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.

Reading - missing paragraphs

This is another reading passage to practise this part of the exam.

Read the whole text first to have a general idea of its content.  Then pay attention to the last sentence before a gap and to the first sentence after a gap, and try to establish a connection with the missing paragraphs at the bottom of the text.  Remember that a text is a unit and that every paragraph has a connection with both, the previous and the following one.

Use of English, part 2

Complete the text below using only ONE word in each space.

Reading - missing paragraphs

The exercise below is to practise the section of the Reading paper where you have to insert paragraphs that have been removed.

Use of English - Open Cloze

In the CAE, paper 3 or Use of English (paper 1 as from 2014, combined Reading and Use of English) the open cloze section needs practice to become more familiar and confident with this type of activity. The text below gives practice with this section.