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International Certificate in Financial English [ICFE]

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THE FCE CHECK-UP TEST

If wish to check your English level to make sure that the FCE1 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. DURING HIS SUCCESSFUL 1911 . . . . . . . . . . , AMUNDSEN REACHED THE SOUTH POLE.

EXCURSION EXHIBITION EXTRADITION EXPEDITION

2. THE KETTLE WON'T BOIL UNLESS YOU . . . . . . . . . . IT IN.

PLAICE PLUG PLUMB PLACE

3. WHATEVER'S THE MATTER? YOU LOOK AS IF YOU'VE SEEN A . . . . . . . . . . .

GHOUL GHOST GOBLIN GOPHER

4. I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THIS NEW CONTRACT; I CAN . . . . . . . . . . A RAT.

SMELL SEE SENSE SCENT

5. COULD YOU . . . . . . . . . . THAT OLD TABLE? I NEED SOME MORE FIREWOOD.

BREAK DOWN BREAK OFF BREAK UP BREAK OPEN

6. I REGRET . . . . . . . . . . YOU THAT YOUR APPLICATION HAS BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.

BY INFORMING INFORMING FOR INFORMING TO INFORM

PART 2

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

FOR AS AS I CAN REMEMBER, I HAVE FEARED HEIGHTS. ONCE, WHEN I WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN, I WENT ONTO THE ROOF, TO HELP MY OLDER BROTHER CARRY A REPAIR. AFTER I HAD GOT UP THERE, I FROZE AND COULDN'T GET DOWN. MY PARENTS HAD TO CALL THE -BRIGADE. THEY RESCUED ME, WHILE A CROWD OF ABOUT TWENTY ONLOOKERS ADVICE AND ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE STREET BELOW.
TIME, I WATCHED LIVE TELEVISION COVERAGE OF A TEAM OF AMATEUR ROCK CLIMBERS SCALING THE EIFFEL TOWER IN THE RAIN! WHEN THEY FINALLY HAD TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE THIRD LEVEL, LIKE SO MANY FLIES CRAWLING ON A CEILING, I COULDN'T WATCH ANY FURTHER.
AWARE THAT I HAVE NO HOPE OF CONQUERING THIS PHOBIA, I NOW EVERY SITUATION LIKELY TO EXPOSE ME TO IT; NO MORE JOURNEYS BY PLANE, NO HILL CLIMBING, NO WINDOW-CLEANING.
ACCORDING TO HOW YOU SEE IT, I SUPPOSE IT HAS ITS .

PART 3

USE THIS SPACE TO WRITE ABOUT 150 WORDS ABOUT YOUR PHOBIA.

FINALLY, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS PRIVATE QUESTIONNAIRE:

First name

Family name

Date of birth

Gender

Nationality

Postal address

email address

Telephone number

Occupation

Interests

When do you plan to sit the FCE exam?

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When you have finished, please click the SUBMIT button to send your message to Oxford.

1 First Certificate in English