Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Keyword Transformation
FCE Mulitlple Choice Cloze: Mecca Time
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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Anybody who has travelled from one time zone to another will be (0) with the three letters GMT, which (1) for Greenwich Mean Time. This is the name of the time zone centred around the city of London. All the other time zones around the planet are described by how many hours they are ahead of or behind Greenwich. This system (2) back to 1884 when scientists still used the positioning of stars in the (3) sky to accurately measure time. Because of this, it seemed natural to organize the world’s time zones around the (4) of the Greenwich Observatory which was the most (5) astronomical observatory in the world at that time. Now however, a new site for the central time zone has been put forward.
For members of the Muslim (6) the holiest place on the (7) of the Earth is the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Every day, at certain fixed times all Muslims are expected to make their (8) prayers with their lowered heads oriented in the direction of Mecca. Recently a(n) (9) Islamic scholar has suggested that the city of Mecca is the true centre of the Earth. For this reason he has suggested that it would make a much more logical (10) as the central time zone. He has also suggested that GMT was originally (11) on the world by Britain in the days when it had a large (12) and for this reason it was about time that there was a change.
For members of the Muslim (6) the holiest place on the (7) of the Earth is the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Every day, at certain fixed times all Muslims are expected to make their (8) prayers with their lowered heads oriented in the direction of Mecca. Recently a(n) (9) Islamic scholar has suggested that the city of Mecca is the true centre of the Earth. For this reason he has suggested that it would make a much more logical (10) as the central time zone. He has also suggested that GMT was originally (11) on the world by Britain in the days when it had a large (12) and for this reason it was about time that there was a change.