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THE CAE CHECK-UP TEST

If you wish to check your English level to make sure that the CAE1 is the right examination for you, please have a try at this three-part check-up test. After your answers have been processed, you will receive detailed information about the methodology and tuition fees, together with best advice and recommendations about your various options.
Please complete the three parts of the test and also the personal information section.

PART 1

CHOOSE A SUITABLE WORD OR WORDS TO FILL THE SPACES.

1. IF YOUR ACCOUNT STAYS IN THE . . . . . . . . . . YOU WILL NOT BE FACED WITH BANK CHARGES.

BANK BRANCH BLACK BALANCE

2. I'M SORRY FOR BEING LATE, I . . . . . . . . FIND A PLACE TO PARK.

CAN'T DIDN'T AM UNABLE TO COULDN'T

3. RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT EATING . . . . . . . . FISH REDUCES THE RISK OF HEART ATTACK IN MEN.

RAW RARE RED RIGHT

4. AS . . . . . . . . . . AS A KITTEN.

WILD WISE WEAK WANTON

5. I CAN'T . . . . . . . . . . CONTEMPORARY MUSIC; IT'S JUST NOISE TO ME.

TAKE ON TAKE TO TAKE IN TAKE UP

6. ONE IN EVERY THREE ASSEMBLY- . . . . . . . . . . WORKERS WILL LOSE THEIR JOB.

LINK LANE LINE LIST

PART 2

COMPLETE THIS TEXT BY FILLING IN EACH SPACE WITH ONE OR MORE SUITABLE WORDS.

TO SOCRATES, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT CANNOT BE RIGHT.
"SUPPOSE", HE ARGUES, "THE CONDITIONS SHIP ARE AS FOLLOWS. THE CAPTAIN IS THE STRONGEST MEMBER OF THE BUT HE'S HARD OF HEARING, NEEDS SPECTACLES, AND NEEDS TO UPDATE HIS SEAMANSHIP. THE SAILORS ARE CONSTANTLY ARGUING ABOUT WHO SHOULD NAVIGATE; WHO SHOULD BE AT THE HELM. NONE ANYTHING ABOUT NAVIGATION AND EACH BELIEVES THEY ARE AS QUALIFIED AS ANY OTHER. NEVERTHELESS, TRY AS THEY MAY, THEY CAN'T GET THE CAPTAIN TO BUDGE.
"THEY INTO DIFFERENT GROUPS, BUT IF ONE OF THESE SUCCEEDS IT WILL, IN ALL PROBABILITY, FACE BEING UPON BY THE OTHERS, DEPOSED, AND THROWN OVERBOARD. , AN INDIVIDUAL EMERGES WHO IS ABLE TO HANDLE THE CAPTAIN BY FAIR MEANS OR FOUL.
"THIS MAN IS PRAISED FOR HIS WISDOM AND HIS SEAMANSHIP, BY PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST THAT A REAL NAVIGATOR WILL NEED OF THE SEASONS, THE SKY, THE SUN, THE STARS, THE WIND, AND MANY MORE THINGS OF , IF HE IS TO CONTROL THE SHIP SAFELY.
"HOWEVER, THEY NOT OF SUCH SKILLS." AND, ASKS SOCRATES, "AREN'T THESE SAILORS LIKELY TO VIEW A TRUE NAVIGATOR AS A WINDBAG AND ROMANCER, AND SOMEONE OF NO POSSIBLE USE IN ANY CONCEIVABLE SITUATION?"

(Adapted from Plato, Republic, 488a-e.)

PART 3

WRITE ABOUT 250 WORDS SAYING WHY YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH SOCRATES.

FINALLY, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS PRIVATE QUESTIONNAIRE:

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1 Certificate in Advanced English