Colegio Santa Mónica

Institución Educativa Superior de Formación Integral Bilingüe

School Year 2019

English Practice Test I

Teacher. Mónica Reyes
April 2019

Student's name: _________________________________________________

Grade: _________________________________________________

FIRST PART
TYPING

A) Speed (50 points) (10 minutes)

Instructions: Copy the following text (10 minutes)

SECRETARIES IN SPECIALIZED AREAS

There are many fine opportunities for secretaries who are

interested in developing their skills and increasing their knowledge
in special areas.
Technical secretary. The secretary in the field of science
or engineering is a specialist in an environment of rapid change. One of
the requirements is that the technical secretary be
familiar with the technical vocabulary of whatever scientific or
engineering area is involved (synthetics, aerospace, electronics,
communications, or another area). The technical secretary should
be able to work under pressure, frequent deadlines may be routine.
She is generally more involved with processing words through memos, letters,
specifications, articles, and reports than is the general secretary.
Courses in technical secretarial training are offered
at the post-high school level in some communities. Most technical secretaries,
however, are trained by the companies that employ them.
Educational and service secretaries. The educational secretary,
who is employed in a school or university, and the service secretary, who is
employed in a church, charitable institution, or other
nonprofit association, have much in common. Both secretaries work
directly with and for large numbers of people as well as with
leading individuals in their fields. Both secretaries play
important roles as public relations representatives. And whether
involved with teachers and students or parishioners and social
workers, both secretaries are in service-related jobs. These
secretaries must be highly organized and must be able to remain
cool in the face of frequent interruptions from many different sources.
 Medical secretary may work for an individual physician or for
a group of physicians. Her place of employment may be a private
office, a clinic, a hospital, a medical clinic in a business or
industry, or in the office of a medical foundation. Depending on
her employer and on the place of employment, the medical secretary
has a variety of duties and responsibilities.

B) Dictation (25 points)

Instructions: Take and type the dictation from the teacher.

C) Technical part (25 points) (time 15 minutes)

Instructions: Perform the following task according to explanation given.

Macy's International Corporation has special sale this weekend and has kept
statistic of it. On a full sheet type a ruled tabulation using the following information.

TITTLE Macy's International Corp.

SUBTITTLE: Black Friday sales rates October 31st. 2018
COLUMN HEADINGS: DEPARTMENT/ FFRIDAY/
SATURDAY/ TOTAL
INFORMATION Women's clothing / $ 500.00 / $700.00/$1300.00
Books and movies / $750.00 / $200.00 / $950.00
Technology / $2000.00 / $5000.00 / $7000.00
Jewelry / $956.00 / $250.00 / $1200.00
Make up / $350.00 / $285.00 / $635.00

SECOND PART

SHORTHAND

Instructions : Dictation of two letters (2 minutes) (100 points)

1. 70 words a minute
2. 60 words a minute

Transcription time 20 minutes

 THIRD PART

BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE

A) Inquiry Letter
From: Universal Enterprises 21 South West Avenue, New York 12010. To: Travel
Agency 720 Grand Street Richmond, California 94805 Your are interested in a
summer vacation plan for your boss. Ask for complete details about places, prices,
form of payment, dates of the trip and any other information you think will be
necessary.

Full block style

Open punctuation

B) Replied to an inquiry letter

From: Guatemala Travel Agency. To: Universal Enterprises. Name and firm, Mr.
Carlos Paz. You are going to answer the previous letter informing all the questions
about a summer vacation plan; remember to think about you are going to get a
customer that could travel many times for business or vacation.

Full block style letter

Open punctuation

FOURTH PART
TRANSLATION
Instructions: Perform the task below.

A) Translate into Spanish the letter dictated in the shorthand part. 25 pts.
B) Translate into Spanish the dictation given in typing part 25 pts.
C) Translate into English the section below, given in Spanish 50 pts.

Hace más de 80 años, el Conde Rafael de La Cortina, famoso profesor de idiomas,

investigó todos los métodos conocidos para el estudio de idiomas, con el fin de
encontrar el "Método Natural" de aprender inglés rápidamente y con facilidad, pero
llegó a la conclusión de que tal método todavía no había sido descubierto y que
tendría que desarrollarlo él mismo. Trabajando en colaboración con el célebre
inventor Tomás A. Edison, el Conde de La Cortina utilizó el nuevo invento, el
fonógrafo, y reprodujo sus lecciones en fonogramas. El éxito de su nuevo método
de enseñanza de inglés fue tan rotundo, que su Academia de idiomas se hizo
famosa por todo el mundo.