Churchill House School of English Language Assessment Test
Intermediate Level

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

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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.

  Friday, 6 May 1994 is a day which well come to be seen an
  important date in British history. many thousands of years, Britain
  an island, cut off from the rest of Europe by appears
  on British maps as the English Channel. But since day in May 1994,
  when the Channel Tunnel formally opened by the Queen of
  England and the President of France, Britain joined to 'Continental
  Europe' by a fixed link. Not in Britain is pleased that Britain is
  an island. There remains a large number of who
  believe that the 20 miles of water Dover and Calais has been an
  important defence, not only against invasion, but against dangerous
  diseases like rabies, can be spread by animals. people,
    however, see the Channel Tunnel as a symbol of increasing European unity,
  another step the road towards, if not a 'United States of Europe', then
  at least a European community which travel would be much
  . But whether one sees the Channel Tunnel as a good thing or a
  bad thing, is no doubt that it represents one of the greatest
  engineering feats of this or century.

 

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. Not all the words will be used and some words can be used more than once. We suggest you read the complete text before you begin.

The desire to travel and to see other places is by no means new. History is full of accounts of people's travels. What is new is the sheer number of people involved. Increases in living standards over the last thirty years or so, together with more leisure time and the development of modern air transport, have led to ever greater numbers of people seeking to travel abroad.

Example
Wherever tourists go take their money with them.
     
  Tourism become an increasingly important industry in
  countries, and the added advantage is the
  earnings are in hard currencies. first most Europeans
  remained within Europe, such is the pressure to find
    places to visit that international tourism by well-off Europeans (as well as by
  from other rich countries, such as USA) has spread
    throughout the world.
  third-world countries there is a huge between the
  world of tourists and world of the local inhabitants. To put it at its
  simplest, the tourist's , with its various accessories, could well
  more than most locals earn in year. No wonder that
  tourism can spread envy and dissatisfaction among the local .
  Moreover, tourists can have a devastating on the local life-style.
 
  There are many places left in the world have not
  been developed or opened for tourism, but there are important
  from place to place in the way this has happened. In some
  countries local population has been able to to
  tourism without sacrificing too much their life-style or environment.
  As more more people go abroad for a it is hoped
    that tourist venues can find ways of continuing to have the benefits while
    minimising the disadvantages.

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