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This document provides the answers to four practice tests for the Cambridge English: Preliminary exam (formerly known as the Cambridge English: Preliminary or CPE 1). Each test contains sections on reading and use of English, listening, and includes the correct answers for each question in the test. The tests cover a range of grammar, vocabulary and comprehension questions that are typical of the Cambridge English: Preliminary exam.

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Cpe 1 Answer Key

This document provides the answers to four practice tests for the Cambridge English: Preliminary exam (formerly known as the Cambridge English: Preliminary or CPE 1). Each test contains sections on reading and use of English, listening, and includes the correct answers for each question in the test. The tests cover a range of grammar, vocabulary and comprehension questions that are typical of the Cambridge English: Preliminary exam.

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CPE 1 - Answer Key

Test 1
Reading and Use of English
Part 1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

B
A
D
B
C
C
B
A

Part 2
9 up
10 come / pop
11 all
12 to
13 as
14 not
15 at
16 however
Part 3
17 likened
18 botanists
19 molecular
20 revelation
21 extraordinary
22 comparable
23 unpleasant
24 distances
Part 4

25 nothing Id like more | than to visit / to go


26 took (absolutely) no | notice (of me)
27 was a lack of | clarity
28 until | darkness fell
29 in the/as a last resort | does/do/Will the company
30 which went into |preparing/(the) preparation (for) the OR
which was taken with | preparing/(the) preparation (for) the

Part 5
31
32
33
34
35
36

C
A
C
B
B
C

Part 6
37
38
39
40
41
42
43

C
B
E
G
A
H
F

Part 7
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51

E
C
A
B
D
B
A
C

52 C
53 F
Listening
Part 1
1
2
3
4
5
6

A
B
B
C
B
B

Part 2
7 building / construction material
8 (world) population
9 food chain
10 microbes
11 mining
12 hormones
13 volcanoes / volcanos
14 wind
15 intensive farm

Part 3
16
17
18
19

B
C
A
D

Part 4
21 F
22 H
23 A

24
25
26
27
28
29
30

D
E
D
B
H
F
E

Test 2
Reading and Use of English
Part 1
1C
2B
3B
4A
5A
6C
7A
8B
Part 2
9 mind
10 According
11 for
12 without
13 part / aspect
14 not
15 into
16 little
Part 3
17 complexities
18 misled

19
20
21
22
23
24

politicians
incredible
assumptions
impair
repeatedly
infinite

Part 4
25 make It /mean (that) it is difficult |to reach
26 to the exhibition is restricted to | visitors/people/those
Who OR is restricted to the exhibition to/for
visitors/people/those Who
27 for Stevies prompt action | in putting
28 is every chance/likelihood/probability/possibility | (that)
taxes will rise/are (going) to rise | of taxes
rising/increasing/going up
29 had/was left with no choice | but/other than to accept
30 have got into/developed/acquired | the habit of
Part 5
31
32
33
34
35
36

B
B
A
C
B
D

Part 6
37
38
39
40
41
42
43

C
H
B
D
A
E
G

Part 7
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53

C
A
D
D
B
D
A
C
A
B

Listening
Part 1
1
2
3
4
5
6

A
A
B
C
C
A

Part 2
7 referees
8 injurie/injury
9 motivation
10 (academic) research
11 mental toughness
12 memory blue(-)print
13 admiration
14 insults
15 pressure/stress
Part 3

16
17
18
19
20

B
C
A
A
C

Part 4
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

G
C
F
H
B
H
G
B
F
D

Test 3
Reading and Use of English
Part 1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

B
D
C
A
B
B
A
D

Part 2
9 if
10 so

11
12
13
14
15
16

where
with/by
or
nothing
back
in

Part 3
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24

environmentally
recycling
undrinkable
consequences
expectancy
diagnosis
certainty
speculative

Part 4
25
26
27
28
29
30

youself | be taken in by
waited for Sophie | to finish her homework before
(very) last thing (that) I (would) want | is for
to have sustained | losses of/a loss of
would have been better | if I had OR |to have
kept in | touch /contact (regularly) with

Part 5
31
32
33
34
35
36

C
A
D
A
B
C

Part 6
37
38
39
40
41
42
43

B
G
E
D
H
F
A

Part 7
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53

C
B
C
D
A
B
D
D
A
C

Listening
Part 1
1
2
3
4
5
6

A
B
A
B
B
A

Part 2
7 harbour/harbor/port
8 priests
9 frame/framework
10 puzzle
11 rope(s)
12 France
13 model
14 (bees) wax / wax from bees
15 truck/lorry
Part 3
16
17
18
19
20

D
C
A
D
C

Part 4
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

B
E
A
F
G
D
C
B
H
E

Test 4
Reading and Use of English
Part 1
1C

2
3
4
5
6
7
8

B
A
B
C
D
A
B

Part 2
9 for
10 back
11 degree/extent
12 given
13 anything
14 little
15 in
16 danger

Part 3
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24

virtuous
downside
sleepless
insignificance
necessarily
emissions
additionally
disastrous

Part 4

25 (that) there is no chance/there are no chances |to /in


Sams plans
26 no reason to suppose (that) | Simon Will not OR every
reason to suppose (that) Simon Will
27 was there (any/na) official | acknowledg(e)ment of/as
to/regarding
28 no account | are passengers (allowed/permitted)
29 am at a (complete) loss | to understand/to know/as to
30 has no intention |of making
Part 5
31 C
32 B
33 A
34 C
35 D
36 A
Part 6
37 D
38 G
39 A
40 H
41 E
42 B
43 F
Part 7
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51

C
B
A
C
B
D
B
D

52 A
53 C
Listening
Part 1
1
2
3
4
5
6

B
A
C
B
B
A

Part 2
7 white leopard
8 living fossil
9 thumb
10 grass (es)
11 mood
12 barking
13 mountain(ous)
14 green corridors
15 vulnerable
Part 3
16
17
18
19
20

B
D
C
B
A

Part 4
21 F
22 H
23 B

24
25
26
27
28
29
30

E
G
F
E
H
B
A

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