Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
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Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CAE Open Cloze: The British Sense Of Humour
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 example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet below.
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As they learn more (0) more about English, most students with any aptitude (1) the language soon realise that if they want to (2) on making progress and truly immerse themselves (3) the culture they will need to learn to understand and even join in (4) British humour. To do this they will need to learn to (5) the funny side of things that people in their own countries normally do not find amusing.
Before they come to Britain, the (6) UK comedians that most English students usually get (7) hear about are Mr. Bean and Benny Hill. But On arriving in the UK students are soon surprised to discover that (8) of these two comedians is currently popular in their home country. It is true that in the past some British people did enjoy their physical type of comedy but the British public as a whole went (9) this kind of thing a long time ago. Nowadays on UK television and in comedy clubs a different style of humour has become the centre (10) attention.
(11) two main kinds of humour that are popular in Britain these days are black humour (laughing at miserable or tragic situations) and toilet humour(laughing about toilets). If you don't find (12) of these two things very amusing, it is going to be difficult for you to really appreciate the British sense of humour.
Before they come to Britain, the (6) UK comedians that most English students usually get (7) hear about are Mr. Bean and Benny Hill. But On arriving in the UK students are soon surprised to discover that (8) of these two comedians is currently popular in their home country. It is true that in the past some British people did enjoy their physical type of comedy but the British public as a whole went (9) this kind of thing a long time ago. Nowadays on UK television and in comedy clubs a different style of humour has become the centre (10) attention.
(11) two main kinds of humour that are popular in Britain these days are black humour (laughing at miserable or tragic situations) and toilet humour(laughing about toilets). If you don't find (12) of these two things very amusing, it is going to be difficult for you to really appreciate the British sense of humour.