Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CAE Open Cloze: Human Resources
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.
Example
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I think it's fair to say that the worst job I've (0) had was as a human resources manager for a manufacturing company. In (1) fact it was not the line of (2) I had intended to get into, in the first (3) when I went for the interview. But being a little naïve at the time I was more than a little flattered to be offered the more elevated job of hiring (4) firing rather than the minimum (5) position I had hoped to be offered.
(6) retrospect, I think they must have been desperate to find somebody because to (7) intents and purposes, they offered me the personnel job in the first five minutes of the interview and two days later I'd started.
To a certain (8) , it was quite an easy job for the first few weeks and about the worst thing I had to do was break (9) to some of the workers that they could no longer take days off (10) lieu of overtime hours that they had previously worked. But that was before the industrial dispute started over the sacking of two van drivers.
In (11) respects, the two delivery drivers probably deserved to be (12) the end, I had no choice but to hand in my resignation.
(6) retrospect, I think they must have been desperate to find somebody because to (7) intents and purposes, they offered me the personnel job in the first five minutes of the interview and two days later I'd started.
To a certain (8) , it was quite an easy job for the first few weeks and about the worst thing I had to do was break (9) to some of the workers that they could no longer take days off (10) lieu of overtime hours that they had previously worked. But that was before the industrial dispute started over the sacking of two van drivers.
In (11) respects, the two delivery drivers probably deserved to be (12) the end, I had no choice but to hand in my resignation.