Desert (Seletive cloze, FCE)

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This quiz is part of a past paper, which means it appeared in a real exam (in June 2004). It’s Part 1 (Selective cloze) of Paper 3 (Use of English) of the ESOL First Certificate in English (FCE) of the University of Cambridge, taken approximately at the upper-intermediate level.  ____________________Deserts

Hairmichelle · Accepted Answer

I thought this was a trick. I scored 16/16.

Sissou · Answer

I scored only 11/16 <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/6.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/6.gif' alt='Emotion: sad'/>

Hairmichelle · Answer

I don't mean to sound cocky, sorry. I was just happy I got them all right.[:^)]

JCDenton · Answer

Hi Tanit,

heh.... I had 15/16...

. I made a mistake in "Many deserts are vast expanses of straight stony ground"...Actually, I was hesitating between straight and flat....:-). But I guess, what's straight is also flat, am I right?...hm..[:^)]..

..Ehmmm, It doesn't matter...

...

In any case, it was nice test!..

Thanks Tanit.

Best Regards

JCD

Kooyeen · Answer

Hmm, there are lots of things I will never understand about these kinds of tests... They want you to pick the most idiomatic one, but how can I do that when I don't even know what's idiomatic, LOL? For example, I got the first one wrong... I chose smoking hot... what's wrong with that? I thought it was the best by far.

Unless I actually dreamed of people saying"Hey dude, check out that chick... she's smoking hot!"LOL

Hairmichelle · Answer

I guess because when one thinks of the desert, they think of sun--sun burn, so I guess burning was the "right" answer. I don't know. But "smoking hot" would be slightly more descriptive. <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' alt='Emotion: smile'/>

Tanit · Answer

KooyeenI chose smoking hot... what's wrong with that? I thought it was the best by far. Unless I actually dreamed of people saying "Hey dude, check out that chick... she's smoking hot!"

... hmm, but would you say "a smoking hot sun"?

JCDenton · Answer

Tanit... hmm, but would you say "a smoking hot sun"?

:-))).
Yeah, exactly.

In my point of view, this test was just about what sounds more natural....Like this one:The truth is that sand deserts represent only a very small proportion of the world’s dry lands. In my opinion, word ilustrate isn't there wrong as well, but it just sounds a little weird...Really nice exercise, thanks again.
JCD

_Saraaaah · Answer

Hye

I had 5/16.
Yes I know, my English is Terrible.
i want to learn more english because I think it's important in your life.
On school I have 2 houres engels in a week.
But I don't understood anything of it.
That's why I tried it here.

Have anyone more ideas for me ? to learn english ?

Bruno_ts · Answer

You scored 10 out of 16

Not too good, but I'm trying to learn more!
Principally because I'll try to do the FCE exam next year o/

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