Namibia such as
b) He left it in the mid-sixties to complete
c) Angula has had educational challenges throughout most of his life.
d) corruption, nepotism, bribery and racism.
e) He left Namibia when it was still under South African rule.
f) Education is against corruption.
g) his formal education in Zambia and the United States.
10) Choose the pairs that rhyme from lists a and b: (1.5)
a) Restriction, constructive, elementary.
b) secondary, prescription, destructive.
II) Written Expression: (6pts)
Choose One of the following topics:
Topic One: Write a paragraph of about 10 lines in which you give us your opinion on the
following topic:
Is it ethically right to employ children who have not been given even the chance
to education? Support your opinion with appropriate reasons and examples.
Topic Two: Pretend you are a psychologist and you are giving pieces of advice to someone who
Always accepts bribes for any favour he or she does to anybody.
Imagine the conversation writing 4 to 5 interactions ( A: questions/ B: answers)
Use different expressions: you should; you’d better; you ought to….
Support your pieces of advice with appropriate reasons.
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