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CAE part 2: Gap fill

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  • The suspects were jailed, but only _______ pleading guilty.
    AFTER (following in time, place, or order)
  • I was singing and drawing ______ I was little but had never been in a choir or art class in my childhood.
    WHEN (at the time at which)
  • ________ recently, spray-painting a wall was regarded as vandalism.
    UNTIL (up to)
  • On the one hand, vaccines are meant to help us. On the ________ hand, some people think they are dangerous.
    OTHER ("on the other hand" : in a way that is different from the first thing you mentioned)
  • The kind of image companies now try to project is no _______ just aimed at customers.
    LONGER ("no longer" = in the past but not now)
  • Are your abilities and personality traits determined ______ your genes?
    BY (used to show the person or thing that does something)
  • Banksy, ________ works of art make millions, has transformed people's view of street art.
    WHOSE (for expressing possession)
  • Two-thirds of office workers say they have never been consulted _____ the décor in their office.
    ABOUT (on the subject of, or connected with)
  • Some people claim that the ability ____ sing, dance or draw is acquired.
    TO (ability + to *infinitive*)
  • Faced _________ a lack of water, farmers had to change the crops they grew.
    WITH (to "face" something = "to deal with")
  • Can you become good ____ something with only determination and practice?
    AT (used to show the activity in which someone's ability is being judged)
  • First ________ foremost, we need to address global warming before anything else.
    AND ("first and foremost" = more than anything else)
  • Where do people aquire ______ sense of fashion from?
    THEIR (of or belonging to them)
  • Members of a gang had left destruction on trains as ________ apart as Australia and Japan.
    FAR ("far apart" = separated by a great distance or by time)
  • ______ other form of art has divided opinion so strongly as street art.
    NO (not any; not one; not a)
  • As a interior designer, I know _____ needs to be done to improve this house.
    WHAT (the thing that)
  • In ____ way can the result of an exam prove your intelligence.
    NO ("in no way" = not at all)
  • The extensive flooding was nothing _________ of a disaster.
    SHORT ("*be* nothing short of..." is used to emphasize a situation, quality, or type of behaviour)
  • Years from now children may find ________ studying street artists in school.
    THEMSELVES ("find *yourself*" = to realize that you are in a particular situation or place, or doing a particular thing, when you did not intend to)
  • Our best memories are often of a magic moment in ______ of the world's beautiful places.
    ONE (a member of a group of people or things)
  • What makes _____ individual behave in a certain way?
    AN (used before a noun to refer to a single thing/person not mentioned before)
  • Some people believe in the nurture theory, ______ argues that a person's behaviour develops from experience.
    WHICH (used to add extra information to a previous clause)
  • Some children with _______ or no training can sing beautifully.
    LITTLE (= "not much" when used with uncountable nouns to refer to quantity)
  • The cost of removing grafitti from walls can run _______ millions of euros every year.
    TO ("run to" = to reach a particular amount, level, or size)
  • Traditionalists hate graffiti art, even ________ the custom of wall paintings go back to the days of cave art
    THOUGH ("even though" = despite the fact that)
  • ______ questioned, most people say they are inspired by good art.
    WHEN / IF (used to introduce the condition)
  • Walls painted in pleasing colours can help ______ down on stress in an office.
    CUT ("cut down" = to do or use less of something)
  • He was nicknamed "egg", on __________ of his bald head.
    ACCOUNT ("on account of" = because of something)
  • For the human race to survive, we need to ________ away with the use of fossil fuels.
    DO ("do away with *something*" = to get rid of or destroy something.
  • Most children of musicians and actors seem to be talented _______ their parents.
    LIKE (similar to)
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