Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CAE Word Formation: Wearing Glasses
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 | C | H | I | L | D | H | O | O | D |
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Since my early (0) when to my annoyance, I was diagnosed
as being short-sighted while I was still in (1) school, I
have reliably worn my regular pair of (2) almost non-stop.
At school, to prevent any feeling of inequality, all children
with glasses were obliged to wear (3) cheap plastic frames
as part of the school uniform. Not having a (4) streak
myself, I never tried to defy these regulations. Also, my
family never seemed to have a(n) (5) of money so there
was considerable (6) pressure on my brothers and I to do
without such frivolous extravagances.
As I grew older it was suggested that wearing such unsightly
things on my face meant that I was (7) always to remain
single and generally to be unsuccessful in my career. But I
never seemed to have trouble in either (8) and have enjoyed
both a lucrative work life and a long successful marriage.
Occasionally, though I do get annoyed by the idea that the
wearing of glasses seems to have entered the collective (9)
as being innately unattractive which has in turn forced so
many people to (10) over the whether to endure the
inconvenience and discomfort of wearing contact lenses.
as being short-sighted while I was still in (1) school, I
have reliably worn my regular pair of (2) almost non-stop.
At school, to prevent any feeling of inequality, all children
with glasses were obliged to wear (3) cheap plastic frames
as part of the school uniform. Not having a (4) streak
myself, I never tried to defy these regulations. Also, my
family never seemed to have a(n) (5) of money so there
was considerable (6) pressure on my brothers and I to do
without such frivolous extravagances.
As I grew older it was suggested that wearing such unsightly
things on my face meant that I was (7) always to remain
single and generally to be unsuccessful in my career. But I
never seemed to have trouble in either (8) and have enjoyed
both a lucrative work life and a long successful marriage.
Occasionally, though I do get annoyed by the idea that the
wearing of glasses seems to have entered the collective (9)
as being innately unattractive which has in turn forced so
many people to (10) over the whether to endure the
inconvenience and discomfort of wearing contact lenses.
CHILDREN
NURSE
SPECTATORS
COMPEL
REBEL
ABUNDANT
PARENTS
DESTINY
DEPART
CONSCIOUS
AGONY
NURSE
SPECTATORS
COMPEL
REBEL
ABUNDANT
PARENTS
DESTINY
DEPART
CONSCIOUS
AGONY