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ABC Institute - English Placement Test

This test will be used to test your English level. Please complete all sections. A speaking and listening test may also be required for some courses. You are responsible for being prepared for the test.
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GRAMMAR SECTION

Eg. - Peter _________ from Australia.(Required)
1. Where ____________ she live?(Required)
2. There's ________ rice on the table.(Required)
3. What ___________ tomorrow?(Required)
4. Robert and Jill _________ neighbors.(Required)
5. Melbourne is older _______ Brisbane.(Required)
6. This is my pen. _________ are yours in my hand.(Required)
7. Very _________ people live in the Australian Outback.(Required)
8. ___________ did it take so long to finish the project?(Required)
9. When she was young, she used to _________ a lot of TV.(Required)
10. There aren’t _________ easy ways to raise a child.(Required)
11. You _________ not sell alcohol to people under 18 years old in Australia.(Required)
12. It was _________ good weather, so we went to the beach.(Required)
13. _________ social media too much is unhealthy for children.(Required)
14. I look forward to _________ you at the party.(Required)
15. They ____________ much time for breakfast.(Required)
16. I ____________ my house painted next week.(Required)
17. She likes to read, ____________(Required)
18. I can’t help you on Saturday. I have ____________ time.(Required)
19. If you want to be successful, you have to work ____________ .(Required)
20. The room ____________ last night by the cleaner.(Required)
21. If he ____________ studied, he would have passed the test.(Required)
22. A) I didn’t go to the party. B) ____________ I was too busy.(Required)
23. He looks tired. He must ____________ slept well.(Required)
24. She’s used to ____________ early every morning.(Required)
24. She’s used to ____________ early every morning.(Required)
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Reading Section

Paragraph 1

The first pictures on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern street art (now called “graffiti”) seems to have started in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really grew quickly in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags”, on buildings all over the city. In the mid-1970s it was sometimes hard to see out of a train window because they were completely covered in spray paintings known as “masterpieces”.

Paragraph 2

In the early days, the “taggers” were part of street gangs who wanted to mark their territory. They worked in groups called “crews”. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti until John Lindsay, the mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti, making it illegal to graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on trains without being caught, and many graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings or paint on.

Paragraph 3

The debate over whether graffiti is art or not is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York City councillor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone else’s property it becomes a crime. “I have a message for the graffiti vandals out there”, he said recently. “Your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.” On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from big company advertising, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities more colourful.

Paragraph 4

Graffiti is still very popular today and can even be a job. For example, some works by famous English graffiti artist, Banksy, have been sold for over $1,000,000, which shows that graffiti has become big business!

Part 1. Multiple Choice

Choose the best answer from the options below
1. Why was the seventies important for graffiti?(Required)
2. What is a 'masterpiece' in graffiti?(Required)
3. What was the main goal of the first taggers?(Required)
4. How did things change after the “war on graffiti”?(Required)
5. What does Peter Vallone say about graffiti?(Required)
6. What does Reclaim Your City say about graffiti?(Required)

Part 2. Complete the sentences with one word.

Part 3. Match each heading to one paragraph only

10. A set-back for graffiti(Required)
11. The commercialization of graffiti(Required)
12. The origins of graffiti(Required)
13. The debate continues(Required)
14. What is the author's final point?(Required)

Writing Section

Topic 1

Technology has changed the world in the last 10 years in a positive way.

Topic 2

It’s better for children to grow up in the countryside than a big city.