Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CPE Open Cloze: Pluto
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 1930, (0) nearly a year of painstaking work at the Lowell Observatory, (1) American astronomer, Clyde W Tombaugh finally identified an object in the outer (2) system which (3) to be known as Pluto. He had been searching for an object (4) existence had been predicted by extrapolating (5) observations of changes in the shape of other planets’ orbits. To do (6) Tombaugh ended up (7) to look through hundreds of pairs photographs taken of sections of the (8) sky at two different times in order to identify an object which appeared to change position between the (9) and the second.
After the discovery, the Lowell Observatory invited (10) suggestions and soon ideas (11) pouring in from all over the world. The name which was eventually (12) the third criterion for planet-hood, namely that it would need to have swallowed up all other objects in or near its orbit. In fact thousands of objects have been discovered around the orbit of Pluto and so despite massive protests from ardent supporters, it is no longer included in the list of solar system planets.
After the discovery, the Lowell Observatory invited (10) suggestions and soon ideas (11) pouring in from all over the world. The name which was eventually (12) the third criterion for planet-hood, namely that it would need to have swallowed up all other objects in or near its orbit. In fact thousands of objects have been discovered around the orbit of Pluto and so despite massive protests from ardent supporters, it is no longer included in the list of solar system planets.