Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Keyword Transformation
FCE Mulitlple Choice Cloze: Climate Change
For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet below.
Example
| 0 | A difference | B movement | C change | D alteration |
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We are not as well-informed about climate (0) as we may think we are. Most people have heard about the (1) of global warming but relatively few people could reliably tell you accurate (2) and figures (3) to this phenomenon. Scare stories appear in the media on an almost (4) basis, complete with graphs, statistics and (5) of how the world is going to change. But although we have all read and understood this numerical data, remembering it is (6) matter.
(7) the actual rise in global (8) over the last century, for example. When asked in a survey how much the world had warmed during the (9) of the twentieth century, fifty-one percent of people thought that a ten-degree rise (10) right compared with an actual (11) of 0.6 degrees. Many people also seemed to believe that we could soon expect to see sea-level rises that would cover all but the world's highest mountains when in (12) the rise is unlikely to be more than five metres.
(7) the actual rise in global (8) over the last century, for example. When asked in a survey how much the world had warmed during the (9) of the twentieth century, fifty-one percent of people thought that a ten-degree rise (10) right compared with an actual (11) of 0.6 degrees. Many people also seemed to believe that we could soon expect to see sea-level rises that would cover all but the world's highest mountains when in (12) the rise is unlikely to be more than five metres.