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    CL GRANADA, S. L.

    C/ Puentezuelas, nº 32, 1ª Planta - 18002 Granada


    Teléf.: 958 53 52 53 – 958 52 12 91
    Fax: 958 25 15 46
    E-mail: info@clgranada.com
    Web: www.clgranada.com

    CAE- Open Cloze Multiple Matching – The lottery

    From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space, A, B, C or D.

    THE LOTTERY

    The (01) _________ of lottery winners change their lives (02) _________ little, and continue on their settled (03)
    _________, happy ever after. A couple of years ago, a Mr David Horabin won a million. He had been struggling to make
    a success of his dry cleaning shop for the (04) _________ 12 months. He accepted his cheque in a small ceremony at the
    (05) _________ at 2.30, and by three o'clock he had reopened for business. The reaction of Mr Pasquale Consalvo who
    won $30 million in the New York state lottery was very (06) _________ He was unhappy not to be able to fulfil his (07)
    _________ to go to work as usual on the day he won. He also said that if the money made him unhappy he would give it
    back. In fact, the (08) _________ of his life being (09) _________ a misery by his new-found wealth are almost as (10)
    _________, though not quite, as the sixty million-to-one odds he (11) _________ to take a jackpot that had remained
    (12) _________. through six previous draws. Gambling small (13) _________ on the lottery is a harmless if futile (14)
    _________ But gambling can become an addiction, increasingly so as the activity becomes socially (15). _________

    1. A. most B. majority C. number D. quantity

    2. A. but B. A C. scarcely D. not

    3. A. way B. Path C. Road D. habit

    4. A. Earlier B. before C. recent D. past

    5. A. site B. building C. company D. premises

    6. A. appropriate B. linked C. similar D. same

    7. A. passion B. ambition C. desire D. vocation

    8. A. possibility B. probability C. chances D. odds

    9. A. created B. made C. sent D. got

    10. A. thin B. slim C. meagre D. reduced

    11. A. cracked B. overwhelmed C. beat D. overthrew

    12. A. unaccepted B. undone C. rejected D. unclaimed

    13. A. quantities B. amounts C. money D. change

    14. A. action B. sport C. hobby D. pastime

    15. A. fashionable B. proper C. acceptable D. appropriate

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    CL GRANADA, S. L.
    C/ Puentezuelas, nº 32, 1ª Planta - 18002 Granada
    Teléf.: 958 53 52 53 – 958 52 12 91
    Fax: 958 25 15 46
    E-mail: info@clgranada.com
    Web: www.clgranada.com

    Answers

    01. B. majority

    02. A. but

    03. A. way

    04. D. past

    05. D. premises

    06. C. similar

    07. C. desire

    08. C. chances

    09. B. made

    10. B. slim

    11. C. beat

    12. D. unclaimed

    13. B. amounts

    14. C. pastime

    15. C. acceptable

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