FCE : Word Formation

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Fears and phobias

For questions 1 - 10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Are you one of millions of people who find spiders 0. scary ?

SCARE

If so, how great is your fear? Would you be 1.________ about entering

CAUTION

a room if you knew there was a spider inside or do you feel

2._____________ just looking at a picture of one? When does a fear become

COMFORT

a phobia? It is 3.__________ reasonable to be afraid of dangerous

COMPLETE

animals, but people with phobias are often terrified of

animals which they know are 4.________ .

HARM

So why do spiders make some people feel so much 5._______ ?

ANXIOUS

One 6.___________ explanation is that in the past, people who were afraid

SCIENCE

of spiders were less likely to be killed by one, so their fear

was passed on genetically to their children. However, there

are no deadly spiders in central and northern Europe, where

a fear of spiders is common. This suggests the fear may

be learned 7.__________ .

CULTURE

It seems that in many cases, a fear of spiders is the result

of a 8.________ experience with one in early childhood, although the

TERROR

event is 9.__________ not remembered. Whatever the cause, many

FREQUENT

find relaxation, hypnotherapy or acupuncture 10._______ in

HELP

overcoming their phobia.

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10. Superheroes
    For questions 1 - 10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
    
    
    A superhero can be defined as a person with 0. extraordinary
    ORDINARY
    abilities of some kind. In some cases the hero is a 1._________
    SCIENCE
    who has 2._____________ designed special equipment that gives
    INTEND
    them their powers. In other cases, their powers are the
    result of some kind of a(n) 3.___________ accident or an experiment
    FORTUNE
    that went 4.__________ wrong. Nearly all superheroes also suffer
    TRAGEDY
    from a fatal 5.________ which often has the effect of cancelling
    WEAK
    their powers.
    In the last twenty years there has been an almost 6.________
    END
    7.__________ line of movies and TV series about super heroes.
    PRODUCE
    Other themes and genres like westerns have lost 8.__________
    POPULAR
    but each superhero movie seems to be more 9.__________ than
    SUCCEED
    comes from being able to 10._________ about having similar
    FANTASY
    abilities.
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FCE : Open Cloze

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Art

For questions 1 - 12, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an examples at the beginning(0).

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·         Wrong

Art 0. has always been a controversial topic of conversation and is a subject which is sure to raise many an argument.

Whether you have a passion 1.___ sculpture or are crazy 2._____ abstract art, we have to agree that there is a place for all genres. One of the most controversial artists of our time is the French performance artist, Orlan. She 3.______ a scandal with her first work, "The Kiss of the Artist", in which she sold kisses to the audience, and 4.___ actually fired from her teaching job as a direct result of this. Once she got a taste 5.___ shocking the public, though, there was no stopping her and she often found herself in 6.____ water following one of her exhibitions.

Abstract art is often not thought of as "proper art" and sometimes it's hard to tell if a painting is either upside 7.____ or the wrong way 8._____ However, art doesn't always have to be controversial or cutting egde. Many people take 9.__ art as a hobby and a way of relaxing. Self expression is a form of relaxation and many people believe that once you10.____ it a try, you will never give it 11.__ The question is, how can you tell if someone really does like your painting or whether they are just telling a little 12._____ lie?

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Free-fall Racing

For questions 1 - 12, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an examples at the beginning(0).

Since the rise of the current health 0. and safety culture, most people in the UK have begun to lead lives with absolutely no element 1.__ danger at all. And after realising that their lives are nowhere 2.____ as dangerous as they once were, 3.__ didn't take long before a group of young entrepreneurs came up with a new sport that really lets them push 4.__________ to the limit in terms of risk and excitement.

Every weekend, at an airfield 5.____ the North Devon coast, a group of otherwise risk-averse individuals meet and attempt to 6.___ a new record for how fast they can fall a distance of two kilometres from a small airplane. These are people who rarely if ever break 7.___ speed limit. But as free-fall racers, they compete to pick 8.__ as much speed as they can before finally opening their parachutes at the last minute.

Each race is over and finished in 9._ matter of seconds but during those vital few seconds, the racers say they are totally absorbed 10.__ trying to make their bodies fall that little bit faster and trying to judge the perfect moment to pull the parachute cord. Many of them say that they hold 11._____ breath for the whole duration of the fall, only breathing out again when they touch the ground. Bill Morris, one free-fall racer says that he has tried every extreme sport but that all of the others are simply nothing 12.__ comparison.

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FCE : Multiple Choice Cloze

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A Night Out In Bristol

For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

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If you're in Bristol on a weekday evening and 0. fancy a lively, boozy night out without getting too badly 1.______ off you could do worse than to try Fandangos, the new nightclub complex on Lower Guzzlemore Street. Before eleven o'clock, prices are quite 2.__________ and you can get a 3._____ of four drinks for around a tenner. If like me, you're a bit of a 4.___________ it could even set you back less than that. But for the heavyweights, more often than 5.___ , they run some kind of drinking competition at some point in the evening. On the evening I visited they were offering a free pint to anyone who could 6.____ their first pint in one' guaranteed to leave even the most hardened heavyweight with a7.________ the next day. On most nights, the dress 8.____ is fairly relaxed although they do seem to draw the line at torn jeans.

If, on the other hand, you're looking to 9.___ away from it all and enjoy a quiet beer or two in somewhere a little more off the 10.______ track, The Pickwick Brewery Tap on Regents Muse might be more to your liking. Despite the rather unoriginal name, this charming little pub is not the fake tourist 11.____ that you might expect. Most nights the other customers are nearly all locals and regulars but from 12.____________ they do get bus loads of pensioners taking over the place for an hour or two in the late afternoon.

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1.       A  wish B  hope C  fancy D  dream

2.       A  stolen B  lifted C  taken D  ripped

3.       A  reasonable B  respectful C  realistic D  resistible

4.       A  hand B  round C  pack D  stack

5.       A  weak-drinker B  lightweight C  low consumer D  soft head

6.       A  not B  ever C  never D  sometimes

7.       A  stomach B  down C  draw D  drain

8.       A  sore-brain B  head-bang C  heavy-head D  hangover

9.       A  plan B  rule C  code D  restriction

10.    A  run B  get C  go D  put

11.    A  well-known B  toursit C  beaten D  popular

12.    A  trap B  hole C  den D  ground

13.    A  now and then B  time to time C  here and now D  day to night

Climate Change

For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

We are not as well-informed about climate 0. change as we may think we are. Most people have heard about the1._____ of global warming but relatively few people could reliably tell you accurate 2._____ and figures 3.________ to this phenomenon. Scare stories appear in the media on an almost 4._____ basis, complete with graphs, statistics and5.___________ of how the world is going to change. But although we have all read and understood this numerical data, remembering it is 6._______ matter.

7.____ the actual rise in global 8.___________ over the last century, for example. When asked in a survey how much the world had warmed during the 9._____ of the twentieth century, fifty-one percent of people thought that a ten-degree rise 10._______ right compared with an actual 11.______ of 0.6 degrees. Many people also seemed to believe that we could soon expect to see sea-level rises that would cover all but the world's highest mountains when in 12._______ the rise is unlikely to be more than five metres.

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0. A  difference B  movement C  change D  alteration
1. A  question B  issue C  fact D  story
2. A  facts B  data C  statements D  truth
3. A  looking B  joined C  connected D  relating
4. A  everyday B  day-by-day C  daily D  daytime
5. A  futures B  expectations C  predictions D  guesses
6. A  another B  other C  the other D  one other
7. A  See B  Take C  Notice D  Observe
8. A  temperature B  degress C  heat D  warmth
9. A  all B  total C  complete D  whole
10. A  heard B  listened C  sounded D  spoke
11. A  total B  sum C  quantity D  figure
12. A  existence B  today C  truth D  reality