B1 Preliminary and B1 Preliminary For Schools P15

Reading PART 3 3
Sport
Choose the correct preposition to follow each adjective.
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1. Netball is similar with / of / to basketball.
2. You should be ashamed for / from / of yourself for
cheating in the game!
3. The city of Manchester is famous of / for / from its
football teams.
4. We were very surprised at / from / for the result.
5. Are you interested for / in / with keeping fit?
6. Hurry up – I’m tired of / from / with waiting for you!
7. I’m not very keen of / on / for sport.
8. Who is responsible for / with / about organising the event?
Exam task
Read the text and the questions below. For each question, choose the correct answer.
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Athletics in Jamaica
Jamaica has produced some of the world’s best they work and train together as a team, so they
athletes, including stars such as Usain Bolt and produce better results.
Veronica Campbell-Brown. Is this success partly
The Championships have turned many young students
due to one event – the Jamaica Schools’
into stars, but those who are most talented as adults
Championships?
don’t always win as young teenagers. Olympic gold
The four-day Championships have taken place medallist Usain Bolt, for example, failed to win a
every year since 1910. Nearly 200 school single race at the Championships as an under-15
students take part in front of an audience of runner. Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown
over 30,000 people. The event is also shown was always easily beaten in the lower-age groups
on live TV, and the whole country watches what before finally winning as an older student.
is sometimes called Jamaica’s mini-Olympics.
Nathaniel Day, a young runner from Britain, has
The competitors take it very seriously, and
studied and trained in Jamaica for the last two years.
they all want to win. Classmates and former
‘Young athletes here get experience of being on TV
students also come to support and encourage
from the age of 12,’ he says, ‘so when they’re older,
their schools.
they aren’t scared of big occasions and they perform
School coach Dwayne Simpson has trained many well. In the UK, athletes don’t perform in front of the
young stars. He believes the Championships have cameras until they’re adults, and sometimes they
an important role in the development of young find it hard to deal with.’ According to Nathaniel,
athletes. They are the biggest schools’ competition the Championships also give young athletes a goal.
in the world, he says, and other countries are now ‘Because it’s such a big event, it gives them an
looking to copy them. He also believes that the idea of how exciting it is to perform in an Olympic
Championships give young athletes a reason to stadium. It helps them develop the ambition to
practise. They want to do well for their school, so become champions.’
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Cambridge Assessment 2020
1 What does the text say about the Championships? 4 According to Nathaniel Day, the event
A Thirty thousand people watch them on TV. A helps young athletes get used to being filmed.
B Young athletes take part just to have fun. B is more exciting than the Olympics.
C They started over 100 years ago. C makes some young athletes feel nervous of
D Some former students take part. big occasions.
D is hard for some young competitors to
2 What does Dwayne Simpson say about the
deal with.
Championships?
A Other countries should try to hold a similar 5 Which best describes the Jamaica Schools’
competition. Championships?
B They have grown too big in recent years. A

It’s an international competition which
C They encourage young athletes to do prepares young athletes for the
their best. Olympics.
D Schools are always keen to do well.
B
It’s an important event which helps
3 In paragraph 4, what does the writer say about
young athletes to improve.
Jamaica’s Olympic champions?
A They could beat even the oldest students in C
It’s a huge social event which brings
some races.
people together to have fun.
B They occasionally lost races, but only to
much older students. D
It’s a local event which gives young
C They tried much harder after losing all their athletes the chance to perform in a
races as teenagers. relaxed atmosphere.
D They took time to develop into world-class
athletes.
Match the underlined words in the text to these definitions.

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1. a group of people who work, train or 5. be the best or get the best score in a game
perform together ................. or contest .................
2. someone who teaches sports skills 6. a large building where sports events take
................. place .................
3. an event where people compete against 7. people who compete in a game or event
each other ................. .................
4. join in with an event ................. 8. taught sports skills to people .................
Get it right!
Look at the sentences below and choose the correct one.
I’m sure that you will have a great holiday here.

I’m sure that you have a great holiday here.
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B They have grown too big in recent years. A

Match the underlined words in the text to these definitions.

I’m sure that you will have a great holiday here.

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