b1 level test test 1

1-5 Listen to an interview with an expert on road safety and mark the sentences from the most dangerous 1 to the least 5

Write 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the gap.

Speaking on the cellphone

Setting the GPS

Texting

The songs we listen in the car

Woman’s making up

1-5 Listen to the part of an interview with Dagmara and check your answers and mark the sentences T (True) or F (False).

1 When the movie company came to Krakow, Dagmara was working as a teacher.

2 She got a part-time job doing translations for them.

3 There was party at the hotel to celebrate Spielberg's birthday.

4 When she arrived, she was asked to interpret Spielberg's speech, because the interpreter was late.

5 Spielberg was very happy with the way she had done her job.

1 Because the pitch lights ........... down last week, the coach ........... the football match.

2 Have you finished answering all the questions ...........?

3 I am really hungry because I ........... anything since lunch. I ........... very busy today.

4 The movie ........... we saw last week won three awards.

5 Students ........... study hard get good grades.

6 Yuck! That was ........... cake I ever ate in my life!

7 I put my glasses ........... in my office, but I can’t remember exactly where.

8 I’m afraid to get on the roller coaster. I don’t think it’s ........... to get on.

9 Which usage of will has been used in this sentence?

Thomas is sick, so he won’t be in class today.

10 If we ........... hungry later, we ........... some pizzas.

11 What would you do if a millionaire ........... you a lot of money.

12 There are lots of things on the menu. You ........... order a hamburger.

13 If this hat is..........., where have you put ...........?

14 ........... at this sea is not allowed after sunset.

15 Jennifer wants ........... her friend in San Francisco next week.

16-20 Find the best word for the gap.

21-25 Find the best word for the gap.

26-30 Find the best word for the gap.

1-6 Read the text and put the correct question for the answer, Write a, b, c, d, e, f in the gap.

a As you got older, you continued to work. Is that right?

b What are the biggest problems you’ve faced in business?

c As a child, you were fairly entrepreneurial, weren’t you?

d When did you know you had made it?

e You’ve been homeless, haven’t you?

f Do memories of the streets motivate you?

FROM THE STREETS TO SUCCESS!

John DeJoria, an American billionaire businessman, owns several companies, including John Paul Mitchell Systems, a successful brand of hair products. However, DeJoria was not always wealthy. He was the second son of immigrant parents and grew up in a very poor area of Los Angeles, California. Before forming his hair product company with only $700, he was a street gang member for some of his youth, he then worked at low-paying jobs including encyclopedia salesman, janitor, and insurance salesman, and he was homeless twice. DeJoria's self-made rise is an inspiring story.

Questions:

1

My first job, at 9 years old, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. At 10 years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We got up at 4 o’clock a.m., folded the papers, and delivered them, and then got ready for school.

2

The job that was one of the most influential experiences you can imagine was door-to-door selling encyclopedias. Doors literally slam in your face—maybe 30, 40 doors before the first customer will actually talk to you and let you in.

3

Twice. Once, when I was about 22 years old. The other time was when I started John Paul Mitchell Systems in 1980. I wasn't getting along with my wife at the time. So I had left and had given her all the money. We had a backer for John Paul Mitchell Systems putting in a half-million dollars. That money was supposed to arrive that day. I never got a penny. So I just slept in my car. And I slept in my car for the first two weeks when I started the company. So we started with humble beginnings.

4

It sure makes you very appreciative of what you have in your life. Those who are homeless— like people with kids who are homeless— I really have a heart for. So I participate in a lot of charitable organizations that take the homeless off the streets.

5

The biggest problem is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 with a smile.

6

I was in business two years, and we were able to pay every single bill on time. We had a couple of thousand dollars in the bank—$4,000, to be exact. And we said, “ Man we made it; it’s all downhill now.” It was really hard. It took a couple years.

1-4 Read the text. There are four sentences removed from the text. Find them. Write a, b, c, d in the gap .

A In fact, the four most talkative people in the study were all men.

B that silence is golden.

C and the total number of words they used during the day was then counted.

D “a woman uses about 20,000 words per day, whereas a man uses about 7,000.”

Men talk just as much as women. Can it really be true?

Research by psychologists at the University of Arizona has shown that the stereotype that women talk more than men may not be true. In the study, hundreds of college students were fitted with recorders, .

The results, published in the New Scientist, showed that women speak about 16,000 words a day and men speak only slightly fewer. Professor Matthias Mehl, who was in charge of the research, said that he and his colleagues had expected to find that women were more talkative.

However, they had been skeptical of the common belief that women use three times as many words as men. This idea became popular after the publication of a book called The Female Brain (2006) whose author, Louann Brizendine, claimed that .

Professor Mehl accepts that many people will find the results difficult to believe. However, he thinks that this research is important because the stereotype, that women talk too much and men keep quiet, is bad not only for women but also for men. “It says that to be a good male, it’s better not to talk - ”

1 How can human help endanger animals? (You have 60 seconds to talk)

2 Have you ever cooked a food?? How did you cook it? (You have 60 seconds to talk)

3 What will happen to people in car accidents? (You have 60 seconds to talk)

1 Write a paragraph or 2 about the following topic. (50 words)

(You have 7 minutes to write)

What natural disasters are very common in your country? Have you experienced one in your life?