Kassala University
Faculty of Economic & Managerial Sciences
English Language Substitute Exam -1st year
Course: ESP Time: 2 hrs Date: / 1 /2014
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ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
Section One
Comprehension :
A person is economically free, if he can do what he wishes with his own
property, time and effort.
In all communities, of course, limits are set upon this personal freedom.
In some countries the limits are complex; in others they are relatively
simple. All individual citizens are required to conform to the laws made
by their governments.
Complete economic freedom of action can cause great difficulties,
because the freedoms of various individuals will conflict.
If citizens were completely free, some landowners might build factories
in unsuitable places.
If there was no system of control, factory-owners might make their
employees work too long each day.
If they were completely free, workers might stop working when they got
their first pay, and come back to do more work only when they needed
more money.
Such economic freedom could create a very unsuitable economy.
Laws related to economic conditions are sometimes concerned with
workers’ health, wages and pensions. They are sometimes concerned
with contracts between employers and employees. They are sometimes
concerned with the location of places of work. Sometimes they help the
employers; sometimes they protect the interests of the workers.
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1-Answer these questions, basing your answers on the text.
(a) Under what conditions is a person economically free?
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(b) What kind of economy might complete economic freedom
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(c) What three things might happen if citizens were completely
free?
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(d) Why does complete economic freedom of action cause great
difficulties?
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(e) Between whom are contracts arranged?
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(f) What other important point should we note about laws related to
economic conditions?
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(g) What else might the laws relate to, beside workers’ needs and
work contracts?
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(h) What is the opposite of complex?
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2-State whether the following statements are True or False:
1- Economists say that a man is economically free if he can do what he
wishes with his own property, time and energy. {
} 2- Governments usually require all individuals to conform to the laws
which they make.
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3- Complete economic freedom of action does not create many
difficulties.
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4- If citizens were completely free, some landowners and factory-owners
might act in unsatisfactory ways. {
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5- Complete economic freedom could lead to economic anarchy. {
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6- Anarchy is a satisfactory and desirable thing in any economic
system. { }
7- Laws related to economic conditions are sometimes concerned with
the health of the economy. {
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8- These laws usually protect the interests of the workers and not the
employers.
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9- Government policy does not depend on the political and economic
ideology of the government.
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10- Some ideologies are biased towards labour and other others towards
capital.
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3. Answer the following questions.
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1. "They" in line 4 refers to
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2. "Their" in line 6 refers to
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3. "They" in line 20 refers to ……………………………………………………………….
Section two:
Grammar
1-Change these sentences by changing certain adjectives into verbs. The
new verbs are listed but not in the proper order :
Complicate; consolidate; liquidate; simplify; nationalize;
internationalize; activate; re-activate
1-They made the subject complex.
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2-They made the subject simple.
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3-They made the business ‘solid’ (by bringing them together).
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4-They made the business ‘liquid’ (by bringing it up or ‘dissolving’ it).
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5-They made the economy active.
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6-They made the industry national (or public).
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7-They made the business international.
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8-They made the economy active again (or for the second time).
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2-Punctuate the following passage. Provide capital letters, commas, full
stops, brackets, colons etc.., where applicable.
Britain and the usa have similar economic systems both being based on
private enterprise property and capital the russians however do not have
such a system they follow a communistic system based on the work of
the nineteenth century economist marx his system is non capitalistic and
does not permit private individuals to own properity in a completely
communistic society we can say that the two types of economy contrast
very strongly this is a simple and brief statement of a complex subject
the differences between the russian and the anglo american systems
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Section three:
SPOKEN ENGLISH
Write all Z responses in the following situations:
1. X: Hello, How are you?
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2. X: Can I come in?
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3. X: What about going to the market?
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4. X: I am deeply sorry, but I lost your notebook.
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5. X: Would you have a cold drink.
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GOOD LUCK
