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: The Metro Newspaper
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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In most large UK city centres, (0) the year, you will find a large proportion of bus and train passengers (1) in a newspaper that a decade earlier did not exist. It is not (2) the case to say that the Metro has been a phenomenal success. With its (3) , humorous stories and short opinion-free news items, it may not appeal to the traditional broadsheet reader who likes to put the (4) on, put their (5) up and spend an afternoon poring over editorials and obituaries. But the Metro is aimed at a different target (6) who simply do not have the time for this approach and would find most other papers as dull as (7) .
The average Metro reader is a media (8) twenty or thirty-something with a relatively high disposable income and urban lifestyle. They often (9) in sporting activities, enjoy an active social life but hold few political convictions, being mostly (10) voters. The one thing that they do all have in common is their daily commute to a mostly office-based work environment.
A few of the paper's distributors do (11) the streets and hand out copies, free of charge, to passers by but the majority of readers pick up their copies on public transport and so are something of a (12) market, with nothing better to focus their attention on during their daily commute. They find a daily paper neatly tailored to their lifestyles and world view. And best of all, it doesn't cost them a penny.
The average Metro reader is a media (8) twenty or thirty-something with a relatively high disposable income and urban lifestyle. They often (9) in sporting activities, enjoy an active social life but hold few political convictions, being mostly (10) voters. The one thing that they do all have in common is their daily commute to a mostly office-based work environment.
A few of the paper's distributors do (11) the streets and hand out copies, free of charge, to passers by but the majority of readers pick up their copies on public transport and so are something of a (12) market, with nothing better to focus their attention on during their daily commute. They find a daily paper neatly tailored to their lifestyles and world view. And best of all, it doesn't cost them a penny.