Open Cloze: Pope Francis's visit to the USA

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If you are a Catholic, you may know that the Pope is visiting the USA now. You can read a New York Times excerpt of an article here, and practise for the CAE exam by completing the article with the missing words.

Use of English - part 2

Another activity to practise Use of English for CAE exam, part 2 or structural cloze.  Remember that what you need to complete the text are words used to put a sentence together, i.e. the 'structure' or 'function' words.  For example: auxiliares, articles, determiners, conjunctions, prepositions, etc.

Use of English - part 2

In Paper 3, part 2 of the CAE exam you must complete a text using only ONE word in each empty space. There aren't any given options because the missing words are function words or structural words. This means that the words you need to use are the only possibility so that the sentences are grammatically correct, or lexically correct. 

For example, in the following sentence, how many possibilities can you use to fill in the space? 

They ought ___ finish this on time. 

As you can see, the only word that fits is TO. 

 You can practise this part of the exam with the following activity.