Name _______________________________________

B1+ Unit test 1B

1  Listen and underline the two key words in 3 Complete the sentences with a word/phrase from
each sentence. the box and the correct form of the verb in
brackets.
1 I really like shopping for clothes on the internet.
2 Fabio buys all his music online. a lot in common in touch on well
3 The first thing to do is create an account. out up
4 I only check my emails once a day.
5 Sarah designs websites and she loves her job. 1 Nina is very popular so she
____________________ with everybody in her
2 points for each correct answer 10 language class. (get)
2 We try to ____________________ with our best
2  Listen to two friends talking about
friends every weekend to have dinner together.
smartphones. Are the underlined words key
(meet)
words? Choose ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
3 I ____________________ with my brother; he
Lucia Is that your new 1 smartphone? loves sport and music but I prefer reading and the
cinema. (have)
Jorge Yes, it is. Do you like it? 4 Pat is feeling sad because he
Lucia Yes, I do. It 2 looks great. Are you pleased ____________________ with his friend Raul. (fall)
with it? 5 Since my girlfriend has been away, I
____________________ with her every day by
Jorge Yes, I am. I absolutely love it!
email. (keep)
Lucia Why do 3 you like it so much?
2 points for each correct answer 10
Jorge Mainly because I can listen to 4 music on it
on my way to work.
Lucia I think I 5 might get one soon. I still have an
old-fashioned mobile.
1 Yes / No
2 Yes / No
3 Yes / No
4 Yes / No
5 Yes / No

2 points for each correct answer 10

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4 Choose the correct answer from the words in 5 Complete the sentences with the present simple,
italics. present continuous or present perfect form of
the verb in brackets.
1 Excuse me, but that bag belongs / is belonging to
me! 1 I ____________________ (know) Ahmet for three
2 We asked several people but none of them was years. We met when we were at school together.
knowing / knew where the post office was. 2 Tariq isn’t at home because he
3 Unfortunately, most local shops are / are being ____________________ (spend) all day at the
more expensive than supermarkets. beach and won’t be back until later.
3 Ana’s quite shy and so she
4 A How was your trip to Venice last month?
____________________ (not/like) loud people.
B It was fabulous! We really loved / were really
4 Our friend Yun travels a lot for his new job and
loving it!
____________________ (go) to eight different
5 If you think / are thinking about getting a new car, countries since he started.
you should take advice from someone first. 5 Some people ____________________ (talk) with
6 She bought the red shirt because the blue one didn’t their friends every day, even if it’s only through
feel / wasn’t feeling as comfortable to wear. social media sites.
7 I might be at the shops for most of tomorrow 6 Sorry, but you’ve missed Daniel – he
because I’ll be looking / look for some new shoes ____________________ (just/go) for lunch with
for work. his brother.
8 A Why didn’t you answer when I called you 7 Ellen ____________________ (call) last night to
earlier? say that unfortunately she can’t come to the cinema
B Sorry, I must have been studying and I didn’t tomorrow.
hear / wasn’t hearing the phone ring. 8 Piotr and Yulia had an argument yesterday and they
____________________ (not/speak) to each other
9 Doesn’t it seem / Isn’t it seeming unusual that no since.
one else has turned up for the meeting? 9 I ____________________ (not/meet) my colleague
10 If we owned / were owning a bigger house, I’d fill it Johanne because we only communicate through
with beautiful furniture! email so I don’t know what he looks like.
10 Fernando is at his French class. He
1 point for each correct answer 10
____________________ (learn) the language for
his trip to France next month.

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B1+ Unit test 1B

6 Read the article about meeting people on the or have any contact with her, but nearly seventy years
internet. Decide if the sentences are true (T) or later she received a friend request on Facebook …
false (F). If there is no information about this, from an eighty-four-year-old! After many years, Annie
choose ‘not given’ (NG). had finally managed to find her daughter by searching
the internet, and using the few details she knew about
Meeting again… on the internet! the family who had given her a new home. They have
For most people, the internet is part of our daily lives. now met several times and are in regular contact. The
There are so many things it can be used for; from lost letters cannot be replaced, but they can now talk
shopping online to studying for a degree, or about all the lost years.
researching your family history. But for some people, 1 The internet has helped thousands of people find
sites like Facebook or YouTube have had a much more lost friends and relatives.
dramatic effect. Here are the stories of two people T / F / NG
whose lives have been dramatically changed through 2 Tomoko has made a video to try to find her sister.
the power of the internet. T / F / NG
Tomoko’s story 3 It isn’t certain yet if Jade is Tomoko’s twin.
T / F / NG
Tomoko was one of two twin girls born in Tokyo in 4 Annie had been looking for her daughter for a long
1987, but separated at birth and adopted by two time.
different families. When she was four years old, T / F / NG
Tomoko moved with her new parents to Scotland. 5 Fiona found her real mother through reading a
Years later, while she was studying there at university, letter.
she received a strange phone call from one of her T / F / NG
friends. It turned out that he’d had seen a girl that he’d
thought was Tomoko on a YouTube video. The 2 points for each correct answer 10
similarities were astonishing, apart from the fact that
the other girl spoke with an Australian accent. When 7 Read the article again and complete the
Tomoko watched the video for herself, she was sentences. Use one, two or three words from the
amazed, and decided to find out more about this text for each answer.
intriguing ‘double’. She eventually discovered that
1 Tomoko has spent most of her life living in
Jade, the girl in the film, is a singer, and had recently
____________________.
moved to the United States. Like Tomoko, she had
2 The girl in the video looked like Tomoko but her
been born in Tokyo, on exactly the same day. The girls
____________________ was different.
finally met up in London a few months later, and
3 Jade travelled from ____________________ to
medical tests proved that they are actually sisters.
meet Tomoko.
Annie’s story 4 Fiona’s ____________________ didn’t let her read
Imagine meeting your daughter again after a gap of Annie’s letters.
sixty-eight years. Hard to believe, but that’s exactly 5 It wasn’t true that Annie wanted no
what happened to Annie Walberg from Connecticut, ____________________ with her daughter.
USA. Annie was only sixteen when she gave birth to
2 points for each correct answer 10
her precious daughter and was unable to keep her, so
one-day-old Fiona was given to another family in
1945. For the next twenty-five years, Annie wrote
hundreds of letters to the daughter she missed so badly,
but Fiona’s new family thought it was best not to pass
them on to her. Naturally, as she grew up, Fiona
assumed that her real mother didn’t want to know her

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B1+ Unit test 1B

9 Complete the sentences with the correct form of

8 Complete the dialogue between Boubacar (B)
the words from the box.
and Rosie (R) with words from the box.
EXAMPLE:
about According concerned
convinced far If people views I want to join a gym but the membership price is
What (x 2) £40 per month! That’s a lot of money!

able achieve communicate connect

B Hi, Rosie. What are you reading?
employ fit friend happy
R Oh, it’s an article about e-books. 1 __________ to inform member secure
recent research, sales are falling and traditional
books are becoming more popular again. 2 1 It can be difficult to keep a __________ going if
__________ are your 3 __________ on e-books? you live a long way from each other.
B 4
__________ you ask me, e-books are much more 2 Some people believe that money can buy
convenient. Who wants to carry lots of heavy __________, but for me it’s about good health and
books on holiday, for example? With an e-reader, the people you love.
you can have as many books as you like – that’s the 3 Karl hasn’t had a job for three months, so he’s
main reason why they’re so popular. 5 __________ learning a new language to help him find
6
do you think __________ that? __________.
4 Nearly all airports carry out a number of
R Good point, but some 7 __________ like the feel of __________ checks nowadays – apart from a
a book in their hands, and others say they can read passport check, your luggage will be examined and
more easily from a page than from a screen. X-rayed.
B As __________ as I’m __________ people like
8 9 5 A slow internet __________ is really annoying as it
that are just old-fashioned! Everyone needs to be can take ages to do anything.
able to read from a screen nowadays. 6 You’ll find your __________ levels improve if you
do regular exercise like walking or cycling.
R Well I’m 10 __________ that both traditional books
7 Margot’s __________ to type has improved a lot
and e-books will continue to be part of everyone’s
since she did an online course.
lives, so maybe we can have the best of both
8 Some older forms of __________, like writing
worlds.
letters, have largely been replaced by more modern
technology.
1 point for each correct answer 10
9 Hiro’s greatest __________ at school was coming
top of his year in maths.
10 You should find all the __________ you need in
this document, but let me know if you need more
help.

1 point for each correct answer 10

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B1+ Unit test 1B

10 Choose the correct option a–c to complete the

sentences.

1 Last week this shirt cost £12, but today it was

__________, so I only paid £6.
a bargain
b half-price
c deal

2 Why don’t you get this tablet? There’s a 20%

__________ on it at the moment.
a discount
b consumer
c purchase

3 Would you like me to help you carry your

__________? It looks heavy!
a special offer
b item
c shopping

4 They didn’t spend long in the shop as they only

needed four __________.
a deals
b purchasers
c items

5 Sadiq bought three books for the price of one –

what a __________!
a bargain
b customer
c consumer

2 points for each correct answer 10

Unit test 1B total 100

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