Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Lesen · Teil 2
Setzen Sie die fehlenden Sätze an die richtige Stelle im Text. Zwei Sätze passen nirgends.
Six gaps in a magazine article, a bank of eight sentences, and two of those eight fit nowhere at all. This is cohesion work: the task is not to find a sentence about the right subject but the one that is anchored in both directions — prepared by the sentence before it and picked up by the sentence after.
The single most common mistake is reading only forwards. A sentence can follow the preceding line perfectly and still be wrong because the line after it says "Damit änderte sich…" and nothing in your candidate sentence is a "das". Read across the gap, in both directions, before committing.
The two spare sentences are a gift, not a nuisance: they are written to be plausible, usually by carrying a connector or a pronoun with no antecedent where you want to put it, or by contradicting the article's timeline. If you have placed all six and one feels forced, the sentence you forced is almost certainly one of the two.
Two of the eight fit nowhere. The rubric states it outright — "Zwei Sätze passen nicht" — so a leftover sentence is not a sign you have gone wrong.
Usually one of two things: a demonstrative or connector ("Diese Veränderungen…", "Dadurch…") that has nothing to refer back to at that point in the text, or a statement that is true of the topic but contradicts the order events happen in the article.
