Free Exercises: Cambridge ESOL Exercises
Exam: FCE CAE CPE
Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Keyword Transformation
FCE Open Cloze: Free-fall Racing
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.
Example
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Since the rise of the current health (0) safety culture, most people in the UK have begun to lead lives with absolutely no element (1) danger at all. And after realising that their lives are nowhere (2) as dangerous as they once were, (3) didn't take long before a group of young entrepreneurs came up with a new sport that really lets them push (4) to the limit in terms of risk and excitement.
Every weekend, at an airfield (5) the North Devon coast, a group of otherwise risk-averse individuals meet and attempt to (6) a new record for how fast they can fall a distance of two kilometres from a small airplane. These are people who rarely if ever break (7) speed limit. But as free-fall racers, they compete to pick (8) as much speed as they can before finally opening their parachutes at the last minute.
Each race is over and finished in (9) matter of seconds but during those vital few seconds, the racers say they are totally absorbed (10) trying to make their bodies fall that little bit faster and trying to judge the perfect moment to pull the parachute cord. Many of them say that they hold (11) breath for the whole duration of the fall, only breathing out again when they touch the ground. Bill Morris, one free-fall racer says that he has tried every extreme sport but that all of the others are simply nothing (12) comparison.
Every weekend, at an airfield (5) the North Devon coast, a group of otherwise risk-averse individuals meet and attempt to (6) a new record for how fast they can fall a distance of two kilometres from a small airplane. These are people who rarely if ever break (7) speed limit. But as free-fall racers, they compete to pick (8) as much speed as they can before finally opening their parachutes at the last minute.
Each race is over and finished in (9) matter of seconds but during those vital few seconds, the racers say they are totally absorbed (10) trying to make their bodies fall that little bit faster and trying to judge the perfect moment to pull the parachute cord. Many of them say that they hold (11) breath for the whole duration of the fall, only breathing out again when they touch the ground. Bill Morris, one free-fall racer says that he has tried every extreme sport but that all of the others are simply nothing (12) comparison.