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.

 

Climate and Forests

Forests (1) ... multiple roles in helping to maintain life on Earth. Apart from supplying vital ecosystem services nationally and globally, forests also support the livelihoods of millions (2) ... the developing world. At the same time, forest-dwellers are themselves instrumental (3) ... protecting and nurturing the habitats in (4) ... they live. The importance of forests has for decades been emphasised by specialists, from biologists and foresters to the proponents of community development and sustainable forest management. Yet their importance has been further underlined by (5) ... recognition of their contribution to climate regulation in the wider debate (6) ... global warming. In this context Latin America, and the Amazon Basin in particular, the world's largest remaining area of tropical rainforest, (7) ... on a critical function. It is now widely accepted in scientific circles that human activity contributes significantly to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that, (8) ... to an increase in the production of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide over the past two centuries.

[start-answers-block type=1 columns=3 textTransform=none]

[answer="play"]

[answer="throughout"] [answer="in"] ! [answer="which"][answer="the"][answer="on#about#over"][answer="take"]

[answer="due"]

[end-answers-block]

 

 

 

 

 

 

answer keys

 

1)    PLAY
PHRASE PLAY A ROLE IN SOMETHING
To be involved in something, especially in a way that is important:
She played a key role in campaigning for equal opportunities in the workplace.
 
2)    THROUGHOUT
ADVERB THROUGHOUT
In or into every part of something:
They export their products to markets throughout the world.
 
3)    IN
ADJECTIVE + PREPOSITION INSTRUMENTAL IN
Important in making something happen: 
He was instrumental in bringing about an end to the conflict.
 
4)    WHICH
PREPOSITION + RELATIVE PRONOUN IN WHICH
Used after a preposition to refer again to something that has already been mentioned: 
Colic describes a whole variety of conditions in which a horse suffers abdominal pain.
 
5)    THE
DEFINITE ARTICLE THE
Commonly used in the pattern the ... of :
Pictures can help students learn the meaning of new words.
 
6)    ON/ABOUT/OVER
NOUN + PREPOSITION DEBATE ON
A formal discussion of a particular problem, subject etc.:
There has been very little public debate on the Navy's new program.
 
7)    TAKE
PHRASAL VERB TAKE ON
To begin to have a particular quality, appearance, etc.:
His voice took on a more serious tone.
 
8)    DUE
PREPOSITION DUE TO
Because of something:
The company's financial losses were due to poor management.