1. Translate into French:—
Slowly he began to walk round the house in the hope of finding a window open.
But ten minutes later he was back at his starting point without having found one.
He wondered what he should do. If the house was empty there would probably
be no food; all the same it was a shelter for the night. Finally he decided he must
get in and two minutes later there was the sound of a window being opened.
Once inside the room, he stopped and listened but he could hear nothing. His
first thought was to find the kitchen. Cautiously he left the room and advanced
along a dark corridor. He came to a door which he opened without difficulty and
he realised he was in luck after all: a delicious smell of food reached his nostrils
and his groping hands touched the edge of a table. Very gently his fingers
explored the surface. What was that ? A cup and saucer and—a candle. Then
his fingers met a knife and a plate with meat on it, and something he had seen only
in his dreams for years: a bottle of beer.
He had almost decided to begin to eat despite the darkness, when he suddenly
touched a box of matches. For a moment he hesitated. Would he take the risk?
Then with a shrug he lit the candle and there, before his astonished eyes, lay a meal
that seemed to have been prepared specially for him. The convict sat down and ate
like a famished wolf.
2. Write, in French, an essay on one of the following subjects.
Your essay should be from one to one-and-a-half times the length of the
translation of Question 1.
(a) Vous faites un sejour dans une famille frangaise, et vous ecrivez a vos
parents pour leur donner de vos nouvelles en soulignant ce que vous y
trouvez de nouveau et d’interessant.
(b) Visite d’un personnage celebre a votre lycee.
(c) Votre oncle, qui a fait fortune a 1’etranger, revient vous voir. Racontez sa
vie et ses aventures.
(C41618)
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