Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Keyword Transformation
FCE Mulitlple Choice Cloze: I Married A Game Addict
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.
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Dear Doris,
I'm now in my second year of (0) and my husband's video game addiction is really starting to (1) me. When we first got married, I wouldn't have said that he was a particularly (2) gamer but after a few months his gaming became more and more time (3) and in the last month it has really (4) .
I reckon, that now he's totally (5) in one game or another more than ninety percent of his free time. In the past he used to have a few minutes to make (6) talk before he sat down for an evening of Halo 3 but now, we are almost not on speaking (7) at all. And this, more than anything else, is (8) me up the wall.
But apart from being very annoying, I have to (9) , it is also a little scary. He now seems to be totally out of (10) with reality and I am beginning to worry that he can no longer (11) the distinction between me and one of the characters he is killing on the TV screen. I would love to talk it over with him and (12) some kind of compromise where he only plays five nights a week. But I can never get him to listen for more than ten seconds. Please tell me what I can do to save our marriage because I know I am still in love with him.
I reckon, that now he's totally (5) in one game or another more than ninety percent of his free time. In the past he used to have a few minutes to make (6) talk before he sat down for an evening of Halo 3 but now, we are almost not on speaking (7) at all. And this, more than anything else, is (8) me up the wall.
But apart from being very annoying, I have to (9) , it is also a little scary. He now seems to be totally out of (10) with reality and I am beginning to worry that he can no longer (11) the distinction between me and one of the characters he is killing on the TV screen. I would love to talk it over with him and (12) some kind of compromise where he only plays five nights a week. But I can never get him to listen for more than ten seconds. Please tell me what I can do to save our marriage because I know I am still in love with him.