1. “_______ is your mother?”
“Not bad.”

2. “Where are the books?”
“_______ on the shelf.”

3. My friend’s cousin _______ a 20-year-old sister.

4. “Please, don’t talk to me. I _______ to my student.”

5. Their house is _______ Las Vegas.

6. She _______ very late on Saturdays and Sundays.

7. “Where _______ from?”
“I come from Spain.”

8. “_______?”
“She’s a teacher of German.”

9. _______ a flash disc in your bag?

10. There _______ a pair of blue jeans on my bed.

11. _______ your boss usually _______ this late?

12. “Some sugar?”
“No, thank you. I _______ take sugar in my coffee.”

13. Ferrari is one of _______ cars.

14. I usually work until eight p.m., _______ I am leaving early today to go to the doctor.

15. “_______ do you go abroad?”
“At least once a year.”

16. “Where _______ you born?”
“In a small town in England.”

17. I started working here _______ September 1, 2000.

18. “Do they have any English books?”
“No, they _______.”

19. “_______ does the sun set?”
“In the evening.”

20. I’m making a cake. How _______ flour have we got?

21. “Whose blouse is this?”
“I don’t know it isn’t _______.

22. The train is going _______ a long tunnel.

23. “Why haven’t you answered this letter?”
“But, I _______! I wrote an answer last week.”

24. I _______ to Italy when I finish my school.

25. Are you cold? _______ your coat on.

26. _______ your pen out of your bag, please.

27. I can’t understand you. Please speak more _______.

28. He _______ tell me what happened.

29. I’ll see you _______ the break time.

30. Not _______ people live in city centers.

31. I want _______ post this letter right away.

32. “Have you filled in all the forms?”
“There are _______ left but I have nearly finished.”

33. When he broke his leg, he had to give up _______ football.

34. Don’t forgive him _______ he apologizes.

35. I know the story. I’ve heard it _______.

36. It is very expensive _______ in restaurants in Istanbul.

37. Most planes can fly _______ the Atlantic in a short time now.

38. She is still not a good secretary, but she works _______ than she did.

39. “There’s Mike. _______?
“Very friendly and kind.”

40. I’m sorry, I’m late. How long _______ here?

41. I haven’t enjoyed myself like that _______ years.

42. Let’s _______ a short break. I feel really tired.

43. I think she looks just _______ her mother.

44. “Can you lend me some money, please?”
“Sorry, I haven’t got _______ either.”

45. How _______ were Diana and Ted travelling when the car hit the wall?

46. The car had bad brakes and the woman _______ was driving didn’t have a driving license.

47. When you _______ by plane, do you buy business class tickets?

48. Vicky _______ alone in that small house for the past ten year.

49. Well, you got up very early, _______ you?

50. I’m really looking forward _______ to your party next week.

51. The streets were _______ crowded that we found it too difficult to walk.

52. My brother loves ice cream and _______.

53. “I don’t think this computer is as good as ours.”
“You’re right. It _______.”

54. “Why didn’t you answer the phone last night?”
“I _______ a bath at that time.”

55. Could you tell Mary _______ I called, please?

56. She _______ to hospital right after the accident.

57. Would you _______ holding this bag for me?

58. The hair cut made her _______ different.

59. “I think the shop is closed.”
“It _______ be! The doors are open.”

60. _______ the missing child been found?

61. If I _______ a chance, I‘d travel all over the world.

62. He wants to know _______ anything could be done about it.

63. “Must I finish this work today?”
“No, you _______. You can do it tomorrow.”

64. These shoes are _______ dirty to wear.

65. If the item is damaged in shipping, _______ will be sent to replace it.

66. It’s raining heavily. You _______ take your umbrella with you.

67. “Where did Mr. Brook get that much money?”
“ He _______ have robbed a bank.”

68. They _______ come every Sunday, but we haven’t seen them for the last two weeks.

69. Have you ever had your wallet _______?

70. If there had been a zebra crossing here, she _______ .

71. _______ a mountain alone may have terrible drawbacks.

72. _______ about having a female voice to make the announcements?

73. I wasn’t happy at school. If only I _______ to a different school.

74. She said she had married a man who _______ married six times before.

75. Apparently, she lost all his money gambling, _______ really annoyed her.

The Internet Revolution

The internet has really (76) _______ in the last few years. In 1990, there were only 50,000 internet sites on the world
wide web – now there are over 10 million. There is such a(n) (77) _______ amount of information on the net that
you can find out about almost anything just by sitting at a computer. Of course it is not only individuals who use the
internet, many businesses today (78) _______ the internet to promote their products through advertising or to
provide (79) _______ for their company.
For political or cultural reasons, however, some countries put a(n) (80) _______ on what you can put on the net. In
France, for example, you are not allowed to put fascist propaganda on to the net and, according to the law in many
other countries, it is unacceptable to put material with an extremely violent content onto a website. This can cause
great (81) _______ because some people believe it affects our rights to freedom of speech while others believe it
protects people from harmful or dangerous ideas.
However, whatever different people (82) _______ the effects of the internet are, one thing is certain – it is not just a
symptom which will pass in one or two years’ time. With hi-tech businesses and internet cafes apparently
everywhere - it has become a(n) (83) _______ part of modern city life. As the speed of life continues to (84) _______,
we must (85) _______ to these technological advances. If we don’t, we will simply be left behind.

Section 3.
Placement Test
Text 1.
Answer the questions 86 to 90 according to the following text:
Shopping
City people are always busy. They are always in a hurry. That is why they like supermarkets. You can buy things
quickly and easily in a supermarket. If you want something, you just put it in your basket. You don’t ask, “How much
does it cost?”. The price of everything is on the cans and packets. Then you take your basket to a shop assistant. The
customers in a supermarket do not usually say very much to the assistants, and they do not usually look very
carefully at the prices. They just pay their money and leave. People do not usually spend too much time in a
supermarket, but they often spend a lot of money here.

The question

86. City people like to shop in supermarkets because these places are _______.

Section 3.
Placement Test
Text 1.
Answer the questions 86 to 90 according to the following text:
Shopping
City people are always busy. They are always in a hurry. That is why they like supermarkets. You can buy things
quickly and easily in a supermarket. If you want something, you just put it in your basket. You don’t ask, “How much
does it cost?”. The price of everything is on the cans and packets. Then you take your basket to a shop assistant. The
customers in a supermarket do not usually say very much to the assistants, and they do not usually look very
carefully at the prices. They just pay their money and leave. People do not usually spend too much time in a
supermarket, but they often spend a lot of money here.

87. People do not ask the price of things they want to buy because _______.

Section 3.
Placement Test
Text 1.
Answer the questions 86 to 90 according to the following text:
Shopping
City people are always busy. They are always in a hurry. That is why they like supermarkets. You can buy things
quickly and easily in a supermarket. If you want something, you just put it in your basket. You don’t ask, “How much
does it cost?”. The price of everything is on the cans and packets. Then you take your basket to a shop assistant. The
customers in a supermarket do not usually say very much to the assistants, and they do not usually look very
carefully at the prices. They just pay their money and leave. People do not usually spend too much time in a
supermarket, but they often spend a lot of money here.

88. A customer is a person who _______.

Section 3.
Placement Test
Text 1.
Answer the questions 86 to 90 according to the following text:
Shopping
City people are always busy. They are always in a hurry. That is why they like supermarkets. You can buy things
quickly and easily in a supermarket. If you want something, you just put it in your basket. You don’t ask, “How much
does it cost?”. The price of everything is on the cans and packets. Then you take your basket to a shop assistant. The
customers in a supermarket do not usually say very much to the assistants, and they do not usually look very
carefully at the prices. They just pay their money and leave. People do not usually spend too much time in a
supermarket, but they often spend a lot of money here.

The Question

89. What is one of the advantages of shopping in a supermarket?

Section 3.
Placement Test
Text 1.
Answer the questions 86 to 90 according to the following text:
Shopping
City people are always busy. They are always in a hurry. That is why they like supermarkets. You can buy things
quickly and easily in a supermarket. If you want something, you just put it in your basket. You don’t ask, “How much
does it cost?”. The price of everything is on the cans and packets. Then you take your basket to a shop assistant. The
customers in a supermarket do not usually say very much to the assistants, and they do not usually look very
carefully at the prices. They just pay their money and leave. People do not usually spend too much time in a
supermarket, but they often spend a lot of money here.

90. What is one of the disadvantages of shopping in a supermarket?

Text 2.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 91 to 95 according to the following text:
Words in English
How many new words enter the English language every year? Unfortunately no list is kept. In France there is the
Academie Francaise which approves new words, but in England there are only dictionaries. The most authoritative
of these is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). However, it doesn’t make rules about the language. It simply records
the development of English worldwide as best as it can. It accepts about 4000 new words (or new meanings) every
year. The OED has readers in all English-speaking parts of the world, who record repeated uses of new words,
including numerical technical terms. Some words take a surprisingly long time to enter the OED. For example ‘acid
rain’ was first used in 1859, but its usage was rare over 100 years and it did not appear in the dictionary until the
1980s.

91. Which of the following could best replace the word “approves” in line 2?

Text 2.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 91 to 95 according to the following text:
Words in English
How many new words enter the English language every year? Unfortunately no list is kept. In France there is the
Academie Francaise which approves new words, but in England there are only dictionaries. The most authoritative
of these is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). However, it doesn’t make rules about the language. It simply records
the development of English worldwide as best as it can. It accepts about 4000 new words (or new meanings) every
year. The OED has readers in all English-speaking parts of the world, who record repeated uses of new words,
including numerical technical terms. Some words take a surprisingly long time to enter the OED. For example ‘acid
rain’ was first used in 1859, but its usage was rare over 100 years and it did not appear in the dictionary until the
1980s.

92. “these” in line 3 refers to _______.

Text 2.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 91 to 95 according to the following text:
Words in English
How many new words enter the English language every year? Unfortunately no list is kept. In France there is the
Academie Francaise which approves new words, but in England there are only dictionaries. The most authoritative
of these is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). However, it doesn’t make rules about the language. It simply records
the development of English worldwide as best as it can. It accepts about 4000 new words (or new meanings) every
year. The OED has readers in all English-speaking parts of the world, who record repeated uses of new words,
including numerical technical terms. Some words take a surprisingly long time to enter the OED. For example ‘acid
rain’ was first used in 1859, but its usage was rare over 100 years and it did not appear in the dictionary until the
1980s.

93. Which of the following is TRUE?

Text 2.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 91 to 95 according to the following text:
Words in English
How many new words enter the English language every year? Unfortunately no list is kept. In France there is the
Academie Francaise which approves new words, but in England there are only dictionaries. The most authoritative
of these is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). However, it doesn’t make rules about the language. It simply records
the development of English worldwide as best as it can. It accepts about 4000 new words (or new meanings) every
year. The OED has readers in all English-speaking parts of the world, who record repeated uses of new words,
including numerical technical terms. Some words take a surprisingly long time to enter the OED. For example ‘acid
rain’ was first used in 1859, but its usage was rare over 100 years and it did not appear in the dictionary until the
1980s.

94. The word “acid rain” _______.

Text 2.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 91 to 95 according to the following text:
Words in English
How many new words enter the English language every year? Unfortunately no list is kept. In France there is the
Academie Francaise which approves new words, but in England there are only dictionaries. The most authoritative
of these is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). However, it doesn’t make rules about the language. It simply records
the development of English worldwide as best as it can. It accepts about 4000 new words (or new meanings) every
year. The OED has readers in all English-speaking parts of the world, who record repeated uses of new words,
including numerical technical terms. Some words take a surprisingly long time to enter the OED. For example ‘acid
rain’ was first used in 1859, but its usage was rare over 100 years and it did not appear in the dictionary until the
1980s.

95. This text can be defined as _______ in tone.

Text 3.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 96 to 100 according to the following text:
The invention of the phonograph happened quite by accident. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in
1876, where he established and industrial research laboratory. There Edison worked on a carbon telephone
transmitter to improve the existing Bell system. In that laboratory a year later Edison invented the phonograph while
trying to improve a telegraph repeater. He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in the telegraph repeater
to produce a recording that could be played back. After some improvements to the machine, he recited “Mary had a
Little Lamb” and played the recognizable reproduction of his voice back to an astonished audience.

96. What is the best title for the passage?

Text 3.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 96 to 100 according to the following text:
The invention of the phonograph happened quite by accident. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in
1876, where he established and industrial research laboratory. There Edison worked on a carbon telephone
transmitter to improve the existing Bell system. In that laboratory a year later Edison invented the phonograph while
trying to improve a telegraph repeater. He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in the telegraph repeater
to produce a recording that could be played back. After some improvements to the machine, he recited “Mary had a
Little Lamb” and played the recognizable reproduction of his voice back to an astonished audience.

96. What is the best title for the passage?

Text 3.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 96 to 100 according to the following text:
The invention of the phonograph happened quite by accident. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in
1876, where he established and industrial research laboratory. There Edison worked on a carbon telephone
transmitter to improve the existing Bell system. In that laboratory a year later Edison invented the phonograph while
trying to improve a telegraph repeater. He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in the telegraph repeater
to produce a recording that could be played back. After some improvements to the machine, he recited “Mary had a
Little Lamb” and played the recognizable reproduction of his voice back to an astonished audience.

97. According to the passage, the invention of the phonograph _______.

Text 3.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 96 to 100 according to the following text:
The invention of the phonograph happened quite by accident. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in
1876, where he established and industrial research laboratory. There Edison worked on a carbon telephone
transmitter to improve the existing Bell system. In that laboratory a year later Edison invented the phonograph while
trying to improve a telegraph repeater. He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in the telegraph repeater
to produce a recording that could be played back. After some improvements to the machine, he recited “Mary had a
Little Lamb” and played the recognizable reproduction of his voice back to an astonished audience.

98. In what year did the invention of the phonograph occur?

Text 3.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 96 to 100 according to the following text:
The invention of the phonograph happened quite by accident. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in
1876, where he established and industrial research laboratory. There Edison worked on a carbon telephone
transmitter to improve the existing Bell system. In that laboratory a year later Edison invented the phonograph while
trying to improve a telegraph repeater. He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in the telegraph repeater
to produce a recording that could be played back. After some improvements to the machine, he recited “Mary had a
Little Lamb” and played the recognizable reproduction of his voice back to an astonished audience.

99. According to the passage, how was the phonograph made?

Text 3.
Placement Test
Answer the questions 96 to 100 according to the following text:
The invention of the phonograph happened quite by accident. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in
1876, where he established and industrial research laboratory. There Edison worked on a carbon telephone
transmitter to improve the existing Bell system. In that laboratory a year later Edison invented the phonograph while
trying to improve a telegraph repeater. He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in the telegraph repeater
to produce a recording that could be played back. After some improvements to the machine, he recited “Mary had a
Little Lamb” and played the recognizable reproduction of his voice back to an astonished audience.

100. According to the passage, how did Edison test his new invention?