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Tanit Posted 17 years ago
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Gorillas & co. (CPE Reading, selective cloze)

An exercise to practise Paper 1 (Reading) of the CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) of the University of Cambridge, Part 1.
In this part candidates are asked to read three extracts and to answer a total of 18 questions, six per extract.



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Gorillas





From: Mann, R. (2002) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Proficiency-Gold-Exam-Maximiser-revised/dp/0582507332/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1234978813&sr=8-1. Edinburgh, UK: Pearson Education Ltd.
  

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Second extract ...

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The New Assistant



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... and third one. Enjoy! Emotion: smile

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Interview with Austen Grove



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Thanks Tanit. I winkled out only 10/16. Emotion: smile By the way, are you preparing for CPE?
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Hi, Fandorin,

Yes ... sort of. Emotion: crying
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I wish you luck.

By the way.

http://englishtips.org/?do=cat&category=cpe

It will help improve and prepare a lot.
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Hi,

Thanks for the link. I already knew that site ... so I know what's in there Emotion: wink and, especially, what'sNOT in ther
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Aarrgh! Those were so tough! I gave up on the last one, I just didn't know the words. You have to know a lot of vocabulary and that's not enough, you need to know what sounds the best in collocations! That's pretty difficult. And then there are several phrasal verbs to know too... and I guess they are the most difficult part of vocabulary to learn, because each one can have more than one meaning,
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Hi K.,

Right you are! Some of these exercises are not a piece of cake.
Even when I don't "know" the answer however, I often "feel" instinctively what is correct, probably because I read a lot and also listen to spoken English (esp. podcasts) a lot. My passive vocabulary is improving steadily (I did a mock exam last week and my teacher asked me what sort of drugs I had taken
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Hi Tanit. Thanks for posting this. I've always enjoyed taking this kind of tests, but I have a question about the 4th blank in the 1st extract. Why can't we use "distinctly"? Doesn't the word have the same meaning as "clearly"?

Thanks
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Pease give me keys from these tasks
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