 TEST YOUR INGLESH QUIZ 2 How good are your English skills? This test checks your listening, reading, grammar, and vocabulary. All you have to do is fill in the blanks with the best answer. Ready to begin? Get out a piece of paper and number it from 1 to 21. In a moment, you will hear a passage written in English. Then you will see the text of that passage. It has been divided up into sentences. Every fifth word has been deleted from the text. Your task is to fill in the blanks with the missing words. Only one word per blank. Good luck. Listen as I read the passage. How technology is changing investigative reporting. News reporters are increasingly using technology tools to cover stories in new ways. One kind of news gathering is known as open source reporting. This is when reporters use publicly available materials to help them tell stories. These can include satellite images, video from mobile phones or security cameras, and social media information. The field of open source reporting is still very young. But some major news organizations have already created separate news teams to center on technology-based reporting methods. The New York Times newspaper has established an investigative reporting department that specializes in open source reporting. The Washington Post recently announced it was adding six people to a special video for N16. Ready for the quiz? Here it is. For the first two blanks you will have ten seconds. Write your answers on your paper. Ready? Begin. Next five blanks. Twenty-five seconds. Next three blanks. Fifteen seconds. Next five blanks. Twenty-five seconds. Next six blanks. Thirty seconds. Here is the whole passage. You have one minute to review and revise your answers. Okay, here are the answers. How technology is changing investigative reporting. This is the title. Here are the first answers to the blanks. News reporters are increasingly using technology to cover stories in new ways. Here's how you score it. If you have a perfect answer, you get two points. If you have an acceptable answer, you get one point. Next five blanks. One kind of news gathering is known as open source reporting. This is when reporters use publicly available materials to help them tell stories. Next three blanks. These can include satellite images, video from mobile phones or security cameras, and social media information. Next five blanks. The field of open source reporting is still very young, but some major news organizations have already created separate news teams to center on technology-based reporting methods. Next six blanks. The New York Times newspaper has established an investigative reporting department that specializes in open source reporting. The Washington Post recently announced it was adding six people to a special video forensics team. Here is the complete passage if you'd like to review it to check and see the words in context. Okay, let's calculate your score. How did you do on the test? Here's what your score means. If you got 42 points, that's perfect. Wow. That's nearly impossible. 38 to 41 is excellent. Great. Your top notch. 28 to 37, very good. Your English skills are quite high. 20 to 27, good. Not bad. Keep trying to improve. Hope that was helpful. If you liked this, please give us a thumbs up in the comments section below. Also, don't forget to subscribe to our channel to get more quizzes and information like this. Thanks for watching. If you have ideas for our next video, please let us know at the link below. Please check out our websites for more information and activities like these.