Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Keyword Transformation
FCE Mulitlple Choice Cloze: Plastic Bags
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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Plastic bags are an inescapable part of our (0) lives. Walk into any supermarket and you will see huge piles of the things near the (1) with customers busily filling them with their day’s (2) . In the UK (3) , we manage to get through eight billion of them in a year. This number may seem surprisingly (4) but when you consider that each carrier is only used once and multiply that by the number of shops that we each visit in the (5) of a week, the scale of our over-consumption soon becomes (6) .
But the problems really begin when we try to (7) of them. Nearly all of the eight billion bags (8) up in the rubbish bin. After that, we have three choices. We can (9) them underground in landfill sites, burn them in huge industrial burners, which (10) tons of poisonous gases into the atmosphere or we can try to recycle them and use the plastic to construct new plastic objects for the home.
But now there is a new (11) that many people are talking about. Several towns in the UK have banned shops from giving out free carrier bags and are (12) members of the public to buy a more permanent shopping bag that they can reuse many times.
But the problems really begin when we try to (7) of them. Nearly all of the eight billion bags (8) up in the rubbish bin. After that, we have three choices. We can (9) them underground in landfill sites, burn them in huge industrial burners, which (10) tons of poisonous gases into the atmosphere or we can try to recycle them and use the plastic to construct new plastic objects for the home.
But now there is a new (11) that many people are talking about. Several towns in the UK have banned shops from giving out free carrier bags and are (12) members of the public to buy a more permanent shopping bag that they can reuse many times.