Examen Oxford

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Oxford University Press
and
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate

OXFORD
PLACEMENT
TEST

Version 1.1

This test is divided into three parts
Part One (questions 1 – 40)
Part Two (questions 41 – 60)
Part Three (writing section)
PART 1
Questions 1 - 5
* Where can you see these notices.
* For questions 1 to 5, mark one letter A,B orC on your answer sheet.

A In a shop
B In a hotel
C In a taxi

Please leave your
room key at reception

1

A In alibrary
B In a bank
C In a pólice station

Foreign money
changed here

2

A outside a theatre
B outside a supermarket
C outside a restaurant

AFTERNOON SHOW
BEGINS AT 2 P.M

3

A at a travel agent’s
B at a music school
C at a restaurant

CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS
Lessons start again on the 8th January

4

A at a cinema
B in a hotelC on a camp - site

PRICE PER NIGHT
$ 10 a tent
$ 5 a person

5

Questions 6 - 10
* In this section you must choose the Word which best fits each space in the text below.
* For questions 6 to 10, mark one letter A, B or C on your answer sheet.

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SCOTLAND
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Scotland is inthe north part of the island of Great Britain. The Atlantic Ocean is on the
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west and the North Sea on the east. Some people (6)……………….. Scotland speak a
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different language called Gaelic.
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There are (7) ……………….. five million people inScotland, and Edinburgh is
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(8) ……………. most famous city.
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Scotland has many mountains; the highest one is called “Ben Nevis” . In the south of
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Scotland, there are a lot of sheep . A long time ago, there (9)……………….. many forest, but-------------------------------------------------
now there are only a (10)……………….. . Scotland is only a small country, but it is quite
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beautiful.

6 | | A | on | | B | in | | C | at |
7 | | A | about | | B | between | | C | among |
8 | | A | his | | B | your | | C | its |
9 | | A | is | | B | were | | C | was |
10 | | A | few| | B | little | | C | lot |

Questions 11 - 20
* In this section you must choose the Word which best fits each space in the text below.
* For questions 11 to 20, mark one letter A, B or C on your answer sheet.

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Alice Guy Blaché
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Alice Guy Blaché was the first female filmdirector. She first became involved in cinema
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while working for the Gaumont Film Company in the late 1890s. This was a period of great
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change in the cinema and Alice was the first to use many new inventions. (11)………………..
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sound and colour-------------------------------------------------
In 1907 Alice (12)……………….. to New York where she started her own film company
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She was (13)……………….. successful, but when Hollywood became the centre of the film
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world, the best days of the independent New York film companies were (14)……………….....