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FCE Paper 3 Part 1 Use of English

Read the text below and decide which answer (a ,b c, or d) best fits each space. There is an
example at the beginning (0). Then check your answers in the dictionary or CD-ROM.

Mike got back from work and 0 _________ his bags as quickly as he could. Then he made sure he had
1 _________ all the lights, set the burglar 2 _________ , and locked the apartment. He was late. He only had
half an hour to get the airport - a journey that normally 3 _________ nearly an hour. He was on the motorway
in just over ten minutes and then he put his foot down. The speed 4 _________ was 110 km/hr, but he was
driving at over 160 when the saw the 5 blue _________ light of the police car in his mirror. He hit the
6 _________ wheel in frustration and pulled his car onto the 7 _________ shoulder.
"Excuse me, sir," said the police 8 _________ . "Can I see your driving 9 _________?"
Mike felt in his jacket pocket and then looked in his briefcase.
"I'm sorry," he said, "I think I've left all my documents at home."
"Oh really, sir? Would you mind stepping 10 _________ the car?"

0

a) loaded

b) packed

c) filled

d) prepared

1

a) closed

b) locked

c) shut

d) switched off

2

a) signal

b) alert

c) alarm

d) mask

3

a) took

b) endured

c) demanded d) reserved

4

a) bump

b) limit

c) trap

d) reading

5

a) flashing

b) glowing

c) burning

d) fading

6

a) spinning

b) controlling c) driving

d) steering

7

a) hard

b) cold

c) strong

d) warm

8

a) official

b) officer

c) station

d) reporter

9

a) certificate

b) document

c) licence

d) passport

10

a) without

b) out of

c) over

d) up

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Teacher’s notes

Your link to living language

Level:

FCE

Aim:

To give students practice for the FCE Paper 3 Part 1 Use of English Multiple-choice Cloze test.

To practice using the CD-ROM to find collocations.

Timing: 20 minutes

Procedure:

Your students can look up words from the passage or the choices if they need help finding the
answers. Show them how they can easily type a word into the type-in box underneath the row

of buttons and press OK.

answers: 0 b (At the entry bags, see meaning 5)

1 d (See entry light

1

, meaning 2)

2 c (burglar alarm has

its own entry)

3 a (See entry take

1

, meaning 4)

4 b (see reading, meaning 7)

5 a (See entry shine,

section 1 in the Longman Language Activator.)

6 d (See entry wheel

1

, meaning 2)

7 a (hard shoulder has

its own entry)

8 b (police officer has its own entry)

9 c (driving licence has its own entry)

10 b

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