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English Test 1 Exercise 1 ( /10 points) Write the sentences and say if they are right or wrong. Justify in English if wrong. 1. There are about thirty million people in Australia. Wrong. There are about 23.5 (twenty-three point five) million inhabitants in Australia.____________________________________________________ 2. Australia is composed of seven states. Wrong. Australia is composed of eight territories.____________________ ____________________________________________________________ 3. The capital city of Australia is Sydney. Wrong. The capital city of Australia is Canberra._____________________ ____________________________________________________________ 4. There are 3 million inhabitants in Canberra. Wrong. There are 375,000 (three hundred and seventy-five thousand) inhabitants in Canberra._________________________________________ 5. The area of Australia is about 10 million square kilometres. Wrong. The area of Australia is about 7 million square kilometres.________ ____________________________________________________________

Exercise 2 ( /20 points) Tell all you know about Australia in English. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________

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/15 points)

Describe the following country with the help of the given information. USA: Population: 315 647 656 hab. / Superficie: 9 629 048 km² / Capitale: Washington D. C. / Plus grande ville: NYC, 8 336 000 hab. / Monnaie: US Dollar (USD) / Dirigeant: Barack Obama (Président), Joe Biden (Vice-président) / Découvert en 1492 par Christophe Colomb / Indépendance du Royaume-Uni le 4 juillet 1776.

There are about three hundred million six hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-six inhabitants. The USA's area is about nine million six hundred and twenty-nine thousand and forty-eight square kilometres. Though it is not the largest city in the country, Washington DC is the USA's capital city. The biggest city is New York City with eight million three hundred and thirty-six thousand inhabitants. The USA's currency is the US Dollar (USD). The president of the USA is Barack Obama and the vice president is Joe Biden. Christopher Colombus discovered the USA in fourteen ninety-two. The USA became independent from the United Kingdom on July, the fourth seventeen seventy-six. Exercise 4 (

/5 points)

Vocabulary A map Famous Real Jail Area

Une carte Célèbre Réel Une prison 1. Une zone 2. une superficie

At first To discover An explorer An actor A singer

Au début Découvrir Un explorateur Acteur Chanteuse

Exercise 5 ( /10 points) Describe the map below.

This document is the map of the USA. The USA are bordered by two oceans ; the Atlantic ocean in the east and the Pacific ocean in the west and two countries ; Canada in the north and Mexico in the south. California is in the south east of the USA, its state capital is Sacramento though its largest cities are Los Angeles and San Francisco. In the south east of California, there is Arizona, its state capital is Phoenix. In the east of Arizona, there is New Mexico, its state capital is Santa Fe. As for the legend, the star represents the national capital city and the circles stand for the state capitals.______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________

Exercise 6 ( /20 points) Fill the map below.