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.


 

Walt Disney


He gave us Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Snow White, and Bambi. His movies, books, comics, merchandise, and television programs have  ...  [enchanted/empowered/enhanced/embodied]  several generations of children and adults both in America and around the world. He  ...  [developed/advancd/progressed/cultivated]  the theme park into a dream family destination, providing fun, safe, and affordable adventures for millions of people. He became a major public figure and  ...  [associated/related/linked/asserted]  with kings and presidents and movie stars. He changed the way Hollywood made movies with his innovative animations and his  ... [mainstream/mainspring/mainstay/mainline] , family-oriented motion pictures. He perfected the model of merchandise  ...  [tie-ins/tie-ups/tie-pins/tie-outs]  and entered nearly every American home with his images, stories, or ideals. But Walt Disney is dead and has been since 1966. The cause of his death is not a mystery: he smoked all his life and succumbed  ...  [to/on/with/in]  lung cancer. Despite urban legends that have him preserved in a cryogenic freeze, ready to be  ...  [thawed/melted/defrosted/warmed]  out when science deems  ...  [it/so/if/as]  possible, he and his body are gone, and his ashes are buried in a cemetery in California. News of the death of Walt Disney stunned his employees who were not generally aware of the seriousness of his illness.

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ANSWER KEYS

 

1)    ENCHANTED
VERB ENCHANT SOMEBODY (FORMAL)
To attract somebody strongly and make them feel very interested, excited, etc.: 
The family scene had enchanted him.
 
2)    DEVELOPED
VERB + PREPOSITION DEVELOP INTO STH
To gradually grow or become bigger, more advanced, stronger, etc.: 
The conflict quickly developed into full-scale war.
 
3)    ASSOCIATED
PHRASAL VERB ASSOCIATE WITH SOMEBODY
To spend time with someone: 
While she was in Paris, she associated with many well-known artists.
 
4)    MAINSTREAM
NOUN MAINSTREAM
The ideas and opinions that are thought to be normal because they are shared by most people: 
His radical views place him outside the mainstream of American politics.
 
5)    TIE-INS
NOUN TIE-IN
A product such as a book or toy that is connected with a new film, television programme, etc.:
The selling of book tie-ins in video outlets cannot be far behind.
 
6)    TO
VERB + PREPOSITION SUCCUMB TO SOMETHING (FORMAL)
To not be able to fight an attack, an illness, a temptation, etc.:
She succumbed to temptation and ordered a glass of wine.
 
7)    THAWED
PHRASAL VERB THAW OUT
If you thaw out, you gradually get warm again after being very cold:
I'm just starting to thaw out after taking the dogs out this morning.
 
8)    IT
VERB PATTERN DEEM IT + ADJ
To have a particular opinion about something: 
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