2009-2010 DCEM1 Toulouse Purpan Semester 1 English Test (30

2009-2010 DCEM1 Toulouse
Purpan Semester 1
English Test (30’) Level 1
1- Turn the verbs in brackets into the correct form:
Answers
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AIDS: the pandemic is officially in decline.
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Source: Independent, 25 November 2009
Despite the fall in new infections, the number living with HIV 1- increased last year to 33.4 million as people 2- are surviving longer with the rollout of antiretroviral drug treatment. Greater access to drugs 3- has helped cut the death toll by 10 per cent over the past five years.
There are now 4 million people on the drugs worldwide, a 10-fold increase in five years. The report says 2.9 million lives 4- have been saved since
effective treatment 5- became available in 1996 but less than half the patients who need them 6- are currently getting them.
The reasons for the decline in new infections 7- are disputed. UNAIDS said prevention programmes involving sex education, HIV awareness
campaigns and distributing condoms had had an impact. Critics said the pandemic was already in decline before prevention programmes 8- were
widely implemented and the disease 9- was burning itself out.
Ties Boerma, a WHO statistics expert, said countries whose HIV prevalence declined dramatically, like Zimbabwe, were not always those that got the
most HIV cash.
Experts at UNAIDS said new infections 10- had fallen 17 per cent since 2001, when the UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/Aids 11- was
signed, triggering a global push to deliver anti-retroviral drugs and prevention programmes to the hardest hit parts of the world. Michel Sidibe,
executive director of UNAids, said: "We have evidence that the declines 12- we are seeing are due, at least in part, to HIV prevention. However, the
findings also 13- show that prevention programming is often off the mark and that, if we do a better job of getting resources and programmes to
where they 14- will make most impact quicker, progress can be made and more lives saved."
But Philip Stevens of International Policy Network, the London-based think-tank, said with HIV declining it was time to rethink global spending
priorities and switch funds currently 15- being spent on HIV to other conditions that kill more people. Globally, HIV causes about 4 per cent of all
deaths, but gets 23 pence in every pound 16- spent on development aid for health ($21.7bn in 2007, or £13.1bn).
1- increased
2- are surviving
3- has helped
4- have been saved
5- became
6- are currently getting
7- are disputed
8- were widely implemented
9- was burning
10- had fallen
11- was signed
12- we are seeing
13- show
14- will make
15- being spent
16- spent
2- Rephrase the following sentences as suggested:
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I don’t want you to go on smoking like that
You mustn’t go on smoking like that
Perhaps he won’t come today
He may not come today
I am sure she still smokes. Her health is getting worse
She must still be smoking
If you have so many fillings, it’s because you ate too many sweets as a child
You shouldn’t have eaten so many sweets
Take my advice: You’d better stop taking sleeping pills
You should stop taking sleeping pills
I am sure he didn’t keep on smoking after his father died of lung cancer.
He can’t have kept on smoking
3- Turn into English:
1. Quand lui dira-t-on la vérité ? When will he be told the truth?
2. Enseigne-t-on l’anglais dans votre faculté de médecine ? Is English (being) taught in your medical school?
3. La cicatrice se voit encore. The scar can still be seen
4. On m’a conseillé de me faire enlever les amygdales. I was advised to have my tonsils removed
5. Il aimerait qu’on l’amène à l’aéroport en voiture. He would like to be driven to the airport
6. Il s’aperçut qu’on l’écoutait et il se tut. He noticed he was being listened to and hushed
7. A midi, il ne restait plus que quelques étudiants dans la salle. At 12am there were only a few students left in the room
8. La France se caractérise par une consommation particulièrement importante d’antihypertenseurs, de vasodilatateurs et d’antibiotiques.
France is characterized by a particularly high consumption of antihypertensives, vasodilators & antibiotics
4- Virology Conference
HIV-What are the two biological markers frequently measured to predict the evolution of the disease?
HIV- clinical course of infection
Treatment of HCV: molecule and influence of the genotype
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