Reading Practice Test 3 [B1]

Part 1

 – 5 questions –

For each question, choose the correct answer.

1.

2. Passengers are asked to make sure

3. What does Gina want Susie to do?

4.

5.

Part 2

 – 5 questions –

For each question, choose the correct answer.

The people below all want to do a course.
Look at the descriptions of eight courses.
Decide which course would be most suitable for each person.

Part 3

– 5 questions –

Read the text and questions below. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D.

NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL

Notting Hill Carnival takes place in London every August bank holiday. It is the most colourful and largest street event in the UK. The festival celebrates the traditions of the Afro-Caribbean community, who emigrated to England from the West Indies in the 1950s. They brought the Caribbean idea of the carnival with colourful costumes, processions, steel bands, and street dancing. Preparations for the carnival start many months in advance. Costumes need to be made and floats built, ready for the carnival street procession. Steel bands practise traditional Caribbean music on instruments built from used oil barrels. Just before the festival, the streets are decorated with yellow, green, and red streamers, and amplifying devices are set in place, to carry the rhythmic sounds over the roar of the London traffic. The carnival is celebrated for more than three days and is full of music and colour. Processions of steel and brass bands, floats, and dancers in colourful costumes make their way through the narrow London streets, watched by tens of thousands of people. The streets are lined with stalls selling tropical fruits, such as fresh mangoes, watermelons, and pineapple. Everyone dances – young and old, black and white – and even the policemen on duty take part in the fun. For these three days in August, a little Caribbean magic touches the streets of London.

1. What is the writer’s main aim in writing the text?

2. According to the passage, Notting Hill Carnival …

3. During the Notting Hill Carnival,

4. The writer claims that

5. Although the carnival is a celebration of the traditions of black British …

Part 4

-5 questions-

Five sentences have been removed from the text below. For each question (1-5), choose the correct answer (A-H).
There are three extra sentences which you do not need to use.

Part 5

– 6 questions –

Read the text below and choose the correct word (A, B, C or D) for each space.

Where Were LOGO Bricks Invented?

In 1932, a carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen started a company in Billund, Denmark, that (1) … wood stepladders, ironing boards, and toys. He named the company LEGO, a word (2) … by combining the first two letters of leg and godt, the Danish word (3) … “play well.” Soon, Kristiansen was making only high-quality toys out of wood.

After World War II, LEGO started producing plastic toys. In 1949, the company launched Automatic Binding Bricks, its first interlocking construction blocks. In the 1950s, the name was changed to LEGO bricks, and the company came out with the LEGO System of Play, which included 28 sets and 8 vehicles. It (4) … began selling the toys (5) … of Denmark for the first time. In 1958, LEGO received a patent for the modern bricks so famous today. The new bricks not only had studs on top, but tubes inside that lock onto the studs of (6) … bricks and hold them securely together.

(1) …

(2) …

(3) …

(4) …

(5) …

(6) …

Part 6

-6 questions-

For each question, write the correct answer. Use only one word in each gap.