CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH examinations / PROFICIENCY EXAM / CPE / 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.


 

Thomas Cook


Tourism is now among the world's largest industries, but little is known about its greater pioneer, Thomas Cook, the father of tourism. He revolutionised travel, invented package holidays and  …  [brought/carried/took/transferred]  mobility to the masses. The sex, alcohol, overspending,  ...  [indolent/petulant/repellent/esculent]  leisure and extravagance that are now associated with much of the holiday industry would horrify him. Few know of his preoccupation  ...  [with/for/by/in]  God, Rome and the Holy Land, or of his determination to improve the lot of the working classes, let  ...  [alone/slip/fall/go]  his abhorrence of beer houses, pubs and gin palaces. In the nineteenth century no priest, or minister, did more than this  ...  [diminutive/diminished/dimerous/miniature]  former preacher to  ...  [shape/model/cast/frame]  Protestant attitudes to Palestine. By opening up Palestine to tourism, Cook deliberately offered the British people a way to reconnect with their religious roots. From 1869  ...  [onwards/upwards/outwards/inwards]  he brought the largest number of British to the Holy Land since the Crusader armies and private parties of pilgrims in the Middle Ages. In 1976 a BBC documentary on Cook asked the question, 'But what made him do it?' This strait-laced provincial missionary – what  ...  [drove/had/took/struck]  him on? What fired his abundant energy?

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ANSWER KEYS

 

1)    BROUGHT
VERB + PREPOSITION BRING STH TO SB/STH
To provide somebody/something with something: 
The team's new manager brings ten years' experience to the job.
 
2)    INDOLENT
ADJECTIVE INDOLENT
Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy:
The open rhythm of the house lends itself to indolent leisure.
3)    WITH
NOUN + PREPOSITION PREOCCUPATION WITH
A state in which you think about something so much that you do not think about other things: 
She found his preoccupation with money irritating.
 
4)    ALONE
IDIOM LET ALONE
Used after a negative statement to say that the next thing you mention is even more unlikely: 
I wouldn't work with my mom, let alone my whole family.
 
5)    DIMINUTIVE
ADJECTIVE DIMINUTIVE
Very small:
He exercised frequently, trying to add strength to his diminutive body.
 
6)    SHAPE
COLLOCATION SHAPE ATTITUDE
To decide or influence the form of something, especially a belief or idea, or someone's character:
My relationship with my father played a major part in shaping my attitude towards men.
 
7)    ONWARDS
PHRASE FROM ... ONWARDS
Continuing from a particular time: 
They lived there from the 1980s onwards.
 
8)    DROVE
PHRASAL VERB DRIVE ON
To urge strongly forward: 
It was ambition that drove him on.