CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH EXAMINATIONS / CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY EXAM / CPE / USE OF ENGLISH / Open Cloze

 

For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

 

Dreams

A reminiscence (1) ... the concept of the dream that was held in primitive times seems to underlie the evaluation of the dream which was current among the peoples of classical antiquity. They (2) ... it for granted that dreams were related to the world of the supernatural beings in (3) ... they believed, and that they brought inspirations from the gods and demons. Moreover, it appeared to them that dreams must (4) ... a special purpose in respect of the dreamer; that, as a rule, they predicted the future.
The extraordinary variations in the content of dreams, and in the impressions which they produced (5) ... the dreamer, made it, of course, very difficult to formulate a coherent conception of (6) ..., and necessitated manifold differentiations and group-formations, according to their value and reliability. The valuation of dreams by the individual philosophers of antiquity naturally depended on the importance which they were prepared to attribute (7) ... manticism in general. In (8) ... two works of Aristotle in which there is mention of dreams, they are already regarded as constituting a problem of psychology.

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answer keys

 

1)    OF
NOUN + PREPOSITION REMINISCENCE OF
A spoken or written story about events that you remember:
I listened to my grandmother's reminiscences of her childhood.
 
2)    TOOK
IDIOM TAKE IT FOR GRANTED (THAT)
To believe something is true without first making sure that it is:
He seemed to take it for granted that I would go with him to London.
 
3)    WHOM
PREPOSITION + RELATIVE PRONOUN IN WHOM
WHOM => the object form of 'who', used especially in formal speech or writing: 
The main study included 93 patients in whom previous treatment with fludarabine had stopped working.
 
4)    SERVE
IDIOM SERVE A (USEFUL) PURPOSE
To be useful in accomplishing some purpose:
This large book should serve a useful purpose. We can use it for a doorstop.
 
5)    ON
NOUN + PREPOSITION IMPRESSION ON
The effect that an experience or a person has on somebody/something:
I think every scene of this movie has left more than a deep impression on me.
 
6)    THEM
PRONOUN THEM
Used to refer to two or more people or things that have already been mentioned:
The police were very helpful when I spoke to them.
 
7)    TO
VERB + PREPOSITION ATTRIBUTE TO
To believe or say that someone or something has a particular quality:
One should not attribute human motives to animals.
 
8)    THE
DEFINITE ARTICLE THE
Used to refer to somebody/something that has already been mentioned:
I ordered a pizza and salad. The pizza was nice but the salad was disgusting.