Prueba de nivel de inglés según el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia

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 -Elige por favor-inonat Scotland speak a different language called Gaelic. There are -Elige por favor-aboutbetweenamong five million people in Scotland, and Edinburgh is -Elige por favor-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 -Elige por favor-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, -Elige por favor-bringingincludingcontainingsupporting sound and colour. In 1907 Alice -Elige por favor-movedranenteredtransported to New York where she started her own film company. She was -Elige por favor-nextonceimmediatelyrecently successful, but, when Hollywood became the centre of the film world, the best days of the independent New York film companies were -Elige por favor-afterdown behindover. When Alice died in 1968, hardly anybody -Elige por favor-rememberedrealisedremindedrepeated her name.

UFO is short for "unidentified flying object". UFOs are popularly known as flying saucers, -Elige por favor-becausethereforealthoughso that is often the -Elige por favor-shapesizelooktype they are reported to be. The-Elige por favor-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,-Elige por favor-likethatsosuch as pilots, report seeing UFOs. In 1978 a pilot reported a collection of UFOs off the coast of New Zealand. A television -Elige por favor-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 -Elige por favor-stagesstoreyslevelssteps high was first called a skyscraper in the United States at the end of the 19th century, and New York has perhaps the -Elige por favor-first-ratetop-classwell-builtbest-known skyscraper of them all, the Empire State Building. The -Elige por favor-dirtfieldgroundsoil beneath the streets of New York is rock, -Elige por favor-hardstiffpowerfulforceful enough to take the heaviest load without sinking, and is therefore well-suited to bearing the -Elige por favor-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 -Elige por favor-incomejobworkearning. He decided that there was a -Elige por favor-marketpurchasecommercesale for a board game based on words and -Elige por favor-took upset outmade forgot round to design one. Eventually he made a -Elige por favor-wealthfund cash fortune from it, in spite of the fact that his original -Elige por favor-receiptbenefitprofitallowance was only three cents a game.

Roger´s manager -Elige por favor-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 -Elige por favor-anymuchno same energy left for the weekend. As the game -Elige por favor-leddrewnearedapproached to a close, disappointed spectators started to leave. I don´t remember -Elige por favor-lockedto locklockingto have locked the front door when I left home this morning. I -Elige por favor-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 -Elige por favor-associatedconcludedjoinedmet with much success. Although Harry had obviously read the newspaper article carefully, he didn´t seem to have -Elige por favor-graspedclutchedclaspedgripped the main point. A lot of the views put forward in the documentary were open to -Elige por favor-enquiryqueryquestionwonder. The new college -Elige por favor-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 -Elige por favor-to haveto havinghave having at 6pm.