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Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises

Exam: FCE CAE CPE

Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation

CAE Gapped Sentences: Football match

For questions 1-5, think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Here is an example (0).

Write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet below.

Example

  1. Can you help me   up these shelves?
    Because of the rain, we have to   off the football match until next week.
    If you   me up for the night, I'll make you breakfast in the morning.
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  1. Most babies learn to   between 6 and 10 months.
    Ji Won went on a pub   with his mates and ended up too drunk to walk home.
    When I go swimming I'd rather do the   than the breast-stroke.
  2. My parents used to keep a   in the garden, which used to lay eggs.
    Don't be such a mother   and stop fussing.
    As I have many female friends who are getting married this year, I have been on many   nights.
  3. It's sometimes difficult for parents to   the right balance between authority and loving parent.
    These wet matches are impossible to   so we'll have to use a lighter.
    Police fear that the killer may   again.
  4. Jon has always annoyed me a bit, but it's got to the   now where I can't even bear to be in the same room as him.
    At this   it's impossible to say whether the meeting will go ahead or not.
    Phil had always wanted to be on the   and so took up acting.
  5. If there's a power cut we'll have to   some candles.
    My mother's a   sleeper and wakes up at the slightest noise.
    In   of your behaviour, you will have to stay behind and clean up.

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