CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH / ADVANCED / CAE / USE OF ENGLISH / Multiple Choice Cloze

For questions 1- 8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
 

air power
 

The history of air power has been much confused, both by the glamour surrounding flight and by a lack in the past of  ... [historically/*historical/historic/history]  perspective on the part of its proponents. To pierce this confusion, we must examine the context  ... [from/on/*in/by]  which the airplane first flew. Its arrival  ... [*coincided/accompanied/according/cooperated]  with the beginning of  ... [far-reaching/outspread/boundless/*widespread]  industrialisation and with the closure of frontiers in the United States, Russia, Australia, South Africa, and South America. Humans were now confined to know geographic boundaries and their frustrations were accentuated by the stalemate of the First World War when airmen – the romantic frontiersmen of the day – appeared to be as free as the birds. Man had  ... [taken off/taken in/taken out/*taken to]  the air in 1890s, just after the tabloid newspapers of the sensational  ... [*yellow/red/green/blue]  pages were started. This, and the fact that flying  ... [brought up/*grew up/caught up/picked up]  with the cinema and shared its young heroes in the 1920s with radio, made glamorisation inevitable. Flying somehow fit into each nation’s idealised characteristics. In America, the Wright brothers were upper-class theoretical and practical mechanics;  ... [*elsewhere/anywhere/somewhere/wherefore]  , pioneer fliers were more often gentry, manufacturers, or engineers as in Britain, France and Russia, or even nobility as in Germany and Japan.

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ANSWER KEYS

 

1)    HISTORICAL
ADJECTIVE HISTORICAL
HISTORIC is often confused with HISTORICAL.
HISTORIC means something important or influential in history.
HISTORICAL, on the other hand, refers to anything from the past, important or not.
 
2)    IN
PREPOSITION + RELATIVE PRONOUN IN WHICH
In formal English a phrase with proposition can often be used instead of where or when:
This is the place where/at which/in which we usually meet.
 
 
3)    COINCIDED
VERB + PREPOSITION COINCIDE WITH
To take place at the same time:
His entry to the party coincided with his marriage.
 
4)    WIDESPREAD
ADJECTIVE WIDESPREAD
Existing or happening over a large area or among many people:
The hurricane caused widespread damage.
 
5)    TAKEN TO
PHRASAL VERB TAKE TO
To develop an ability for something:
Adrian took to football as if he'd been playing all his life.
 
6)    YELLOW
COLLOCATION YELLOW PRESS
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers:
Her story was published in yellow press. 
 
7)    GREW UP
PHRASAL VERB GROW UP
To develop into an adult:
Their children have all grown up and left home now.
 
8)    ELSEWHERE
ADVERB ELSEWHERE
In, at or to another place:
The answer to the problem must be sought elsewhere.