C1 Advanced

Test and Train Exam Practice Class based

Answer Key

Reading and Use of English Parts 1–8

Listening Parts 1–4

Reading and Use of English 5 did our best to talk Vijay

1 mark answers in the exam: ‘did our best’ OR
Part 1, Activity 1 ‘to talk Vijay’
Why do zebras have stripes? 6 would not have achieved what they | wouldn’t
unique; forward; serve; discourage; disrupt; factor; have achieved what they | could not have
experienced; makes achieved what they | couldn’t have achieved
what they | would not have achieved everything
Part 1, Activity 2
they | wouldn’t have achieved everything they |
Can humans colonise Mars?
could not have achieved everything they |
major; raises; come up against; determine;
couldn’t have achieved everything they | would
friction; undermined; impact; shake off not have achieved all they | wouldn’t have
Part 2, Activity 1 achieved all they | could not have achieved all
Lunch breaks they | couldn’t have achieved all they
in; more; up; Whilst | Although | Though | While | 1 mark answers in the exam: ‘would not/
Whereas; too; one; not; which wouldn’t/could not/couldn’t have achieved’ OR
‘all/what/everything they’
Part 2, Activity 2
Surfing in Iceland Part 4, Activity 2
somewhere; of; doing; make; there; Whilst | Although | 1 take place on a weekly
Though | While; out; which 1 mark answers in the exam: ‘take place’ OR ‘on
a weekly’
Part 3, Activity 1 2 promotion will lead to
The way we read 1 mark answers in the exam: ‘promotion’ OR
transformation | transformations; outselling, ‘will lead to’
disappearance; enables; stabilised | stabilized; 3 careful preparation in advance of | careful
Interestingly; slowness; pleasurable | pleasing | preparations in advance of
pleasant 1 mark answers in the exam: ‘careful
preparation/preparations’ OR ‘in advance of’
Part 3, Activity 2 4 long as he gets it
Left-handers in sport 1 mark answers in the exam: ‘long as’ OR ‘he
explanation; opponents; findings; advantageous; gets it’
constraints; substantially; exposure; overcome 5 on the point of being | at the point of being |on
the point of getting |at the point of getting
Part 4, Activity 1
1 mark answers in the exam: ‘on/at the point
1 put in charge of looking
of’ OR ‘getting/being’
1 mark answers in the exam: ‘put in charge’ OR
6 it had not been for | it hadn’t been for
‘of looking’
1 mark answers in the exam: ‘it had not/hadn’t’
2 is due to be carried
OR ‘been for’
1 mark answers in the exam: ‘is due’ OR ‘to be
carried out’ Part 5, Activity 1
3 lack of confidence made it 1 uncomfortable about the kind of attention it
1 mark answers in the exam: ‘lack of receives today.
confidence’ OR ‘made it’ 2 illustrating a point made previously about
4 accused the newspaper of leaving gratitude
1 mark answers in the exam: ‘accused the 3 She is struck by the amount of evidence that it
newspaper’ OR ‘of leaving’ can make a difference to people.

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4 she becomes more conscious of the good things 5 B
in her life. 6 A
5 the indiscriminate approval 7 D
6 it has only benefitted her to a limited extent 8 B
9 A
Part 5, Activity 2 10 C
1 how she aims to make people question their
­ assumptions. Part 8, Activity 2
2 it prevents us from grasping the truth about Turning an idea into a business Four entrepreneurs
­ people. talk about how they created their own businesses.
3 the value of exploring what people have in 1 B
common
­ 2 C
4 introducing a new idea in her argument. 3 A
5 going against expectations 4 D
6 Some companies have gone too far with it. 5 A
6 C
Part 6, Activity 1
7 D
Veganism
8 C
1 B
9 A
2 D
10 B
3 C
4 D Listening
Part 6, Activity 2
Part 1, Activity 1
Four reviews of ‘The Immeasurable World:
1 C
Journeys in Desert Places’ by William Atkins 2 A
1 C 3 B
2 B 4 C
3 D 5 A
4 B 6 C
Part 7, Activity 1 Part 1, Activity 2
The new mattresses 1 C
1 E 2 B
2 G 3 C
3 B 4 A
4 A 5 C
5 F 6 A
6 D
Part 2, Activity 1
Part 7, Activity 2 Portrait photography
The real-life farmers who play a computer game stranger; natural; curiosity; straightforward; glow |
called E-Farming tone; perspective; jump; distance
1 F
2 C Part 2, Activity 2
3 G Swallowtail butterfly
4 A Antarctica; appearance; grasslands; egg shell; wings;
5 E spiral; hesitant; Red List
6 D
Part 3, Activity 1
Part 8, Activity 1 1 C
Being a pop music journalist 2 B
1 C 3 A
2 D 4 B
3 A 5 D
4 C 6 C

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Part 3, Activity 2 Task Two
1 C Speaker 1 G
2 D Speaker 2 F
3 A Speaker 3 D
4 A Speaker 4 B
5 C Speaker 5 A
6 D
Part 4, Activity 2
Part 4, Activity 1 Task One
Task One Speaker 1 D
Speaker 1 F Speaker 2 A
Speaker 2 H Speaker 3 E
Speaker 3 A Speaker 4 G
Speaker 4 D Speaker 5 F
Speaker 5 E
Task Two
Speaker 1 H
Speaker 2 B
Speaker 3 C
Speaker 4 A
Speaker 5 D

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