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English Language Service Placement Test

Gap-fill exercise
Read each passage through carefully. Try to understand what the passage is about. Then look at each number and write the word that you think is correct in the answer box below. Each number must be replaced with only ONE word.

You will find it more and more difficult to complete the passages as you go on. Do as many passages as you can. If you feel that you can do no more then stop. If you do not know a word, make a guess. Don't use any dictionaries or other reference books!

We regret that we can only correct the test if you intend to take a course with us ie. you are based in the Bremen/Hamburg area.

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A.
Every day, after school, Janet comes home and sits down front of the television. is a programme that likes to watch that begins 5 o'clock. It is a hospital. But today mother has a visitor. are sitting in the room the television is. is Janet's uncle Bob. "Hello Janet. was school today? Your uncle is to visit us."
B.
Billy is American. He is a teacher works in a big in New York. But Billy is not New York. father and mother live a small town a long away from there. Billy not see his parents often, but every year, Christmas, he takes the train the town where his live and stays with them a week. Then he also see his little sister, Cathy, still lives her mother and father.
C.
Jane and Linda are having lunch in a restaurant. "I'm going to some soup," says Linda, " then fish. Are you to have fish Jane?" "No. I don't fish. Sometimes we have at home, because daughter likes it, but I never eat it." "Do you it for her?" "No. My husband usually the cooking, but I always the dishes." "What your daughter do? Does she help you?" " she isn't too busy. She's for her exams."
D.
Jack didn't return in time for lunch. Phoebe waited as as she could, then she the children that they all eat and that she heat something for when they arrived. "I expect the is bad over the moor, all this snow, she said. "He's worried about what it would be ever since we moved in. account of the baby, I suppose. honestly! People were having babies before there were hospitals and cars get them there." "but its not ages," Mary said. "I'm the snow will have gone by ." "End of January?" Phoebe said, a smile. "It could be even than this."
E.
When Soames had met Irene a few years before, he had had a great desire to make her his wife. At time, Irene had been with her father, an poor man. Soames did his to make Irene love him. He her many presents and her to marry him, time after . While her father was , Irene was strong to refuse Soames. But her father's death, Irene was quite alone. Soames continued to see her he could and at she agreed to marry him. She did not him, but everyone it was a good marriage.
F.
A month later I came out of the special hospital where a of thirty doctors and nurses had after me. Penny had had more doctors than I had because her was worse than , but Ogylvie had brought the doctors from the States and they had succeeded in saving Penny's . Dr Starkie was the man in . "If Penny had been left for one more day without receiving medical attention, she would almost be dead ," he said. "You were really very lucky."
G.
Helen Garfield was sitting at a table over in the corner. I walked and sat down beside . I asked the waiter for a of coffee. He brought it. I the coffee without saying . Then I put the cup and looked at the beautiful sitting beside me. "Miss Garfield," I said, "I you are a liar. I don't think you've once told me the ." The blonde girl's slowly became red. She looked at me angrily. "Mr Samuel," she said. "I'm you a lot of money to for me. I asked to find my sister. I didn't ask you to me a liar."
H.
Just then there was a lot of noise outside. The Marshal to the door to what was going on. A driver had his van in the narrow . He was taking a lot of large boxes and them in the road, before he them into a shop. But no cars could get past and all the traffic had stopped. were shouting impatiently already a crowd had . A traffic policeman arrived and to make the driver his van and the . The driver with him excitedly.
I.
I had been expecting something so different that what she was saying didn't seem to make any . "And then I had to your father's debts," she said. "When left the island I left with three hundred pounds in my pocket and of that I paid your to England. I fitted you to go to school. You didn't have a garment that was for the winter. A new outfit - everything - had to be and I bore your for a term. And when I wrote and your uncle to help to you at school for a year because you to have some of an education, he said he couldn't it."
J.
I had no desire to meet Miss Sharp, the junior mistress. I sometimes watched her cycling the village street after school was for the day. in tweeds, she cycled determinedly, looking neither to the left nor to the right. She with awe. She, the village , was to my young mind just below God, and I had no wish to Him. Today was Friday and I a sigh of relief at the of another two whole days my ordeal commenced. Two days to me was a long, long .