CPE Open Cloze

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

Modern Technology

Technology, or the making and using of artifacts, is a largely unthinking activity. It emerges (1) ... unattended to ideas and motives, while it produces and engages (2) ... unreflected-upon objects. We make dinner, sew clothes, build houses, and manufacture industrial products. We use tools, turn on appliances, answer telephones, drive cars, listen to radios, and watch televisions. In our technological society, all this happens mostly (3) ... habit - but even in less technologically framed cultures the context of making and using is not so different, (4) ... the kinds of making and using certainly are, and artifice itself is (5) ... prevalent. The need to think about technology is nevertheless increasingly manifest. Indeed, the inherent complexity and practical efficacy of modern technologies call (6) ... diverse kinds of thinking - scientific and technical, of course, but also economic, psychological, political, and so forth. Within (7) ... a spectrum of approaches and issues, (8) ... does it mean to think philosophically about technology? What basic stance and distinctions characterize such thinking?

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FROM
VERB + PREPOSITION EMERGE FROM
To appear or come out from somewhere:
The swimmer emerged from the lake.
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WITH
VERB + PREPOSITION ENGAGE WITH
To become involved with and try to understand something/somebody:
He has the ability to engage with young minds.
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BY
PHRASE BY HABIT
Customary manner or practice:
By habit, these people may not play according to the law.
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ALTHOUGH | THOUGH | WHILE | WHILST
CONJUNCTION ALTHOUGH
Used for introducing a statement that makes the main statement in a sentence seem surprising:
Although she hurried, the shop was closed when she got there.
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LESS
ADVERB LESS
To a smaller degree; not so much:
In recent years the director has appeared in public less frequently.
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FORTH
PHRASAL VERB CALL FORTH
To produce a particular reaction:
Her speech called forth an angry response.
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SUCH
DETERMINER SUCH
Used to emphasize your description of something or someone:
She shut the window with such force that the glass broke.
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WHAT
PRONOUN WHAT
Used in questions to ask for particular information about somebody/something:
What do you mean, you want to go there alone?
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