Placement Test - TITC Indonesia™

First Name

Last Name

Structure and Written Expression

This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type

1. Ellen Swallow Richards became the first woman to enter, graduate from, and ___at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

teach

a Teacher

who taught

to teach

2. Coins last approximately twenty times ___ paper bills

longer

as long

long

longer than

3. It has been estimated that ___ species of animals

more than a million

it is a million or more

there are over a million

are over a million of

4. Dr. Seuss, ___ was Theodore Seuss Geisel, wrote and illustrated delightfully humorous books for children

his real name

who had as his real name

with his real name

whose real name

5. ___American landscape architects was Hideo Sasaki

The most famous one of

One of the most famous

Of the one most famous

The one most famous of

Reading Comprehension

This section contains several passages, each followed by a number of questions. Read the passages and, for each question, choose the one best answer—(A), (B), (C), or (D)—based on what is stated in the passage or on what can be inferred from the passage. Then fill in the space on your answer sheet that matches the letter of the answer that you have selected

To date, Canada has produced only one classic children’s tale to rank with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the works of Mark Twain; this was Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clinton, Prince Edward Island. Her mother died soon after her birth, and when her father went to Saskatchewan to assume a business position, she moved in with her grandparents in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. There she went to school, and later qualified to be a teacher.

Montgomery wrote the Anne books while living in Cavendish and helping her grandmother at the post office. The first of the books, Anne of Green Gables, was published in 1908, and in the next three years she wrote two sequels. Like Montgomery, the heroine of the book is taken in by an elderly couple who live in the fictional town of Avonlea, and Montgomery incorporated many events from her life in Cavendish into the Anne books.

In 1911, Montgomery married Ewan MacDonald, and the couple soon moved to Ontario, where she wrote many other books. However, it was her first efforts that secured her prominence, and the Anne books are still read all around the world. Her novels have helped create a warm picture of Prince Edward Island’s special character. Several movies, a television series, and a musical play have been based on her tales, and today visitors scour the island for locations described in the book

1. The main purpose of this passage is to

introduce Montgomery and her Anne books

contrast Canadian children’s literature with that of other countries

provide a brief introduction to Prince Edward Island

show the similarities between Montgomery’s life and that of her fictional character Anne

2. The word “this” in line 3 refers to

Canada

the work of Mark Twain

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

a Canadian children’s classic

3. According to the passage, Montgomery was raised primarily

in an orphanage

by her grandparents

by her mother

by her father

4. Approximately when did Lucy Maud Montgomery write the two sequels to her book Anne of Green Gables?

From 1874 to 1908

From 1908 to 1911

From 1911 to 1913

From 1913 to 1918

5. The word “elderly” in line 13 is closest in meaning to

Kindly

Old

Friendly

Sly