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.


 

Aquaculture


The term aquaculture is defined as 'the art of increasing and rearing aquatic animals and plants'. It covers activities whose main object is the production of fresh-water,  ...  [brackish/lavish/brachial/belated]  and marine species by man under controlled or semi-controlled conditions. The production of living matter from the aquatic medium is fundamental  ...  [to/from/of/for]  all aquaculture activities; aquaculture is based on the manipulation of the natural or  ...  [artificial/false/fake/counterfeit]  aquatic environment for the production of species which are useful to man. It  ...  [therefore/since/despite/inasmuch]  involves all aspects of production of living matter in water. There is no  ...  [hard/furious/loud/heavy]  and fast distinction between the culture of plants and the rearing of animals as on land where plant crops and animals can be considered separately, but there are different  ...  [constraints/constants/contracts/cerebrums]  imposed by the characteristics of the species being cultured. The ongrowing of fish at high density has all the characteristics of animal rearing while that of mussels or oysters, depending more on natural seasonal rhythms, is more similar to terrestrial plant crops. In the  ...  [widest/vastest/greatest/longest]  sense, aquaculture includes activities associated  ...  [with/against/in/on]  the preparation of animals and plants for sale and their marketing.

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ANSWER KEYS

 

1)    BRACKISH
ADJECTIVE BRACKISH
(of water) salty in an unpleasant way: 
Amazon and others World-wide examples of these brackish waters abound.
 
2)    TO
ADJECTIVE + PREPOSITION FUNDAMENTAL TO
Serious and very important; affecting the most central and important parts of something: 
Improved funding is fundamental to the success of the project.
 
3)    ARTIFICIAL
COLLOCATION ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENT
A model of the environment where the simulation model is operating: 
The first artificial environments were the first shelters made by our homo ancestors. 
 
4)    THEREFORE
ADVERB THEREFORE
As a result of the reason that has just been mentioned: 
The new boots are lighter and softer, and therefore more comfortable to wear.
 
5)    HARD
IDIOM HARD AND FAST
(especially after a negative) that cannot be changed in any circumstances:
There are no hard and fast rules about this.
 
6)    CONSTRAINTS
COLLOCATION IMPOSE CONSTRAINTS
A thing that limits or restricts something, or your freedom to do something:
This decision will impose serious constraints on all schools.
 
7)    WIDEST
PHRASE IN THE WIDEST SENSE
The meaning that a word or phrase has; a way of understanding something:
Access to communication in the widest sense in access to knowledge, and that is vitally important to us.
 
8)    WITH
VERB + PREPOSITION ASSOCIATE STH WITH STH
To make a connection between people or things in your mind: 
I always associate the smell of baking with my childhood.