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Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises

Exam: FCE CAE CPE

Exercise: Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation

CPE Word Formation: Big Companies Go Green

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 ANNOUNCEMENT       
The government has recently made an (0)  that should please
environmentalists. After (1)  were made against more than
one high-profile company regarding the releasing of raw (2) 
into rivers and the sea, ministers have promised to adopt a
zero (3)  approach to enforcing environmental protection
rules. This has forced some companies to go on the (4) 
and try publishing statistics designed to play down the (5) 
of the problems they have caused.
One oil company has recently had a promotional campaign
in which they claim that they were actually responsible for
rescuing a number of species from the brink of (6)  in an
area of tropical rainforest. But despite such publicity, it
may be hard to (7)  their negative public image after security
personnel from the same company were filmed using (8) 
force to (9)  restrain protesters outside one of their UK
plants. Several news networks broadcast images of violent
clashes after what appeared to be a perfectly (10)  public
protest.
ANNOUNCE
ALLEGE
SEWER

TOLERATE
OFFEND
EXTEND



EXTINCT

COME
EXCEED
PHYSICS

ORDER

Your answers

 

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