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Oxford Placement Test lGrammar Test pART l
Name .............
Total Listening .. . ... / 100
Total Grammar ...... .... . / 1OO
Grand Total .... . I 2OO
Look at these examples.The correct answer is ticked.
a ln warm climates people [il("Ik=;Fltki"glsirting ourside in rhe sun.
b lf t is very hot, they sit f-|-( |"-ru;;lthe shade.
Now the test will begin.Tick the correct answers.
wut.t E to- ooirfit llmnglb;ilsl at a rernperature of 100"C
In some countries lth"r" itFljl-lvery hor ail the trme.
for keeping I to keep for to keep warm
a weather the weather weather
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In cold countries pcople wear thtck ciothes
n England peop e are always talking about
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n some p u..t Iit rui* -ttr"r" rai*] itEning I almcst every day
ln descrts rhere isn'tltl'"Tso-_*tln,u*Placcs near the Equator have the warm warm lweather even in t.he cold seasor
1n Engiand time of year is usually from December to February
people don't know what it's really like in other countrjes
v"ry E*Tttttt*.]r"*l peopte can travet abroad
Mohammedo,'@hisfirstwor|dtitlefightinl96OAfter hc b4ul!1]!ryrydry an olympic gold medal he became a professionat boxer
His religious be iefs
became chanrpion
have made him change his name when he
14 lf he bf lry"yf@ lost his first figbt with Sonny Liston, no one would have been surprised
15 He has travelle,l u ot @nfunaloilas a boxer and as a world-famous personality
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Oxford PlacementTest 1 GrammarTest Part I
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l-1e is very well known all in lall over I in all the world
Many people is believing lare believingl believe
To be the rr"rt fr..fd orlthe world is not easy.
Like any top sportsman Ali had to lmust lshould
he was the greatest boxer of all
train very hard.
20 Such is his fame that people F".ildFill dq always remember hlm as a champion
The history ot IS
quite lshort one. For many cenluries men
are trvinq I trv I had tried to fiy, but with
success. ln the 1 gth century a few people
succeeded to fly j in flying I into flying in balloons. But iI wasnt until
the beginning of century that anybody
f;{iilwaslable to fly in a machine
@Eh[hFht-l we now call a'planelThe f rst people to achieve
'powered flight'were the Wright brothers
was the machine which was the forerunner of the jumbo jets
that are [9{r*rl i ]* .onr*on sight today
They couldnll hardly have imagined that in 1969,
a man will be had beeniwould be walking on the moon
Already trq j@li* rn*]is taking the first steps towards the stars
S pace satell ites have now .*,rr"d [rir,." Td*ingTfoil around
half a century and we are dependent F"rl "il*lthem for all
kinds of Not only
@ being used forscientiflc research in
space, but also to see what kind of weather lis coming
By 2008 there must willi nave been satel'ites in space for fifty
years and the'space superpowers'will be
massive space stations built.When these
having lmaking I letting
will be I are lwill have been
completed it wrll be the first time when lwhere lthat astronauts will be
able to work in space in large numbers Apartl For I Except all that,
in many ways the mosl remarkable fiight all was
tiiltl*ithatorlelof the flying bicycle, which the world saw on television,
l=nv'sl;rr]lrlbry{'qld
was heavier than air, in other words, in
across the Channel from England to France,with nothing
a man to power it. As the bicycle-flyer said,
not much I not many I no much lmore than half a century later
'lt's the flrst time hard work it is to be a bird!'
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Grammar Test PART 2
5l Many teachers [rv t"l.vl t"ril their studenrs should learn a foreign ranguage
52 Learning a second language is not the ru*" FiTtit "Ihunlrearning a first ranguage
is quite ditticult because ol all the exceptlons who which what
learn the basic structures of a language quite quickly, but only if you
are wanting I will to I are willing to make an effort.
A otof peopearen'tused to the study to study I to studying gramrnar in their own anguage
Many adu t students of Eng ish wish they I
their language studies earlicr.
ln some countries students have to spend a lot of time working
There aren't E4"ltll""*l easy ways of learning a foreign language in your own country.
SomepeopletrytoimproVetheirEnglishou@theBBCWorldServiceLife ] Living lwith a foreign family can be a good way to learn a language
,tu Lto tryltryinn['n ,ry, d to tearn a language just by studying a dictionary
students of English tr;d r.th"r *i take tests
65Somepcoplethinkit,stimewe.l||@asingleinternationallanguage
Charles Wa ker is a teacher at a comprehensive school in Norwich He has joined llolned- ----lorns
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thc staff of the school in t99B and [ha; Gen *orL,ing lhere ever since
eefore EweTto mwe [moving]to Norwich, he taugbt in tta{y and in Wales,
as he was in Wales, but he likes the city a lor and lsf'oufOl*oufOlioufA I
|iketostaylhereforatlea5tanothertWoyearS,o'l@!n.
puts it, until his two children thave grown
abroad for a while, and they qot marrled in 1996.
Their two chi dren, Mark and Srtun, p*Tuuer"Thu* b""n-l both born in Norwich
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It rakes long time llong a long time to learn any language
It is said
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that Chinese is perhaps the world's lh*dtTh.rd"st
It's no
Many
language to master
have to be learnt.
their own
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hasn't been ] in Norwich for as long
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because she is near y two years I Vorng"@
than him Charles and Kate Walker are usedluse used to live in the
Lou^lrV but 'ow lhat tiev have crildren. they have moved move I moved
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Oxford PlacementTest 1 GrammarTest Part 2
*""ldrt'i y* shouldn't you
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No doubt you'd rather he stayed in England now,
Nobody else has been told he's coming,
We'd better not stay up too late tonlqht,
is he has he have they
I suppose it s time we cal ed it a day, didn't we lisn't itldon't
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nio the city Charles wanted a house ln"ril n".ilitorel tr'.
r.non |ino'.q d ger ro work easily.Unfortunately
[n-"f.] ir.r.il one rhe two of them real y wanted was roo expensive,
f4l i@ Charles and Kate hope wilt be in Norwich,the
wa kers !q@ iving rhere for ar least fifteen years
Ihey can't be :ure if they stay I do stay lwill stay , but if they
don't didn't won't their friends won't be too surprised.
Look at the following examples of question tags in English.The correct form of the tag is ticked.
a He's getting the 9 1 5 truin, Fnt f'"Ttlrtnt f'" f"urnt hel ib She works in a library isn't she ldoesdt she doesn't he
c Tom didn'ttell you, hasn'the didn'theldidffei?
d someone's forgotten to switch offthe gas, @;""T tr"vl i
Now tick the correct question tag in the following 10 items:
J9hp5 6sr pg ro (ee yoJ. hasn't helwasn't helisn't hel ?
t s been a long time since you've seen him,] f,urrft it]irni it
He's due to arrivc tomorrow,[wo1tl*ri,ntl.'"|*il@ tlle won't be gettinq in till about 10.30, l isn't he
You met him while you were on holiday, didn't you lweren't you haven't you
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