CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH EXAMINATIONS / CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY EXAM / CPE / USE OF ENGLISH / Open Cloze / Test 20

CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH EXAMINATIONS / CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY EXAM / CPE / USE OF ENGLISH / Open Cloze

 

For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

 

Chinese Language

Although the term "spoken Chinese" has a more restricted range than the broad expression "Chinese," it too suffers from a lack of precision in (1) ... of the wide varieties of speech that are usually subsumed (2) ... this name. "Spoken Chinese" includes the speech that can be heard throughout the area stretching from Manchuria in the northeast to Guangdong in the southeast to Yunnan in the southwest to Gansu in the northwest. The varieties of speech in this huge area are legion—ranging from forms with minor differences to (3) ... that are mutually unintelligible.
Indeed, even among people (4) ... speech is considered to be the same there are individual differences that lead linguists (5) ... assert that in fact no two persons speak exactly alike, since each person has his own idiolect which distinguishes him in certain points of detail (6) ... everyone (7) .... In a situation of such diversity there is obviously great danger that a statement true about one kind of spoken Chinese may be completely false (8) ... respect to another variety. Generalizations about spoken Chinese can be exceedingly misleading when carelessly advanced without qualification.

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[answer="view"]

[answer="under"] [answer="others"] ! [answer="whose"][answer="to"][answer="from"][answer="else"]

[answer="with"]

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answer keys

 

1)    VIEW
IDIOM IN VIEW OF SOMETHING
Considering something:
In view of the weather, the event will now be held indoors.

 
2)    UNDER
VERB + PREPOSITION SUBSUME UNDER
To include something in a larger group and cause it to lose its own individual character:
Art courses have been subsumed under the Humanities Department.

 
3)    OTHERS
PRONOUN OTHERS
Different or additional people or things: 
These issues and others will be discussed at the next meeting.

 
4)    WHOSE
RELATIVE PRONOUN WHOSE
Used to show which person or thing you are talking about: 
The prize will go to the writer whose story shows the most imagination.

 
5)    TO
VERB + PREPOSITION LEAD SB TO DO STH
To be the reason why somebody does or thinks something:
This has led scientists to speculate on the existence of other galaxies.

 
6)    FROM
VERB + PREPOSITION DISTINGUISH + FROM
To recognize the differences between things:
It's very difficult to distinguish satire from other types of comedy.

 
7)    ELSE
ADJECTIVE ELSE
Used to refer to a different or additional person or thing:
He values friendship more than anything else.

 
8)    WITH
IDIOM WITH RESPECT TO
Concerning:
The two groups were similar with respect to income and status.