Idiomas

Subject: Inglés
Teacher: Estefanía Serrano
Activity: Placement test

Description:
This test has 50 questions, each worth one point. The first 40 are grammar questions and the
final 10 are vocabulary questions. The conversion chart below has been designed to assist you
in making your decision but please note, however, that these bandings are a guide.

Total score Level

Resources: Straightforward Second edition. Macmillan Publishers Limited

Steps/Instructions:
1. Choose the correct option.

Grammar
1. ________ at school yesterday?
a. Was you
b. Were you
c. Did you
d. Is you
2. Is your family large? ________
a. Yes, it is.
b. Yes, they are.
c. No, it not.
d. No, they isn’t.
3. What ____ he want?
a. does
b. do
c. have
d. was
4. He ____ to go home.
a. want
b. did

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 c. didn’t want
d. didn’t wanted
5. Where ____ to school?
a. did you go
b. went you
c. did you went
d. did go
6. The boy ____ cake when his mother came into the room.
a. was eat
b. eats
c. was eating
d. has eating
7. There ____ milk for my breakfast.
a. isn’t some
b. isn’t any
c. any
d. ─
8. ____ people from Poland went to Scotland in the 20th century.
a. Many of
b. Many
c. Some of
d. ─
9. She ____ with her friends on Facebook™ everyday
a. is communicating
b. communicates
c. will communicating
d. ─
10. Would you like ____ to the theatre tonight?
a. go
b. to go
c. going
d. to going
11. Oh! It ____. I’ll take an umbrella with me.
a. raining
b. will raining
c. rains
d. ’s raining
12. Do you have any plans for tonight? Yes, we ____ to the cinema.
a. will go
b. going
c. go
d. are going
13. This restaurant is ____ the one over there.
a. traditional
b. traditionaler
c. more traditional than
d. traditionaler than

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14. My coffee was ____ yours. I almost burned by mouth.
a. hotter than
b. more hot than
c. hotter as
d. as hot
15. The ____ coffee in the world comes from indonesia.
a. expensive
b. expensivest
c. more expensive
d. most expensive
16. I ____ sushi.
a. eaten
b. have eat
c. have ever eaten
d. have never eaten
17. She has ____ finished this week’s report. .
a. yet
b. already
c. ever
d. never
18. I don’t think you ____ them.
a. should to email
b. should email
c. should emailing
d. ─
19. The space tourists ___ certainly need to be very fit.
a. won’t
b.will
c. ─
d. going to
20. If my new company is successful, I ____ employ people to help me.
a. will
b. be able to
c. will be able to
d. will able to
21. The first reality TV show ____ in Sweden in 1997.
a. showed
b. shown
c. is shown
d. was shown
22. I’ve had my cat ____ 4 years.
a. since
b. for
c. with
d. it
23. Her horse is lovely. She _____ it since she was a teenager.
a. had

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 b. has had
c. had
d. is had
24. I’ve received 33 emails ____ .
a. on Friday
b. yesterday
c. two days ago
d. this week
25. I was saving up ____ a new computer.
a. for buying
b. to buy
c. to buying
d. ─
26. You ____ wear a suit to work, but you can if you want.
a. must
b. mustn’t
c. could
d. don’t have to
27. I had to ____ a uniform to school when I was younger.
a. have
b. wearing
c. wear
d. having
28. Cecilia knows someone ____ went to the carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
a. who
b. which
c. she
d. where
29. Oxfam is a charity ____ tries to find lasting solutions to poverty.
a. who
b. which
c. it
d. ─
30. You'd better take your coat ____ the weather gets worse.
a. in case
b. otherwise
c. so that
d. in order to
31. She did a course in confidence building ____ overcome her phobia
a. so that
b. in order to
c. although
d. in case
32. He realized that he ____ his car keys in the office.
a. left
b. has left
c. had left

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33. ____ plans you might have for the weekend, you'll have to change them.
a. Wherever
b. Whovever
c. Whatever
d. However
34. You won't pass the exam ____ you start revising immediately.
a. as long as
b. provided
c. unless
d. if
35. We wouldn't have missed the bus if you ____ to chat with Mary!
a. didn't stop
b. hadn't stopped
c. don't stop
d. wouldn't have stopped
36. The party was so boring I wish I ____ there at all.
a. hadn't gone
b. wouldn't go
c. haven't gone
d. didn't go
37. The police stopped us and said we ____ to enter the building.
a. can't
b. couldn't
c. didn't allow
d. weren't allowed
38. Admission was free so we ____ any tickets.
a. needn't buy
b. mustn't buy
c. didn't need to buy
d. mustn't have bought
39. His father asked Dan where ____ all day.
a. had he been
b. was he
c. he had been
d. he has been
40. I'll need to have the stairs ____.
a. renovate
b. renovating
c. to renovate
d. renovated

Vocabulary

1. As far as I'm ____, I do not support the new government.

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 a. matter
b. referred
c. according
d. concerned
2. She ____ the sack last week and is now looking for a new job.
a. did
b. made
c. took
d. got
3. When the customs officers found some illegal goods hidden in the car, he was
arrested for ____.
a. assault
b. mugging
c. hijacking
d. smuggling
4. I can't move the sofa. Could you ____ me a hand with it, please?
a. give
b. get
c. take
d. borrow
5. I couldn't get in ____ with you all week! Where have you been?
a. contact
b. call
c. touch
d. talk
6. I mostly ____ my friends via email.
a. get on well with
b. have in commn
c. keep in touch with
d. see each other
7. Bob has had a very interesting ___ . He has had jobs in many countries and
industries.
a. carrier
b. job
c. career
d. work
8. She’s very successful. Her ___ has risen a lot in the past few years.
a. money
b. salary
c. job
d. earnings
9. I am very ___ in old cars.
a. keen
b. interesting
c. interested
d. fond
10. He ____ off his holiday until after the winter.

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a. took
b. put
c. called
d. logged