PLACEMENT TEST

Name

Total ________ /100 Level: __________________ Group: __________________

Look at these examples. The correct answer is 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 answers.

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

2. In some countries / there is / is / it is / very hot all the time.
3. In cold countries people wear thick clothes / for keeping / to keep / for to keep / warm.
4. In England people are always talking about / a weather / the weather / weather /.
5. In some places / it rains / there rains / it raining / almost every day.
6. In the desert there isnt / the / some / any / grass.
7. Places near the Equator have / a warm / the warm / warm / weather even in the coldest season.
8. In England / coldest / the coldest / colder / time of year is usually from December to February.
9. The most / Most of / Most / people dont know what its like in other countries.
10. Very / less / little / few / people can travel abroad.

11. Mohammed Ali / has won / won / is winning / his first world title fight in 1960.
12. After he / had won / have won / was winning / an Olympic gold medal he became a professional
boxer.
13. His religious beliefs / have made him / made him to / made him / change his name when he
became champion.
14. If he / has / would have / had / lost his first fight with Sonny Liston, no one would have been
surprised.
15. He has traveled a lot / both / and / or / as a boxer and as a world-famous celebrity.
16. He is very well known / all in / all over / in all / the world.
17. Many people / is believing / are believing / believe / he was the greatest boxer of all time.
18. To be the best / from / in / of / the world is not easy.
19. Like any top sportsman Ali / had to / must / should / train very hard.
20. Even though he has now lost his title, people / would / will / did / always remember him as
champion.
21. The history of / aeroplane / the aeroplane / an aeroplane / is

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

23. /are trying / try / had tried / to fly, but with

24. / little / few / a little / success. In the 19th century a few people

25. succeeded / to fly / in flying / into flying / in balloons. But it wasnt until

26. the beginning of / last / next / that / century that anybody

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

28. /who / which / what / was heavier than air. In other words, in

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

30 powered flight were the Wright brothers. / His / Their / Theirs /

was the machine which was the forerunner of the Jumbo jets

31. and supersonic airliners that are / such / such a / so / common

32. sight today. They / could / should / couldnt / hardly have imagined that in 1969,

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

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

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

36. Although space satellites have existed / since / during / for / less

37. than sixty years, we are now dependent / from / of / on / them for all

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

39. / are they / they are / there are / being used for scientific research in

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

41. By 2020 there / would / must / will / have been satellites in space for seventy

42. years and the space superpowers are planning to / have / make / let /

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

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

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

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

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

48. / flying / to fly / fly / across the Channel from England to France, without nothing

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

50. Its the first time / I realize / Ive realized / Im realizing / what hard work it is to be a bird!
51. Many teachers / say to / say / tell / their students should learn a foreign language.
52. Learning a second language is not the same / as / like / than / learning a first language.
53. It takes / long time / long / a long time / to learn any language.
54. It is said that Chinese is perhaps the worlds / harder / hardest / more hard / language to master.
55. English is quite difficult because of all the exceptions / who / which / what / have to be learnt.
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.
57. A lot of people arent used / to the study / to study / to studying / grammar in their own language.
58. Many adult students of English wish they / would start / would have started / had started /
their language studies earlier.
59. In some countries students have to spend a lot of time working / on / by / in / their own.
60. There arent / no / any / some / easy ways of learning a foreign language in your own country.
61. Some people try to improve their English by / hearing / listening / listening to / the BBC World
62. Service. / Live / Life / Living / with a foreign family can be a good way to learn a language.
63. Its no use / to try / trying / in trying / to learn a language just by studying a dictionary.
64. Many students of English / would rather not / would rather prefer not / would rather not to / take
65. tests. Some people think its time we all / learn / should learn / learnt / a single international
language.

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

67. the staff of the school in 2006 and / has been working / worked / works / there ever since.

68. Before / move / to move / moving / to Norwich, he taught in Italy and in Wales,

69. and before that he / has been / was / was being / a student at Cambridge University.

70. So far he / isnt / wasnt / hasnt been / in Norwich for as long as

71. he was in Wales, but he likes the city a lot and / should / would / could /

72. like to stay there for at least another two years, or, / how / which / as / he

73. puts it, until his two children / have / will have / will be / grown up a bit.

74. He met his wife, Kate in 2000 while he / was to live / was living / had been living / abroad

for a while, and they got married in 2004. Their two children, Mark and Susan,

75. / are / were / have been / both born in Norwich.

76. The Walkers boy, / who / which / he / is four, has just started

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

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

79. because she is nearly two years / younger / more young / the younger / than him.
80. Charles and Kate Walker / are used / use / used / to live in the country,

81. but now that they have children, they / have moved / move / moved / to the city.

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

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

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

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

86. children / go / will go / will have gone / to secondary school,

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

88. Walkers / will have been / have been / will be / living there for at least fifteen years.

89. They cant be sure if they / stay / do stay / will stay /, but if they

90. / dont / didnt / wont /, their friends wont be too surprised.

Look at the following examples of question tags in English. The correct form of the tag is
underlined.
a. Hes getting the 9.15 train, / isnt he / hasnt he / wasnt he / ?

b. She works in a library, / isnt she / doesnt she / doesnt he / ?

c. Tom didnt tell you, / hasnt he / didnt he / did he / ?

d. Someones forgotten to switch off the gas, / didnt one / didnt they / havent they / ?

Now underline the correct question tag in the following 10 items:

91. Johns coming to see you, / hasnt he / wasnt he / isnt he / ?

92. Its been a long time since youve seen him, / hasnt it / isnt it / havent you / ?

93. Hes due to arrive tomorrow, / wont he / isnt he / will he / ?

94. He wont be getting in till about 10.30, / isnt he / is he / will he / ?

95. You met him while you were on holiday, / didnt you / werent you / havent you / ?

96. I think Im expected to pick him up, / arent I / dont I / are you / ?

97. No doubt youd rather he stayed in England now, / didnt you / wouldnt you / shouldnt you / ?

98. Nobody else has been told hes coming, / is he / has he / have they / ?

99. Wed better not stay up too late tonight, / didnt we / have we / had we / ?

100. I suppose its time we called it a day, / havent we / isnt it / dont I / ?