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PLACEMENT TEST
This is a placement test for ENGLISH CLASSES organized by SF servis s.r.o. You will have 60-90 minutes
to complete the test. You are not allowed the use of dictionaries, textbooks or other aids.
GOOD LUCK!
Before you start the test, please answer the following questions (preferably in English):
Nejprve, prosím, odpovězte na následující otázky (pokud možno v angličtině):
What is the highest level of English you have achieved? (false beginner, pre-intermediate, intermediate,
upper intermediate, advanced): / Jaké nejvyšší úrovně angličtiny jste kdy dosáhl/a? (věčný začátečník, mírně
pokročilý, středně pokročilý, pokročilý):
Assess your current level of English (false beginner, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate,
advanced): / Odhadněte svoji současnou znalost angličtiny (úplný začátečník, věčný začátečník, mírně pokročilý,
středně pokročilý, pokročilý):
What are your English strong points? (grammar, vocabulary, communication, reading comprehension,
listening comprehension, writing, etc.): / Jaké jsou Vaše silné stránky v angličtině (gramatika, slovní zásoba,
komunikace, porozumění psanému textu, porozumění mluvenému textu, psaní aj.):
What are your English weaknesses? (grammar, vocabulary, communication, reading comprehension,
listening comprehension, writing, etc.): / Jaké jsou Vaše slabiny v angličtině (gramatika, slovní zásoba,
komunikace, porozumění písemnému psanému, porozumění mluvenému textu, psaní aj.):
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1. Choose (underline) the right expression: / Vyberte (podtrhněte) správný výraz:
1. The people sitting ... us looked very familiar.
a) next
b) opposite
c) across
d) far
2. 'What are you ... ?' - 'I can't find my glasses.'
a) researching
b) searching
c) looking for
d) finding
3. I don't really want to go out, to ... the truth.
a) tell
b) say
c) speak
d) talk
4. Can you give me the ... for this cake, it's delicious?
a) information
b) recipe
c) prescription
d) receipt
5. I wish I'd never ... him my car.
a) borrowed
b) let
c) hired
d) lent
6. Anne paid no attention, as she was completely ... in her book.
a) engrossed
b) distracted
c) concentrated
d) focused
7. Ouch! I've just been ... by a bee!
a) bitten
b) poisoned
d) stung
c) hit
8. Alan muttered something under his ... . Unfortunately I couldn't hear what he said.
a) breath
b) lips
c) mouth
d) nose
9. We don't have any butter left. You'll have to ... margarine.
a) keep up with
b) give way to
c) make do with
d) take turns at
10. One ... adults takes physical exercise at least once a week.
a) from four
b) in four
c) at four
d) with four
2. Choose (underline) the proper REACTION: / Vyberte (podtrhněte) nejvhodnější REAKCI:
1. (on the phone) I'm afraid Mr Brown is not in at the moment.
a) Can I take a message?
c) Can you leave a message?
b) Can I leave a message?
d) Can you give a message?
2. How would you like your steak, sir?
a) Rare, please.
b) No, I don't like steaks.
c) Yes, thank you.
d) With potatoes, please.
c) Here is my hand.
d) Here you are.
c) I'd rather not.
d) I didn't either.
c) Yes, of course.
d) Here you are.
c) It'll be my pleasure.
d) Why not?
c) You can sit down.
d) How long can you stand?
b) I'm afraid my eyes hurt.
c) Where should I take it?
d) It'll be my pleasure.
b) Who do you assist?
c) No, I’m just looking.
d) I am sorry, I can't help you.
c) You are welcome.
d) It can't be helped.
3. Could you give me hand with this?
a) That's OK.
b) Certainly.
4. I didn't know John was married.
a) So didn't I.
b) Neither didn't I.
5 Would you mind if I left early today?
a) No, not at all.
b) Help yourself.
6. Shall I book it for the weekend?
a) Yes, you shall.
b) Of course I shall.
7. I can't stand long boring presentations.
a) My feet are hurting too.
b) Neither can I.
8. Could you keep an eye on my luggage?
a) No, I don't view any
luggage.
9. Can I be of any assistance?
a) No, I am not an assistant.
10. How about going for a walk?
a) I don't feel like it.
b) Yes, the walk was nice.
3. Put the verbs in parentheses in the correct form. / Slovesa v závorkách dejte do správných tvarů.
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William Emerson is a doctor in his fifties. Now, he ...1 (have) a small house with a huge garden in the country, but
he ...2 (live) in a small flat in a large city when he was younger. He ...3 (move) to the village fifteen years ago
because he ...4 (prefer) fresh air and quiet. Even though he ...5 (have to) travel a lot now, he ...6 (not/have to) worry
about traffic jams and angry drivers. However, life in the village isn't peaceful any more. Now he ...7 (interview)
by Detective Inspector Blackledge about the death of one of his patients Mr Trevor Stern who ...8 (find) dead in
his study. It is clear that he ...9 (murder):
"I ...10 (call) at the Sterns' house at nine-fifteen. I ...11 (be) rather later than I ...12 (plan) to be because I
...13 (visit) another patient. When Mrs Stern ...14 (let) me into the house she ...15 (seem) rather embarrassed and
...16 (show) me into the sitting-room. I could hear Trevor Stern ...17 (shout) at someone in his study. Mrs Stern
said something about teenage girls and that they ...18 (have) problems with Lucy, their only daughter. Well, the
shouting ...19 (stop) almost immediately, so I ...20 (go) to his study. Lucy ...21 (already/leave) the room before I
...22 (get) there. I tried ...23 (explain) to Trevor why he needed ...24 (have) these hospital tests, but he ...25 (not/let)
me. He said I ...26 (be) an ignorant country doctor who ...27 (not/know) what he ...28 (talk) about. I ...29 (leave)
after only a few minutes. I ...30 (be) quite angry actually."
4. Form the following verb structures using the verb in quotes and the person indicated. / Vytvořte
příslušné tvary sloves v uvozovkách.
1. present simple of the verb "to try": / přítomný prostý tvar slovesa "to try": She ...
2. past continuous of the verb "to write": / minulý průběhový tvar slovesa "to write": We ...
3. present perfect simple of the verb "to stop": / předpřítomný prostý tvar slovesa "to stop": He ...
4. future perfect of the verb "to do": / předbudoucí tvar slovesa "to do": They ...
5. present continuous passive of the verb "to use": / přítomný průběhový tvar pasíva slovesa "to use":
It ...
5. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in
the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write the word in the given space
on the right. / Do následujícího textu doplňte slova odvozená od slov vpravo tak, aby se hodila do textu. Řádek (0)
je příklad. Vhodná slova doplňte do rámečku vpravo.
The Cotswolds is an area of great (0) in England. It has a
0. BEAUTIFUL
Example: beauty
number of (1) villages and small towns with lovely old
1. DELIGHT
buildings that have remained (2) since the area was a major
2. CHANGE
(3) centre several centuries ago. The countryside in the area
3. COMMERCE
is (4) and most of the buildings there are made from an
4. CHARM
(5) type of light stone that is particular to the Cotswolds.
5. ATTRACT
In the summer, the Cotswolds can get rather (6) but it is
6. CROWD
always possible to find pretty places that do not have the (7)
7. FAMOUS
of the more well-known villages and towns. There is no (8) of
8. SHORT
pleasant hotels and (9) inns for visitors to stay in and the
9. TRADITION
Cotswolds area is an excellent place for an (10) weekend
10. ENJOY
or longer trip.
6. In each of the numbered blanks fill in the best word to complete the story. Use only one word for
each blank. / Do každé z očíslovaných mezer doplňte nejvhodnější slovo. Do každé mezery patří POUZE JEDNO
slovo.
Amelia Earhart, America's most famous woman pilot, was born into a wealthy family in 1897. At the age of 23,
she began taking flying lessons in California. In ...1 of having a number of crashes, ...2 were fairly common in
the early days of aviation, she decided ...3 make flying her career.
In 1932 she became the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic. She set out on May 20th, and ...4
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only did she succeed in arriving safely, ...5 she managed to do it in record time as ...6. She ...7 awarded honours
of all kinds. As her fame grew, she travelled round the country giving lectures and promoting women's rights.
In 1937, she decided to ...8 something that no woman had tried before – to fly all the way round the world. She
reached Australia, and set ...9 on the last part of her journey across the Pacific ...10 July 2nd. A few hours later, she
sent a radio message saying she was running short ...11 fuel. Then there was silence. President Roosevelt
immediately ...12 the area searched, but the 9 ships and 66 planes were unable to find any sign of her.
Since her death, ...13 have been many stories about her; some say that she was captured by the Japanese, others
claim that she lived on a South Pacific island with a fisherman. However, ...14 many people have tried to work out
exactly what happened, ...15 trace of her or the plane has ever been found.
7. Among the underlined words or phrases, mark the one (underline the corresponding letter in the
right margin) that has to be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Correct the sentence. /
V každé větě jsou čtyři podtržená slova nebo fráze označené A, B, C a D. Rozhodněte, které z podtržených slov či
frází je třeba změnit, aby byla celá věta správně. Podtrhněte odpovídající písmeno na pravém okraji a napište správné
znění věty.
She couldA play aB guitar whenC she wasD five.
1.
Correction:
A B
C
D
2.
The black cherry tree, from whichA fine cabinets and furniture isB made, is found all
acrossC North America, from Nova Scotia toD Texas.
Correction:
A B
C
D
3.
Because ofA their size, dachshunds are lessB expensive to feed, more easyC to train, and
more congenial thanD Great Danes.
Correction:
A B
C
D
We have triedA to persuade her to stopB, but she just goesC on to smokeD.
4.
Correction:
A B
C
D
5.
Blowing out birthday candles is an ancientA test to see if a growingB child is enough
strongC to blow out a greater numberD each year.
Correction:
A B
C
D
6.
Bleak House is in manyA ways the mostB controversial of the novelC thatD Charles
Dickens wrote.
Correction:
A B
C
D
Most fattyA acids have been findB as essentialCcomponents of lipid moleculesD.
7.
Correction:
A B
C
D
Alpine Saint Bernards are tooA good at followingB the scent of man, even in snow, that
A B C D
they are usedC by ski patrols asD rescue dogs.
Correction:
8. Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same. / Změňte následující
8.
věty tak, aby začínaly danou frází a smysl zůstal stejný.
1. Why don't we go to the cinema tonight?
- What about ...
2. I speak more languages than Peter.
- Peter doesn't speak ...
3. "How long have you been feeling sick?" the doctor asked. (use reported speech / použijte nepřímou řeč)
- The doctor asked ...
4. He didn't prepare for the interview, so he didn't get the job.
- If he ...
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5. Although she had a bad cough, she was able to sing in the choir.
- In spite of ...
9. Reading comprehension. Read the text and then underline the ONE best answer to each question
about the text. / Čtení s porozuměním. Přečtěte si text a potom podtrhněte nejvhodnější odpověď na otázky týkající
se textu.
Mount Rushmore
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10
15
Every year about two million people visit Mount Rushmore, where the faces of four U.S. presidents were
carved in granite by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his son, the late Lincoln Borglum. The creation of the
Mount Rushmore monument took 14 years - from 1927 to 1941 - and nearly a million dollars. These were
times when money was difficult to come by and many people were jobless. To move the more than
400,000 tons of rock, Borglum hired laid-off workers from the closed-down mines in the Black Hills area.
He taught these men to dynamite, drill, carve, and finish the granite as they were hanging in midair in his
specially devised chairs, which had many safety features. Borglum was proud of the fact that no workers
were killed or severely injured during the years of blasting and carving.
During the carving, many changes in the original design had to be made to keep the carved heads
free of large fissures that were uncovered. However, not all the cracks could be avoided, so Borglum
concocted a mixture of granite dust, white lead, and linseed oil to fill them.
Every winter, water from melting snows gets into the fissures and expands as it freezes, making
the fissures bigger. Consequently, every autumn maintenance work is done to refill the cracks. The
repairers swing out in space over a 500-foot drop and fix the monument with the same mixture that
Borglum used to preserve this national monument for future generations.
1. This passage is mainly about
a) the visitors to the Mount Rushmore monument
b) the faces at the Mount Rushmore monument
c) the sculptor of the Mount Rushmore monument
d) the creation of the Mount Rushmore monument
5. It can be inferred from the passage that
a) the heads are not as originally planned
b) the workers made mistakes when blasting
c) the cracks caused serious injuries
d) the designs had large fissures in them
2. According to the passage, Borglum's son
a) is dead
b) was a president
c) did maintenance work
d) spent a million dollars
6. In line 10, the word "fissures" refers to
a) designs
b) cracks
c) heads
d) carvings
3. The men who Borglum hired were
a) trained sculptors
b) laid-off masons
c) Black Hills volunteers
d) unemployed miners
7. The word "avoided" in line 10 is closest in meaning to
a) circumvented
b) abolished
c) prevented
d) improvised
4. The word "devised" in line 7 is closest in meaning to 8. Borglum's mixture for filling cracks was
a) designed
a) very expensive
b) described
b) bought at the Black Hills mines
c) scaffolded
c) invented by the sculptor himself
d) elevated
d) uncovered during carving
10. WRITING Write between 120 and 250 words. / PSANÍ Dokončete dopis dle instrukcí. Napište 120 –
250 slov.
Imagine you have been on a trip to the U.S.A. to visit your business partner. Now you are back in your
office.
Write a letter, fax or e-mail to someone in the U.S.A., as detailed below.
The beginning has been written for you. You should include the following:
➢ thanks
➢ some information on your return journey
➢ some comments on your impressions of the U.S.A. (especially to do with work)
➢ some information which you were asked to send on your return
➢ an invitation to your US colleague to come and visit when he or she is in your area
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➢ an ending to the letter, fax or e-mail message.
Dear ............................,
I've now arrived back in ....................... after a very productive trip to the United States.
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