Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CAE Open Cloze: The Big Issue
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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In nearly every town or city centre (0) the UK, on most days of the week you can find one (1) more people standing in (2) street selling a magazine called The Big Issue. These people are all homeless but they are (3) begging for money. Instead, they are selling the magazine as a means (4) making a small but respectable living.
The Big Issue magazine (5) started in 1991 by Jon Bird and Gordon Roddick after they saw that there were many homeless people (6) were living on the streets of London. On a previous visit to New York, one of them (7) seen homeless people selling a newspaper known (8) Street News and they decided to set (9) something similar in the British capital.
Nowadays, the Big Issue has spread (10) over the UK and there are even different versions of the magazine in different (11) of the country. The sellers buy each magazine from the organization for seventy pence and then sell it to a customer for one pound fifty. By working with The Big Issue, many people have (12) helped to escape from homelessness and many of them have eventually moved on to new jobs and new lives.
The Big Issue magazine (5) started in 1991 by Jon Bird and Gordon Roddick after they saw that there were many homeless people (6) were living on the streets of London. On a previous visit to New York, one of them (7) seen homeless people selling a newspaper known (8) Street News and they decided to set (9) something similar in the British capital.
Nowadays, the Big Issue has spread (10) over the UK and there are even different versions of the magazine in different (11) of the country. The sellers buy each magazine from the organization for seventy pence and then sell it to a customer for one pound fifty. By working with The Big Issue, many people have (12) helped to escape from homelessness and many of them have eventually moved on to new jobs and new lives.