ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAM – INTERMEDIATE LEVEL Grade:

DATE: , 2022
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Student’s Name:

I. GRAMMAR. (20 points.) Choose the correct word.

Choose the best alternative to fill the blanks. 11. I didn’t use / used to like cabbage, but I love it now.
1. They to the teacher at the moment. 12. The parking lot is free – you don’t have to / should
a. Listen pay.
b. Are listening 13. Will you be able / managed to give me a ride to the
c. listens station later?
2. How long you married? 14. You’re Andy’s new secretary, aren’t / isn’t you?
a. Have / been 15. It won’t take long to paint this room, would / will it?
b. Is / been
c. Am / is Circle the correct form
3. Pizza with flour, oil, tomatoes and cheese. 16. Wait! You walk more quickly / quicker than I do.
a. Have made 17. Walking / walk in the country makes me feel great.
b. Is made 18. If I didn’t have to, I won’t / wouldn’t go that party.
c. We make 19. Who painted / paint this picture must be so good!
4. I to Europe five times. How about you? 20. We had a boring evening. We didn’t have anything
a. Are been / nothing to do.
b. Have been
c. Aren’t been II. VOCABULARY (20 points)
5. Rob TV at the moment. Choose the correct preposition
a. watches. 21. Leo fell in love in / for his wife soon after they met.
b. Watched
22. Be careful when jumping out / into the pool.
c. Is watching
6. A: Didn’t you hear your phone ring? B: No, I 23. What time did you arrive for / at school?
music on headphones. 24. We spent $ 5,000 on / under our last vacation.
a. Was listening 25. You may be pleased with / in your exams scores!
b. Usually listened. Match the opposite words
c. Is listening 26. Borrow a) Selfish
7. A: Is your mom at home? B: She to the store
27. Generous b) boring
and will be back in an hour.
28. Interesting c) forget
a. went
29. Remember d) lose
b. gone
30. Find e) lend
c. go
8. If I found $20 on the floor, I it to charity.
Choose the correct word
a. gave 31. We were late, but here was a taxi near work
b. given
a. platform b. stand c. station
c. would give
32. We didn’t just the other team, we killed them!
9. I think I Pedro the wrong file when I emailed
him yesterday. a. win b. draw c. beat
a. Did sent 33. We usually eat outside on the in the summer.
b. Sent a. roof b. yard c. shower
c. sended 34. I didn’t have breakfast today. I’m absolutely .
10. We to the Edimburg Festival twice. a. starving b. furious c. freezing
a. be 35. I’m interested in . I see it very relaxing.
b. have been
a. go yoga b. do c. doing yoga
c. are been
 Complete each sentence with one word V. READING. (10 points)
36. Don’t lie the floor! It’s dangerous. Read the text and answer.
37. Let’s Fred to the party on Saturday. The arm of liberty
38. Shall we surfing tomorrow? The Statue of Liberty is probably the most famous icon of
39. Lea yoga for an hour every day. the USA. It was built to celebrate the end of slavery, and
40. I’m afraid Katie isn’t in the office. Do you want to later became a symbol for freedom among immigrants.
The statue depicts Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty.
leave her a ?
And the torch she carries high above her outstretched arm
represents a light that guides people along the path to
III. PRONUNCIATION (10 points) freedom. Interestingly, however, Liberty looks different
Underline the stressed syllable from the way the designer first intended.
41. En | gi | neer 42. I | mma | ture
43. Re | li | able 44. Di | sa | ppoin | ted The idea for the statue came from a poet. When the
American Civil war ended, he wanted to commemorate the
45. Mu |si | cian 46. Co | rrupt
end of the slave trade with a gift. He and other people
47. Ho | tel 48. Li | ar who opposed slavery raised money and hired a sculptor,
49. Com | pe | ti | tive 50. Cheat | ing Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, to design the statue. Bartholdi
later employed the French engineer, Gustave Eiffel, to
IV. USE OF ENGLISH (5 points) design its structure. Eiffel, who would subsequently build the
Circle the alternative with the correct answer. famous tower in Paris, was already a well-known designer of
railway bridges. So he knew how to build robust structures that
51. A: What happens if I follow this ? B: It goes to a are flexible and safe in strong winds. This feature was
chatting website about travels. necessary because the winds in New York harbor are
a. wage extremely strong. Today, the top of her torch swings over
b. link 15cm when the wind is blowing at 50 miles per hour.
c. upload
52. If Packard , they would have called their Eiffel designed the statue to be built around a massive
company Packard-Hawlett. metal skeleton, similar to the Eiffel tower. Huge pieces of
a. Had have copper were fixed onto this to form its shape. Until
b. Had won recently, two copies of the plans were believed to exist. But
c. Wins recently, a third copy was discovered, which revealed
53. Our company is . We owe $20 million some interesting information. In 2018, a map dealer bought
d. Self confident some historic papers at an auction in Paris, which included
e. In the red original plans, calculations, and drawings of the statue. At
first, the documents were too fragile to read. But after special
f. Out of the blue
treatment, the papers clearly showed that Eiffel’s plans had
54. Jhon is going to resign.He told me while we
been changed by Bartholdi with red ink. Liberty’s arm,
lunch. which was thick and vertical in Eiffel’s drawing, was
g. had adjusted to be slimmer, less upright, and generally more
h. were having attractive than Eiffel’s design.
i. had been having Adapted from: https://test-english.com/reading/b1/the-arm-of-liberty-reading-test/
Write (T) for True sentences and (F) for Falses
55. A: I’m happy to having met you. Here’s my card. B:
56. ( ) The statue was built to celebrate Eiffel.
Thanks! Heres’s .
57. ( ) Bartholdi was a French engineer.
j. Fabian
58. ( ) The passages tells about Eiffel tower.
k. her
59. ( ) Big pieces of copper were fixed to form shape
l. mine
60. ( ) Currently the top of her torch swings over 15cm.
 61. It can be inferred from the passage that:
a. three copies of plans were made by Bartholdi. 64. We can infer from the second paragraph that:
b. the statue was designed to be similar to Eiffel a. Gustave Eiffel designed the Statue of Liberty before
tower.
designing the Eiffel Tower.
c. the building of the statue was purpose of many
b. Gustave Eiffel let Bartholdi change the maps with
people, not only one, nor the government.
some red ink.
62. We can understand from the passage that: c. Eiffel was a good bridges designer.
a. Archaeologists carried out some excavations to find the
maps lost. 65. Choose the wrong statement according to the text
b. Eiffel later built a famous tower in France. a. The statue of liberty is a bad representation of a
c. The statue structure is strong enough to resist Roman deity.
storms. b. The tittle reflects a detail in the statue that was
changed after being originally designed.
63. The word “outstretched” is closest in meaning to:
c. The tittle “The arm of liberty” delivers the idea of
a. grateful
how significant the design for people is.
b. extended
c. outstanding

VI. WRITING. (15 pts)

Write a short essay telling your opinion. Vocabulary Grammar / Content / Total
In many places worldwide, teenagers start working while they are still students. Do / Spelling Punctuation Organization (15)
you think this is a good idea? Support your opinion by using specific reasons and
details. (180 – 200 words)
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VII. LISTENING (10 points)

Listen to the lecture and choose a word to complete each sentence explaining.
(problems – technology - cars – people - climate)
66. Many people assume that will solve the world’s problems.
67. Only can solve problems such as a war.
68. Reacting to a change in by moving to the moon sounds kind of romantic, however in reality, it would be
horrible.
69. Machines don’t only solve ; sometimes they cause them.
70. Scientists agree that our love for takes us to blame on global warming

VIII. SPEAKING. (10 points):

Answer the following questions
Grammar Vocab. Ponunc. Fluency Interact. Total
(0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (2)
1. How can you describe yourself?
2. Could you describe the plot of a movie you saw?

3. How would you manage to a disagreement with

your friends?
4. Would you adopt a stray dog or cat?
5. Explain how to make a dish.
Total speaking skill