Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Keyword Transformation
FCE Mulitlple Choice Cloze: Ghost Tour of Oldminster
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
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Are you (0) of dark, mysterious places at night but at the same time, love being scared to (1) by stories about ghosts and (2) buildings? Then you should love Spookmaster's world famous tour of Oldminster. Every year, spook enthusiasts from all over the world, (3) to Oldminster to experience it. And the (4) news is, our tour just got even better as it now includes two buildings where you just might see well-documented spirits that have both been described by many reliable (5) on several occasions since the Middle (6) .
The first, is the ghost of John Reid who to this day, visits the old prison in Monk Street, which is now used as a shoe shop. In 1481, after the (7) murder of his wife, Anna Reid, the unfortunate Mr Reid was arrested and sentenced to death. But the day after his trial, he (8) suicide in his cell. We will show you the outside window of his cell, which even today is still (9) with thick iron bars. And who knows? Maybe you'll see his ghost.
The second new visit is a small, (10) room in the cellar of the Old Prince pub. Here, in the seventeenth Century, three escaped prisoners burned to death while trying to hide from the police. Apparently one of them dropped his oil lamp on the stone floor and they couldn't escape because the door was (11) from the inside. Sometimes, if you listen carefully you can hear their ghostly voices shouting in a (12) of panic and trying to raise the alarm.
The first, is the ghost of John Reid who to this day, visits the old prison in Monk Street, which is now used as a shoe shop. In 1481, after the (7) murder of his wife, Anna Reid, the unfortunate Mr Reid was arrested and sentenced to death. But the day after his trial, he (8) suicide in his cell. We will show you the outside window of his cell, which even today is still (9) with thick iron bars. And who knows? Maybe you'll see his ghost.
The second new visit is a small, (10) room in the cellar of the Old Prince pub. Here, in the seventeenth Century, three escaped prisoners burned to death while trying to hide from the police. Apparently one of them dropped his oil lamp on the stone floor and they couldn't escape because the door was (11) from the inside. Sometimes, if you listen carefully you can hear their ghostly voices shouting in a (12) of panic and trying to raise the alarm.