EVALUATION DE LA CAPACITE DE LECTURE NIVEAUX A2 ET B1 FICHE D’EVALUATION ELEVES
For all the following exercises, first read the document carefully and then answer the question. Only one answer is possible. EXERCISE NUMBER 1 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. I am 70 and consider myself active around the house and garden. I’m up and down the stairs all day long, walk to and from the shops and visit friends. Do I really need to exercise on top of all that? My daughter says I do. What’s your professional opinion? Where is the text taken from? A B C D
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An advertisement for a sports centre. An article about keeping fit. A letter to an advice column. A report about exercise for old people.
EXERCISE NUMBER 2 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. NOT TO BE USED FOR BABIES UNDER SIX MONTHS What does this sentence mean? A B C D
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Babies under six months can use it. A child aged less than six months is a baby. Only give to babies over six months. Throw away after six months.
EXERCISE NUMBER 3 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes. Boil for about fifteen minutes, drain and leave to cool. Mix together with a small pot of mayonnaise and add salt and pepper to taste. Where is the passage taken from? A - A menu in a restaurant. B - A recipe in a cookery book. C - A restaurant guide.
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EXERCISE NUMBER 4 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. BIKE DOC Mountain bikes, bikes, tourers, city bikes, racers, hybrids, folders, tandems and more. Spares, accessories, clothing, friendly helpful service, everything you should get from the best all around bike shop in Manchester. What can you NOT buy at Bike Doc? A B C D
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Bicycles. Clothes. Medicines. Spare parts.
EXERCISE NUMBER 5 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer.
SCHOOL GAMES EVENING: this will now take place on Tuesday evening instead of Monday A B C D
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There will be a games evening at the school on Monday and Tuesday. The school has cancelled next Tuesday’s games evening. The games evening on Tuesday will be in a different place. The school has scheduled the games evening on Tuesday.
EXERCISE NUMBER 6: Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. Would there be detectives waiting for Sam at London Airport? It was crazy to leave Brazil. In Brazil there was sun, freedom and beautiful women. He could live happily for years with his £50,000. In Britain there was rain, trouble, policemen and a strong chance of prison. Next to him, there was sitting a tall, incredibly beautiful girl who looked at him and said: “My name’s Detective Sergeant Honeybone.” Sam is: A B C D
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A detective. A prisoner. A sergeant. A thief.
EXERCISE NUMBER 7 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. 2
The Olympic Games are held every four years. In 1928, at Amsterdam, women competed in the athletics for the first time. It had not been easy for women at the Olympics. None of the people who started the Olympic Games in the 1890s with Pierre de Coubertin were women. There were no women athletes at the first Olympics and although some women were at the second Games in Paris in 1900, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not want women there: the first real Olympic medals for women were not until 1912, in swimming. Women’s athletics started in 1928 but they could not run more than 200 metres until 1960! Even in 1984, at Los Angeles, there were still no 5,000 or 10,000 metre races for women. A B C D
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No women participated at the 1896 Olympics. Women got their first medals in 1984. Women have not been allowed to take part in the athletics since 1928. Women were allowed to run a distance of 5,000 metres or more in 1912.
EXERCISE NUMBER 8 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. California, here we come! Glamorous Los Angeles, Hollywood, capital of the film and record industry, Disneyland, Universal Studios, the beaches of Malibu and Santa Monica. Plenty to do and see in sunny Southern California. This document is taken from: A B C D
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A city plan. A country map. A geography book. A travel brochure.
EXERCISE NUMBER 9 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. We are delighted to announce our Autumn Season, in which we will present seven shows, two of which are not only William Shakespeare plays but also world premieres of new plays. What sort of organisation would make this announcement? A B C D
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A school. A sports club. A theatre. A university.
EXERCISE NUMBER 10 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. Travelling companion/driver required for American writer ; speaking English, other languages. Chess player appreciated. Excellent pay. Write to Box 492, Newton Tribune. 3
To apply for this job, you must: A B C D
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Be good at sport and at driving. Be friendly and rich. Play chess and write novels. Speak several languages and like travelling.
EXERCISES NUMBER 11 and NUMBER 12: a) Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. The RSPCA has prosecuted two 19-year-old students for putting a hamster in an envelope and sending it. A postman emptying the post-box was shocked to discover the hamster peeping out of a hole it had chewed in the envelope. Thankfully the lucky rodent was not hurt and has now been re-housed with a veterinary nurse. The students were prosecuted for abandoning a hamster and banned from owning any animal for 10 years. In this story the rodent is: A B C D
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A hamster. A postman. A student. A veterinary nurse.
b) Read the text about the RSPCA again and circle the letter corresponding to the correct sentence. A B C D
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The postman was punished for opening the envelope. The RSPCA protects students and rodents. The two students are now allowed to own an animal for ten years. The two students were punished for being cruel to an animal.
EXERCISE NUMBER 13 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct sentence. Yang Jing usually plays her music in big halls, in places like New York and Paris. Yang plays an old Chinese musical instrument called a pipa alone on the stage. She has been famous in China since 1986. Now she is 34 years old and the best pipa player in the world. She usually gets $ 3,000 each time she plays. A - Yang Jing became famous when she was 34. 4
B - She has already played music in New York. C - She often plays music with other people. D - She was born in 1986. EXERCISE NUMBER 14 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. NW, NE, Cent N England, Lake District, Isle of Man: Cloudy with occasional showers, becoming brighter. Westerly wind, mainly light. Max 10 or 11 C (50 to 52 F). The document is: A B C D
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An advert for a hotel. A history lesson. A sport report. A weather forecast.
EXERCISE NUMBER 15 Put the four paragraphs of this story in the right order. Write the four letters in the correct order in the box below. A - There he went up to the castle with some of his men, put the guns out of order and started burning British ships. B - The British did not laugh so much about America’s navy after Jones’ visit. C - In the XVIIIth century the British thought they had the strongest navy in the world and they laughed at the small navy of their American colonies. D - One night Captain John Paul Jones, an American sailor, decided to show the British that size was not everything and he brought his ship into the English harbour of Whitehaven. Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4
EXERCISE NUMBER 16 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. More people are going to travel by plane and this will lead to more crowded skies and greater danger. The increase in the number of planes will mean more pollution and building bigger planes won’t solve this problem. In my opinion, the answer is to increase the cost of flying so that fewer people can afford to fly. To make the world better, we should: A - Build bigger planes. 5
B - Build more planes. C - Sell cheaper air tickets. D - Sell more expensive air tickets. EXERCISE NUMBER 17 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct sentence. Hello, I’m Maria and I’m 14 years old. I come from Mexico. I like sitting on the beach and listening to music. I can’t stand watching TV. I want a pen friend to write to. A B C D
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Maria is fond of watching TV. She hates watching TV. She is keen on watching TV. She doesn’t mind watching TV.
EXERCISE NUMBER 18 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. Two young women are awaiting trial in the Caribbean after being arrested for trying to smuggle out rare eggs of a near-extinct parrot. The two women were arrested because A B C D
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They had killed a rare bird. They had stolen a rare parrot. They were caught with something prohibited. They had eaten parrot eggs.
EXERCISE NUMBER 19 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. William Cullen, a Scotsman, was the inventor of this technology and Faraday later used the idea. The first electric model wasn’t invented until 1803. It wasn’t until almost 100 years later that people could buy one to keep their food cool. William Cullen invented: A - The fridge. B - The light bulb. 6
C - The telephone. D - The vacuum cleaner. EXERCISE NUMBER 20 Read the text and circle the letter corresponding to the correct answer. A: “Would you mind if I asked you some questions?” B: “Not at all, dear boy.” A: “How long have you been a creature of the night?” B: “Since 1327, that’s six hundred and seventy-nine years.” A: “Wow, and how were you born if I can say that?” B: “Well, I knocked at the Prince’s palace door one night because I wanted to suck his blood and…” Who is A talking to? A B C D
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His son. A little boy. A prince. A vampire.
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