B1 Preliminary - Exam Preparation Exercises
Cambridge (PET)
The following quizzes and exercises are to help you prepare for the Cambridge B1 Preliminary exam, previously known as the Preliminary English Test (PET).
Paper One - Reading
Part 1 - Real World Reading Multiple Choice
The first part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is multiple choice, where you read five real-world notices, messages and other short texts and choose the best answer for each question.
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Part 2 - Reading Matching
The second part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is matching, where you have to match five descriptions of people to eight short texts on a particular topic.
Part 3 - Reading Comprehension Multiple Choice
The third part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is reading comprehension multiple-choice, where you have to read a passage and then answer five multiple-choice questions.
Part 4 - Gapped Text
The fourth part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is gapped text, where you have to read a passage from which five sentences have been removed.
Part 5 - Multiple Choice Cloze
The fifth part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is multiple choice cloze where you have to choose the correct word from four similar given words.
Part 6 - Open Cloze
The final part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is open cloze, where you use only one word to fill each space in a short text. The words that are needed are usually grammatical, such as pronouns, articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and so on.
