Reading Comprehension

This is a short test to evaluate your knowledge of the language and to prepare you for the course. Please take your time and answer all the questions to help your teacher evaluate your reading skills.

Read the text below and answer the following questions: 

For the first 60 years of film productions, movies were shown only in black and white. Movie screens were painted with a silver metallic paint that made the pictures easier to see. Although movie screens are no longer painted with silver paint, the term silver screen is sometimes used to describe the movie business. In these early days of movies, films were wound on big reels and run through projectors. Dust on the lens of the projector and other problems could cause the picture to flicker. This is how movies came to be called flicks.