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Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises

Exam: FCE CAE CPE

Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation

CAE Word Formation: ID Cards in the UK

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 DIVISIVE           
One of the most (0)  issues in UK politics today concerns
the proposed (1)  of an identity card system similar to
that already in use in many (2)  European Union countries.
The (3)  of ID cards base their arguments partly on the
increased risk of (4)  attacks and the current rise in the
new crime of identity (5)  . They point to many countries
around the world who already have such schemes and
consider the storing of personal data by the state to be
a(n) (6)  part of living in the modern world.
The opponents of their introduction talk of the (7) 
intrusion into people's lives and strongly object to the
idea of personal information being stored in a vast (8)  .
They point to several recent cases of the government's
failure to keep people's private details safe and secure
and worry about the (9)  of such data falling into the hands
of criminals. Other critics suggest that requiring
everybody to be registered in this way is an erosion of our
civil (10)  and say that such a system is incompatible with
the idea that we live in a free society.
DIVIDE
ADOPT
NEIGHBOUR
PROPOSE
TERROR
THIEF


ESCAPE
NECESSITY

DATA


LIKELY


LIBERAL

Your answers

 

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