Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CPE Open Cloze: Stroking Sharks
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.
Example
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On a recent one-week diving trip in Australia, (0) was suggested by the organisers of the tour that I might like to (1) stroking one of the most fearsome beasts the Coral Sea (2) to offer. At first, our tour group, (3) included, reacted with amused reluctance but we were assured, during our usual pre-dive briefing, that (4) the business of feeding was safely out of the (5) , it would be perfectly safe to approach a shark while it was (6) rest and actually touch it on the side of its body. The guides insisted that (7) experienced divers, members of our group should have (8) difficulty in lowering ourselves to the sandy seabed where white-tip reef-sharks are inclined to (9) a rest after the exertions of the planned shark-feeding.
The feeding itself was certainly as spectacularly feral in (10) intensity as had been promised. Twenty or so two-metre sharks convened on an underwater garden location and (11) turns ripping pieces off a frozen mass of fish, lowered into the water from the dive boat above. Meanwhile, my group of amazed divers knelt on the sandy ocean floor at a safe (12) I was able manouvre myself to within an arm's length of one of them and cautiously reach out and touch it. And I am glad to say, I am still in possession of my right hand.
The feeding itself was certainly as spectacularly feral in (10) intensity as had been promised. Twenty or so two-metre sharks convened on an underwater garden location and (11) turns ripping pieces off a frozen mass of fish, lowered into the water from the dive boat above. Meanwhile, my group of amazed divers knelt on the sandy ocean floor at a safe (12) I was able manouvre myself to within an arm's length of one of them and cautiously reach out and touch it. And I am glad to say, I am still in possession of my right hand.