BEC English Placement Test

This English Placement Test contains 75 questions:

Section Points

Grammar: 50 ( 30 minutes)

Reading: 15 (15 minutes)

Listening: 10 (15 minutes)

Your score will determine the proficiency level you possess, which will help BEC find a suitable course for you based on your level. Make sure you only complete what you think you know. If you do not know an answer, do not take any guesses. That will give us a more accurate picture of your current level.

Este Test de Nivelación contiene 75 preguntas:

Sección Puntos

Gramática: 50 ( 30 minutes)

Lectura: 15 (15 minutes)

Compresión auditiva: 10 (15 minutes)

Su puntaje determinará el nivel de dominio que posee, el cual ayudará a BEC a encontrar el curso apropiado para usted en base a su nivel. Asegúrese de completar solo lo que piensa que sabe. Si no sabe una respuesta, no trate de adivinar. Eso nos brindará un panorama más exacto de su nivel actual.

Below are three readings with missing words. Read and choose a missing word from the four options provided in the box.

Reading 1

It’s easy to (1) _____ an e-mail. You type it on to a computer screen, hit a button and off (2)_____ goes. But the speed of the process is also a problem. It doesn’t encourage (3)_____ to think much about what we write. As a result, e-mail messages are (4)_____ grammatically incorrect, disorganised and full of spelling and typing errors. Badly expressed ideas are more difficult to read. They can also cause expensive misunderstandings. Managers nowadays have to read enormous quantities of e-mails, and (5)_____ adds to the stress of their jobs.

Reading 2

A hard sell is often seen as (6)______ in Japan. Japanese business people may think that you are trying to convince them (7)______ your product is no good. It is better to use a low-key sale pitch and give them objective information. The Japanese are not accustomed to aggressive American techniques that use a persuasive ‘winning’ argument. (8)____ you are not completely honest about your product, your credibility will be damaged and what you say will lose influence. Don’t say that yours is ‘the best on the (9)______’. It is better to say, ‘We sold more than two million units last year. As you know our closest competitor sold (10)_____ than a million.’

Reading 3

Manchester United stopped being just a famous football team several years ago and became a highly successful multinational corporation. The words ‘football’ and ‘club’ were actually dropped from the players’ badges in 2000 in an effort to strengthen the corporate image. With a successful stock market (11) _________ in 1991 and a market value, according to City accountants Deloitte and Touche, of over £110m, Manchester United is as much a triumph of the media as of great soccer. ‘Top clubs have

(12) _________ on the back of Television contracts’, says Richard Baldwin of Deloitte and Touche. With this also comes merchandising. Manchester United’s megastore stocks 1,500 different items, is constantly packed, and merchandising (13) _________ as far away as Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney attract thousands of fans who couldn’t even tell you where Manchester is on the map. ‘United look and behave very much like a traditional business from a corporate point of view,’ says Nigel Hawkins, a financial analyst. ‘They have a strong (14)_________ and have worked to maximise it by bringing in good people.’ They certainly have. One sponsorship deal alone – with Vodaphone – (15)_________ Manchester £30 million.