C1 Advanced - Open Cloze Exercises
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
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The second part of the Reading and Use of English paper in the C1 Advanced Examination is open cloze, in which you use one word to fill each space in a short text.
3. You're ________ from perfect, Jon. Only last year, you lost those files, remember?
Open Cloze Exercise 1
Exercise Number: CAE018 | Walkthrough Video
Open Cloze Exercise 2
Exercise Number: CAE019 | Walkthrough Video
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Open Cloze Exercise 3
Exercise Number: CAE020 | Walkthrough Video
Read the whole sentence or the whole text. Often the answer required for the space is dependent on a word or reference many words before or after it. Look at this example:
Kathy spent the afternoon looking for the phone and finally John admitted taking it because he hadn't known that it was ______.
The answer is "HERS" but you wouldn't know that unless you'd read the name that appears TWENTY-ONE words before the gap!
Open Cloze Exercise 4
Exercise Number: CAE021 | Walkthrough Video
Open Cloze Exercise 5
Exercise Number: CAE022 | Walkthrough Video
Open Cloze Exercise 6
Exercise Number: CAE023 | Walkthrough Video
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Open Cloze Exercise 7
Exercise Number: CAE024 | Walkthrough Video
Open Cloze Exercise 8
Exercise Number: CAE025
Open Cloze Exercise 9
Exercise Number: CAE026
Keep a database of difficult open cloze questions. This could be on your computer or in a notebook. You might list them like this:
put it IN order (to put something in order)
licked ITS paw (pronoun for objects/animals)
set UP a company (phrasal verb 'set up', to establish, create)
Open Cloze Exercise 10
Exercise Number: CAE027
Open Cloze Exercise 11
Exercise Number: CAE028
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- Listen to natural spoken English and choose how to respond
- Build vocabulary with key phrases and definitions
- Replay audio at slow speed to catch every word
- Review the full transcript when you've finished
Open Cloze Exercise 12
Exercise Number: CAE029
Open Cloze Exercise 13
Exercise Number: CAE030
Open Cloze Exercise 14
Exercise Number: CAE031
Open Cloze Exercise 15
Exercise Number: CAE032
Open Cloze Exercise 16
Exercise Number: CAE033
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Open Cloze Exercise 17
Exercise Number: CAE060
Open Cloze Exercise 18
Exercise Number: CAE061
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