Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Keyword Transformation
FCE Open Cloze: Clifton Suspension Bridge
For questions 1-12, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet below.
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The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a famous road bridge across the River Avon, (0) joins Clifton in Bristol (1) one side to Leigh Woods on the (2) side. When it was originally built, it was the longest bridge of (3) kind anywhere in the world and indeed, many people had believed that bridging such a great distance would turn out to (4) impossible.
When Isambard Kingdom Brunel first designed the bridge in 1731, the two towers that were going to support the roadway were designed to have (5) ancient Egyptian appearance. Unfortunately, Brunel died before the bridge (6) completed and the engineers who completed (7) , covered the stone towers with conventional red bricks instead.
Even today, more (8) a hundred years later, the bridge is still an impressive sight. The roadway that stretches between the two towers is two hundred and fourteen metres long, at a height of seventy-five metres above the river and the A4 road below. Originally, (9) car driver, cyclist and pedestrian who crossed the bridge had to pay a toll. (10) nowadays, people on foot and cyclists can cross for free and (11) motorists must still pay.
In April 2006, the bridge was used (12) the centre of a huge fireworks display to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of its great designer, Brunel.
When Isambard Kingdom Brunel first designed the bridge in 1731, the two towers that were going to support the roadway were designed to have (5) ancient Egyptian appearance. Unfortunately, Brunel died before the bridge (6) completed and the engineers who completed (7) , covered the stone towers with conventional red bricks instead.
Even today, more (8) a hundred years later, the bridge is still an impressive sight. The roadway that stretches between the two towers is two hundred and fourteen metres long, at a height of seventy-five metres above the river and the A4 road below. Originally, (9) car driver, cyclist and pedestrian who crossed the bridge had to pay a toll. (10) nowadays, people on foot and cyclists can cross for free and (11) motorists must still pay.
In April 2006, the bridge was used (12) the centre of a huge fireworks display to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of its great designer, Brunel.