Placement Test

Please complete all answers from 1 to 40

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Placement

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Time: 20 minutes

Part 1

Questions 1 – 5

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

1

A B C

in a shop

in a hotel

in a taxi

2

A B C

in a library

in a bank

in a police station

3

A B C

outside a theatre

outside a supermarket

outside a restaurant

4

A B C

at a travel agent’s

at a music school

at a restaurant

5

A B C

at a cinema

in a hotel

on a camp-site

Please leave your room key at Reception.

Foreign money changed here

AFTERNOON SHOW BEGINS AT 2PM

Price per night:

£10 a tent

£5 a person

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Questions 6 – 10

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 (6) .................. Scotland speak a different language called Gaelic.

There are (7) .................. five million people in Scotland, and Edinburgh is (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 (9) .................. many forests, but now there are only a

(10) ................... .

Scotland is only a small country, but it is quite beautiful.

6 A on B in C at

7 A about B between C among

8 A his B your C its

9 A is B were C was

10 A few B little C lot

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Questions 11 – 20

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, (11) .................. sound and colour.

In 1907 Alice (12) ................... to New York where she started her own film company. She was

(13) .................. successful, but, when Hollywood became the centre of the film world, the best

days of the independent New York film companies were (14) ................... . When Alice died in

1968, hardly anybody (15) .................. her name.

11 A bringing B including C containing D supporting

12 A moved B ran C entered D transported

13 A next B once C immediately D recently

14 A after B down C behind D over

15 A remembered B realised C reminded D repeated

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UFOs – do they exist?

UFO is short for ‘unidentified flying object’. UFOs are popularly known as flying saucers,

(16) ................. that is often the (17) ................. they are reported to be. The (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, (19) ................. as pilots, report seeing UFOs. In

1978 a pilot reported a collection

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