OXFORD PLACEMENT TEST 2
GRAMMAR TEST PART 1
Name____________________________________________
Total Listening _______ /
100 Total Grammar Part 2 _______/ 50
Total Grammar Part 1_______/
50 Grand total _______/ 200
Look at these examples. The correct
answer is ticked.
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. Tick the correct answers.
1 Water be freezing is freezing freezes at a temperature of 0o C.
1____
2 In some countries there is is it is dark all the
time in winter.
2_____
3 In hot countries people wear light
clothes for keeping
to keep for to keep
cool. 3_____
4 In Madeira they have the good good a good weather almost
all year. 4_____
5 Most Mediterranean countries are more warm the more warm warmer in Octoberthan
in April. 5____
6 Parts of Australia don,t
have the some any rain for long
periods. 6____
7 In the Arctic and Antarctic it is there is it has a lot of
snow.
7____
8 Climate is very important in most of most the most people,s
lives. 8___
9 Even now there is little few less we can do to control the
weather. 9___
10 In the future we’ll need we are needing we can need to get a lot of power
from 10__
the sun and the
wind.
11 Pele is still perhaps most the most the
more famous footballer in the world.
11__
12 He had been is
was born in
1940.
12__
13 His mother not want wasn’t wanting didn’t want him to be a
footballer. 13__
14 But he used ought has
used to watch his father
play. 14__
15 His father made him to made him would make him to practise every
day. 15__
16 He learned to use or his left foot or and his left foot and both his left foot and his right. 16____
17 He got the name Pele when he had only ten years was only ten was only ten years. 17___
18 By 1956 he has joined joined had joined Santos and had scored in his first game.
18__
19 In 1957 he has been picked was picked was picking for the Brazilian national
team. 19___
20 The World Cup Finals were in 1958 and Pele was looking
forward to play to playing to be playing. 20
21 But he hurt this the his
knee in a game in
Brazil.
21__
22 He thought he isn’t going to couldn’t wasn’t going to be able to play in the finals in
Sweden. 22_
23 If he hadn’t been weren’t wouldn’t be so important to the team, he would have been
left behind. 23__
24 But he was a such such a a so brilliant player, they took him
anyway. 24__
25 And even though even so in
spite of he was injured he helped Brazil to win the
final. 25_
The history of the World Cup is quite a a quite quite short
one. 26_____
Football has been is being was played for 27_____
above
over more that a hundred
years, but the first World
Cup 28____
competition did not be was not was not being held until
29____
1930. Uruguay could win were winning had won the Olympic
football 30____
final in 1924 and 1928 and wanted be being
to be World Champions
for the third time. 31___
Four teams entered from Europe, but with a little few little
success. 32___
It was the first time which that when professional teams 33___
are playing would play had played for a world
title.
34___
It wasn’t until four years later more further that a 35___
European team succeeded to win in winning at winning
36___
for the
a its first time. The
1934 World Cup was 37___
again won by a the
one home
team,
38___
what this which has been the case several times
since
39___
then. The 1934 final was among between against
two
40__
European teams, Czechoslovakia and Italy, which that who
won, 41__
Went on to win winning to have won the 1938 final.
Winning 42__
successive finals is something that is not was not has not been
achieved 43__
again until Brazil did these them it in 1958 and 1962. If
Brazil 44__
would have won would win had won in 1966 then
the 45__
authorities would have needed to have let make
the original World Cup replaced. 46_____
But England stopped the Brazilians to get getting get a third successive win. An England player, 47_____
Geoff Hurst, scored three goals in the final and won it
almost by his own
on himself by himself 48____
1966 proved being as being to be the last year that
England 49____
would will did even qualify for the finals till 1982, though they got in as
winners in 1970. 50____
GRAMMAR TEST Part 2
51 Many persons people peoples nowadays believe that everyone should learn to use
computers. 51___
52 The majority of children in the UK have has are having access to a micro-computer. 52___
53 There are more computers per head in England than
anywhere
else somewhere else
anywhere other
in the world. 53__
54 Learning a computer language is not the same as like than learning a real
language. 54__
55 Most people start off with ‘Basic’, who what which is the easiest
to learn. 55__
56 Children seem to find computers to easy, but many adults
aren’t used to work
the work working 56_
with microtechnology.
57 There aren’t no any
some easy ways
of learning to program a computer. 57__
58 The only way to become really proficient is to practise a
lot
on
your own by your
own on your self.
58__
59 You can pick up the basics quite quickly if you want to would are willing to make en
effort. 59__
60 Most adults feel it would be easier if only they would have started would start had started
60__
computer studies earlier.
61 Some people would just rather prefer better not have anything to do with computers at
all. 61__
62 A lot have resigned themselves to never even know known knowing how a computer
works. 62__
63 Microtechnology is moving so fast that hardly anybody nobody no one can keep up
with it all. 63__
64 It’s no use in trying to try trying to learn about computers just by reading
books. 64__
65 Everyone has difficulty in learning difficulties to learn it difficult to learn
65__
if they can’t get ‘hands-on’ experience.
Below is a letter written to the ‘advice’ column of a
daily newspaper. Tick the correct answers.
Dear Marge,
I am writing I will write I should write to you because
I 66____
am not knowing don’t know know not what to do. I’m twenty-six and a teacher
at 67____
a primary school in Norwich where I’m working I’ve worked I work for the last five years. 68___
When I was have
been had been
there for a couple of years, one of the older members of staff 69___
would leave left had been leaving and a new
teacher 70___
would be became was appointed to work in the same department as
me. 71___
We worked
have worked should work together
with the same classes during her first year 72___
and had the opportunity for building possibilities to build chance to build up a good professional 73__
relationship. Then, about eighteen months after she has arrived to have arrived arriving
74___
in Norwich, she decided to buy her own herself her a
house. 75
She was tired of to live live living in rented accommodation and wanted a place 76____
by her own of her own of herself. At about the same time, I 77____
was given have been given gave notice by the landlord of the flat
78____
what I was living that I had lived I was living in
79_____
and she asked me if I liked had liked would like to live
80_____
with her. She said told explained
me that by the time she
81______
would pay would have paid had paid the mortgage
82_______
and the bills it there
they wouldn’t be
83______
a lot many few left to live on. She suggested
84______
us to we should we may share the house and share the costs.
85_____
It seemed like a good idea, so after we’d agreed we could agree we agreed with all the
details 86______
what that who needed to be sorted out, we moved into the new house together.
87_______
At the end of this month we have lived we have been living we’ll have been living 88______
together for a year and a half. It’s the first time I live I’m living I’ve lived with
anybody before, but 89__ I should guess I might have guessed I’d have guessed what would happen. I’ve fallen in love
90______
with her and now she’s been offered another job 200 miles
away and is going to move. I don’t know what to
Do. Please give me some advice.
Yours in shy desperation,
Steve
Look at the following examples of question tags in
English. The correct form of the tag is ticked.
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 tick the correct question tag in
the following 10 items:
91 Steve’s off to China, has he hasn’t he isn’t he? 91_____
92 It’ll be a year before we see him again, won’t it won’t we shan’t it?
92______
93 I believe he’s given up smoking, isn’t he don’t I hasn’t he? 93_____
94 I’m next on the list to go out there, am not I are I aren’t I? 94_____
95 No doubt you’d rather he didn’t stay abroad too long, shouldn’t you wouldn’t you hadn’tyou? 95____
96 He’s rarely been away for this long before, is he hasn’t he has he? 96____
97 So you think he’ll be back before November, shall he will he do you?
97____
98 Nobody’s disagreed with the latest proposals, did he has he have they? 98_____
99 We’d better not delay reading this any longer, should we did we had we?
99____
100 Now’s hardly the time to tell me you didn’t need a test
at all, did you is it isn’t it? 100__
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