Test de niveau en anglais selon le cadre européen de référence pour les langues

Scotland is the north part of the island of Great Britain. The Atlantic Ocean is on the West and the North Sea on the East. Some people -Choisissez svp-inonat Scotland speak a different language called Gaelic. There are -Choisissez svp-aboutbetweenamong five million people in Scotland, and Edinburgh is -Choisissez svp-hisyour its most famous city. Scotland has many mountains; the highest one is called "Ben Nevis". In the south of Scotland, there are a lot of sheep. A long time ago, there -Choisissez svp-iswereare many forests, but now there are only a few. Scotland is only a small country, but it is quite beautiful.

Alice Guy Blaché was the first female film director. She first became involved in cinema whilst working for the Gaumont Film Company in the late 1890s. This was a period of great change in the cinema and Alice was the first to use many new inventions, -Choisissez svp-bringingincludingcontainingsupporting sound and colour. In 1907 Alice -Choisissez svp-movedranenteredtransported to New York where she started her own film company. She was -Choisissez svp-nextonceimmediatelyrecently successful, but, when Hollywood became the centre of the film world, the best days of the independent New York film companies were -Choisissez svp-afterdown behindover. When Alice died in 1968, hardly anybody -Choisissez svp-rememberedrealisedremindedrepeated her name.

UFO is short for "unidentified flying object". UFOs are popularly known as flying saucers, -Choisissez svp-becausethereforealthoughso that is often the -Choisissez svp-shapesizelooktype they are reported to be. The-Choisissez svp-lastfirstnextoldest were seen in 1947 by an American pilot, but experts who studied his claim decided it had been a trick of the light. Even people experienced at watching the sky,-Choisissez svp-likethatsosuch as pilots, report seeing UFOs. In 1978 a pilot reported a collection of UFOs off the coast of New Zealand. A television -Choisissez svp-cameramandirectoractorannouncer went up with the pilot and filmed the UFOs. Scientists studying this phenomenon later discovered that in this case they were simply lights on boats out fishing.

Nowadays, skyscrapers can be found in most major cities of the world. A building which was many -Choisissez svp-stagesstoreyslevelssteps high was first called a skyscraper in the United States at the end of the 19th century, and New York has perhaps the -Choisissez svp-first-ratetop-classwell-builtbest-known skyscraper of them all, the Empire State Building. The -Choisissez svp-dirtfieldgroundsoil beneath the streets of New York is rock, -Choisissez svp-hardstiffpowerfulforceful enough to take the heaviest load without sinking, and is therefore well-suited to bearing the -Choisissez svp-weightheightsizescale of tall buildings.

Scrabble is the world´s most popular word game. For its origins, we have to go back to the 1930s in the USA, when Alfred Butts, an arquitect, found himself out of -Choisissez svp-incomejobworkearning. He decided that there was a -Choisissez svp-marketpurchasecommercesale for a board game based on words and -Choisissez svp-took upset outmade forgot round to design one. Eventually he made a -Choisissez svp-wealthfund cash fortune from it, in spite of the fact that his original -Choisissez svp-receiptbenefitprofitallowance was only three cents a game.

Roger´s manager -Choisissez svp-insistedwarnedthreatenedannounced to make him stay late if he hadn´t finished the work. By the time he has finished his week´s work, John has hardly -Choisissez svp-anymuchno same energy left for the weekend. As the game -Choisissez svp-leddrewnearedapproached to a close, disappointed spectators started to leave. I don´t remember -Choisissez svp-lockedto locklockingto have locked the front door when I left home this morning. I -Choisissez svp-disagreeavoid dislikeobject to other people borrowing my books: they always forget to return them. Andrew´s attempts to get into the swimming team have not -Choisissez svp-associatedconcludedjoinedmet with much success. Although Harry had obviously read the newspaper article carefully, he didn´t seem to have -Choisissez svp-graspedclutchedclaspedgripped the main point. A lot of the views put forward in the documentary were open to -Choisissez svp-enquiryqueryquestionwonder. The new college -Choisissez svp-dealssuppliesfurnishescaters for the needs of the students with a variety of learning backgrounds. I find the times of English meals very strange - I´m not used -Choisissez svp-to haveto havinghave having at 6pm.