CAE Reading and Use of English Part 1
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D) best fits each gap.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Female pilot Mary Heath was the 0 original Queen of the Skies, one of the best-known women in the
world during the 1 __________ age of aviation. She was the first woman in Britain to gain a
commercial pilot’s licence, the first to 2 __________ a parachute jump and the first British women’s
javelin champion. She scandalised 1920s’ British society by marrying three times (at the 3__________
of her fame she wed politician Sir James Heath – her second husband, 45 years her senior).
In 1928, aged 31, she became the first pilot to fly an open-cockpit plane, solo, from South Africa to
Egypt, 4 __________ 9,000 miles in three months. It was a triumph. Lady Heath was 5 __________ as
the nation’s sweetheart and called ‘Lady Icarus’ by the press. However, her life was 6 __________
tragically short. Only a year later, she 7 __________ a horrific accident at the National Air Show in
Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed through the roof of a building. Her health was never the 8
__________ again, and she died in May 1939.
Example:
0 A original B initial C primary D novel
1 A golden В sweet C bright D shiny
2 A put В hold C take D make
3 A crest В height C fullness D top
4 A covering В stretching C crossing D ranging
5 A exclaimed В declared C hailed D quoted
6 A cut В left C stopped D brought
7 A undertook В suffered C received D underwent
8 A like В equal C better D same
CAE Reading and Use of English Part 2
For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only
one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet
Example: (0) AS
TRIATHLETES
Stuart Hayes had launched him self on a promising career 0 __________ a swimmer when something
odd happened 9 __________ him at the local pool. Flogging up and down for the umpteenth time, he
suddenly realised 10__________ bored he had become with the monotony. Wasn’t there a more
interesting way of 11__________ sporty, for heaven’s sake? There was and there is: the colour,
sweat and sheer emotion of triathlons. Stuart became a world-class triathlete and won the London
Triathlon, the biggest event of 12__________ kind in the world.
Triathlons are 13__________ but boring. Combining swimming, cycling and running in one physical
onslaught, they offer huge variety within a single racing framework. In Britain, the sport is growing by
10 percent a year. ‘People are moving away 14__________ just running, and are looking for new
challenges,’ says Nick Rusling, event director for the London Triathlon. Triathlons are a
15__________ deal more interesting to train for and you can vary training to fit busy lifestyles,
swimming in your lunch break and 16__________ on.
CAE Reading and Use of English Part 3
For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the
end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.
Example: (0) WINNER
Restaurant of the Year
One more chance! That’s all we’re giving you to tell us about your 0 WIN
favourite restaurant and boost its chances of becoming 17 NOMINATE
the 0__________ of our Restaurant of the Year competition. This is 18 RECEIVE
the last time the official 17__________ form will appear in the paper 19 DINE
and next Thursday is the final date for 18__________ of completed 20 CHOOSE
forms. 21 CONTEST
Over the past few weeks we have been swamped by a paper 22 DEAD
mountain as 19__________ across the city jot down the compelling 23
reasons why they believe their 20__________ restaurant should ANNOUNCE
definitely win our hotly 21__________ competition. 24 PRESTIGE
Once the 22__________ has passed, our judges will sit down and
count all the forms. The three restaurants which receive the most
votes will then be visited by the judges. These visits will of course
be 23__________, so the restaurants themselves will not know that
the judges are there. After their visits, the judges will make their final
decision over who wins the 24__________ title ‘Restaurant of the
Year’.
