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.

 

historical view on Alcohol consumption
 

A history of beer must ... [comprise/consist/compose/make up]  much more than simply an account of the nature of the product itself and the technology surrounding its production. Eating and drinking, and even more particularly, the consumption of alcohol are usually very strongly ... [embedded/buried/fastened/deposited]  in socio-cultural ideologies since they tend in most societies not to be ... [solitary/lonely/alone/lonesome]  activities but social ones performed in a social context. Even in the rare societies in which alcohol is known but abstained ... [from/to/on/of] , it still remains a societal concern and is never altogether ignored. Anthropological work has also revealed that there is a ... [surprisingly/uncommon/unknowingly/ignorantly]  great diversity in the various cultural ideologies concerning the consumption of alcohol.  ... [Since/Despite/Even/Because of]  any person or group of people can be readily categorized as a follower of such an ideology or as a deviant, drinking becomes a marker of identity and alterity (or ‘otherness’), establishing boundaries of inclusion and exclusion,  ... [both/either/neither/none]  within a culture as well as between cultures. In this way cultures are not simply objectively identifiable groups of individuals, but self-identified groups which impose ... [upon/in/against/for]  themselves markers of identity and alterity.

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ANSWER KEYS

 

1)    COMPRISE
VERB COMPRISE
To have somebody/something as parts or members:
The collection comprises 327 paintings.
 
2)    EMBEDDED
VERB + PREPOSITION EMBEDDED IN
To fix something firmly into a substance or solid object:
These attitudes are deeply embedded in our society.
 
3)    SOLITARY
ADJECTIVE SOLITARY
Tending to spend a lot of time alone: 
A solitary policeman stood at the gate. 
 
4)    FROM
VERB + PREPOSITION ABSTAINED FROM
To not do or have something you enjoy, especially alcohol or sex, usually for reasons of religion or health:
Pilots must abstain from alcohol for 24 hours before flying.
 
5)    SURPRISINGLY
COLLOCATION SURPRISINGLY GREAT
Unusually or unexpectedly:
The test was surprisingly easy.
 
6)    SINCE
CONJUNCTION SINCE
Because; as:
We thought that, since we were in the area, we'd stop by and see them.
 
7)    BOTH
CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTION BOTH ... AND ... AS WELL AS
Not only… but also…:
He is both rich and smart as well as handsome. 
 
8)    UPON
VERB + PREPOSITION IMPOSE UPON
To force someone to accept (something or yourself):
I don't like having to impose myself upon other people.