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August Placement Test 2022-23 /
Placement Test (для тех, кто не смог сдать 23.08) - 10:00-18:00
Абылхайр Томирис
Question 1
Complete
Not graded
What English Proficiency Test (IELTS, AET, TOFEL, DuoLingo, other) have you taken?
AET/41
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Question 2
Complete
Not graded
E.g. YES/85
NO
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Question 3
Correct
Select one:
a. on
b. in
c. at
d. into
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Question 4
Correct
Select one:
a.
He’s 27 years old.
c.
He’s 72 years old.
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Question 5
Correct
Select one:
a. His
b. Her
c. She
d. He
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Question 6
Correct
Select one:
a. There is
b. There are
c. Their is
d. Their are
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Question 7
Partially correct
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Question 8
Correct
Select one:
a. She is reading a book.
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Question 9
Partially correct
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Question 10
Correct
Select one:
a.
He showers at the office and then starts work at 8:30.
c.
He showers and then rides arrives at work at 8:30.
Response history
2 23/08/22, 16:04 Saved: He eats breakfast and starts work at 9:00. Answer saved
Question 11
Correct
Select one:
a. he did not bought
c. he no buys
d. he doesn’t buy
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Question 12
Correct
Select one:
a. can’t
b. not
c. don't
d. no
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Question 13
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Nursultan’s dad has two sisters. His dad’s sisters are Nursultan’s_________?
Select one:
a. nieces
b. cousins
c. aunts
d. uncles
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Question 14
Correct
Select one:
a. Building D
b. Building B
c. Building C
d. Building A
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Question 15
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Living in the city is ____________than living in the countryside.
Select one:
a.
more stressful
b. stressful
c.
as stressful
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Question 16
Correct
Choose TWO correct answers
At the café.
b.
I’d like fish and chips, please.
d.
Could I have fish and chips, please?
The correct answers are: Could I have fish and chips, please?, I’d like fish and chips, please.
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Question 17
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Describing people
Select one:
a. keen in/good
b.
keen on/good
c.
keen on/well
d.
keen in/well
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Question 18
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
What are her past experiences?
Select one:
a.
She has been to Poland
c.
She has to Poland went.
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Question 19
Correct
Select one:
a. takes sometimes / but usually
d.
usually takes / but sometimes
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Question 20
Correct
Select one:
a.
He can’t decide on which house to buy.
c.
His sister is going to buy a house.
Response history
2 23/08/22, 16:09 Saved: His sister is going to buy a house. Answer saved
Question 21
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
They __________ when the phone rang.
Select one:
a.
are talking
b. were talked
c.
have talked
d. were talking
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Question 22
Correct
Choose TWO correct answers
What did he do in the clothes shop?
c.
He took out his T-shirt and tried a new shirt in.
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Question 23
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Aidana ___ breakfast, but now she must maintain a healthy eating lifestyle.
Select one:
a. didn’t use to ate
b. use to eat
c. use to ate
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Question 24
Correct
Select one:
a. I’d prefer eat out.
c.
I’d rather stay home.
Response history
2 23/08/22, 16:15 Saved: I’d prefer to prepare dinner at home. Answer saved
Question 25
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Manas knows a lot about Turkish culture, lifestyle, and food because ____ to Turkey many times.
Select one:
a. he have gone
b. he has gone
c.
he has been
d. he have been
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Question 26
Partially correct
The reason Maya feels depressed is because she failed the entrance exam.
Choose TWO similar adjectives for ”depressed”.
b. miserable
c. frustrated
d. dazzling
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Question 27
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
On the phone
- Sorry, I cannot ____ at the moment. Would you mind ____ in two hours. She is in a meeting right now.
Select one:
a. connect you/calling back
b. connect/calling
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Question 28
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Denis ____ German before he moved to Berlin.
Select one:
a. did learn
b. has learned
c. had learned
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Question 29
Partially correct
Choose TWO correct answers
Giving opinions
Zarina agrees that the movie was interesting, ________ yesterday's movie was better.
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Question 30
Correct
Select one:
a.
If he had more time, he would enjoy his hobbies.
b.
If he had more time, he would have enjoyed his hobbies.
d.
If he has more time, he enjoys his hobbies.
The correct answer is: If he had more time, he would enjoy his hobbies.
Response history
2 23/08/22, 16:25 Saved: If he had more time, he would enjoy his hobbies. Answer saved
Question 31
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Alima was late for an important meeting. She __________ home earlier.
Select one:
a. must had left
b.
should have left
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Question 32
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a. doesn't mind / can't stand
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Question 33
Correct
Job opportunities
Mother
“Why didn’t you accept that amazing job offer in New York last year?”
Son
Select one:
a.
If he has started the job, he would moved abroad.
c.
If he had started the job, he would moved abroad.
Response history
2 23/08/22, 16:34 Saved: If he had started the job, he would have moved abroad. Answer saved
Question 34
Incorrect
Select one:
a. hasn’t/point
b. doesn’t has/point
c.
doesn’t have/point
d. has/point
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Question 35
Partially correct
I don’t mind if you upgrade the software, __________ you back up the hard drive first.
Choose TWO correct answers
b. while
c. as long as
d. whereas
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Question 36
Correct
Samat and Syrym __________ for the last few months, because they moved to Rome and had to study Italian.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a.
wouldn’t have worked
b. haven’t working
c.
's not working
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Question 37
Correct
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a. criminal
b.
liable
c.
guilty
d.
innocent
Response history
Question 38
Partially correct
I’m sure that __________ her first novel by the end of the year.
Choose TWO correct answers
b. she’ll be finished
c.
she’ll have finished
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Question 39
Correct
The train left ten minutes ago, but I couldn’t travel because I didn’t take my ID card.
If I __________ my ID card, I __________ on the train right now.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a. had remembered / wouldn't be
b.
had remembered / will be
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Question 40
Correct
Select one:
a. he was taken
b.
he’d been taken
c.
he’d been taking
d.
he’s been taking
Response history
Question 41
Correct
“Overall the group has performed extremely well on this assignment. Saya is extremely motivated, Lena is disorganised but still very
passionate, Zhassulan is quite pessimistic and fairly stubborn, and Marat is incredibly enthusiastic. However, they all seem to get on well with
each other.”
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a. Lena
b. Zhassulan
c. Marat
d. Saya
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Question 42
Correct
Many experts believe that we should be more environmentally friendly in order to limit _____________ warming.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a. climate
b. global
c. Earth
d. North Pole
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Question 43
Correct
A giant asteroid hit Earth in the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago. Scientists have reached a conclusion they’re pretty confident about: this
event ________ the extinction of the big dinosaurs.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a.
may have caused
c.
must have caused
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Question 44
Incorrect
With a big family, it’s not easy to _______________, but somehow we manage.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a.
make ends
b. do ends meet
c.
meet ends to be done
Response history
Question 45
Incorrect
Select one:
a.
is being
b. is
c.
isn’t going to be
d. isn’t being
Response history
Question 46
Partially correct
When it came to sickness coverage, the insurance company’s criteria were sometimes so tight that it was ___________ difficult to file a claim.
Choose TWO correct answers
b. excessively
c.
extremely
d. absolutely
extremely,
excessively
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Question 47
Incorrect
They told Jack that the team members had no idea about how the project was going, because he did not file a status report. He was told that
in the future, he needed to __________________.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a.
loop the team members in with timely status reports.
b. keep the team members in the loop with timely status reports.
c.
file status reports timely to loop the team.
Response history
2 23/08/22, 16:58 Saved: file timely status reports so that the team remained looped. Answer saved
Question 48
Incorrect
__________________ my birthday, but she also didn’t apologise for forgetting it.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a.
Not only did she forget
c.
Not only she forgot
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Question 49
Correct
He seems well-qualified, but he doesn't have much experience. I'm ________ about hiring him.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a.
in two minds
b. not minding
c.
keeping it in mind
d. minding
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Question 50
Correct
c.
I am sorry to hear that.
The correct answers are: I am sorry to hear that., I am very sorry, don’t worry about work.
Response history
Question 51
Correct
Select one:
a.
what we need
c.
what needed
d. what we needed
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Question 52
Correct
Approximately 3 kg of fresh litter obtained from the removal-treatment plots and the surrounding area was added to the addition-
treatment plots.
Choose the correct answer which has the same meaning as “approximately”.
Choose ONE correct answer
Select one:
a. Somehow in the region of
c.
Somewhere in the amount of
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Question 53
Correct
Select one:
a. authoritative
b. rebellious
c. responsible
d. considerate
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Question 54
Correct
Select one:
a. life
b. divorce
c.
marriage
d. engagement
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Question 55
Correct
Select one:
a. Only if/mortgaged
b. If only/refinanced
c. Only if/purchased
d. If only/purchased
Response history
Question 56
Correct
Select one:
a. boil
b. simmer down
c. simmer
d. boil down
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Question 57
Incorrect
Select one:
a.
put his foot down.
c.
put his foot in it.
Response history
Information
New research by two leading scientists says some dire warnings of environmental damage from technology are overstated. The giant tech
companies with their power-hungry, football-field-size data centers are not the environmental villains they are sometimes portrayed to be on
social media and elsewhere.
Paragraph B
Shutting off your Zoom camera or throttling your Netflix service to lower-definition viewing does not yield a big saving in energy use,
contrary to what some people have claimed. Even the predicted environmental impact of Bitcoin, which does require lots of computing
firepower, has been exaggerated considerably by some researchers.
Paragraph C
Those are the conclusions of a new analysis by Jonathan Koomey and Eric Masanet, two leading scientists in the field of technology, energy
use and the environment. Both are former researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Paragraph D
They said their analysis, published on Thursday as a commentary article in Joule, a scientific journal, was not necessarily intended to be
reassuring. Instead, they said, it is meant to inject a dose of reality into the public discussion of technology’s impact on the environment.
Paragraph E
The surge in digital activity spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists said, has fueled the debate and prompted dire warnings of
environmental damage. They are concerned that wayward claims, often amplified by social media, could shape behavior and policy. “We’re
trying to provide some mental tools and guidelines for thinking about our increasingly digital lifestyles and the impact on energy
consumption and the environment,” Mr. Masanet said. The headline on their analysis is “Does not compute: Avoiding pitfalls in assessing the
internet’s energy and carbon impacts.”
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Question 58
Incorrect
Exaggerated claims, the pair said, are often well-intentioned efforts by researchers who make what may seem like reasonable assumptions.
But they are not familiar with fast-changing computer technology — processing, memory, storage and networks.
Select ONE correct answer.
Select one:
a. Paragraph B
b.
Paragraph C
c. Paragraph A
d.
Paragraph D
e. Paragraph E
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Question 59
Correct
Select one:
a. strangling
b. valving
c. reducing
d. blocking
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Question 60
Incorrect
Below is an extract from the text. Choose ONE correct answer which has the same meaning.
“They said their analysis was not necessarily intended to be reassuring.”
Select one:
a.
optional
b. uniformly
c.
deliberately
d. obviously
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Question 61
Correct
Below is an expression from Paragraph E.
They are concerned that wayward claims, often amplified by social media, could shape behavior and policy.
Select one:
a. robust
b.
rigorous
c.
dubious
d.
vague
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Question 62
Incorrect
What was the main point that the two scientists wished to make?
Select ONE correct answer.
Select one:
a. that new technologies are really completely safe
c. that the media was completely wrong in its assessments of the dangers of
Response history
2 23/08/22, 17:00 Saved: that the media was completely wrong in its assessments of the dangers Answer saved
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