Exercises Cambridge Test

PART 1: CLOZE: VOCABULARY
From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space.

OLYMPIC SCANDAL

Scandal has haunted the Olympic Games in modern times. At the very first Games, an Englishman called Flack (01).. made.... off briskly in front of the (02).. participants.... in the marathon. He was (03).. accompanied...... by his butler on a bicycle.. When they neared Athens,he (04). sent..... the butler back to (05)...... see..... who was behind him. The butler went back about a mile but found nobody. He rode back to Flack and said, "There's nobody. You can win this thing on your head." Then soon after, (06) round......... ran one Greek, then another, and another, and another. They were full of running. Perhaps Flack took a long (07).... way... round?


At the nextMarathon, in 1900, in Paris, the winner was a Frenchman who worked as a baker's roundsman. It was (08). strongly......... suspected that he was able to take numerous short (09).. routes......... because of his experience delivering bread in the area.


Four years later, the Games were held in St Louis, in the USA. This (10). time........ suspicions were proved, and the scandal great. TheAmerican runner who finished first in the marathon was discovered to have accepted a (11)... ride....... from a car. He was disqualified.


It is not so much the scandals and disputes of recent years that have (12). threatened...... the Games. It is their sheer (13).. enormity..... , their excessive cost, their indulgence of national pride. One very sensible suggestion is that future Games should berestricted to individual (14).. events..... in which one person clearly wins. All team games would go, and no one would feel any loss at the disappearance of Olympic soccer, a pale (15).... shadow of the more professional game.
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02. group participants crowd field

03. served serviced accompanied allied

04. sent fetched brought requested

05. view scan look see06. up round by to

07. path road way distance

08. heavily seriously strongly greatly

09. ways cuts routes sets

10. time occasion event meeting

11. lift help ride push

12. threatened attacked discouraged loomed over

13. grossness enormity obesity largesse

14. happenings events circumstances fields

15. weakness shadow image effigy
Exercise Answers

PART 1: CLOZE:VOCABULARY

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space.

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM

The death of Fred Hill was recorded by a (01).. main....... article in the Times newspaper. Fred was 74 years old and died in prison. He was in prison for the 32nd time. Why?. (02).... Not....... for any great crime, but for a reason you may find difficult to understand. You see, Fred was amotorcyclist who (03). refused........ to wear a crash helmet.


He believed that he was a safer motorcyclist (04).. without.. a crash helmet. More importantly, he believed that, right or wrong, the decision to wear a crash helmet was his to (05)... decide. . It was not for the State to tell him (06)... what... to do. So Fred went out on his old motorbike with no helmet, over and over again.The police (07)..... knew him. They (08)... made... a blind eye when they could. But often they had no choice. And in the court they had no choice (09).... but. to send him to prison because he refused to pay the fines. They usually (10).......gave him 30 days. But the last time, they gave the old man two months. Some way through the sentence, Fred suffered a heart attack and died.


Was heheroic? If he was, he was a most unlikely hero. But perhaps we do need someone to (11)... . look........... out for the little liberties, the sort of (12).. thing...... which the greater boring mass of "public opinion" considers too silly, too undignified, not worth (13)... bothering about. The sort of thing there are no votes in for (14)..... anyone Fred Hill stood for an individual freedom,...