Section II: Reading

In this section of the Objective Placement Test, you will read some short passages and answer questions about them.
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. For each item, fill in your answer on the answer sheet.

Passage 1: What’s your routine at work?

JOE: I go to work every day and have lunch at my desk. I’m always on my social networks – I check my e-mail a lot.
Sometimes I make calls. I go home late every night!

21. How often does Ben go to work?

a. Always
b. Sometimes
c. Never
d. Hardly ever

Passage 2: An e-mail Subject: back home!

Hi Mia,

I just got back from my trip to Argentina. It didn’t rain at all! We ate at some great Argentinian restaurants-delicious! I
learned to do asado! It’s a kind of cooking. We went to the Take a walk every day, and we went dance. Id like to do this
every year!
John

22. John______

a. Didn’t like Argentinian food

b. Was bore on his trip
c. Enjoyed his trip
d. Never wants to visit Argentina again

Passage 4: Bussines

Are you setting up a small business? Worried about the costs of renting office space and employing the right people?
Rebus Virtual Office World can help you. With our Basic Office Deal, we can set up a virtual office for you practically
overnight.
We will give your business a professional image and our polite, friendly staff will handle your calls and present your
business in the best possible way. We can provide you with: a professional business address, a local phone number and
we will also handle mail.
For a more personal approach, with the option of forwarding mail and messages to your home address, don’t hesitate to
ask us about our Premier Office Deals.

26. Where is the text from?

a. A message from a business to a current client

b. An advertisement for a new business service
c. An email from one business worker to another
d. A newspaper article about a new business’s success

.27. What does the service provide?

 a. Off-site staff to perform general office duties
b. A site where several businesses can locate their offices
c. Advice on how to make your business more professional
d. Temporary staff for local businesses

28. Which of the following is not included in the Basic Office deal?

a. A polite receptionist
b. A mail-forwarding service
c. A professional address
d. A telephone-answering service

Passage 5: Switch to Energy First

Energy First is one of the UK’s most innovative energy suppliers. We were the first energy supplier in the country to offer
smart meters free of charge to our customers. These computerized meters submit automatic electricity readings for once
an hour and once daily for gas. This information goes directly to the customer’s online account, allowing them to view and
monitor energy usage. By understanding how much money they are spending on energy, we strongly believe that people
can take control of how much energy they use and make significant savings to their monthly bills.

If you want to benefit from our smart meters, all you have to do is make us your energy supplier. Switching is simple. The
first step is to click the ‘show prices’ button below to compare our tariff with that of your current provider.

If you decide to go ahead, apply using our simple online form. We’ll handle the rest, and keep you regularly updated with
the progress.. There’s no need to contact your current supplier.

If, within 7 days of submitting your form, you change your mind about switching energy suppliers, don’t worry. We give
you a 7-day cooling-off period during which you can cancel your application with no penalty.

It will take approximately 5 weeks for us to complete the process of transferring you to our supply. A week before your
supply goes live, we will email you to confirm a start date.

Once you have become a customer, you’ll be contacted over the phone by a local installer to arrange a convenient time to
fit your smart meters. You will need to be at home when these are fitted. Once they are installed, you can check your
energy use online. Until then, you can submit monthly readings online in order to obtain an accurate bill.

29. What is the purpose of smart meters?

a. to reduce the costs of energy bills

b. to inform customers which suppliers offer the best rates
c. to allow customers to pay their bills online
d. to show customers how much energy they use

30. Customers switching to Energy First do NOT need to:

e. complete an application form online

f. inform the company that currently provides their
g. be at home when the meters are installed
h. allow 6 weeks for the suppliers to be switched

31. What can be inferred from the passage?

a. Energy First offers cheaper energy rates than other companies.

 b. Customers will have no gas or electricity for 5 weeks while switching suppliers.
c. You have to pay a fine if you cancel your application after 7 days.
d. All Energy First customers must have smart meters if they want accurate bills.

32. Once customers’ supplies go live, they will soon receive:

a. a phone call from a meter installer.

b. a smart meter in the mail. to allow customers to pay their bills online
c. an energy bill from their previous suppliers
d. a meter reading from the new suppliers.

Passage 6: Social networks

Business applications

Social networks connect people at low cost; this can be beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to
expand their contact base. These networks often act as a customer relationship management tool for companies selling
products and services. Companies can also use social networks for advertising in the form of banners and text ads. Since
businesses operate globally, social networks can make it easier to keep in touch with contacts around the world.

Medical applications

Social networks are beginning to be adopted by healthcare professionals as a means to manage institutional knowledge,
disseminate peer to peer knowledge and to highlight individual physicians and institutions. The advantage of using a
dedicated medical social networking site is that all the members are screened against the state licensing board list of
practitioners. The role of social networks is especially of interest to pharmaceutical companies who spend approximately
"32 percent of their marketing dollars" attempting to influence the opinion leaders of social networks.

Languages, nationalities and academia

Various social networking sites have sprung up catering to different languages and countries. The popular site Facebook
has been cloned for various countries and languages and some specializing in connecting students and faculty.

Social networks for social good

Several websites are beginning to tap into the power of the social networking model for social good. Such models may be
highly successful for connecting otherwise fragmented industries and small organizations without the resources to reach a
broader audience with interested and passionate users. Users benefit by interacting with a like-minded community and
finding a channel for their energy and giving.

Business model

Few social networks currently charge money for membership. In part, this may be because social networking is a
relatively new service, and the value of using them has not been firmly established in customers' minds. Companies such
as MySpace and Facebook sell online advertising on their site. Hence, they are seeking large memberships, and charging
for membership would be counter productive. Some believe that the deeper information that the sites have on each user
will allow much better targeted advertising than any other site can currently provide. Sites are also seeking other ways to
make money, such as by creating an online marketplace or by selling professional information and social connections to
businesses.

Privacy issues

On large social networking services, there have been growing concerns about users giving out too much personal
information and the threat of sexual predators. Users of these services need to be aware of data theft or viruses.
However, large services, such as MySpace, often work with law enforcement to try to prevent such incidents. In addition,
there is a perceived privacy threat in relation to placing too much personal information in the hands of large corporations
or governmental bodies, allowing a profile to be produced on an individual's behavior on which decisions, detrimental to
an individual, may be taken.

Investigations

Social network services are increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations. Information posted on sites such
as MySpace and Facebook, has been used by police, probation, and university officials to prosecute users of said sites.
In some situations, content posted on MySpace has been used in court.

33. According to the text, social networks...

a. are about friendships.

b. can damage business reputations.
c. advertise on business web sites.
d. are being used by businesses for marketing.

34. Why do advertisers like social nework sites?

a. They are cost-effective to advertise on.

b. Detailed information on each user allows targeted ads.
c. Most users have high disposable income.
d. They can influence consumer behaviour.

35. What does the expression 'sprung up' in paragraph 4 mean?

a. there has been rapid development of social networking sites
b. the development of social networking is unplanned
c. everybody is trying to copy Facebook
d. social networking works in all languages

36. What does the word 'Few' at the beginning of paragraph 6 mean?
a. Not any
b. Hardly any
c. Some
d. Only

37. What should users not do on social networks?

a. download viruses
b. contact predators
c. be too free with their personal information
d. upload copyrighted music

38. What does the word 'deeper' in paragraph 6 mean?

a. more spiritual
b. more profound
c. more emphatic
 d. more detailed

39. Personal information on social network sites.......

a. can be used in court
b. gives a good description of the user's personality
c. is sold to the government
d. is translated into many languages

40. Social networking is great for......

a. groups of people separated over wide areas
b. academic organisations
c. people who write too much information about themselves
d. the law enforcement agencies

Section III: Language Use

In this section, you will answer questions about the use of English. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.
For each item, fill in your answer on the answer sheet.

41. My cousin studies______ night on Saturdays.

a. Every
b. at
c. on
d. in

42. Where____ your girlfriend work?

a. Is
b. Are
c. does
d. do
43. Joe didn’t ____the dinner because he fell asleep.
a. finished
b. finishing
c. finishes
d. finish
44. Abril eats ____ rice, but she doesn’t like tomatoes
a. much
b. many
c. a lot of
d. a
45. My professor always ________ very slowly.
a. Speak
b. is speaking
c. speaks
d. speaking

46. I'm sorry, Angela can't come to the phone - she ________ a shower.
a. is taking
b. takes
 c. take
d. taking

47. You spoke to her on Monday? What ________?

a. did she said
b. has she said
c. did she say
d. has she say

48. I usually ________ to rock music.

a. listen
b. am listening
c. is listening
d. listens

49. What will you do next year?

a. I finished school
b. I will finish school
c. I will finished school
d. I finish school.

50. What is your sister going to do before ________?

a. started class
b. she’s starting class
c. starting class
d. she started class

52. Sarah will take the train if the bus doesn't come.

a. What will doesn't Sarah do if the bus come?

b. What Sarah do if the bus does come?
c. What will Sarah do if the bus doesn't come?
d. What will Sarah do if the bus does come?

53. There aren't enough chairs for everyone,

e. We there?
f. Are there?
g. is there?
h. They there?

54. If I ____the chance, I’d spend year or two in Canada. My French would improve a lot.

a. Have
b. had
c. would have
d. am going to have

55. No, ____ a student of administration

a. I’m not
b. You are
c. I don´t
 d. I do

56. I ____ in Oxford. I'm on holidays here.

e. lives
f. live
g. am
h. life

57. Hello. My name is Hugh ____ a student?

a. Are you
b. Do you
c. Does he
d. Do thery

58. Is Susan writing a poem?

a. No, she is not.

b. Yes, she does
c. No, she does
d. Yes, she it

59. What are you doing?

a. They’re studying English

b. We’re studying English
c. I'm studying English
d. You're studying English.

60. What are you going to do?

a. I'm sleeping.
b. I'm going to sleep.
c. I’m should to sleep
d. I´m could to slepp

61. Did Sam go to work yesterday?

a. Yes, he did
b. Yes, she did
c. No, you didn’t
d. Yes, you did

62. Where did you go on you holidays?

a. Yes , I from Paris

b. I want to go to Berlin
c. I have to Tokio
d. I was in Berlin

63. Did you watch TV last night?

e. Yes, we did
 f. Yes, she did
g. Yes, he did
h. Yes, he is

64. When did you visit your aunt?

a. Last month
b. Next month
c. Ever
d. Never

65. You can offend friends by not _____ their last names

a. Remember
b. Have remembered
c. Remembered
d. Remembering

66. Sofia _____ went out yesterday, but he sleep.

a. is supposed to
b. had to
c. was supposed to
d. is not supposed to

67. My brother’s bother is having his dog _____ to another veterinary so he can heal

a. sending
b. sent
c. to send
d. sends

68. I’m very upset with Betty. He should not _______to me that way

a. had spoken
b. have spoken
c. spoke
d. speaks

69. If I had traveled to Paris, I probably _____ more chances learn French.
a. am having
b. had
c. would have had
d. would have

70. Many animals continue to disappear ____ that humanity cares to take care of it
a. because of
b. due to
c. in spite of
d. instead of