Open Cloze: Reading & Use of English Cambridge Exam [B1/B2]

​Motorbike stunt rider

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I work (0) …….. a motorbike stunt rider – that is, I do tricks on my motorbike at shows. The Le Mans race track in France was (9) …….. I first saw some guys doing motorbike stunts. I’d never seen anyone riding a motorbike using just the back wheel before and I was (10) …….. impressed I went straight home and taught (11) …….. to do the same. It wasn’t very long before I began to earn my living at shows performing my own motorbike stunts.

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I have a degree (12) …….. mechanical engineering; this helps me to look at the physics (13) …….. lies behind each stunt. In addition to being responsible for design changes to the motorbike, I have to work (14) …….. every stunt I do. People often think that my work is very dangerous, but, apart (15) …….. some minor mechanical problem happening occasionally during a stunt, nothing ever goes wrong. I never feel in (16) …….. kind of danger because I’m very experienced.

FCE Open Cloze

Reading and Use of English ​

Source: https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/first/exam-format/

Parts 2 & 6​

​Motorbike stunt rider

​I work (0) as a motorbike stunt rider--that is, I do tricks on my motorbike at shows. The Le Mans race track in France was (1) where I first saw some guys doing motorbike stunts. I’d never seen anyone riding a motorbike using just the back wheel before and I was (2) so impressed I went straight home and taught (3) myself to do the same. It wasn’t very long before I began to earn my living at shows performing my own motorbike stunts.

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I have a degree (4) in mechanical engineering; this helps me to look at the physics (5) which or that lies behind each stunt. In addition to being responsible for design changes to the motorbike, I have to work (6) on or at every stunt I do. People often think that my work is very dangerous, but apart (7) from some minor mechanical problem happening occasionally during a stunt, nothing ever goes wrong. I never feel in (8) any kind of danger because I’m very experienced.

FCE Open Cloze

Source: https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/first/exam-format/

Reading and Use of English ​

Parts 2 & 6​