CAE Use of English part 1

Stuart Penny conceived the Inculpable Mousetrap as an exercise in morality and accept it is unlikely to .................commercial success.

• enjoy

• favour

• appreciate

• support

You ........the Mousetrap, wander off to the cafe and wait to see what happens.

• fix

• set

• put

• shut

If a mouse approaches the mousetrap, a transmitter ..........to it sends a signal to your mobile phone.

• enclosed

• collated

• attached

• united

You are then ..............to send back a text message with your decision whether to activate the trap or not.

• asked

• urged

• wondered

• let

Rachel Wingfield´s alarm-lock duvet and pillow could.........the end for alarm clocks.

• speak

• spell

• know

• write

The sleeper ...............programmes the alarm clock on their mobile phone, plugs it into a socket on the duvet or pillow and is woken at the correct time.

• plainly

• uniquely

• purely

• simply

The whole effect of the alarm-clock duvet is ........to replicate the break of day.

• assumed

• supposed

• suggested

• pretended

At the ................time the mobile phone sends a tiny electric current through the pillow and duvet and they both begin to glow.

• said

• stated

• announced

• specified

Shocked by the number of printed handouts he was receiving from his teachers, the 14 year old decided to investigate the cost. He established that ink......up to 60% of the cost.

• represents

• measures

• equals

• indicates

He then started looking at the different typefaces and discovered that, by ..........to one called Garamond, it would save costs.

• varying

• modifying

• adapting

• switching