Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CAE Mulitlple Choice Cloze: Charity Fund-raising
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).
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet below.
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Every year in the spring our school has a special (0) event on a Friday evening to (1) money for poor people in a (2) part of the world.
It all started a few years ago when two teachers, who wanted to make (3) a better place, decided to hold an all-night karaoke party in aid of the victims of the recent Tsunami disaster in South-East Asia. Although there was little time to organise it, they managed to throw the party (4) well enough that a grand total of one thousand pounds was collected, a clear sign that all the hard work had (5) .
Afterwards, everybody put the party's success (6) the enthusiasm of the two organisers, which had soon (7) on everybody else. There was a prize for the best singer, so many people happily paid twenty pounds for the chance to sing with all their (8) while other people agreed to (9) the challenge of singing an unfamiliar song for as much as fifty pounds.
Because that first charity event (10) so well, it was decided to hold another similar event every year and each subsequent party proved more successful than its predecessor. The school staff soon realised that an (11) factor in making something like this work is how many people are willing to (12) time and effort in the preparation. Fortunately, at our school there is no shortage of such people.
It all started a few years ago when two teachers, who wanted to make (3) a better place, decided to hold an all-night karaoke party in aid of the victims of the recent Tsunami disaster in South-East Asia. Although there was little time to organise it, they managed to throw the party (4) well enough that a grand total of one thousand pounds was collected, a clear sign that all the hard work had (5) .
Afterwards, everybody put the party's success (6) the enthusiasm of the two organisers, which had soon (7) on everybody else. There was a prize for the best singer, so many people happily paid twenty pounds for the chance to sing with all their (8) while other people agreed to (9) the challenge of singing an unfamiliar song for as much as fifty pounds.
Because that first charity event (10) so well, it was decided to hold another similar event every year and each subsequent party proved more successful than its predecessor. The school staff soon realised that an (11) factor in making something like this work is how many people are willing to (12) time and effort in the preparation. Fortunately, at our school there is no shortage of such people.