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Objective Placement Test 1

General Directions

The Objective Placement Test has three sections: Listening, Reading, andLanguage Use. There are 70 questions. You are allowed 50 minutes tocomplete the test.

In Section I, the Listening section, you will hear nine conversations andanswer one or more questions about each one. Before you listen to aconversation, read the question or questions. Then listen to the conversation.

Answer the questions after the conversation ends. Choose the correct answerfor each question and fill in your choice on your answer sheet. You will hearthe conversation only once. The first conversation is an example. You have 15minutes to complete this section.

Section II, the Reading section, has several short passages. After you readeach passage, choose the correct answer for each question and fill in yourchoice on your answer sheet. You have 20 minutes to complete this section.

Section III, the Language Use section, has 30 items. Choose the correctcompletion for each item and fill in your choice on your answer sheet. Youhave 15 minutes to complete this section.

Mark your answers clearly on your answer sheet. If you want to change an

answer, erase your first answer completely. If you want to take notes duringthe test, write on the paper you were given.

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Section I: Listening

In this section of the test, you will hear conversations and answer somequestions about them. For each conversation, first read the situation and thequestion or questions. Then listen to the conversation. Answer the questionsafter you hear the conversation. Respond to the questions by marking thecorrect answer (a, b, c, or d) on your answer sheet.

Read the example situation and question.

Example

Situation: Bill Sanchez calls Dr. Stocktons office to make an appointment.

Bill is going to see the doctor on _______.

a. Tuesday at 10:00b. Tuesday at 4:00

c. Wednesday at 10:00d. Wednesday at 4:00

Now listen to the example conversation.

[EXAMPLE CONVERSATION]

Now answer the example question.

The answer for the example is d, Wednesday at 4:00. The letter d is filled in

on your answer sheet.

Now go on to page 3.

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Situation 1: David is talking with Tomomi when Monica comesinto the room.

A1. _______ are meeting for the first time.

a. David and Monicab. David and Tomomic. Tomomi and Monicad. David, Monica, and Tomomi

Situation 2: Ken and Nancy are at a restaurant.

A2. Ken _______.

a. is having steak tonightb. stopped eating steakc. eats steak a lotd. prefers chicken to steak

Situation 3: Karen calls Jasons home. Jasons father answersthe telephone.

A3. Karen is going to _______.

a. speak with Jason at workb. call back in an hour

c. wait for Jason to calld. send a written message




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Situation 4: A reporter is giving todays weather forecast.

A4. It will be clear in _______.

a. the Northeastb. Seattlec. Bostond. Miami

A5. In Seattle, the weather is _______.

a. hotb. snowyc. coold. rainy

Situation 5: Bill invites Jennifer to go to dinner and a movie.

A6. Theyre going to _______.a. leave work a little earlyb. go to the movie before dinnerc. see the movie tomorrowd. have dinner at 7:00

A7. Jennifer doesnt accept right away because she cant _______.

a. eat a late lunchb. leave work earlyc. go to dinner

d. see the movie




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Situation 6: Linda is asking Jim about his plans for the summer.

A8. In the summer, Jim usually _______.

a. stays in the mountainsb. takes trips with his familyc. visits his parentsd. goes to the beach

A9. This summer hes planning to _______.

a. stay at homeb. go to the beachc. fish with his dadd. hike in the mountains

Situation 7: Phil is talking with Susie about money.

A10. Phil is upset because _______.a. Susie cant lend him any moneyb. his parents wont give him moneyc. Albert hasnt returned his moneyd. his friends never lend him money

A11. Albert _______.

a. didnt borrow $100b. isnt working nowc. doesnt need the money

d. cant return the money yet

A12. Susie doesnt lend money to friends because _______.

a. she has just enough for herselfb. lending money can change a friendshipc. people wont lend her moneyd. her friends dont need it




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Situation 8: Natalie and Chuck are talking about theirexperiences abroad.

A13. Chuck went backpacking _______.

a. in Brazilb. by himselfc. after high schoold. with his father

A14. Chuck says he would have liked to have seen Portugal.He means that he _______.

a. went there, and he liked itb. didnt go there, but he wanted toc. went there, but he didnt like itd. didnt go there, and he didnt want to

A15. While Natalie was in Japan, she _______.

a. traveled all over the countryb. lived with a Japanese family

c. learned Japanese quicklyd. got very homesick

A16. Chuck doesnt want to _______.

a. travel anymoreb. learn a foreign languagec. stay at homed. live abroad




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Situation 9: Diane and Conrad are talking about their careers.

A17. Conrad got into advertising because he _______.

a. studied advertising in collegeb. heard about a job openingc. liked to help peopled. was tired of his old job

A18. When he was young, Conrad wanted to _______.

a. work in advertisingb. become a doctorc. stay in schoold. go into business

A19. Dianes parents didnt want her to _______.

a. start her own businessb. finish collegec. be too successfuld. change her career

A20. Conrad _______.

a. owns his own companyb. enjoys working in advertisingc. thinks his job is boringd. wants to leave his job

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Section II: Reading

In this section of the Objective Placement Test, you will read some shortpassages and answer questions about them. Choose the word or words thatbest complete the sentence. For each item, fill in your answer on the answersheet. You will have 20 minutes to complete this section.

Passage 1: What are you doing today?

PEDRO: I usually go out with friends on Saturday night. But todays Friday,and were going out to a football game tonight. So tomorrow night Imstaying home.

B21. This Saturday night, Pedro is _______.

a. playing football

b. visiting friendsc. staying homed. going out

Passage 2: What do you do?

EILEEN SWEET: Im a hostess at a big restaurant. I greet people at the doorand take them to their tables. Day after day, I always do the same thing.

Someday I hope to have a more interesting job, but its OK for now.

C22. Eileen thinks that her job is _______.

a. difficultb. interestingc. importantd. boring




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Passage 3: A vacation postcard

Dear Sal,

Greetings from France its so good to be back here again! We left the kidswith their grandparents in Chicago, and were biking across the Frenchcountryside by ourselves. We brought a tent and sleeping bags, so we cancamp out if we want to, but were really enjoying the small hotels we findalong the way.

Love,Michael and Paula

A23. Michael and Paula _______.

a. have been to France beforeb. took their children with themc. are visiting their grandparentsd. prefer to sleep outside

Passage 4: Meditation

You observe a person in meditation. On the surface, he appears to be asleep,but hes simply in a trance a kind of half-sleep in which the person isconscious but able to ignore the situation around him. For the meditator, theability to concentrate is so strong that everything around him sounds,smells, movement seems to fade in importance. At the same time, decisionmaking and deep thinking are often greatly improved.

B24. In this reading, meditation refers to a persons _______.a. state of mindb. intelligencec. physical conditiond. ability to sleep

B25. Meditation doesnt help a person _______.

a. hear betterb. think deeplyc. make decisions

d. ignore smells




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Passage 5: The Scot and the tea kettle

According to one story, a Scottish boy watched the steam lift the top off hismothers tea kettle and realized the power of steam to make machines work.That boy, James Watt, would then go on to invent the modern steam enginein 1769. Actually, the history of steam technology records the successful workof several scientists and engineers before Watt. For example, in 1698,Thomas Savery had introduced a simple steam pump to remove water frommines, and 14 years later Thomas Newcomen invented a better pump. But

these pumps werent efficient because they used so much fuel. In 1769, theScottish boy, James Watt, figured out a way to save three-quarters of thefuel. To honor him, his last name became the name of a unit of energy.

C26. The example of the boiling tea kettle shows that steam is _______.

a. usefulb. efficientc. powerfuld. necessary

C27. The first steam engines _______.a. didnt pump waterb. cost too much to buildc. were difficult to maked. used too much fuel




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Passage 6: Its a big country!

When it comes to body weight, Americans stand out. Most visitors to theUnited States, no matter where they go across this vast country, comment onthe size of many Americans. In fact, these impressions are backed bynumerous statistics. For example, the average 5'4" American weighs 162pounds, or 15 pounds more than the average person of the same height fromWestern or Central Europe. Another comparison: At 150 pounds, the average5'4" American woman is 24 pounds heavier than her Japanese counterpart.

Why are Americans so heavy? Some blame the American diet. Certainlyits true that Americans eat more high-fat foods meat, dairy products, andprocessed food and fewer grains and vegetables than people in othercountries. But fat isnt the whole story. Lifestyle factors including thetendency for Americans to drive rather than walk or ride a bicycle to work, tosnack throughout the day, and to have so many labor-saving devices in thehome appear to contribute to the problem.

A28. According to the article, visitors to the United States often commenton the size of the _______.

a. populationb. citiesc. countryd. people

A29. According to the article, the average Western European weighs _______.

a. more than an Americanb. more than a Central Europeanc. less than an Americand. less than a Japanese person

A30. In comparison with Americans, people in other countries eatmore _______.

a. meatb. dairy productsc. processed foodd. grains

A31. The article implies that Americans would lose weight if they _______.

a. snacked more oftenb. rode bicycles to work

c. stayed at home mored. ate fewer vegetables




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Passage 7: Personality types

What makes people the way they are? Why do some people get angry easily, others alwaysseem to be cheerful, while still others are often depressed? The early Greek doctorHippocrates thought that personality was linked to the fluids that were known to exist inthe human body: the blood, the bile, the black bile, and the phlegm. These fluids werecalled the four humors. He believed that inside each person, one kind of body fluid wasdominant and that this fluid or humor caused a tendency toward a particular kind ofbehavior.

If the blood (sanguinis) was dominant, the person wassanguine, or cheerful and willingto help others. If the yellow bile of the liver (called choler) was the most important, theperson would be irritable and quick to anger. If the person was often sad and depressed, theblack liquid of the spleen and kidneys (melan-choler or black bile) was blamed. And theperson who had too muchphlegm (the thick mucus of the nose and throat) was likely to belazy, calm, and dull (not very intelligent).

Today we know that personality results from a combination of lifestyle and naturalfactors, and has little or nothing to do with the balance of body fluids. However, even todaythe words remain: humorous, sanguine, choleric, melancholy, phlegmatic.Althoughpsychologists no longer use them, they have become part of the common vocabulary withsome changes, of course. For example, today to say that a person is humorous means thatthe person laughs and makes others laugh, from the idea of having good humor.

B32. According to the article, the early Greeks knew that _______.

a. there are different fluids in the human bodyb. everyone shows the same basic behaviorc. people who laugh a lot are humorousd. personality is the result of lifestyle factors

B33. For the early Greeks, humor was the name for a type of _______.

a. personality typeb. body partc. natural fluidd. internal organ

B34. Hippocrates believed that _______ was dominant in a happy person.

a. bloodb. bilec. black biled. phlegm

B35. Today the word humorous is used to describe a persons _______.a. blood typeb. lifestylec. personalityd. body fluids




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Passage 8: Biofeedback

When biofeedback was first developed a number of years ago, it caused a lot of excitement.People hoped that biofeedback could be used to cure all kinds of physical and mental problems.

Biofeedback is the name for a medical technique that helps people treat certainproblems by becoming more aware of their own bodies. In biofeedback, instruments thatmeasure bodily functions such as muscle tension, temperature, and blood flow are attachedto the body. The instruments produce signals for example, a series of sounds (beeps) or aflashing light that the person can hear or see. The patient then uses the information to

help gain control over the function.The most widely used biofeedback instrument is the electromyograph, or EMG. The

EMG is used to measure muscle tension. It is made up of several electrodes, which areplaced on the skin near a particular area, depending on the symptom. For example, forheadaches, a symptom often caused by excessive tension in the neck muscles, the electrodesare placed on the forehead or near the back of the neck. When the tension is present, theEMG produces a signal and the patient is taught to respond by relaxing the appropriatemuscles. In many cases, the relaxation of these muscles causes the headache to go away.

While biofeedback has not turned out to be a cure-all, it has been used successfully totreat a limited number of problems especially those caused by chronic tension.

C36. At first, people were very _______ biofeedback.

a. nervous aboutb. interested inc. familiar withd. opposed to

C37. Biofeedback instruments ______.

a. act like a kind of medicineb. cause people to get excitedc. are put on a patients bodyd. teach people to exercise

C38. Blood flow is an example of a _______.

a. techniqueb. signalc. functiond. problem

C39. The EMG _______.

a. relaxes the musclesb. measures tensionc. causes movementd. produces symptoms

C40. According to the article, biofeedback _______.

a. is more popular than everb. causes chronic tensionc. cures all types of headachesd. has had limited success

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Section III: Language Use

In this section, you will answer questions about the use of English. Choosethe word or words that best complete the sentence. For each item, fill in youranswer on the answer sheet. You will have 15 minutes to complete thissection.

A41. _______ several good restaurants in our neighborhood.

a. Thereb. Theyrec. There ared. Their

B42. My office is _______ downtown.

a. onb. nearc. closed. at

C43. I like to cook._______ do I.

a. Andb. Soc. Alsod. Too

A44. I enjoy _______ out two or three times a week.

a. to eatb. eatingc. eatd. I eat

B45. I dont have a computer, but _______ my friends do.

a. the mostb. almostc. most of d. most

C46. Yesterdays game caused a lot of _______.

a. excitedb. excitingc. excited. excitement




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A47. After finishing college, I hope _________ married.

a. getb. that getc. gettingd. to get

B48. Cairo is _______ any other city in Egypt.

a. the largeb. larger thanc. the largestd. large as

C49. Toms bought a new car, _______ he?

a. doesntb. isntc. wasntd. hasnt

A50. Ive run out of money. I wish I _______ more.

a. am savingb. have savedc. had savedd. will save

B51. Excuse me. Could you tell me where _______?

a. the bus station isb. is the bus stationc. it is the bus stationd. is it the bus station

C52. My suitcase would have been much lighter if I _______ all my books.

a. dont packb. not packingc. hadnt packedd. not pack

A53. Yolanda _______ part time for several years now.

a. has been workingb. is working

c. worksd. was working

B54. The movies great! Its really worth _______.

a. seeingb. to seec. you seed. see




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C55. If fewer people drove cars to work, _______ less pollution.

a. weve hadb. wed havec. were havingd. well have

A56. Would you mind _______ the window?

a. openb. openingc. to opend. I open

B57. My sister is interested _______ about Japanese literature.

a. learnb. learningc. to learnd. in learning

C58. The washing machine needs _______.

a. being fixedb. to be fixedc. to fixd. you fix it

A59. By 2020, scientists _______ a cure for cancer.

a. had foundb. will have foundc. are findingd. have been finding

B60. The grounds wet. It must _______.

a. rainingb. have rainedc. to raind. rained

C61. I am used _______ the bus to work.

a. to takeb. to taking

c. tookd. taking

A62. Chicago, _______ is nicknamed the Windy City, is the largest city in Illinois.

a. itb. whichc. whatd. that




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B63. I wont go _______ you come with me.

a. insteadb. exceptc. unlessd. although

C64. Before _______ to bed, I usually brush my teeth.

a. goingb. goc. to god. that go

A65. Im taking a class _______ learn more about my computer.

a. so thatb. in orderc. in order tod. that

B66. Helen is _______ serious student I have ever seen.

a. moreb. mostc. the mored. the most

C67. Youd better tell Joe _______ in here.

a. not to smokeb. not smokingc. no smoked. dont smoking

A68. I feel sick. I shouldnt _______ so much.

a. to eatb. eatenc. have eatend. eating

B69. Bettys husband suggested that she _______ a few days off from work.

a. has tookb. taking

c. taked. will take

C70. The more you practice speaking English, _______ it gets.

a. easyb. the easiestc. easierd. the easier

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Section I: Listening

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Section III: Language Use

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