Complete the different forms of these irregular verbs

GYMNASE DU BUGNON – LAUSANNE
Mai 2009
EXAMEN D’ADMISSION DE L’ECOLE DE CULTURE GENERALE
ET DE COMMERCE 2ème ANNEE
ANGLAIS
Date :
Durée :
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Matériel mis à disposition par le gymnase :
Matériel autorisé apporté par les élèves :
6 mai 2009
3h
10 pages numérotées
Table
CRM
Prénom :
Nom :
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I.
GRAMMAIRE
Partie 1 : Questions à choix multiples
Entourez d’un cercle bien visible la lettre correspondant à la bonne réponse. ∅ signifie qu’il n’y a
rien à mettre dans l’espace proposé. Une seule réponse est possible.
1. That car is …. this one.
A. as big than
B. biggest than
C. bigger than
D. more big than
2. My mother is …. doctor. She is …. famous doctor in …. United States.
A. - / a / -
B. the / the / the
C. a / a / the
D. a / the / the
3. ……… subject do you prefer? French or mathematics?
A. What
B. Which
C. Which one
D. Which ones
4. When my father was … boy, he went to … school in … small village in … Swiss mountains.
A. a / the / a / the
B. - / - / a / -
C. a / a / a / a
5. …. play tennis when you were 13?
A. Are you able to B. Could you
D. a / -/ a / the
C. Don’t you have to D. Are you allowed to
6. I would choose that rose. …. colour is so beautiful.
A. Her
B. Your
C. Its
D. His
7. I …. speak to him immediately!
A. want that they
B. want their to
D. want them to
C. want them that
8. Her sister drinks …. alcohol, which makes her parents angry.
A. many
B. a lots
C. some of
D. much
9. We are in a hospital. You …. smoke a cigarette in here.
A. should
B. mustn’t
C. couldn’t
D. don’t have to
10. He …. wash his car today. The wedding is in two weeks.
A. needn’t
B. haven’t got to
C. don’t have to
D. had better to
11. It is …. I can do.
A. the less
C. less
D. the least
C. are there
D. are they
B. at least
12. How many museums …. in your town?
A. their are
B. they are
13. As she looked at …. in the mirror, she realized how much she looked like her father.
A. her
B. hersself
C. himself
D. herself
14. He …. stop laughing once he has started.
A. can’t to
B. cannot
C. could not to
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D. cann’t
15. I want …. snoring.
A. her to stopping B. her stopping
C. her to stop
D. that she stop
16. …. is a very tall woman.
A. John’s wife
B. The wife’s John
C. The John’s wife
D. Wife John’s
17. Sarah has been listening to the same CD …. a week …. she last saw her ex boyfriend.
A. since / for
B. since / since
C. for / for
D. for / since
18. I loved the wine …. we drank last night.
A. who
B. what
C. which
D. how
19. They always take …. luggage to spend the weekend at their cousin’s.
A. a
B. some
C. several
D. many
20. They …. such an intimate question.
A. would never ask B. would never to ask C. wouldn’t ask never D. never wouldn’t ask
21. Who …. my favourite china an hour ago?
A. broke
B. did break
C. do break
22. Obama didn’t say …. about …. plans.
A. everything / is
B. anything / his
C. something / there D. anything / him
23. …. do you think they are now ?
A. Wo
B. Whom
C. Where
D. When
24. This is not your bag, …. is ….
A. he / mine
B. he / yours
C. it / your
D. it / mine
D. have broken
25. Don’t forget to switch …. the TV and to look …. your little brother.
A. off / up
B. off / down at
C. of / at
D. off / after
26. …. France is a country …. it doesn’t snow a lot.
A. - / where
B. The / who
C. - / who
D. The / where
……/ 26 points
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Partie 2 : Verbes irréguliers
Complétez ce tableau .
INFINITIVE
Ex: to be
1. to leave
PAST
PAST PART.
FRENCH
was/were
been
être
______________ ______________
________________
2. _____________ ______________ kept
________________
3. to catch
________________
_____________ ______________
4. _____________ _____________ written
________________
5. to bite
________________
______________ ______________
6. _____________ woke
______________
________________
7. _____________ ______________ ______________
acheter
8. _____________ ______________ shaken
________________
9. _____________ swore
________________
______________
10. _____________ ______________ ______________
se balancer
11. to win
______________ ______________
________________
12. to sell
______________ ______________
________________
13. _____________ ______________ ______________
suspendre
14. _____________ rang
______________
________________
______________ ______________
________________
15. to fly
……/ 15 points
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Partie 3 : Les temps verbaux
Mettez les verbes entre ( ) au bon temps : present simple et continuous, past simple et continuous,
present perfect, “going to” ou simple future. Utilisez tous les éléments proposés entre ( ) dans vos
réponses.
1. - It is so hot in here!
- Don’t move, …………………………… (I/ open) the window.
2. .……………………………..…… (he/ still/ wait) for her to phone. He ……………………………
………….. (already, wait) for three hours.
3. …………………………………………..… (your friend/ realise) what will happen if he cheats?
4. …………………………………………..… (you/ ever/ see) such a bad movie? The next time
that we go out I’ll choose the movie myself.
5. …………………………………… (My brother/ read) a magazine when …………………………
……………………. (he/ hear) a frightening noise.
6. While …………………………… (she/ dance), …………………………… (she / notice) a man
who …………………………… (look) fixedly at her.
7. Listen! ……………………………………… (someone/ sing). It is such a sweet melody.
8. John ……………………………………… (often/ take) photographs of the weddings ……………
……………… (he/ go) to.
9. ……………………………………………… (we / have dinner / never) with them. I am a bit
nervous. I don’t know what we could talk about.
10. If you don’t buy another ticket, they ……………………….…… (not go) to the concert with us.
11. The sky has gone very dark; it ………………………………… (rain) in a minute.
12. My son …………………………… (be) three years old in a month.
13. What ……………………………… (your father/ do)? He is a mechanic.
……/ 18 points
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Partie 4 : Vocabulaire
Traduisez en anglais.
1. faire le ménage:
……………………………………………..
2. la conduite, l’attitude:
……………………………………………..
3. obligatoire:
……………………………………………..
4. à pied:
……………………………………………..
5. ressembler à qqn:
……………………………………………..
6.
……………………………………………..
le garçon de café, le serveur:
7. la bibliothèque:
……………………………………………..
8. la saleté:
……………………………………………..
9. bien élevé:
……………………………………………..
10. interdire:
……………………………………………..
Traduisez en français :
1. to remain single:
……………………………………………..
2. to see somebody home:
……………………………………………..
3. to be on a diet:
……………………………………………..
4. sparkling water:
……………………………………………..
5. a raspberry:
……………………………………………..
6. garlic:
……………………………………………..
7. shallow:
……………………………………………..
8. a warning:
……………………………………………..
9. to sit for an examination:
……………………………………………..
10. aloud:
……………………………………………..
……/ 20 points
Total des points Grammaire:
……/ 79 points
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II.
EXPLICATION DE TEXTE (les points de cette partie comptent double)
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
1. Lisez attentivement le texte ci-dessous, y compris l’introduction en italique.
The story takes place during the Great Depression. Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, have been
let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are due to start work. George is a small clever
man whereas Lennie, his companion, is his opposite, a giant of a man with a mild mental disability.
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A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and
green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before
reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and
rocky Gabilan mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees—willows fresh and green
with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank
under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among
them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered
with the night tracks of racoons, and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, and with the splitwedge tracks of deer that come to drink in the dark.
There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming
down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down
from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water. In front of the low horizontal limb of a giant
sycamore there is an ash pile made by many fires; the limb is worn smooth by men who have sat on it.
Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the
hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones. And
then from the direction of the state highway came the sound of footsteps on crisp sycamore leaves.
The rabbits hurried noiselessly for cover. A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down
river. For a moment the place was lifeless, and then two men emerged from the path and came into
the opening by the green pool.
They had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed behind the other. Both
were dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats with brass buttons. Both wore black, shapeless
hats and both carried tight blanket rolls slung over their shoulders.; The first man was small and quick,
dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small,
strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man,
shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging
his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.
The first man stopped short in the clearing, and the follower nearly ran over him. He took off his hat
and wiped the sweat-band with his forefinger and snapped the moisture off. His huge companion
dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with
long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse. The small man stepped nervously beside him.
"Lennie!" he said sharply. "Lennie, for God' sakes don't drink so much." Lennie continued to snort into
the pool. The small man leaned over and shook him by the shoulder. "Lennie. You gonna be sick like
you was last night."
Lennie dipped his whole head under, hat and all, and then he sat up on the bank and his hat dripped
down on his blue coat and ran down his back. "Tha's good," he said. "You drink some, George. You
take a good big drink." He smiled happily.
George unslung his bindle and dropped it gently on the bank. "I ain't sure it's good water," he said.
"Looks kinda scummy."
Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and waggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes;
rings widened across the pool to the other side and came back again. Lennie watched them go. "Look,
George. Look what I done."
George knelt beside the pool and drank from his hand with quick scoops. "Tastes all right," he
admitted. "Don't, really seem to be running, though. You never oughta drink water when it ain't
running, Lennie," he said hopelessly. "You'd drink out of a gutter if you was thirsty." He threw a scoop
of water into his face and rubbed it about with his hand, under his chin and around the back of his
neck. Then he replaced his hat, pushed himself back from the river, drew up his knees, and embraced
them. Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. He pushed himself back, drew up his
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knees, embraced them, looked over to George to see whether he had it just right. He pulled his hat
down a little more over his eyes, the way George's hat was.
George stared morosely at the water. The rims of his eyes were red with sun glare. He said angrily,
“We could just as well of rode clear to the ranch if that bastard bus driver knew what he was talking
about. 'Jes' a little stretch down the highway/ he says. 'Jes' a little stretch.' God damn near four miles,
that's what it was! Didn't wanta stop at the ranch gate, that's what. Too God damn lazy to pull up.
Wonder he isn't too damn good to stop in Soledad at all. Kicks us out and says, 'Jes' a little stretch
down the road.' I bet it was more than four miles. Damn hot day." Lennie looked timidly over to him.
"George?" "Yeah, what ya want?" "Where we goin', George?"
The little man jerked down the brim of his hat and scowled over at Lennie. "So you forgot that
awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you're a crazy bastard!"
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Vocabulary :
Intro: disability: handicap
l.1 :
Soledad : a town in California
l.1 :
drops in close to : passe près de
l.2 :
for : because
l.4,5 : willows / sycamores : two sorts of trees
l.9 :
raccoons : des ratons laveurs
l.12 : tramps : des vagabonds
l.13 : limb : une branche
l.22 : shapeless : sans forme
l.23 : blanket rolls : des couvertures roulées
l.24 : features : des traits
l.27 : bear : ours ; paws : les pattes ; swing : se balancer
l.31 : snorting : s’ébrouant
l.33 : you gonna be : you are going to be
l.35 : dipped : trempa
l.36 : Tha’s : That’s
l.38 : I ain’t sure : I am not sure
l.39 : kinda scummy : kind of dirty
l.42 : I done : I have done
l.44 : don’t : it doesn’t ; oughta : should
l.45 : gutter : égoût
l.47 : his knees : ses genoux
l.51 : stared : looked fixedly ; rims : les bords
l.52 : of rode : have driven
l.53 : Jes : Just
l.54 : didn’t wanta : didn’t want to
l.55 : wonder : je me demande
l.57 : what ya want : what do you want ; where we goin' : where are we going
l.59 : awready : already ; I gotta tell : I have to tell
2. Questions de compréhension globale: répondez clairement à ces questions, en anglais, en
utilisant vos propres mots.
1. Divide the passage into three parts. Justify your choice. (3pts)
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2. What animals is Lenny compared with and why? (2pts)
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3. Lennie is also compared with a child. Quote two passages in which Lennie acts like a
child.(2pts)
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4. What are the similarities and the differences between Lennie and George (both physical and
mental)? Use words from the text to answer. (4pts)
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5. Describe George’s behaviour towards Lennie. Justify your answer. (3pts)
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6. Give 2 examples that show the reader that George is the leader of the two men. (2pts)
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……/ 16
points
3. Questions de compréhension détaillée.
Que signifient ces expressions ? Une seule réponse possible
1. (l.11-12) a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches:
a) Boys have hit the path with sticks.
b) The path is often used.
c) Boys often fight on this path.
d) The path is dangerous.
2. (l.15-16) the shade climbed up the hills toward the top:
a) The sun is setting.
b) Animals go up the hills.
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c) The sun is rising.
d) The hills looked like climbing shadows
3. (l.19) For a moment the place was lifeless:
a) The two men killed all the animals.
b) The place is dangerous.
c) Everybody dies when they come to this place.
d) Every animal hides and stays silent and quiet.
4. (l.43-44) “Tastes all right” he admitted. “Don’t really seem to be running, though.”:
a) Lennie doesn’t run, because he is tired.
b) The water is not good to drink, because it is stagnant.
c) The water is ok to drink, even if it is stagnant.
d) The water tastes good because there is not any current in the pool.
5. (l.49) He […] looked over to George to see if he had it just right:
a) He looked over to George to see if he imitated him correctly.
b) He looked over to George to see if George did it correctly.
c) He looked over to George to see if George agreed with him.
d) George checked that Lennie had imitated him correctly.
6. (l.51) the rims of his eyes were red with sun glare:
a) His eyes are red because he is ill.
b) His eyes are red because he has cried.
c) His eyes are red because there was too much sun.
d) His eyes are red because he has drunk too much beer.
……/ 6 points
Total des points Explication de texte:
…… x 2 = ……/ 44 points
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Total des points de l’épreuve :
…… /123 points
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