Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises

CAE Gapped Sentences: In the Early Hours

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.

In order to get to the meeting on time I will have to get up in the hours.
When new technology is introduced it is often the adopters who have to deal with technical problems until they are ironed out in later models.
It was not until I was in my twenties, soon after leaving university that I developed a taste for beer.

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The plot of the story seems to around from one period in the character's life to another
I was afraid that as soon as they saw I was a foreigner, the jury would to the conclusion that I was guilty.
You really made me . Please don't creep up behind me like that again.
What really gets up my is people pretending to be really sypathetic when in fact they don't care at all.
The race was neck and neck until right at the end, one of the horses managed to ahead of the others.
Last night on the motorway, the cars were to tail all the way from Bristol to Bath.
I would say you have every to feel annoyed at the way you've been treated.
Take two tablets at four-hourly intervals and you should soon be as rain again.
As well as being the wife of a famous writer, she is also a successful novelist in her own having published a number of best-sellers.
When adressing groups of young children, it's important that you don't your talk too high for them.
If the salesman had mentioned something about energy savings in his sales , I think I would have found him more persuasive.
There was a clearly written sign warning campers not to their tents too close to the river.
Janet Brown has been a leading in UK politics since the beginning of the 1990s.
When I said I'd be there at ten I didn't on my train being delayed forty minutes by engineering work.
When she said she was bored to death by the concert it was clearly only a of speech.