קראו את הטקסט הבא וענו על השאלות שלאחר מכן. מבחן בגרות לדוגמא מודול D לתלמידים הלומדים ל3 ו4 יחידות בגרות באנגלית.

The Community Theater

I In the small town of Riverton, an old building stood empty on Main Street for almost twenty years. It had once been a theater, but after it closed, the windows were broken and the doors stayed locked. Most people walked past it without looking up. Then, in 2021, a group of local residents decided that the building deserved a second life.

II The group was led by Nadia Alvarez, a drama teacher at the town's high school. Nadia had grown up in Riverton and remembered watching plays in the theater as a child. She believed that a working theater would give young people somewhere to go after school and would bring visitors back to the town center. Not everyone agreed. Some residents argued that the money would be better spent on repairing the roads.

III To convince them, Nadia organized a single performance inside the empty building. Her students cleaned one room, carried in chairs, and performed a short play by candlelight. Almost two hundred people came. By the end of the evening, several local businesses had offered to help pay for the repairs, and the town council agreed to review the project.

IV The renovation took three years. Volunteers repaired the roof, rebuilt the stage, and painted the walls. The theater reopened in 2024 with a play written by two of Nadia's students. Today it offers evening classes in acting and lighting, and it employs four people from the town. Shops nearby report that they are busier on performance nights.

V Nadia says the most important change is harder to measure. "People who never spoke to each other now build sets together," she explains. "The building was never really the point."

Questions

Answer questions 1-10 in English according to the text. In questions 1, 3, 6 and 8, circle the number of the correct answer. In the other questions, follow the instructions.

1. What do we learn about the building in paragraph I?

i) Why it closed down.

ii) How long it stood empty.

iii) Who owned it.

2. Why did most people not notice the building? (paragraph I)

ANSWER:……………………………………………………………………… .

3. Why did Nadia believe the town needed a theater? (paragraph II)

i) It would give young people somewhere to go and bring visitors to the town center.

ii) It would create jobs for drama teachers.

iii) It would cost less than repairing the roads.

4. What did some residents think the money should be used for? (paragraph II)

ANSWER:……………………………………………………………………… .

5. What did Nadia do to convince the residents? Give ONE detail from paragraph III.

ANSWER:……………………………………………………………………… .

6. What happened at the end of the evening described in paragraph III?

i) The town council rejected the project.

ii) Local businesses offered money and the council agreed to review the project.

iii) Nadia's students decided to write their own play.

7. COMPLETE THE SENTENCE.

The renovation of the theater took …………………………………………………………………. .

8. According to paragraph IV, what does the theater do today?

PUT A √ BY THE TWO CORRECT ANSWERS.

i) It offers evening classes in acting and lighting.

ii) It is open only during the summer.

iii) It employs four people from the town.

iv) It is run by the town council.

v) It gives away all its tickets for free.

9. What effect has the theater had on the shops nearby? (paragraph IV)

ANSWER: …………………………………………………………………. .

10. According to Nadia, what is the most important change? Take your answer from paragraph V.

ANSWER: …………………………………………………………………. .