Placement Test
Name…………………………………………………………………
Total: ………../100
Look at these examples. The correct answer is underlined.
a) In warm climates people like/likes/are liking sitting outside in the sun.
b) It is very hot to sit at/in/under the shade.
Now the test will begin. Underline the correct answers.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Water be freezing/is freezing/freezes at a temperature of 0°C.
In some countries there is/is/it is dark all the time in winter.
In hot countries people wear light clothes for keeping/to keep/for to keep cool.
In Madeira they have the good/good/a good weather almost all year.
Most Mediterranean countries are more warm/the more warm/warmer in October
than in April.
6) Parts of Australia don’t have the/some/any rain for long periods.
7) In the Arctic and Antarctic it is/there is/it has a lot of snow.
8) Climate is very important in most of/most/the most people’s lives.
9) Even now there is little/few/less we can do to control the weather.
10) In the future we’ll need/we are needing/we can need to get a lot of power from the
sun and the wind.
11) Pele is still perhaps most/the most/the more famous footballer in the world.
12) He had been/is/was born in 1940.
13) His mother not want/wasn’t wanting/didn’t want him to be a footballer.
14) But he used/ought/has used to watch his father play.
15) His father made him/made him to/would make him to practice every day.
16) He learned to use or his left foot or/and his left foot and/both his left foot and his
right.
17) He got the name Pele when he had only ten years/was only ten/was only ten years.
18) By 1956 he has joined/joined/had joined Santos and had scored in his first game.
19) In 1957 he has been picked/was picked/was picking for the Brazilian national team.
20) The World Cup Finals were in 1958 and Pele was looking forward to play/to playing/to
be playing.
21) But he hurt this /the/his knee in a game in Brazil.
22) He thought he isn’t going to/couldn’t/wasn’t going to be able to play in the finals in
Sweden.
23) If he hadn’t been/weren’t/wouldn’t be so important to the team he would have been
left behind.
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24) But he was a such/such a/a so brilliant player they took him anyway.
25) And even though/even so/in spite of he was injured he helped Brazil to win the final.
26) The history of the World Cup is quite a/a quite/quite short one.
27) Football has been/is being/was played for
28) above/over/more than a hundred years but the first World Cup
29) competition did not be/was not/was not being held until 1930.
30) Uruguay could win/were winning/had won the Olympic football final in 1924 and 1928
and
31) wanted be/to be/being World Champions for the third time. Four teams entered from
Europe,
32) but with a little/few/little success. It was the first time
33) which/that/when professional teams
34) are playing/would play/had played for a world title.
35) It wasn’t until four years later/more/further that a
36) European team succeeded to win/in winning/at winning
37) for the/a/its first time. The 1934 World Cup was again won
38) by a/the/one home team,
39) what/this/which has been the case several times since then.
40) The 1934 final was among/between/against two European teams,
41) Czechoslovakia and Italy. Italy, which/that/who won,
42) went on to win/winning/to have won the 1938 final. Winning successive finals is
something
43) that is not/was not/has not been achieved again until
44) Brazil did these/them/it in 1958 and 1962. If Brazil
45) would have won/would win/had won in 1966 then the authorities
46) would have needed to have/let/make the original World Cup replaced. But England
47) stopped the Brazilians to get/getting/get a third successive win. An England player,
Georg Huff, scored
48) three goals in the final and won it almost by his own/on himself/by himself. 1966
49) proved be/as being/to be the last year that England
50) would/will/did even qualify for the finals till 1982, though they got in as winners in
1970.
Club night
51) One evening Sandra’s fiancé, John, tells her he is going/he’d go/he goes for a drink
52) with his friends and she decides she likes/she’ll like/she’d like to go to the club rather
53) than stay in on her own/by her own/by herself. After a while she meets Bob,
54) an old friend of her/them/hers and a friend of John’s. At first she’s glad of his company,
55) but then his attentions become rather too few/little/much and she’s
56) no more/no longer/not any more enjoying herself.
57) Bob: Come on! Shall/Won’t/Wouldn’t you have another drink? It won’t take a minute
58) to get/for getting/get you one.
59) Sandra: No, really. I’d/I/I’ve had enough.
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60) Bob: I’m sure it would make you feel/to feel/feeling better.
61) Sandra: No, honestly, I’m feeling myself/I feel myself/I’m feeling fine, thanks.
62) Bob: Well, how about a/what’s about a/why not to dance?
63) There’s no point/sense/need to be so unfriendly because
64) you get/you’re getting/you’re to be got married. You
65) should/could/might as well enjoy yourself while you can.
66) Sandra: Actually, Bob, I think I/I’ll/I’d better be going now.
67) It’ll get/It’s getting/It gets on.
68) Bob: What? Leave now? It’s not hardly/scarcely/really got going yet. Surely you
69) don’t have to go/have not to go/needn’t have gone just yet, do you? Is it because of
me?
70) Sandra: No, it’s not that, but I really ought to go home. I’ve got
a homework to do/some homeworks to do/some homework to do, I should have done it
71) last week but I’ve forgotten/I’d forgotten/I forgot.
72) I needn’t/mustn’t/mightn’t stay any longer or
73) I’ll never get/I never get/I’d never get it done.
74) Bob: You could do it in the morning if you’ll get/you’d get/you got up early.
75) There’s not much point you try/to try/in trying to start now.
76) You may/can/could as well enjoy yourself now and do it tomorrow. Come on, let’s
dance.
77) Sandra: Look! I’ve/I/I’d already said I’ve got to go
78) and I’ll/I/I’d mean it.
79) I shall/should go/should have gone ages ago, in fact
80) I had rather/I’d have rather/I’d have preferred not come at all.
81) I really wish I wouldn’t have/didn’t/hadn’t now.
82) Bob: You might/would/may have told me you were in such a lousy mood. I wouldn’t
have bothered trying to be friendly.
83) Sandra: Come on, Bob! It’s time I left/I’ll leave/I leave and that’s all there is to it.
84) Bob: In that case I’ll tell/I tell/I’m telling you what I could do. I could offer you a lift.
85) It’ll/It’d/This will be a lot quicker than the bus.
86) Sandra: Oh yes! By the time we’d go/we’d been/we go round all country lanes. Not on
87) your life! I’ll/I/I’d rather walk. Goodnight!
88) Bob: What a night! If only I’d/I’d have/I’ve known in the first place that she doesn’t
89) want anything to do with me anymore! Well, it’s the first time I’ve been/I’m going/I go
90) to a club for ages, and after tonight it’d been/it’d be/it’ll be the last. Never again!
Now underline the correct question tag in the following 10 items:
91) Steve’s off to China, has he/hasn’t he/isn’t he ?
92) It’ll be a year before we see him again, won’t it/won’t we/shan’t it ?
93) I believe he’s given up smoking, isn’t he/don’t I/hasn’t he ?
94) I’m next on the list to go out there, am not I/am I not/aren’t I ?
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95) No doubt you’d rather he didn’t stay abroad too long, shouldn’t you/wouldn’t
you/hadn’t you?
96) He’s rarely been away for this long before, is he/hasn’t he/has he ?
97) So you think he’ll be back before November, shall he/will he/do you ?
98) Nobody’s disagreed with the latest proposals, did he/has he/have they ?
99) We’d better not delay reading this any longer, should we/did we/had we ?
100) Now’s hardly the time to tell me you didn’t need a test at all, did you/is it/isn’t it ?
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