Reading B2

Part 1: 6 multiple choice questions (each with 3 options)

Task: • 1 long text: news story, article, review or proposal

• Choose the appropriate response for each question

Part 2: 6 multiple choice options to fill in an incomplete text (1 is a distractor)

Task: • A text with 6 sentences removed, e.g. topic sentence, summarising sentence, developing idea, emphasising a point, opinion, contrast, sequence, forward and back reference, transition to new idea

• Choose the appropriate sentence for each gap in the text

Part 3: 7 questions (4 texts provide the answers to each question)

Task: • Read the 4 short texts, e.g. email, article, advert etc. and choose which text answers which question

Part 4: 7 questions (requiring short answers of up to 5 words)

Task: • A continuous text: narrative, descriptive, explanatory, expository, biographical, instructive

Source: https://www.languagecert.org/en/language-exams/english/languagecert-international-esol/b2-communicator-2281

Here you can find an example: