Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Lesen · Teil 1
Ordnen Sie jede Aussage der Person zu, die sie vertritt – eine Person kann mehrmals passen.
Nine statements, four people, and the instruction that decides the whole task: a person may be chosen more than once. Candidates who assume the answers must be evenly spread start "balancing" their sheet somewhere around item six and talk themselves out of answers they had right.
What is being matched is an attitude, not a subject. All four writers discuss the same handful of sub-topics — money, housing, travel, possessions — so the person who mentions a word is almost never the answer for it. The one who evaluates it the way the statement does is. Every distractor in this Teil is built from someone else raising the same subject with a different opinion.
Practise it by reading the statements first and turning each into a question about stance: not "who talks about cars" but "for whom are cars a burden". Then read all four texts before answering anything — the fourth writer regularly settles an item you thought belonged to the first.
Yes — the rubric says so explicitly, and with nine items and four people it is unavoidable. Typically each person is the answer two or three times. The worked example at the start uses up one solution, but the person in it can still be chosen again.
The statements. They are printed before the texts for a reason: they tell you which of the shared sub-topics actually matter, so you read the four texts looking for evaluations rather than trying to remember everything.
