Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CAE Word Formation: A Bad First Impression
For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet below.
Example
| 0 | I | M | P | R | E | S | S | I | O | N | S |
|---|
There is a saying that first (0) are generally correct and
I would say that (1) , throughout my entire life, I have
found this to be true apart from one notable exception of
a good friend and neighbour with whom my first (2) was
decidedly unfriendly.
At the time of our first meeting I was living in a (3) area
of London, not far from the exit of a dual (4) and this
meant that although it was a residential street, even with
the (5) will in the world, drivers would often travel
dangerously fast within inches of my front door. This used
to really annoy me and I have to admit I did often go a bit
(6) in expressing my anger even though (or perhaps because)
I knew I didn't stand a (7) chance of being taken notice of
or even noticed at all. So when one day, I shouted my usual
string of swear words at a rapidly passing car and it
immediately screamed to a halt, my first reaction was an
enormous sense of (8) But then the driver of the car opened
his window and shouted a stream of swear words back at me.
So the next morning, I was more than a little surprised to
find an apology note from the same motorist in my mail box
explaining that in an attempt to (9) his career as an up and
coming IT (10) he had been driving too fast the previous
evening and inviting me to have dinner with him and his
wife.
I would say that (1) , throughout my entire life, I have
found this to be true apart from one notable exception of
a good friend and neighbour with whom my first (2) was
decidedly unfriendly.
At the time of our first meeting I was living in a (3) area
of London, not far from the exit of a dual (4) and this
meant that although it was a residential street, even with
the (5) will in the world, drivers would often travel
dangerously fast within inches of my front door. This used
to really annoy me and I have to admit I did often go a bit
(6) in expressing my anger even though (or perhaps because)
I knew I didn't stand a (7) chance of being taken notice of
or even noticed at all. So when one day, I shouted my usual
string of swear words at a rapidly passing car and it
immediately screamed to a halt, my first reaction was an
enormous sense of (8) But then the driver of the car opened
his window and shouted a stream of swear words back at me.
So the next morning, I was more than a little surprised to
find an apology note from the same motorist in my mail box
explaining that in an attempt to (9) his career as an up and
coming IT (10) he had been driving too fast the previous
evening and inviting me to have dinner with him and his
wife.
IMPRESS
ALL
CHANGE
DEPRIVE
CARRY
GOOD
BOARD
REASON
ACHIEVE
FAR
CONSULT
ALL
CHANGE
DEPRIVE
CARRY
GOOD
BOARD
REASON
ACHIEVE
FAR
CONSULT