Official ESL Placement Guide

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1. Read the following paragraph and then choose the best answer.*

Why does kindness have effects on our happiness? When you are kind and generous to others, you start to see yourself as a generous person, so it’s good for your self-perception. Plus, it helps you see yourself as interconnected to others, it makes you interpret other people’s behavior more charitably, and it relieves distress over other people’s misfortune—all things that are good for happiness. Perhaps the biggest happiness boost comes from the social consequences of kindness. When you help others, you might make new friends, or other people might appreciate what you’ve done, so they might reciprocate in your times of need. Helping others leads to a cascade of positive social consequences: Lots of good social things happen

when you are generous and kind to others, and many of these play a direct role in making us happier.

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2. Which one best describes your writing ability?*

a. I cannot write sentences in English.

b. I can write 5-10 sentences about my family.

c. I can write 10-20 sentences about how I felt when I first came to California.

d. I can write two paragraphs that compare and contrast living in the US to living in my home country.

e. I can write a two-page paper that supports my opinions on gun ownership.

3. How many years of education do you have in another country (not the US)?*

a. 0-6 years

b. 7 or more years

c. I have a college degree from another country

4. How often do you speak English at work, at school, or outside your home?*

a. almost never

b. sometimes

c. often

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