Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CPE Word Formation: Rubik's Cube
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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In 1974, a new (0) puzzle was invented by Erno Rubik,
a Hungarian professor of (1) . The puzzle consisted of
twenty-six (2) cubes fitted together to make a larger
cube of which all six faces can be rotated (3) of each
other. In its initial (4) all six faces of the cube were
(5) one of six colours, blue, green, red, yellow, orange
and white. But with a just few twists the faces could soon
be (6) into a jumbled combination of all six colours.
What made the puzzle (7) difficult to subsequently
return to its initial state was the (8) number of possible
combinations of coloured squares, which is in (9) of
one thousand million, million.
The Rubik’s Cube was patented and sold by the Ideal Toy
Company of Germany and has been so successful for them
that is widely acknowledged as being the (10) best-selling
toy of all time.
a Hungarian professor of (1) . The puzzle consisted of
twenty-six (2) cubes fitted together to make a larger
cube of which all six faces can be rotated (3) of each
other. In its initial (4) all six faces of the cube were
(5) one of six colours, blue, green, red, yellow, orange
and white. But with a just few twists the faces could soon
be (6) into a jumbled combination of all six colours.
What made the puzzle (7) difficult to subsequently
return to its initial state was the (8) number of possible
combinations of coloured squares, which is in (9) of
one thousand million, million.
The Rubik’s Cube was patented and sold by the Ideal Toy
Company of Germany and has been so successful for them
that is widely acknowledged as being the (10) best-selling
toy of all time.
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