C1 Advanced (CAE) >> Multiple Choice Cloze Worksheets >> The first part of the Reading & Use of English paper is Multiple Choice Cloze where students need to choose between similar words. Here is a series of worksheets for students to not only aim at getting the right word but think about why the other answers are not correct.
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Multiple Choice Cloze Worksheet 10
For each question, choose which of the four possible answers fits the space best. Also think about why the other three answers are not possible.
1. The little girl ___________ until hospital staff finally showed her to her father's room.
a) urged
b) insisted
c) consisted
d) resisted
2. The murderer worked in a cemetery and had no problems in ___________ of the body.
a) scrapping
b) disposing
c) throwing
d) dumping
3. Two local journalists were criticised for the part they ___________ in spreading the malicious gossip.
a) played
b) wrote
c) done
d) pushed
4. Charlie almost got to the end of the speech before he was ___________ by a drunk guest.
a) interrupted
b) invaded
c) intersected
d) interfered
5. Doctors say antibiotic usefulness ___________ from patient to patient.
a) alters
b) varies
c) ranges
d) modifies
6. Despite past good performances, the actor was fired when the studio decided he had become a ___________.
a) responsibility
b) weight
c) flaw
d) liability
7. Police ___________ that the boy missing since Tuesday night is in danger.
a) predict
b) care
c) wonder
d) fear
8. As a ___________ of course, we delete all email records after three years.
a) duty
b) matter
c) principle
d) way
