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When I was in office, I had the opportunity to travel round the country. That is where I
saw there is a big difference between people living in cities and the mass people who feed us
living in rural areas.
The water we use to flash our toilet in cities is cleaner than the water they drink in
villages. No clinics, no hospitals, no needles to even sew their clothes. That is when I start to
see the queer relationship between our cities and these places. I have seen too much injustice
in my country when I decided enough is enough…
Energy now goes to every part of the villages. Children can now go to school, children
can learn at night so that my child living in the city would not have an advantage over that child
torn in the village. But as soon as that child in the village is denied and deprived of electricity to
learn at night and good water to drink… my child in the city will always have an advantage over
the ones living in the village. I have been to school were rural students were doing better than
those living in cities.
In Europe, you never seem to know the role that some of your bad business men play.
But some of your bad business men are always doing bribes, bad things in our continent. And
some people suffer. These things must stop.
A. Are the following sentences true or false?: Justify from the text. (1.5pts)
1) The head of state speaking in this text in no longer in office.
2) State four facts mentioned in the text to show the contrast between rural areas and urban
areas (1pt)
B. Answer the following question: (1pt)
3) How are people of rural areas useful to people of cities?
5) Do you think it is still normal to continue saying that Europeans are responsible for
conditions in Africa? Justify (1,5pts) ⟹(0,5x2 arguments)
TRANSLATION: (3pts)
Translate this passage into good French.
Passage: THE IMPORTANCE OF cleanliness
Cleanliness is the first step to health. You must make cleanliness a habit. Unseen
enemies called “germs” come from an unclean environment and enter our body through our
food, water and air, and through our hands and skin. So, we must keep our environment always
clean.