Cambridge Advanced Certificate (CAE) Paper Three Use of English Part One Cloze Vocabulary

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PART 1: CLOZE VOCABULARY

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space, A, B, C or D.

THE LOTTERY

The (01).............................. of lottery winners change their lives (02).............................. little, and continue on their settled (03).............................., happy ever after. A couple of years ago, a Mr David Horabin won a million. He had been struggling to make a success of his dry cleaning shop for the (04).............................. 12 months. He accepted his cheque in a small ceremony at the (05).............................. at 2.30, and by three o'clock he had reopened for business. The reaction of Mr Pasquale Consalvo who won $30 million in the New York state lottery was very (06)............................... He was unhappy not to be able to fulfil his (07).............................. to go to work as usual on the day he won. He also said that if the money made him unhappy he would give it back. In fact, the (08) .............................. of his life being (09).............................. a misery by his new-found wealth are almost as (10) ........................., though not quite, as the sixty million-to-one odds he (11).............................. to take a jackpot that had remained (12).............................. through six previous draws. Gambling small (13).............................. on the lottery is a harmless if futile (14)............................... But gambling can become an addiction, increasingly so as the activity becomes socially (15)...............................

01. A. most B. majority C. number D. quantity

02. A. but B. a C. scarcely D. not

03. A. way B. path C. road D. habit

04. A. earlier B. before C. recent D. past

05. A. site B. building C. company D. premises

06. A. appropriate B. linked C. similar D. same

07. A. passion B. ambition C. desire D. vocation

08. A. possibility B. probability C. chances D. odds

09. A. created B. made C. sent D. got

10. A. thin B. slim C. meagre D. reduced

11. A. cracked B. overwhelmed C. beat D. overthrew

12. A. unaccepted B. undone C. rejected D. unclaimed

13. A. quantities B. amounts C. money D. change

14. A. action B. sport C. hobby D. pastime

15. A. fashionable B. proper C. acceptable D. appropriate

PART 1: CLOZE VOCABULARY

Check your answers.

01. B. majority

02. A. but

03. A. way

04. D. past

05. D. premises

06. C. similar

07. C. desire

08. C. chances

09. B. made

10. B. slim

11. C. beat

12. D. unclaimed

13. B. amounts

14. C. pastime

15. C. acceptable