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Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CAE Open Cloze: The History Of Soap
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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The earliest soap in history was probably produced around five thousand years (0) in Ancient Babylon. Archeologists (1) found ancient tablets with writing on them (2) seem to describe a formula for making soap. (3) the Romans probably knew how to manufacture soap as well, (4) is believed that they only used it (5) washing fabrics and actually cleaned their bodies in a totally different (6) . An ancient Egyptian papyrus from around 1550 B.C. also refers to soap manufacture.
The first soaps that we would recognise today were produced by Muslim chemists in the mediaeval Islamic world around 1000 A.D. (7) soaps were not only made from similar materials (8) also included colouring and perfume in some cases.
But it was not (9) the Nineteenth Century that large-scale soap production began making a product that was cheap (10) for everybody to afford it. In 1862, Andrew Pears and (11) granson, Francis opened the Pears soap factory in Isleworth in London. Today, Pears has become (12) of the best known brands of soap in the world.
The first soaps that we would recognise today were produced by Muslim chemists in the mediaeval Islamic world around 1000 A.D. (7) soaps were not only made from similar materials (8) also included colouring and perfume in some cases.
But it was not (9) the Nineteenth Century that large-scale soap production began making a product that was cheap (10) for everybody to afford it. In 1862, Andrew Pears and (11) granson, Francis opened the Pears soap factory in Isleworth in London. Today, Pears has become (12) of the best known brands of soap in the world.