ENGLISH PLACAMENT TEST B1+ - B2 LEVEL

10. Which one is wrong?

1. Yuck! The soup ---- horrible and it ---- disgusting, too.
A) We used to live in MadriD)
B) We would be in London for many years.
A) is looking/tastes C) I would get to work at about 7.30.
B) is looking/is tasting D) Did you use to work for the UN?
C) looks/is tasting
D) looks/tastes
11. Which one is correct?
2. I …. the train to London an hour before they arrived.
A) Who did invent the computer?
A) am taking B) took B) Do you know where she lives?
C) How would you like to be remember?
C) was taking D) had taken D) Is there anyone would you like to meet?

3. …. we got there, he had left. 12. The world ---- be a better place if we ---- all less selfish.

A) During B) So far A) will/were B) would/were

C) By the time D) As soon as C) would/are D) will/are

4. She usually succeeds ---- getting what she wants. 13. He ---- be English. Listen to his Accent – I think he is
South African.
A) to B) in C) at D) for
A) mustn’t B) might not
5. They ---- arrive before midnight. C) shouldn’t D) can’t

A) don’t likely to
B) aren’t likey 14. Which one is wrong?
C) are unlikey to
D) are unlikely A) I’m tired. I’m going to the bed.
B) I love the Olympics.
6. We’re thinking of ---- the cinema tonight. C) I love watching swimming on TV.
D) What did you study at university?
A) to go B) going

C) go D) to be going 15. If you ---- the car, no one …… it.

A) lock/would steal
B) had locked/would have stolen
7. He’s been here waiting for you ---- 9 o’clock.
C) had locked/ has stolen
D) have locked/ would steal
A) from B) at

C) since D) by 16. She ---- have said anything to him. He’s really upset
now.
8. Is this the hotel ---- they stayed last year?
A) mustn’t
B) shouldn’t
A) which B) that
C) wouldn’t
C) whose D) where D) can’t

17. She asked us ---- we understood

9. Which one is correct?

A) It’s rained since I got up. A) did B) do C) if D) will

B) Sorry I’m late. Have you been waiting long?
C) Have you ever been seeing a tropical storm?
D) Have they been finishing the test yet?
 Read the passage below and complete the questions
18. He told me a while ago that he and Liza were thinking 92-99 with the words in the box.
of ----.

A) feeling at home
Sam squinted against the sun at the distant dust trail
B) setting up
C) running out of space raked up by the car on its way up to the Big House. The
D) settling down horses kicked and flicked their tails at flies, not caring about
their owner's first visit in ten months. Sam waited Mr Carter
didn't come out here unless he had to, which was just fine
19. A long period of dry weather without enough water by Sam. The more he kept out of his boss's way, the longer
is called ---- . he'd have a job.

A) drought
Carter came by later while Sam was chopping wood.
B) famine
C) climate change Carter lifted his hat as if he were waiting for an appointment
D) flood with the town priest, and then removed it completely as if
he were talking to his mother. He pulled out a pile of paper
20. Parents can be very embarrassed if their children ----.
from his back pocket and held it out.
A) disbehave
B) misbehave 'Don't pick up your mail often, do you?'
C) inbehave
D) badbehave
Sam took it without a glance and dropped the
envelopes onto the bench.

'Never,' he replied and waited for Carter to say why he

was here. The fact it was Carter's house was no
explanation and they both knew it. Carter twisted his hat
round and round, licking his lips and clearing his throat.

'Nice work fixing those fences,' he said finally.

'I'll be back to the beginning soon,' Sam said. It wasn't a

complaint. A fence that took a year to repair meant another
year's work to the man who did it well.

'Don't you ever want to take a holiday?'

'And go where?' A holiday meant being back out in the

real world, a place even people like Carter travelled to
escape from. Sam's escape was his reality and he wasn't
going back.

Mr Carter wiped the sweat from the back of his neck.

The damp patches on his shirt drew together like shapes in
an atlas. His skin was already turning ruddy in the June
sun. Otherwise he had the indoor tan of a man that made
money while other people did the work.

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 'I've brought my son with me on this trip. He's had some C) nervous D) ecvited
trouble at school.' Mr Carter's eyes flicked up, blinked
rapidly and then shifted back to the hat occupying his hands.
26. Why has Mr Carter come to his house?
'Not much trouble out here for a young boy.' He attempted a
laugh but it came out like a dog's bark. A) Because he wants to give Sam his mail.
B) Because he needs to check on the work on the
fences.
The two men looked towards the northern end of the
C) Because his son has had problems at school.
property. It stretched as far as the eye could see. Even the D) Because his son needs a holiday.
fences were barely visible from where they stood. However
bored and rebellious a teenage boy might get, it wasn't 27. I ---- in Italy for 3 years when we first met there.
possible to escape on foot. Sam looked at the biggest of the
A) was living B) had been living
horses, kicking at the ground with its heavy hooves. Could the
C) had lived D) lived
boy ride? he wondered. There was a whole load of trouble a
good rider could get into out here, miles away from anyone.
But maybe there was even more trouble for someone who 28. The course ---- next week.
knew nothing about horses and wanted to get away from his
A) starts
father B) is going to start
C) will start
D) is starting
21. What is Sam's reaction to his letters?
29. Don’t call me at 7 p.m. as I will be in the middle of
A) uninterested
B) surprised dinner. In other words I ---- dinner at 7 p.m.
C) afraid
D) curious A) have
B) will have had
C) will be having
22. Why does Sam not take holidays from work? D) will have

A) He feels safer on the farm.

B) He can’t afford it. 30. You can’t use the car now because it ---- now.
C) He hasn't finished repairing the fences.
D) He doesn't know where to choose. A) is repaired
B) has been repaired
C) is being repaired
23. What can we guess about Mr Carter? D) is repairing

A) He works hard.
B) He is rich. 31. We’re going to get some of the students ---- one of the
C) He has tanned skin. lessons.
D) He loves horses.
A) to teach B) teach

24. What does Sam think Carter's son might do during his C) is teaching D) taught
stay at the farm?

A) He might leave on foot. 32. He’ll never forget ---- Alice for the first time.
B) He might do something dangerous while riding.
C) He might break the fences. A) to meet B) meet
D) He might get into trouble with the neighbours. C) met D) meeting

25. How does Mr Carter feel while he's talking to Sam in 33. She is bored because she hasn’t got anyone ---- .
this scene?
A) talk to B) to talk to

A) angry B) impatient C) has talked to D) talking to

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 34. Unfortunately only ---- people passed the exam. 42. If you’d had some breakfast, you ---- so hungry now.

A) a few B) few A) aren’t B) wouldn’t have been

C) a little D) little C) wouldn’t be D) weren’t

35. James isn’t in his office. He ---- 43. Which one is wrong?

A) must leave B) must left A) If only we had more time.

B) I wish it would stop raining.
C) must have leave D) must have left C) If only I had spoken to him.
D) I wish I would be richer.

36. That’s the girl ---- brother has just moved in next door
44. It’s the cold weather that doesn’t ---- to me that much.
to you.
A) attract B) appear
A) that her B) who her
C) appeal D) absorb
C) whose D) who’s

45. It’s important to ---- time for the people you care about.
37. People ---- between the early 1960s and the early 1980s
are known as Generation X. A) set aside B) waste

A) were born B) are born C) run out of D) fritter away

C) born D) who born

46. I knitted this ---- for his birthday.

38. I got used to ---- on the right pretty quickly when I A) specially B) especial
Lived in Italy.
C) specially D) especially
A) have driven B) drove

C) to drive D) driving 47. I remember it as if it were yesterday. In other words ----.

A) I have no recollection of it.

39. Which one is wrong? B) I have no memory of it whatsoever.
C) I have a vivid memory of it.
A) We watched a brilliant old French film. D) I can just about remember it.
B) It was a bright lovely sunny day.
C) The library is the big red and gray building.
D) Suddenly the nasty black clouds appeared.

40. You should take your umbrella in case it ---- .

A) rained B) rains

C) will rain D) will be raining

41. Which one is correct?

A) He apologized to be late.
B) Jane agreed that come with us.
C) She refused tidying her room.
D) He denied losing the keys.
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Read the passage below and match the paragraph with
the information it contains.

A
In 2010, the planetary defence team at NASA had identified
and logged 90 per cent of the asteroids near Earth
measuring 1km wide. These 'near-Earth objects', or NEOs,
are the size of mountains and include anything within 50
million kilometres of Earth's orbit. With an estimated 50 left
to log, NASA says none of the 887 it knows about are a
significant danger to the planet.
B For Example : An unrealistic-sounding way to
Now NASA is working towards logging some of the smaller
asteroids, those measuring 140 metres wide or more. Of
the 25,000 estimated asteroids of this size, so far about
8,000 have been logged, leaving 17,000 unaccounted for.
Considering that a 19-metre asteroid that exploded above
the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013 injured 1,200
people, these middle-sized asteroids would be a serious
danger if they enter Earth's orbit.
C
Whether NASA can find the remaining middle-sized NEOs
depends on getting the money to build NEOCam, a 0.5-
metre space telescope which would use infrared light to
locate asteroids. If it did get the money, it could probably
achieve its goal in ten years. Once logged, the planetary
defence team would still need to work out how to defend
the planet against being hit by the truly worrying asteroids –
the PHAs.
F
Another suggested defence against a PHA on course to hit
Earth is to blow it up using a nuclear weapon. It may sound
like a plot from a film, and it was the subject of the 1998
film Armageddon, but the Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation
Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER) is a genuine
NASA proposal. The eight-ton rockets would be fired at an
approaching asteroid with the hope of bumping it off
course. If the asteroid was too close to Earth for this plan to
work, the rockets would carry nuclear bombs to blow it up
instead.
solve the problem of an asteroid crashing into Earth
..F..
48 Information about asteroids that are the biggest
danger to Earth ----
49 Information about the numbers of unidentified
asteroids near Earth ----
50 Information about NASA’s most successful project
to record asteroids near Earth ……
51 A solution planned for testing ----
52 Information about a plan that needs finance before
it can happen ----

D
For questions 125 to 130 choose
'Potentially Hazardous Asteroids' are rocks close enough to TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.
pass within 7.5 million kilometres of Earth's orbit. NASA
has created a map of 1,400 PHAs, none of which are
expected to be a threat in the next one hundred years. With 53 Earth does not appear to be in any danger from
technology already available, NASA can track these any asteroids that measure one kilometer wide.
objects and make predictions about possible impact, at
which point two defence solutions could be launched.
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
c. NOT GIVEN
E

The first is DART – the Double Asteroid Redirection

Test. Plans are scheduled to test DART on the moon of an 54 We don’t need to worry about small asteroids
asteroid called Didymos. 'Didymoon' is 150 metres wide, under 20 meters wide.
orbiting its 800-metre mother, and hopefully the impact of
DART will knock it out of its orbit enough for Earth-based
a. TRUE
telescopes to pick up.
b. FALSE

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55 A special telescope will provide a complete

defense against asteroids hitting Earth.

a. TRUE
b. FALSE
c. NOT GIVEN

56 PHAs are the biggest concern, but they’re still not

an immediate threat.

a. TRUE
b. FALSE
c. NOT GIVEN

57 Didymoon’s orbit is not stable.

a. TRUE
b. FALSE
c. NOT GIVEN

58 HAMMER may or may not need nuclear weapons

to save Earth from an asteroiD)

a. TRUE
b. FALSE
c. NOT GIVEN

59 What’s the best title for the reading?

a. HAMMER
b. NASA
c. DART
d. PHA
e. NUCLEAR BOMBS