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CERTIFICACIN DE NIVEL - INGLS B1

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PART 1: COMPOSITION
Write an answer to EACH of the questions below. Use between 100 and 120 words in
an appropriate style for each of the tasks.
1. This is part of an email you receive from a friend. Read the email and answer
the questions.

Im going on holiday next week I cant wait! Were going to Lisbon

for two weeks so we can visit the beach as well as the monuments
and museums. Were also going to go to Sintra because the scenery
is amazing, and my mum wants to do a lot of shopping of course!
What are your holiday plans this year? Are you doing something
different or going to the same place you normally go to? Do you go
on holiday with your family, or with your friends? Write and tell me
your plans, and Ill send you a postcard of course!

Write your email.

2. Your teacher has asked you to write a story. It must begin with the sentence:
They couldnt believe what they saw when they opened the door.
Write your story.

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PART 2: READING COMPREHENSION/USE OF ENGLISH

Question 1
Look at the text in each question (1-5), what does it say? Mark the correct letter, A, B,
or C for each question.

WESTWOOD
COLLEGE CANTEEN
Staff and students
0 A Students can get their ID cards at the canteen.
B Staff must bring their ID cards if they want to us cannot use the canteen
canteen.
the canteen.
without ID cards.

Example

C Students need to show staff their ID cards.

Answer:

1. Jennie has to
A
B
C

ask another garage to fit her tyres.

arrange a time for the garage to fit the new tyres.
collect the new tyres from the garage.

2. What does Mrs. Swallow want to do today?

A
B
C

3. A
B
C

repair damage done to the library.

discover how a window got broken.
find out who uses the library.

The owner of a computer game that is

for sale has never used it.
The computer game is for sale because
the owner is too old for it.
The person selling the computer game
no longer wants to sell it.

Jennie,
The garage rang your new
tyres have arrived. They
cant fit them until next
week. Please let them know
today which day will be
convenient.

Would anyone who knows

anything about the damaged
window in the school library
please report to my office
before the end of the day?
Mrs. Swallow

FOR SALE
Gremlins Computer Game
(ages 8 and above)
Unwanted gift box
unopened
Tel: 282137

4. A
B
C

There is a charge for internet access

at weekends.
Students must always pay to use the
internet in the afternoons.
It doesnt cost anything to use the internet
on weekday mornings.

5. Linda regrets that she

A
B
C

didnt recognise her tennis hero from

his photo.
couldnt climb high enough to photograph
her tennis hero.
didnt have her photograph taken
with her tennis hero.

Students have free Internet

access until 1 pm on
weekdays and all day at
weekends

Guess who I met on this

mountain! My tennis
hero Andy Murray! I
was breathless
because of the climb,
so unfortunately
couldnt speak to ask
him for a photo of us
together.
Linda.

Question 2
For questions 6-15 look at the sentences below about a film-making competition. Read
the text on the opposite page to decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect.
If it is correct mark T (true), if it is incorrect, mark F (false). Here is an example.
EXAMPLE

Enzio Coccia is the creator of ultra pizzas.

__ T__

Naples chefs take sides in the ultra pizza wars

In Naples, the birthplace of the margherita, there is much discussion over
the addition of stilton cheese, port and even liquorice

Enzo Coccia seems evangelical while he discusses his spring pizza with lots of asparagus,
buffalo mozzarella, sheeps cheese, butter and beans. They may say I am a heretic, but I
just want to experiment, says the controversial maker of what people call gourmet or ultra
pizzas.
The fashion for ultra pizzas has spread throughout Italy. But as Coccia is constantly
reminded, this is Naples, the home of the tomato and mozzarella margherita. Since opening

in 2010, Coccias restaurant, La Notizia, has led an army of angry traditionalists to express
their contempt for Coccias strange combination of salt cod and mozzarella, his use of figs
and pesto and his 25 truffle oil pizza. His innovative ideas has divided a city.
There is no such thing as gourmet pizza. We are not OK with this, said Sergio Miccu, head
of the Neapolitan Association of Pizza Makers, which has got EU certification for the
margherita and another Neapolitan standard, the tomato, garlic and oregano marinara.
Pizza was born as a food for the poor and any complicated pizza loses its identity, he
added. To prove his point, Miccu listed the elements that make the perfect and now
Brussels-patented margherita: a 33cm diameter, 23cm high crust, San Marzano
tomatoes, cows milk mozzarella from the region of Campania and olive oil, all cooked in a
wood oven after the dough has risen for nine hours.
But a growing number of pizza makers, from all around Italy, are being even more
innovative. They are following the example of a Rome restaurant, La Gatta Mangiona, which
has experimented with duck and asparagus, and steamed chestnut and mushroom pizzas.
In a country that normally uses simple ingredients and traditional recipes, pizza makers are
now attempting stilton and port pizzas, as well as shrimp, saffron and liquorice pizzas.
What makes Coccia different is that he has dared to open for business in the town where
pizza was first made popular. It was in Naples, in 1889, that a pizza maker named his new
mozzarella, tomato and basil pizza which give the white, red and green of the Italian flag
after Margherita of Savoy.
Napless pizzas got further promotion from the 1954 Italian comedy, The Gold of Naples,
with Sofia Loren. Five decades on, Starita, the local restaurant which prepared her for the
role, is still popular.
I am completely against these gourmet pizzas a pizza restaurant must be quick and cheap
and make at least 400 pizzas a night, said Antonio Starita, 70, whose grandfather opened
the restaurant in 1901.
I have seen cream being used, and it doesnt get worse than that, he added, while making
pizza dough.

At Di Matteo on Via Dei Tribunali in the heart of Naples, where 600 pizzas are served a day
and a margherita costs 3, the owner, Salvatore di Matteo, rejected the fashion for ultrapizzas. For me, he said, gourmet means talking about what you eat.
A third of Di Matteos business is folded and fried pizzas typically stuffed with ricotta,
provola cheese and cicoli, a local type of pancetta. For Neapolitans, he said, it is even more
of a tradition than the margherita. Fried pizza was bigger than oven-baked pizza in Naples
until the 1950s. It needs good oil and a pizza maker who can tell the oils temperature just by
looking at it its such a hard technique that it hasnt become popular outside Naples, he
said.
For food expert Davide Paolini, the new gourmet pizzas can be great, but its no longer
pizza. He did, however, praise the work of the new pizza chefs in perfecting the dough
base. Gourmet pizza makers are doing serious research on flours and methods of raising
the dough, particularly Enzo Coccia, he said.
While his ingredients may not be so popular in Naples, Coccias light, perfectly baked pizza
bases are winning praise from his peers. After a long nights baking, he still has the energy to

describe the perfect mix of humidity, volume and temperature for raising dough. This hasnt
changed much since the Greeks, but we are always looking to improve things, he said.
At a second restaurant on the same street his menu is strictly traditional. As for the
ingredients in his gourmet business, some may be unusual but all are local. I did a fried
pizza with mussels and pancetta based on my grandmothers skewers of mussels and
pancetta, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs then fried, he said. If I am innovating, it is only
because I know the traditions.
Adapted from an article first published in Guardian News & Media 2011

6. Everyone in Naples thinks the restaurant, La Notizia, is a good idea.

7. Sergio Miccu is the leader of a pizza association in Naples.
8. Pizza was originally a food intended for poor people.
9. La Gatta Mangiona is a chain of restaurants found all over Italy.
10. Pizza was invented in Naples in 1889.
11. Antonio Starita says a good pizza restaurant should be quick and economical.
12. Fried pizza is the second most popular type of pizza in Italy.
13. Davide Paolini doesnt believe gourmet pizzas should be called pizzas.
14. Other chefs believe Coccias cooking, especially his pizza base, is excellent.
15. One of Coccias pizzas uses a recipe of his grandmother.

Question 3
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space in questions 1-10 (A,
B, C or D). There is an example at the beginning.
EXAMPLE
ANSWER

A of

B for

C with

D to

__ A__

Scientists are accused (0) ___ distorting theory of human evolution by

misdating bones

It is (1) ___ world's biggest finding of human fossils and the (2) ___ important palaeontology site
in Europe: a subterranean chamber at the bottom of a 50ft tunnel in the deepest part of the
Atapuerca cavern (3) ___ northern Spain. Dozens of ancient skeletons have been found.
La Sima de los Huesos the Pit of Bones (4) ___ been designated a Unesco world heritage
site because of (5) ___ importance to understanding evolution, and millions of euros, donated
by the EU, have been spent constructing a museum of human antiquity in nearby Burgos.
But Britain's leading expert (6) ___ human evolution, Professor Chris Stringer, of the Natural
History Museum, has warned in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology that the team in charge
of La Sima has got the ages of its fossils wrong (7) ___ 200,000 years and has incorrectly
identified the species of ancient humans found there.

Instead of being a 600,000-year-old final resting place of a species called Homo

heidelbergensis, he believes the pit is filled with Neanderthal remains that are no more (8) ___
400,000 years old. The difference in interpretation has very significant implications for
understanding human evolution.
"The Atapuerca finds are hugely important," said Stringer. "(9) ___ is no other site like it in terms
of the numbers of bones and skulls of our ancient predecessors. It is the world's biggest
collection of ancient human fossils and the team there has done a magnificent job in excavating
the site. (10) ___, if we cannot correctly fix the age and identity of the remains then we are in
trouble. Getting that wrong even affects how we construct our own evolution."

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Part 2
Questions 11 15. Here are some sentences about a new cinema. For each sentence,
complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use no more
than three words. There is an example at the beginning.
EXAMPLE

The new cinema has 12 screens.

You ___ can watch ___ films on 12 screens in the new
cinema.

11.

You can buy popcorn and fizzy drinks from the concession stand.
Popcorn and fizzy drinks ___________________________________
from the concession stand.

12.

Alex and David have arranged to go to the cinema this week.

Alex and David are ___________________________________ to the
cinema this week.

13.

On Wednesdays there is a special offer for students, said Alex.

Alex ___________________________________ a special offer for
students on Wednesdays.

14.

There are showings at midnight on Tuesdays and Fridays.

There are late showings _________________________________
week.

15.

Alex wants to see The Dark Knight Rising because he loves comic book
adaptations.
Alex _____________________________________ seeing The Dark
Knight Rising because he loves comic book adaptations.

PART 4: LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Question 1
There are seven questions in this part. For each question (1- 7) there is a short
recording and three options. Choose the correct option and put a tick () in the box A,
B or C. There is an example at the beginning.
EXAMPLE
Where did the woman leave her umbrella?
in a restaurant
A

in her bag
B

at the newagents
C

1. How will the student get home from university?

Hell drive
A

Hell get the train

Hell fly

2. What will they see on television next?

a football match
A

a film
B

a documentary
C

3. What time will the cake be ready?

5:00 pm
A

5:30 pm

5:45 pm
C

4. Which sport will the children be able to do for the first time at camp?
Tennis
A

Sailing

Horse-riding
C

5. Where did the man leave his camera?

By the pool
A

In a bag
B

In a caf
C

6. What will the first prize be in the drawing competition?

a trophy
A

a painting set
B

a certificate
C

7. Which vegetables do they decide to put in the salad?

peppers and sweet corn
A

carrots and sweet corn

B

carrots and peppers

C

Question 2
You are going to listen to part of the BBC radio news. For each question (8-13), put a
tick () in the correct box, A, B or C.
8.

How many rogue companies have been closed down by the Insolvency
Service in England & Wales in the past three years?

28
B 38
C 78

9.

The Church of England is opposing plans for gay couples to be able to

get married.
B to have a role in society.
C be members of the church.

10.

The World Health Organization claim they have proof that diesel engines

may cause some forms of cancer.

B definitely causes bladder cancer.
C definitely cause cancer.
A

11.

Who is accusing Syrian government troops of using them as human shields?

Children.
B Opposition troops.
C The United Nations.

12.

If parents dont comply with new rules concerning shared parenting after a
divorce they may

lose custody of their children.

B go to prison.
C have to go to family court.
A

13.

Who is going to get more powers to monitor private citizens phone calls and
emails?

The government.
B MPs (Members of Parliament)
C The Police