Quick placement test

• Where can you see these notices?
• For questions 1 to 5, mark one letter A, B or C on your Answer Sheet.

1. Please leave your room key at Reception.

A) in a shop    B) in a hotel    C) in a taxi   

2. Foreign money changed here.

in a library    in a bank    in a police station   

3. Afternoon show begins at 2PM.

outside a theatre    outside a supermarket    outside a restaurant   

4. CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS, Lessons start again on the 8 th January.

at a travel agent's    at a music school    at a restaurant   

5. Price per night: Ł10 a tent / Ł5 a person.

at a cinema    in a hotel    at a camp-site   

• In this section you must choose the word which best fits each space in the text below.
• For questions 6 to 10, mark one letter A, B or C on your Answer Sheet.

Scotland

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 on    in    at    (6) Scotland speak a different language called Gaelic. There are about    between    amount    (7) five million people in Scotland, and Edinburgh is his    your    its    (8) 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 is    were    was    (9) many forests, but now there are only a few    little    lot    (10).

• In this section you must choose the word which best fits each space in the texts.
• For questions 11 to 20, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet.

Alice Guy Blaché

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, bringing    including    containing    supporting    (11) sound and colour. In 1907 Alice moved    ran    entered    transported    (12) to New York where she started her own film company. She was next    once    immediately    recently    (13) successful, but, when Hollywood became the centre of the film world, the best days of the independent New York film companies were after    down    behind    over    (14) . When Alice died in 1968, hardly anybody remembered    realised    reminded    repeated    (15) her name.

 

UFOs – do they exist?

UFO is short for ‘unidentified flying object’. UFOs are popularly known as flying saucers, because    therefore    although    so    (16) that is often the look    shape    size    type    (17) they are reported to be. The last    next    first    oldest    (18) "flying saucers" 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, like    that    so    such    (19) as pilots, report seeing UFOs. In 1978 a pilot reported a collection of UFOs off the coast of New Zealand. A television cameraman    director    actor    announcer    (20) 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.

• In this section you must choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
• For questions 21 to 40, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet.

21. The teacher encouraged her students should write    write    wrote    to write    to an English pen-friend.

22. They spent a lot of time looking    for looking    to look    to looking    at the pictures in the museum.

23. Shirley enjoys science lessons, but all her experiments seem to turn    come    end    go    wrong.

24. Except    Other    Besides    Apart    from Michael, all the group arrived on time.

25. She accused    complained    blamed    denied    her neighbour’s children for the broken window.

26. As I had missed the history lesson, my friend went by    after    over    on    the homework with me.

27. Whether she’s a good actress or not is a matter    subject    point    case    of opinion.

28. The decorated roof of the ancient palace was built    carried    held    supported    up by four thin columns.

29. Would it agree    suit    like    fit    you if we came on Thursday?

30. This form doesn’t need    doesn’t have    needn’t    hasn’t got    be handed in until the end of the week.

31. If you make a mistake when you are writing, just cross    clear    do    wipe    it out with your pen.

32. Although our opinions on many things differ    oppose    disagree    divide    , we’re good friends.

33. This product must be eaten by    before    within    under    two days of purchase.

34. The newspaper report contained many    another    an    a lot of    important information.

35. Have you considered move    to move    to be moving    moving    to London?

36. It can be a good idea for people who lead an active life to increase their upturn    input    upkeep    intake    of vitamins.

37. I thought there was a piece    part    shadow    touch    of jealousy in his reaction to my good fortune.

38. Why didn’t you advise    mention    remark    tell    that you were feeling ill?

39. James was not sure exactly where his best interests stood    rested    lay    centred    .

40. He’s still getting across    by    over    through    the shock of losing his job.

• In this section you must choose the word or phrase which best fits each space in the texts.
• For questions 41 to 50, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet.

The tallest buildings - SKYSCRAPERS

Nowadays, skyscrapers can be found in most major cities of the world. A building which was many stages    steps    storeys    levels    (41) high was first called a skyscraper in the United States at the end of the 19th century, and New York has perhaps the first-rate    top-class    well-built    best-known    (42) skyscraper of them all, the Empire State Building. The dirt    field    ground    soil    (43) beneath the streets of New York is rock, hard    stiff    forceful    powerful    (44) enough to take the heaviest load without sinking, and is therefore well-suited to bearing the weight    height    size    scale    (45) of tall buildings.

 

SCRABBLE

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 architect, found himself out of earning    work    income    job    (46). He decided that there was a market    purchase    commerce    sale    (47) for a board game based on words and took up    set out    made for    got round    (48) to design one. Eventually he made a wealth    fund    cash    fortune    (49) from it, in spite of the fact that his original receipt    benefit    profit    allowance    (50) was only three cents a game.

• In this section you must choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
• For questions 51 to 60, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet.

51. Roger’s manager insisted    warned    threatened    announced    to make him stay late if he hadn’t finished the work.

52. By the time he has finished his week’s work, John has hardly any    much    no    same    energy left for the weekend.

53. As the game led    neared    approached    drew    to a close, disappointed spectators started to leave.

54. I don’t remember to lock    locking    locked    to have locked    the front door when I left home this morning.

55. I disagree    avoid    dislike    object    to other people borrowing my books: they always forget to return them.

56. Andrew’s attempts to get into the swimming team have not associated    concluded    joined    met    with much success.

57. Although Harry had obviously read the newspaper article carefully, he didn’t seem to have grasped    clutched    clasped    gripped    he main point.

58. A lot of the views put forward in the documentary were open to enquiry    query    question    wonder    .

59. The new college deals    supplies    furnishes    caters    for the needs of students with a variety of learning backgrounds.

60. I find the times of English meals very strange – I’m not used to have    to having    having    have    inner at 6PM.