B1 certification. March Reading and Writing

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1 B1 certification March 2016 B1 certification March 2016 Reading and Writing You have 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete both parts. Please keep your eyes on your exam only. Copying or cheating will result in automatic failure. Surname: Name:!1

2 B1 acreditacion Answer Sheet Name: Test ID: Reading Part 1 Reading Part 2 Reading Part

3 B1 certification March 2016 Part 1 Questions 1-10 Look at the sentences below about Easter Island. Read the text on the opposite page to decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, mark T (true) on your answer sheet. If it is not correct, mark F (false) on your answer sheet. 1. José Antonio Tuki made the statues. 2. The Easter Island statues are new constructions to attract tourists. 3. Today tourists arrive at Easter Island by boat as they did in the past. 4. There were far less permanent residents on Easter Island than tourists who visited in Today the statues are important for work on the island. 6. The statues on Easter Island have always been famous. 7. Scientists agree on how the statues reached their location. 8. Jared Diamond thinks that farmers on Easter Island planted a lot of trees. 9. Hunt and Lipo think small groups of people moved the statues. 10. It is important for José Tuki to know everything about the history of the island.!2

4 Easter Island B1 certification March 2016 On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, sat on Anakena beach and stared at the enormous human statues there the moai. These statues are from four feet tall to 33 feet tall. Some weigh more than 80 tons. They were made a long time ago, with stone tools, and then they were moved up to 11 miles to to the beah. Tuki looks at their faces and he feels a connection. This is something that was produced by my ancestors, he says. How did they do it? The first Polynesians arrived at Rapa Nui (Easter Island), probably by canoe, hundreds of years ago. The island is 2,150 miles west of South America and 1,300 miles east of its nearest inhabited neighbor, Pitcairn. Nowadays, 12 flights arrive every week from Chile, Peru and Tahiti. In 2011, 50,000 tourists- ten times the island s population- flew to Easter Island. Almost all of the jobs on Easter Island depend on tourism. And the tourists go there for only one thing: the moai. People around the world became curious about the statues after the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl made Easter Island famous, and there are different theories about how the statues were moved to the beach. Many researchers think the statues were pulled along the ground using rope and wood. Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond has suggested that many people were needed to build and move the moai. As a result, the island s trees were cut down for wood and to create farming land. This open land was fragile and it was soon eroded by the strong winds, so it was very difficult to grow food. The situation was an early example of an ecological disaster, according to Diamond. On the other hand, archaeologists Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii and Carl Lipo of California State University Long Beach have a more positive view of the island s history. They suggest that the inhabitants actually pioneered a type of sustainable farming they built thousands of circular stone walls and grew food inside them. And their theory about how the moai were moved is that they were walked along using a system of only ropes and a few people. As José Tuki contemplates these enormous statues, he doesn t mind that there are no definite answers about the history of his island. I want to know the truth, he says, but maybe knowing everything would take its power away.!3

5 B1 certification March 2016 Part 2 Questions Read the text and questions below. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. When we were 12. Bret Chrysler s latest idea for a TV documentary (When we were 12 Monday 8.00 pm) was, I m sure, a result of the huge success he d had with Now we are 80 last year. That was fresh and full of humour and the extraordinary men and women he found to tell stories were a delight to listen to. Chrysler didn t find it necessary to add anything to them. But during When we were 12, half the programme was taken up by old news films from the times, or computer imagery of, for example, the sinking of the Titanic. What the point of that was I ll never know. Too many directors nowadays seem to think that viewers will get bored watching people talking to the camera, telling their story. They feel the need to show some action. Well, I don t agree. Give me a good actor and /or a good story and I m happy. The stories and memories from the last night s programme were a mixture of the ordinary and the unusual. What was good was that you could learn a lot what the normal behaviour was at the time, how much an ice cream cost in 1930, what the attitude was to the opposite sex. It was in many ways a fascinating programme of social history. But then, just as I was enjoying the trip down memory lane, one of those irritating bits of news film interrupted. 11. What s the writer trying to do in the text? a) Give her opinion of the director. b) Compare this programme with previous ones. c) Explain why the programme was made. d) Describe some ways in which the programme failed.!4

6 12. How did the writer feel about Now we are 80? a) She thought something needed adding to it. b) She thought it was an excellent programme. c) She didn t like the old films that were in it. d) She felt it needed more action. B1 certification March What does the reader learn about the writer from the text? a) She doesn t get bored watching people telling their own stories. b) She doesn t like any of Bret Chrysler s work. c) She dislikes news films being shown on TV. d) She doesn t enjoy TV documentaries. 14. What did the writer enjoy about When we were 12? a) The details of everyday life. b) The action in many of the scenes. c) The use of modern technology. d) The good acting. 15. Which of these summaries in a TV guide best describes When we were 12? a) This programme brings together real people who, now in their 80s, look back at their lives when they were 12 years old. b) This programme looks at the world through the eyes of 12-year-old children from all over the world. It ll make you laugh and cry. c) Everyone will enjoy this entertaining and informative programme in which real people remember how the world was at different times during the last century. d) A 12-year-old gives a personal view of her life in the last century. The programme includes some amazing images of the Titanic s last moments.!5

7 B1 certification March 2016 Part 3 Questions Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, mark the letter next to the correct word A, B, C or D- on your answer sheet. THE WEATHER Clouds, rain, sunshine and wind - what (0) them? And why are they so important to people? The weather influences farming, fishing and every part of our daily life, and so we (16) to know in advance (17) it will be like. Weather forecasters try to (18) us with details of weather conditions for at (19) 24 hours ahead, and often for up to a week. To do this they depend (20) thousands of separate (21) of information about the weather, which are (22) from all over the world. However, the weather not only changes what we do every day, it can (23) change the way we feel. (24) example, the warm, dusty wind of the Mediterranean is famous for (25) people go crazy. And it s certain that we all feel better when it s sunny rather than when it s raining! 0 X causes B makes C does D gets 16 A must B can C should D need 17 A how B what C where D when 18 A give B show C provide D tell 19 A last B once C least D first 20 A on B with C at D from 21 A pieces B words C numbers D facts 22 A made B moved C told D collected 23 A again B also C too D so 24 A As B Per C For D By 25 A making B to make C putting D to put!6

8 B1 certification March 2016 Writing You must carefully follow all the instructions written on this page. If you do not, you will not pass the writing exam. Part 1 Some friends in Australia have just had a baby and you want to write to them. Write an to your friends. In your , you should: Congratulate them on their new baby Ask for a description of the baby Say what present you are going to send them Write words. Write your on the answer sheet. You must count all your words and write them on your answer sheet. Part 2 Write an answer to one of the questions (1 or 2) in this part. Write your answer in about 100 words. You can write a minimum of 90 words and a maximum of 110 words. You must count all your words and write them on your answer sheet. 1. This is part of a letter you receive from your penfriend. I need your help! My cousin s 16 th birthday is next month and I can t think of a present to give her. What do teenage girls like getting in your country? Please give me some ideas! Write a letter to your pen friend answering his or her questions. Write words. Write your letter on the answer sheet. OR 2. Write a story. You must begin the story with this title: A very strange week In order to write a story, you must include some kind of past tense (i.e. past simple, past continuous, past perfect etc.). If you do not know how to use these tenses properly nor know how to use connectors and other elements of a story, please write the letter (question 1).!7

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