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Leslie Silver International Faculty

School of Languages

PRE-ENTRY ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST 2

FOR

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

TEST 2

Student Name: ___________________________________________________

Proposed Course: ________________________________________

Contact Name/Admissions Tutor: ________________________________

Your e-mail: _________________________________________________

This test has 3 parts:

|Parts |Focus |Marks |

|Part 1 |Reading, Vocabulary and Grammar |(pass: 60) |

|Part 2 |Reading Comprehension |(pass: 18) |

|Part 3 |Writing |Pass ( Fail ( |

James Roy, Principal Lecturer, ELT,

School of Languages

Leslie Silver International Faculty

Part 1 Reading, Vocabulary and Grammar

Time: 60 minutes (recommended)

Task 1

There are 30 blank spaces in the text below. Read the text and for each blank space insert ONE appropriate word. The words you need are all ‘grammatical’: articles; verbs; prepositions; pronouns; conjunctions etc.

Total marks: 30 (1 mark per correct answer)

You should spend between about 10 minutes on this task.

Drafting and revising

Writing is difficult 1 ________ very few people 2 _________ the ability to write 3 __________ essay at one sitting 4 ____________ a form that 5 _____________ adequate. If you want 6 ___________ write well you should therefore 7 ____________ prepared 8 ________ write several drafts and 9 _________ read 10 __________ revise each carefully, trying as far 11 ___________ possible to undertake revisions objectively.

Unfortunately, 12 ____________ fact that writing involves mental 13...