English Language Placement Test

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Part I: Grammar Questions 1 20 Please CIRCLE the correct answer. Example: John: Have you seen my glasses?
Anne: They ____ on your nightstand. a. am b. is c. are

6. I ____ here tomorrow. a. will be b. am be c. be 7. How ____ bread do we need? a. much b. many c. few 8. Is that book ____ ? a. my b. hers c. your 9. Please read the instructions ____. a. careful b. carefully c. more careful 10. The police officer told her she ____ drive fast because its dangerous. a. mustnt b. doesnt have to c. has to 11. I ____ her since 2004. a. didnt see b. dont seen c. havent seen 12. Where has he ____ ?

1. Mark ____ at 6:00 every day. a. get up b. gets up c. is getting up 2. You always ____ when you are angry. a. shouted b. shouting c. shout 3. When my children are hungry, I feed ____ . a. they b. them c. their 4. ____ Jane work on Saturday? a. Do b. Was c. Does 5. Did you see Bob last night? No, but I ____ his wife. a. seen b. saw c. see

a. gone b. went c. go 13. Jerry went to the party, and Andy ____ . a. did either b. did neither c. did too

a. does he b. did he c. didnt he Part II: Sentence Completion Choose and circle the best word(s) to complete each sentence. 21. While walking together at night, the children hear a loud noise and get ______. They run away in search of a place to hide. a.angry b.excited c.scared d.tired 22. Oranges and apples are ______. They are both ______. a.similar ... fruits b.special ... red c.identical ... different d.bad ... healthy 23. The______ woman has gray hair and many wrinkles. She was born many years ago. a.strong b.young c.old d.kind 24. Timothy is ______. He always gets good grades. He studies hard and always does his homework. a.smart b.funny c.tall d.popular 25. Jim______ brings a hammer to work. He uses it every day. a.never b.always c.rarely d.sometimes

14. When are you going to stop ____ so much? a. to smoke b. smoke c. smoking

15. By the time we got to the theater, the movie ____. a. had started b. started c. has started 16. Mr. Andersons car was ____ last night. a. steal b. stole c. stolen 17. Im not sure who took the book. Paul ____ . a. may b. might have c. could 18. Can you tell me when ____ ? a. did they leave b. did they left c. they left 19. If Sandy had known it was going to snow, she ____ her boots. a. would have worn b. would wear c. will wear 20. He sang that song last week, ____ ?

26. The ______ man is the only one who can lift the heavy rock a.silly b.tall c.proud d.strong 27. The animal looks______.Tom has never seen one like it before. a.calm b.embarrassed c.strange d.disgusting 28. When the sun goes down, the sky gets______. a.warm b.dark Part III: Written Expression

c.bright d.cloudy 29. We were driving east, but we needed to go the opposite way. So we turned around and drove ______. a.west b.north c.left d.right 30. My mother says I am too ______and that I need to eat ______. a.young ... better b.healthy ... meat c.skinny ... more d.old ... vegetables

Questions 31- 35 Choose the letter of the underlined word or group of words that is not correct. 31. Helium has the most low boiling point of all substances. A B C D 32. In cases of minor injury to the brain. Amnesia is likely to be a temporarily condition. A B C D 33. The fact that white light is light composed of various wavelengths may be demonstrating by A B C dispersing a beam of such light through a prism. D 34. Copper was the first metallic used by humans and is second only to iron in its utility through A B C the ages. D 35. Acrylic paints are either applied using a knife or diluted and spreading with a paintbrush. A B C D

Part IV: Subject-Verb Agreement Questions 36- 40 Choose the correct words in the brackets and fill the blanks. Example: The speed at which the cheetah chases its prey ____is______( are / is ) remarkable. 36. Some people ____________ ( prefers / prefer ) coffee to tea. 37. The traffic ____________ ( moves / move ) slowly at this of day. 38. Sally and I __________ ( is / are ) going to the cinema this evening. 39. There __________ ( is / are ) a lot of interesting photographs in this book. 40. Not long ago, Brazil ________________ ( set up / sets up ) a conservation scheme to save the giant turtles of the Amazon from extinction.

Part V: Rearranging jumbled words to make sentences Questions 41- 49 Each set of words is a jumbled sentence with one extra word. The sentences make up a letter of complaint. Rearrange each set of words to form a sentence, adding any punctuation and capitalization as necessary. In each sentence there is an unused word. Identify each of the unused words. 41. writing system telephone am to I about banking your and complain ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra word: 42.I tried four details this week to system access feel to account my times have use the ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra word: 43.crashed on I the system been that each informed this computer has have occasion ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra word: 44.branch day person unable to working I a am I bank my as during the visit ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra word:

45.I access do addition service have so internet use cannot great the to in your not online ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra word: 46.advertise use convenient have telephone you as to banking your service and easy ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra word: 47.afraid not of work evidence have I features seen am I either yet these of ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra word: 48.grateful will problems I as would that be soon finished for have I described an the possible as assurance out be sorted _________________________________________________________________________ Extra word: 49. Can you make one last sentence from all the extra words? ______________________________________________________________________________

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