Churchill House School of English Language Assessment Test
Advanced Level

Do not use a dictionary. Time allowed: one hour.

leave blank – correct answers will be checked at the end of the test

SECTION ONE
(is the same for all four test levels)

MULTIPLE CHOICE

In this part of the test you must choose the best word(s) to go in each gap below.

1. Today millions of people who speak English.
2. Some people English for special reasons.
3. They may need English for .
4. Some of them speak to English people.
5. The majority of learners of English other needs.
6. Most users of English use it to people who aren't English.
7. people in the world have heard some English.
8. hardly any countries where English is never spoken.
9. Very few people haven't heard English at all.
10. English is now widely used language in the world.
11. For some 40 years the Guinness Book of Records has been one of the most popular books the UK.
12. It first published in 1954.
13. Since then it a regular bestseller.
14. Most of the records in it many times in recent years.
15. In 1954, while the first Guinness Book of Records was being compiled, the world mile record broken.
16. The year before that, in 1953, it at over four minutes.
17. But in 1954 the four-minute barrier be broken on several occasions.
 
 18. Dr Roger Bannister's famous run was the first time anyone run so fast.
 
 19. If Dr Bannister broken the record that day in Oxford, it would soon have been broken by someone else.
20. The record has since been held by a great of runners.

 

SECTION TWO

GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT

In this part of the test you must choose the correct word(s) to go in each gap.

    As the captain's voice came over the loudspeaker, announcing that the plane
  was just about to begin descent Heathrow Airport, Maria
  looked around . off from Rio, the plane, 747, had
  been very full, but few passengers off in
  Lisbon, so with luck it take her too long to get her luggage and
  get through customs. Looking the window, she
  a first of London through the clouds and felt a sudden shiver of
  excitement. She was so far from home and on her own for the first
  time her life. She reflected briefly that it was only the second time that
  she outside her own country, the other a short
  holiday she had had with her parents in the U.S.A. . Now she
    was on her way to start a university course in the North of England. She was
  really looking forward to a student there, though she was also
  quite nervous at the prospect of being able to depend
    her family's close support. She was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't
  notice the plane landing. Suddenly everyone on the plane off.
  Maria realised that she would really have to hurry if she to catch
  the train from King's Cross that would get her to her destination time.
  She had than 2 hours to get to the station and it was so crowded it
  would obviously take time to get out of the airport. at
    the baggage hall, she looked for the right carousel to collect her luggage.
  so many there she had great
    a place to stand where she could see the luggage arriving. She had been
  waiting for about five minutes when she suddenly that she
  needed to a bank get of her travellers' cheques
  . She only had English money and she had
  certainly wasn't enough to buy her ticket the train. Another 10 minutes
  and there was still no sign of her case. She started to wish she
  changed more money at home. She knew it was no
  worrying about what she hadn't done, but she couldn't help cross
    with herself. After half an hour with no sign of her case she had just about
  resigned herself not only to the bank, but also her train. 'By the
  time get my case and get out of here', she thought to herself, '
    probably have missed the last train and have to spend the night in London'. She
    was just on the point of going to look for someone who could give her
  about where to find lost property when her case 
  appeared. 'I'd still try to get there tonight', she said to herself as she
    made her way through passport control and customs. Suddenly she spotted an
  open bank and just beyond it a 'standby' ticket office. 'Well, I as well
    give it a try,' she muttered (to her surprise in English). An hour later she was in
  the air on her way north, with an air ticket that had cost less she'd
  thought the train . As she settled back to enjoy the rest of the flight,
  she wondered if the remainder of her time in England be as eventful
    as her first hour or so. She hoped not, but she decided she was going to enjoy
    herself, come what may.

 

SECTION THREE

BANKED CLOZE

In this part of the test you must read the text and choose the best word from the menu to go in the gaps. There is an introductory paragraph and we have done the first gap for you as an example. Not all the words will be used and some words can be used more than once. We suggest you read the whole text before you begin.

  Most people have heard of acupuncture and that it has something
    to do with sticking needles into people. But what about iridology (assessing your
    general state of health by looking at your eyes)?
     
  There are of different therapies which broadly
  be classified as alternative medicine. range from the well
  established branches scientific medicine, such as osteopathy, to
  which appear to be based on almost religious faith.
  What they have common is that they activate the
  healing powers of the body as opposed to surgery and drugs.
  They concentrate preventing illnesses, rather than curing them,
  traditional medicine the latter.
     
  of the more respectable practitioners in any branch of alternative
  medicine join own professional body. Its members are
  to be struck off, or expelled the organisation, if
  they behave irresponsibly. number of therapists who have joined
  professional bodies is estimated to be at a rate of
  over 10% annum. That is more than five as fast
  as the annual growth the number of traditional doctors.
     
  There to be two reasons for this in the demand for
  new forms medicine over the last five years. , there
  has been growing concern about side effects of drugs. People are
  about taking things like tranquillisers as can be
  addictive and therefore difficult stop taking. The second reason is
  traditional medicine has not been able help the
  very many people suffering problems with bones and joints, from
  ailments as arthritis and back pain various kinds.
     
  While it is becoming fashionable some young doctors to train in
  or more branches of alternative medicine, believe
  it should be banned altogether. the right answer may be, the
  remains that increasing numbers of people choose to go to a
    practitioner of alternative medicine. They do so even though they usually have to
    pay for it, and they are often satisfied with the treatment they receive.

 

SECTION FOUR

PROOF READING/ERROR CORRECTION

In the passage below some of the lines have a mistake in them. It could be a spelling mistake, an error of punctuation, a word missing, a word that should not be there, a wrong choice of word for the particular context, or some other thing which is wrong.

Your job is to identify all the errors. If a line has an error, write the corrected word, the missing word, or the word which should not be there. If a line is correct, leave the answer as 'correct'.

Why I am learning English
Examples
Your questions start here:

Why does language provide such fascinating object of study?
Perhaps because of its unique role in capturing the broadth
of human thought and endeavour. We looked around us and are
awed by the variety several thousand languages and dialects,
expressing a multiplicity of world view and ways
of live. We look back at the thoughts of our predecessors
and find we can see only as far as language permits us see.
We look forward on time and find we can plan only through
language. We look outward into spaces and send symbols of
communication along with our spacecraft, to explain who we
are, in the case there is anyone there who wants to know.
Alongside this, it is the importance we attach to language
as means of understanding ourselves and our society, and resolving
the problems and tensions that arose from human interaction.
All of us have benefitted and suffered from how words work.

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