Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CPE Word Formation: Business Interests
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
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Ed Bullock clearly has a great (0) for making money. As
the richest man in north-east Bristol, he's known for the (1)
approach he has taken to amassing his huge fortune in a
(2) short space of time. His first business venture, at the
age of twenty was in engineering. With an (3) capital of
only fifty pounds, he built the (4) of a new kind garden
tool, which was soon selling like hot cakes.
He then moved into the highly (5) world of print and news
media, by buying a local newspaper whose monthly (6) ,
at the time of purchase, was (7) low. Within a few months
he had turned the business around and showed that he was
perfectly (8) of running large businesses as well as small
ones. He had also (9) attracted the attention of the local
anti-corruption police who have carefully watched his
dealings ever since.
Sixteen years later, Bullock is currently the majority (10)
in no less than twenty-eight separate firms and has a
personal fortune estimated at seventy million pounds.
the richest man in north-east Bristol, he's known for the (1)
approach he has taken to amassing his huge fortune in a
(2) short space of time. His first business venture, at the
age of twenty was in engineering. With an (3) capital of
only fifty pounds, he built the (4) of a new kind garden
tool, which was soon selling like hot cakes.
He then moved into the highly (5) world of print and news
media, by buying a local newspaper whose monthly (6) ,
at the time of purchase, was (7) low. Within a few months
he had turned the business around and showed that he was
perfectly (8) of running large businesses as well as small
ones. He had also (9) attracted the attention of the local
anti-corruption police who have carefully watched his
dealings ever since.
Sixteen years later, Bullock is currently the majority (10)
in no less than twenty-eight separate firms and has a
personal fortune estimated at seventy million pounds.
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