CAE Open Cloze

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For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. You can use the "?" button to get a clue but by doing so you will lose points. EXAM DESCRIPTION

Taste

Taste is (1) ... simply the preserve of a tiny aristocracy, of the court culture of the European. Abbasid or Chinese past or the ‘foodie’ cutting-edge of the present. In the social history of ordinary people, calorie intake, the threat of famine and the supply of urban centres are among the topics (2) ... have given us (3) ... idea of the fragility and difficulty of pre-industrial life. The relevance of the history of food in its (4) ... basic sense needs (5) ... justification.

The exchange of products resulting (6) ... the discovery of the New World, the dependence of societies (7) ... one overwhelmingly important food source, or the impact of modern warfare on civilian diet (8) ... all clearly major topics. In the mid-twentieth century historians’ interest in the conditions of society, and particularly the history of ordinary people, inevitably involved questions of how peasants or workers lived in the past; how well or ill-nourished they were; how they coped with the unpredictability of harvests, food supply and prices.

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NOT
ADVERB NOT
A word used for denying, forbidding, refusing, or expressing the opposite of something:
We are not going to London.
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THAT/WHICH
RELATIVE PRONOUN THAT/WHICH
Used after a noun to show what thing or things you mean:
Did you see the book which (that) came today?
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AN
INDEFINITE ARTICLE AN
Used when the following word begins with a vowel sound:
He gave me an apple.
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MOST
ADVERB MOST
Used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs of two or more syllables:
This is the most frequently mentioned reason.
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NO
DETERMINER NO
Not one; not any; not a:
We have no food.
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FROM
VERB + PREPOSITION RESULT FROM
If something results from something else, it is caused by it:
We will pay for any damage that results from our experiments.
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ON
NOUN + PREPOSITION DEPENDENCE ON
The state of needing the help and support of somebody/something in order to survive or be successful:
Mr Putin also criticised the world's dependence on the dollar.
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ARE
AUXILIARY VERB ARE
The present tense and plural of 'be':
We are not able to repair this car.
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