Modelo 3 · B1 Preliminary: Reading completo (partes 1 a 6)
Tercer examen completo de Reading con el formato del B1 Preliminary: textos nuevos, las seis partes seguidas y treinta y dos preguntas. Se corrige solo aquí y te lo puedes descargar en PDF, con soluciones o sin ellas.
Parte 1 · Señales y mensajes cortos
Lee cada texto y elige lo que significa. Cinco preguntas, un punto cada una.
- 1. En una cafetería: Table service only. Please do not order at the counter.Hay que pedir en la barra.Solo se puede pedir para llevar.Hay que esperar a que te atiendan en la mesa.Esperar en la mesa. Table service es que te atienden en la mesa, y la segunda frase lo confirma prohibiendo pedir en la barra.
- 2. Mensaje: Marc, the meeting has moved to room 12. Same time. Do not go up to the third floor.La reunión es más tarde.La reunión se ha cancelado.La reunión es en otro sitio, a la misma hora.En otro sitio, a la misma hora. Same time descarta el cambio de hora, y lo del tercer piso es para que no se equivoque de sitio.
- 3. En un gimnasio: Please wipe the machines after use. Cloths are by the door.Hay que traer tu propia toalla.Hay que limpiar las máquinas al terminar.Las máquinas están rotas.Limpiarlas al terminar. Wipe es pasar un paño, y el cartel dice dónde están los paños, así que no hay que traerlos.
- 4. Aviso: Payment received. Your order will be sent when all items are in stock.El pedido se enviará cuando estén todos los artículos.Falta pagar algo.El pedido se ha enviado hoy.Cuando estén todos los artículos. El pago ya está hecho, pero el envío espera al in stock.
- 5. En una piscina municipal: Under-16s must be accompanied by an adult after 8 p.m.Después de las ocho, los menores de 16 tienen que ir con un adulto.La piscina cierra a las ocho.Los menores de 16 no pueden entrar.Con un adulto después de las ocho. Antes de esa hora pueden ir solos: la condición depende del horario.
Parte 2 · Multiple matching (cada persona, su club)
Elige el club que le va mejor a cada persona. Cinco preguntas, un punto cada una.
Five people want to start a sport. Below are eight clubs.
6 Nerea has never done any sport and does not want to be the worst one in a group of experts. She can only go on Saturday mornings.
7 Álex wants something indoors because of his allergies, and something where he does not depend on other people to train.
8 Rita is recovering from a knee operation and needs something with no impact. Her physiotherapist has to approve it.
9 Dani is competitive and wants to play matches, not just train. He is free two evenings a week.
10 Sara wants to bring her twelve-year-old son and do the same activity with him.
A Beginners running group. Saturday, 9 a.m. Nobody has run before. Nine weeks from zero to five kilometres.
B Indoor climbing. Open every day from seven. You can climb alone on the low wall. Ropes need a partner.
C Swimming for adults returning after injury. Sessions agreed with your physiotherapist. Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
D Five-a-side football league. Matches on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Teams of six. Some experience needed.
E Family badminton. Saturday afternoons. Adults and children from ten play together in pairs.
F Marathon training group. Saturday, 8 a.m. You should already run ten kilometres comfortably.
G Outdoor cycling club. Sunday mornings, forty kilometres, all weather.
H Yoga. Wednesday evenings. All levels, no equipment needed.
- 6. NereaABCDEFGHA. Sábado por la mañana y, sobre todo, nobody has run before: nadie será mejor que ella. F es el mismo día pero pide ya diez kilómetros.
- 7. ÁlexABCDEFGHB. Bajo techo, por las alergias, y puede escalar solo en el muro bajo, así que no depende de nadie. H también es indoor, pero es una clase con horario fijo.
- 8. RitaABCDEFGHC. Sin impacto, para recuperación, y con las sesiones acordadas con el fisio, que es la condición que ella pone.
- 9. DaniABCDEFGHD. Liga con partidos dos tardes por semana. Es el único donde se compite de verdad.
- 10. SaraABCDEFGHE. Adultos y niños desde diez años juegan juntos. Su hijo tiene doce, así que entra.
Parte 3 · Comprensión de un texto largo
Lee el texto y elige la mejor respuesta. Cinco preguntas, dos puntos cada una.
The woman who reads the sea
Marta Oubiña has worked as a mariscadora, gathering shellfish on the Galician coast, for twenty-six years. She left school at fifteen and says, without any false modesty, that she knows more about that beach than anybody alive.
Three years ago a university team arrived to study why the clam population was falling. They spent two seasons taking measurements. Marta told them in the first week where the problem was: a drainage pipe two kilometres up the coast that had been leaking since the winter storms. Nobody wrote it down.
The final report, published last year, identified the pipe. Marta was not mentioned in it. When a journalist asked her about this, she laughed and said that being right had never been the point; the point was that the pipe got fixed, and it did.
What has changed since is small but real. The same university now pays four mariscadoras to record what they see, every day, on a simple form. It costs almost nothing and it has already produced two warnings that the sensors missed.
Marta is fifty-eight and her daughter is not going to do this work. She says she does not blame her, and that in twenty years the beach will be studied by people with excellent degrees and no idea what it looked like in March.
- 11. What did Marta tell the university team?That the clams were fineWhere the problem was, in the first weekThat the study was uselessThat she wanted to be paidDónde estaba el problema, la primera semana. Y el texto añade la frase que duele: nobody wrote it down.
- 12. What did the final report say?It mentioned MartaIt identified the pipeIt blamed the weatherIt found no problemIdentificó la tubería, lo mismo que ella había dicho dos temporadas antes. Y no la mencionaba.
- 13. How did Marta react to not being mentioned?She complained to the universityShe wrote to the newspaperShe stopped workingShe laughed and said the point was that it got fixedSe rió y dijo que lo importante era que se arreglara. Cuidado: hablar con una periodista no es lo mismo que escribir al periódico.
- 14. What does the university do now?It has closed the beachIt has stopped the studyIt has installed more sensorsIt pays four mariscadoras to record what they seePaga a cuatro mariscadoras por anotar lo que ven, y ya han detectado dos avisos que los sensores no vieron.
- 15. What does Marta think will happen in twenty years?Her daughter will take overThe beach will be studied by people who never saw itThe university will leaveThe beach will disappearLa estudiará gente que no la ha visto. Lo dice con una imagen concreta: no sabrán cómo era en marzo.
Parte 4 · Gapped text (frases que faltan)
Escribe la letra de la frase que falta en cada hueco. Sobran tres letras. Cinco preguntas, dos puntos cada una.
Learning to say no
For years I said yes to everything at work. (16) It felt like the same thing at the time.
The first no was ridiculous. Somebody asked me to review a document that had nothing to do with my job, and I heard myself say that I could not do it that week. (17) Nothing at all happened.
What surprised me was the second part. (18) Two of them told me afterwards that they had assumed I enjoyed the extra work, which is the most depressing sentence anybody has said to me at an office.
I now have a rule that sounds childish and works. (19) If it is still a yes the next morning, it probably was one.
The only thing I would say to somebody starting out is that it gets easier, but not quickly. (20) It took me about a year to stop.
| Letra | Frase |
|---|---|
| A | I waited for the consequences for about three days. |
| B | I never say yes to anything on the same day I am asked. |
| C | People did not get angry; they simply asked somebody else. |
| D | I wanted to be useful, and I confused that with being available. |
| E | My manager noticed and asked whether everything was all right at home. |
| F | For the first few months I apologised every single time. |
| G | The work was interesting and the hours were reasonable. |
| H | Nobody ever thanked me for any of it. |
- Hueco 16: ___D. La frase de después dice it felt like the same thing, y ese the same thing necesita dos cosas delante que se confundan: ser útil y estar siempre disponible.
- Hueco 17: ___A. Después viene nothing at all happened, así que antes hace falta la espera de las consecuencias. Sin esa frase, el nothing happened no responde a nada.
- Hueco 18: ___C. El párrafo habla de cómo reaccionó la gente, y la frase siguiente empieza con two of them: ese them tiene que referirse a personas ya mencionadas.
- Hueco 19: ___B. Anuncia una regla que suena infantil, y B es la regla. La frase de después, sobre la mañana siguiente, solo tiene sentido si antes se ha dicho que no responde el mismo día.
- Hueco 20: ___F. It took me about a year to stop necesita algo que parar, y F lo da: pedir perdón cada vez. Cuidado con H, que encaja de tono pero no deja nada que parar.
Parte 5 · Multiple choice cloze
Elige la palabra que encaja en cada hueco. Seis preguntas, un punto cada una.
The bookshop on wheels
Nine villages in the province of Teruel have no shop of any kind. Since 2021 a van has visited them once a fortnight, and it does not (21) ___ food. It carries eight hundred books.
The driver, Elisa, chooses what goes in. She keeps a notebook with what each reader has (22) ___ , and admits that she sometimes brings a book she is sure somebody will like, even if they did not (23) ___ for it.
The van does not (24) ___ money. It is paid for by the province, and every year somebody asks whether it is worth it. The answer Elisa gives is not about reading. In several of those villages, she says, the fortnight is (25) ___ by the van: people come out, they talk, and then they go home. The books are the excuse.
Three villages on the route have fewer than twenty inhabitants. When the last one dies, the stop will (26) ___ , and Elisa says she thinks about that every time she drives away.
- 21. and it does not ___ foodsellspendcostbuysell. La furgoneta vende, o en este caso no vende. Buy sería lo que hace el cliente.
- 22. a notebook with what each reader has ___lentborrowedleftgivenborrowed. El lector coge prestado. Lend lo hace quien presta, que sería la furgoneta.
- 23. even if they did not ___ for itspeaktellsayaskask. Ask for something es pedir algo. Es el único de los cuatro que admite for con este sentido.
- 24. The van does not ___ moneywinearnmakedomake. Make money es dar beneficios. Earn se usa más para lo que gana una persona con su trabajo.
- 25. the fortnight is ___ by the vanbrokenseparatedcutdivideddivided. La quincena queda partida en dos por la visita. Cut y broken darían una idea de rotura, no de reparto.
- 26. the stop will ___escapevanishdisappearleavedisappear. Es la palabra neutra para algo que deja de existir. Vanish es más brusco, de desaparición repentina.
Parte 6 · Open cloze (una palabra en cada hueco)
Escribe UNA sola palabra en cada hueco. Seis preguntas, un punto cada una.
A message to a landlord
Dear Mr Prieto,
I am writing (27) the heating in the flat. It has not worked properly (28) the beginning of November, and it is now much colder.
I called the number you gave me twice, (29) nobody answered. I also sent a message on the tenth and I have not had a reply (30) .
Could you send somebody this week? I am at home every afternoon, (31) Thursday. If you need me to be there in the morning, tell me and I will arrange it.
Thank you (32) your help.
Yours sincerely,
Nadia Ferrer
- 27. I am writing ___ the heatingabout. Write about something es escribir sobre un tema. Con for estarías diciendo para qué escribes, y detrás iría un verbo.
- 28. It has not worked properly ___ the beginning of Novembersince. Marca el punto de partida de un periodo que sigue abierto, y por eso el verbo va en present perfect.
- 29. I called the number twice, ___ nobody answeredbut. Contraste entre lo que hizo y el resultado. Con and se perdería la queja, que es el tono de toda la carta.
- 30. I have not had a reply ___yet. En negativo y al final de la frase: todavía no. Still iría delante del verbo y en otro orden.
- 31. I am at home every afternoon, ___ Thursdayexcept. Introduce la excepción. Apart from valdría igual, pero son dos palabras y el hueco pide una.
- 32. Thank you ___ your helpfor. Thank you for siempre. Es de los huecos que hay que dar por regalados en esta parte.
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