CAE Reading and Use of English Part 2, open cloze

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CAE Reading and Use of English Part 2

What's this part about?

Just like RUE Part 1, this is always a short text containing eight gaps. Only in Part 2, you do not get multiple choice questions, but instead gaps in which you have to fill in only one word.

Before we start:

Below is a paragraph adapted from an article titled “How Can You Tell If Your Goat Is Happy? Now We Know!”

Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

There are nearly 900 million goats in the world today, (1) ___________ from 600 million in 1990. The reason for this goat spurt is the growing popularity of goat cheese, goat milk and goat meat.

For goat farmers to do a good job, they need to understand their goats. And that’s where Alan McElligott comes (2) ___________ .

He’s a senior lecturer in animal behavior at the Queen Mary University of London. And he says that goats (3) ___________ “underrepresented” in animal welfare studies.

That’s bad for goat farmers. They need to know (4) ___________ their herd is in a “positive” or “negative” frame (5) ___________ mind, he says:

1. wether / of
2. if / of
3. whether / of
4. whether / off

“If animals have chronic stress, they’re far more (6) ___________ to get ill. That costs money in terms of medicine and vet bills.”

And it’s not enough to know when your goat’s mad. “Keeping animals is not just preventing them (7) ___________ being in negative states,” McElligott explains.

So McElligott and several colleagues ran a study to see if they could find helpful clues for farmers. The research was conducted (8) ___________ the summer months because “goats hate cold weather and particularly hate rain."

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