ENGLISH PLACEMENT TEST

NAME: YETSY MARELIS PARRA ARZOLA

Look at these examples. The correct answers are underlined.

a) In warm climates people like / likes / are liking sitting outside in the sun.
b) If it is very hot, they sit at / in / under the shade.

Now the test will begin. Underline the correct answer. (For each correct answer 1 point)

1) Water is to boil / is boiling / boils at a temperature of 100°C. 1___

2) In some countries there is / is / it is very hot all the time. 2___

3) In cold countries people wear thick clothes for keeping / to keep / for to keepwarm. 3___

4) In England people are always talking about a weather / the weather / weather. 4___

5) In some places it rains / there rains / it raining almost every day. 5___

6) In deserts there isn't the / some / any grass. 6___

7) Places near the Equator have a warm / the warm / warm weather even in the cold season. 7___

8) In England coldest / the coldest / colder time of year is usually from December to February. 8___

9) The most / Most of / Most people don't know what it's likein other countries. 9___

10) Very less / little / few people can travel abroad. 10___

11) Mohammed Ali has won / won / is winning his first world title fight in 1960. 11___

12) After he had won / have won / was winning an Olympic gold medal he becamea professional boxer. 12___
13) His religious beliefs have made him / made him to / made him change his name when he became
champion. 13___

14) If he has / would have / had lost his first fight with Sonny Liston, no one would have been surprised. 14___

15) He has travelled a lot both / and / or as a boxer and as a world-famouspersonality. 15___

16) He is very well known all in / all over / in all the world. 16___

17) Many people is believing / are believing / believe he was the greatest boxer of all time. 17___

18) To be the best from / in / of the world is not easy. 18___

19) Like any top sportsman Ali had to / must / should train very hard. 19___

20) Even tough he has now lost his title, people would / will / did always remember him as a champion. 20___

21) The history of aeroplane / the aeroplane / an aeroplane is 21_____

22) quite a / a quite / quite short one. For many centuries men 22_____

23) are trying / try / had tried to fly, but with 23_____
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24) little / few / a little success. In the 19th century a few people 24_____

25) succeeded to fly / in flying / into flying in balloons. But it wasn't until 25_____

26) the beginning of this / next / that century that anybody 26_____

27) were / is / was able to fly in a machine 27

28) who / which / what was heavier than air, in other words, in 28_____

29) who / which / what we now call a ‘plane’. The first people to achieve 29_____

30) ‘powered flight’ were the Wright brothers. His / Their / Theirs was the machine which was the 30_____

31) forerunner of the Jumbo jets and supersonic airliners that are such / such a / so common 31_____

32) sight today. They could / should / couldn't hardly have imagined that in 1969 32_____

33) not much / not many / no much more than half a century later, 33_____

34) a man will be / had been / would be landed on the moon. 34_____

35) Already a man / man / the man is taking the first steps towards the stars. 35_____

36) Although space satellites have existed since / during / for less 36_____

37) than forty years, we are now dependent from / of / on them for all 37_____

38) kinds of informations / information / an information. Not only 38_____

39) are they / they are / there are being used for scientific research in 39_____

40) space, but also to see what kind of weather is coming / comes / coming. 40_____

41) By 1998 there would / must / will have been satellites in space for forty 41_____

42) years and the ‘space superpowers’ are planning to have / make / let 42_____

43) massive space stations built. When these will be / are / will have been 43_____

44) completed it will be the first time when / where / that astronauts will be 44_____

45) able to work in space in large numbers. Apart / For / Except all that, 45_____

46) in many ways the most remarkable flight of / above / at all was 46_____

47) it / that / that one of the flying bicycle, which the world saw on television, 47

48) flying / to fly / fly across the Channel from England to France, with nothing 48_____

49) apart / but / than a man to power it. As the bicycle-flyer said, 49_____

50) “It's the first time I realize / I've realized / I am realizing what hard work it is to be a bird!” 50_____

51) Many teachers say to / say / tell their students should learn a foreign language. 51_____

52) Learning a second language is not the same as / like / than learning a first language. 52_____

53) It takes long time / long / a long time to learn any language. 53_____

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54) It is said that Chinese is the world's harder / hardest / more hard language to master. 54_____

55) English is quite difficult because of all the exceptions who / which / what have to be learnt. 55_____

56) You can learn the basic structures of a language quite quickly, but only if you

are wanting / will to / are willing to make an effort. 56

57) A lot of people aren't used to the study / to study / to studying grammar in their own language. 57_____

58) Many adult students wish they would start / would have started / had started their language studies

earlier. 58_____

59) In some countries students have to spend a lot of time working on / by / in their own. 59_____

60) There aren't no / any / some easy ways of learning a foreign language in your own country. 60_____

61) Some people try to improve their English by hearing / listening / listening to the BBC World Service. 61__________

62) Live / Life / Living with a foreign family can be a good way to learn a language. 62_____

63) It's no use to try / trying / in trying to learn a language just by studying a dictionary. 63_____

64) Many students would rather not / would rather prefer not / would rather not to take tests. 64_____

65) Some people think it's time we all learn / should learn / learnt a single international language. 65_____

66) Charles Walker is a teacher at a school in Norwich. He has joined / joined / joins 66_____

67) the staff of the school in 1988 and has been working / worked / works there ever since. 67

68) Before move / to move / moving to Norwich, he taught in Italy and in Wales, and before that 68_____

69) he has been / was / was being a student at Cambridge University. 69_____

70) So far he isn't / wasn't / hasn't been in Norwich for as long as he was in Wales, 70_____

71) but he likes the city a lot and should / would / could like to stay there for at least 71_____

72) another two years, or, how / which / as he puts it, until his two children 72_____

73) have / will have / will be grown up a bit. He met his wife, Kate, in 1982 73_____

74) while he was to live / was living / had been living abroad for a while, and they got married 74_____

75) in 1986. Their two children, Mark and Susan, are / were / have been both born in Norwich. 75_____

76) Mark, who / which / he is four, has just started 76

77) at nursery school, but his / their / her sister 77_____

78) shall stay / stays / will be staying at home for another couple of years, 78_____

79) because she is nearly two years younger / more young / the younger than him. 79_____

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80) Charles and Kate are used / use / used to live in the country, 80_____

81) but now they have children, they have moved / move / moved into the city. 81

82) Charles wanted a house next / near / close the school 82

83) in order / for / to get to work easily. Unfortunately 83

84) the / a / that one the two of them really wanted was too expensive, 84

85) so they must / should / had to buy one a bit further away. By the time the children 85

86) go / will go / wil have gone to secondary school, 86

87) that / which / what Charles and Kate hope will be in Norwich, 87

88) the Walkers will have been / have been / will be living there for a least fifteenyears. 88.

89) They can't be sure if they stay / do stay / will stay, but if they 89

90) don't / didn't / won't, their friends won't be too surprised. 90

Look at the following examples of question tags in English.

The correct form of the tag is underlined.
a) He's getting the 9.15 train, isn't he / hasn't he / wasn't he ?
b) She works in a library, isn't she / doesn't she / doesn't he ?
c) Tom didn't tell you, hasn't he / didn't he / did he?
d) Someone's forgotten to switch off the gas, didn't one / didn't they / haven't they?

Now underline the correct question tags in the following 10 items. (For each correct answer 1 point)

91) John's coming to see you, hasn't he / wasn't he / isn't he ? 91

92) It's been a long time since you've seen him, hasn't it / isn't it / haven't you ? 92

93) He's due to arrive tomorrow, won't he / isn't he / will he ? 93

94) He won't be getting in till about 10.30, isn't he / is he / will he ? 94

95) You met him while you were on holiday, didn't you / weren't you / haven't you ? 95

96) I think I'm expected to pick him up, aren't I / don't I / are you ? 96

97) No doubt you'd rather he stayed in England now, didn't you / wouldn't you / shouldn't you ? 97

98) Nobody else has been told he's coming, is he / has he / have they ? 98

99) We'd better not stay up too late tonight, didn't we / have we / had we ? 99

100) I suppose it's time we called it a day, didn't we / isn't it / don't I ? 100