FCE open cloze practice 1

FCE open cloze practice 1
Stormy waters My elder sister, (0) ……… has done a lot of travelling, had advised me not to go (1) ……… ship in February, but of course I hadn’t paid (2) ……… attention to what she said. I hadn’t taken any notice, (3)……… , of the warning from the passengers coming off the ship, who said (4) ……… had been the worst voyage they had (5) ……… experienced. The water in the harbour looked calm enough, and the ship was big and solid, so I decided not (6) ……… take any anti- seasickness pills. As (7) ……… as I was on board I began (8) ……… a huge meal, which I finished just (9) ……… we came out of the harbour and into the ocean. Immediately we were hit by enormous waves, (10) ……… threw the ship around in the water as if it were a toy boat in the bath. Oil threat to Ice Age world An area of the North Atlantic has not changed (0) .......... the last Ice Age, according (1) .......... scientists. They have found that (2) .......... temperature of deep water near the Shetland Islands always remains a little below zero degrees. In (3) .......... of the intense cold, the water never freezes because it is extremely salty, and it is inhabited (4) .......... giant sea spiders. The discovery was made by a team of scientists studying the ocean floor at depths of (5) .......... a mile. They also found deep marks in the seabed at a depth of around 350 metres, which they say must (6) .......... been caused by icebergs that had broken away from Scotland during the Ice Age.
What worries environmentalists, however, is that (7) .......... area lies near a place of rich oil deposits. Organizations such as Greenpeace fear that it is only a (8) .......... of time before multinational oil companies start exploring this permanently sub-zero world. (9) .......... that happens, they warn, it will not be (10) .......... before oil slicks harm an environment that has lain untouched for thousands of years.
Lost and Found My father considered 0 ……….. to be a lucky man. He wasn’t rich or famous, but he was lucky 1 …………………. he lost anything, he was usually 2 ………… to find it again 3 …………… such example was a fountain pen, a present from my mother on 4 …………. wedding anniversary. We had had a family day out in the mountains. My brother, 5………………was about ten years old at the time, and I enjoyed going to a lake where you could hire a boat and row out across the water. 6…………… had once been a village in the valley, but the valley had been flooded in order 7……………. create a reservoir for a city many miles away. When the water was clear, you could still make out the top of the church spire and the walls of houses 8 ……………. we were returning home that night, my father discovered that he had lost his treasured fountain pen. About two weeks later, he announced that in spite 9 …………… the gloomy weather, we were going back to the lake for the day. We were surprised, but said nothing. We set 10…………… about nine in the morning, and as 11…………… as we arrived at the lake, we headed 12 ………………..the spot where we had had our picnic on the previous occasion. As we were deciding whether to hire a boat for the afternoon or 13…………… , my father gave a shout. There, lying on the ground, was a pen. There was 14……………. doubt at all in my mind that 15……………. was the pen he had lost two weeks beforehand. Sponsored walk Have you ever 0 …………… on a sponsored walk? I went on 1……………when I was about eleven years old. Our teacher came up 2………………the idea. We would donate any money we raised to a local charity and have a day out at the same time. I didn’t really understand what 3………………..involved in a sponsored walk, but that didn’t make 4………………. difference to me. It just seemed an exciting thing to do, and we set 5………………… on our journey with enthusiasm. But the walk turned out to be even 6……………….. exciting than I had expected. 7………………I didn’t realise was that it consisted of walking two miles to a small island 8………………. only means of access was across a causeway. The island, 9………………. is situated off the north-east coast of Britain, is a place of outstanding natural beauty, but very remote. The first problem we came up 10………………….. was the sand. We had to put 11…………… with it blowing in our faces and on our legs as we struggled across the causeway