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B1+ LEVEL TEST

1- Complete with the correct conditional.

1. I __________ (take) an umbrella in case it _________ (rain).


2. If Tim __________ (get) injured, he would have played in the final.
3. I wouldn’t have a car if I __________ (not live) in the country.
4. Millie didn’t have enough money so she didn’t buy the top. She __________ the top if she ___________
enough money.

2- Complete using a reporting verb from the list and the correct form of the verb in brackets. There is an
extra one you do not need to use.
ask – offer – promise – recommend – remind – suggest
1. Ryan said, ‘Let’s go for a walk. It’s a beautiful day.’
Ryan ___________________________________________________________ (go) for a walk.
2. Diana said to me, ‘I’ll take you to the station.’
Diana ____________________________________________________ (take) me to the station.
3. Ricky said. ‘I’ll never do it again’
Ricky ____________________________________________________________(do) it again.

3- Rewrite the sentences in the passive, without the agent.


1. The police caught the burglar immediately. à The burglar _____________________________
2. Somebody has stolen my handbag à My handbag ____________________________________
3. They are painting my house à My house____________________________________________
4. They’ll hold a meeting tomorrow à A meeting _____________________________________

4- Join the sentences with a relative pronoun. Be careful with punctuation.


1. I’ve just failed my driving test. It’s a pity. ___________________________________________
2. His girlfriend is very intelligent. She’s an architect. ____________________________________
3. They gave us a present. This was a complete surprise.__________________________________

READING: (100 points)

1- Read and complete the texts with the missing sentences:


a. Students read and memorized texts for years
b. a development that probably started in Africa around 2.5 million years ago
c. Seeing the success of his method
d. When you hunt
e. This new type of learning became the foundation of modern education
f. We wouldn’t have become the most imaginative
g. Meat gives you fats and proteins that you can’t get with other food
h. developed a fast method to teach Latin

Learning to eat meat


Humans are badly designed animals. We are slow, we have weak teeth, and we don’t have tails. That’s why we
need something extra to match other animals. And that’s why eating meat, _____ became so important. ______
But more importantly, meat-eating led to hunting, and hunting helped to develop our imaginations.______, you
need to see what’s behind the next tree or over the next hill.____ - and the most intelligent - of the animals if
we had continued eating only plants.

Teaching people to read


Until the end of the twelfth century, Latin was very difficult to learn._____. Then a Frenchman called Alexander
Villedieu _____: he used simple rules and wrote them in verse so the students could remember them more
easily._____, Alexander wrote a grammar book, Doctrinale published in France in 1199. It became a bestseller
and spread quickly through Europe, and started a great literacy movement._____. If he hadn’t written
Doctrinale, education would probably have remained the same for hundred years.

1- Listen to the conversation and answer the questions:

1. What is the name of the restaurant?

2. Where is it?

3. What time is the early dinner?

4. How much is it?

5. How much is the late dinner?

6. What are the typical dishes?

7. What is the dish called ‘Bastilla’?

8. What is the phone number?

WRITING: (100 points)

Write a short essay. What if…?


Choose an important development in history: an invention, a discovery or an event.
Think about the world without this development. How would life be different? How would people’s ideas of actions
be different?

SPEAKING: Collaborative task (3 min):


- What do you think are the three most important events in history?
Discussion (4 min):
- Which decade do you think was good for film and music?
- What was one of the most memorable moments of the decade in which you grew up?
- Where things developing and getting better for your generation?
- Choose a period when you were a teenager. What did you listen to/watch/wear? How did it

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