Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CPE Open Cloze: The SS Great Britain
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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The SS Great Britain was designed by the famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and launched (0) an ocean-going liner in 1843. At the time of (1) launch, she was the largest vessel afloat and was (2) in being the only passenger liner (3) an outer hull entirely built of wrought iron. However, it wasn’t (4) 1845 that the SS Great Britain undertook her maiden (5) from Bristol to new York, a feat which she accomplished in a (6) fourteen days.
After an accident (7) which the ship ran aground, she was sold on to a different operator who pressed her (8) service as an emigration ship carrying settlers to Australia. She was also used, (9) a time, as a troop ship in the Crimean War. Then in 1886, she was converted into a coal transport ship but (10) travelling to the Falkland Isles with a full cargo of coal, a serious fire (11) out (12) winning visitor attraction receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
After an accident (7) which the ship ran aground, she was sold on to a different operator who pressed her (8) service as an emigration ship carrying settlers to Australia. She was also used, (9) a time, as a troop ship in the Crimean War. Then in 1886, she was converted into a coal transport ship but (10) travelling to the Falkland Isles with a full cargo of coal, a serious fire (11) out (12) winning visitor attraction receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.