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.

 

The Dingo

Long before the first Europeans (1) ... foot on Australian shores (2) ... existed on that island continent a wolf like dog that the aboriginal population called Worrigal or dingo. It was first assumed the dingo had accompanied aboriginal people (3) ... Australia in their earliest migrations tens of thousands of years ago. Anthropological evidence has shown that aboriginal people have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 - 50,000 years; however, the irrefutable evidence of carbon dating actually places the oldest dingo fossil ever found at 3,450 years old.
The mystery of how the dingo made (4) ... way to Australian shores has (5) ... to be solved but there is no question that the dingo adapted to the rugged and varied Australian environment (6) ... great ease and enjoyed a pleasant coexistence with aboriginal man. Research indicates the dingo is closely related to dogs that exist from Israel, east to Vietnam, north to the Himalayas, and southward through Indonesia, Borneo, and New Guinea. These all are descended (7) ... the Indian wolf rather than the northern timber wolf from which most (8) ... domestic dogs descend.

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answer keys

 

1)    SET
IDIOM SET FOOT ON
To go to a place, especially when there is something special or unusual about you doing this:
It was the first time I had set foot on French soil.
 
2)    THERE
ADVERB THERE
Used to show that something exists or happens:
There remains the problem of finance.
 
3)    TO
VERB + PREPOSITION ACCOMPANY SB TO A PLACE
To travel or go somewhere with somebody:
I must ask you to accompany me to the police station.
 
4)    ITS
PHRASE MAKE YOUR WAY
To start moving towards a place:
We made our way to the front of the crowd.
 
5)    YET
ADVERB SB/STH HAS YET TO DO STH
Used to say that someone has not done something, or that something has not happened when you think it should already have been done or have happened:
The bank has yet to respond to our letter.
 
6)    WITH
PHRASE WITH EASE
Without effort:
The smart student passed the test with ease.
 
7)    FROM
PHRASAL VERB BE DESCENDED FROM
To be related to a person or animal that lived long ago:
Her mother's family are descended from the Grant clan.
 
8)    OTHER
PRONOUN OTHER
Used to refer to people or things that are additional or different to people or things that have been mentioned or are known about:
I can't see you now—some other time, maybe.