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CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED (CAE) USE OF ENGLISH PART 1

MULTIPLE CHOICE CLOZE 
For questions 1 - 8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

PIRACY
Piracy was not (1) ... by men like Blackbeard and ‘Black Bart’ Roberts. It has been around since man first took to the sea, a maritime (2) ... that appeared in
historical records since before the building of the Egyptian pyramids. The Mediterranean, (3) ... known as the ‘(4) ... of civilization’, was also a pirate hot-
spot, which we know because the Ancient Egyptians (5) ...  the time to describe the attacks and their perpetrators. 

As in any period , piracy in the ancient world flourished when there was a lack of central control, and in areas beyond the (6) ... of major powers such as
the Egyptians, the Assyrians or the Mycenaean Greeks. The first known pirate group was the Lukkans, a group of sea raiders based on the south-eastern
coast of Asia Minor. They first appeared in the 14th century BC, when Egyptian (7) ... recorded that they raided Cyprus, (8) ... there are suggestions that

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their piratical activities started earlier.

1 discovered disclosed devised invented

2 scourge scouter scout scooper

3 besides likewise moreover otherwise

4 hamper cot crib cradle

5 passed set took made

6 horizon frontier limits reach

7 reporters scribes scripters playwrights

8 or despite although because

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ANSWERS

INVENTED

VERB INVENT

To make, design, or think of a new type of thing:

When was printing invented?

SCOURGE

NOUN SCOURGE

Something that causes a lot of harm or suffering:

Vaccination has freed us from the scourge of smallpox.

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OTHERWISE

PHRASE OTHERWISE KNOWN AS

In a different way to the way mentioned; differently:

Bismarck, otherwise known as 'the Iron Chancellor'.

CRADLE

IDIOM THE CRADLE OF 

The place where something important began:

Why is Mesopotamia called the cradle of civilization?

TOOK

IDIOM TAKE THE TIME TO

To spend enough time to do something:

If you take the time to read the directions carefully, you won't have any trouble installing the software.

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REACH

PHRASE BEYOND THE REACH OF

The limit of someone's power or ability to do something:

She lives in Peru, well beyond the reach of the British authorities.

SCRIBES

NOUN SCRIBE

A person who made copies of written documents before printing was invented:
The scribes were the copyists of Scripture and teachers of the Law.

ALTHOUGH

CONJUNCTION ALTHOUGH

Used to mean 'but' or 'however' when you are commenting on a statement:

I felt he was wrong, although I didn't say so at the time.

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