C1 Advanced Parte 1: multiple choice cloze

La parte 1 del C1 Advanced: el multiple choice cloze de vocabulario y colocación, con el método y ejercicios con soluciones explicadas.

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La parte 1 del C1 es un texto con ocho huecos y cuatro opciones en cada uno. Las cuatro suelen significar casi lo mismo: lo que decide es con qué palabras se juntan en inglés.

Qué se examina de verdad

TipoEjemploCómo se reconoce
Colocaciónmake an effort, no do an effortLas cuatro opciones son sinónimos, pero solo una se junta con la palabra de al lado.
Phrasal verbput up withDetrás del hueco hay una o dos preposiciones sueltas.
Matiz de significadotell, say, speak, talkLas opciones se parecen mucho y hay que mirar la estructura que pide cada una.
Preposición dependientecapable of, able toDetrás hay una preposición que solo una de las cuatro admite.

El método: tapa las opciones, lee la frase y piensa qué palabra pondrías tú. Si la que has pensado está entre las cuatro, casi seguro es esa.

Ejercicio 1 · Elige la opción correcta

Corrección al instante.

  1. The new policy has been met ___ considerable resistance.bywithtoformet with — be met with resistance es la collocation fija.
  2. She ___ no attention to the warnings.gavemadepaidtookpaid attention — la atención se paga en inglés.
  3. The evidence ___ doubt on the original theory.throwsputsplacescastscasts doubt — igual que en B2, pero aquí se espera que lo produzcas tú.
  4. His argument does not ___ up to close scrutiny.standholdkeepbearstand up to scrutiny — resistir un examen minucioso.
  5. They went to great ___ to make us feel welcome.distanceslengthsextentsmeasuresgo to great lengths — hacer todo lo posible.
  6. The company is on the ___ of bankruptcy.edgeborderbrinkmarginon the brink of — al borde de. Edge no funciona en esta expresión.
  7. I take ___ with the suggestion that we were careless.problemoffencematterissuetake issue with — discrepar de algo.
  8. Her explanation ___ short of convincing.fellcamewentgotfell short of — quedarse corto, no llegar a.

Ejercicio 2 · Multiple choice cloze

Elige la palabra que encaja en cada hueco.

The museum of things that did not work

On the third floor of a technical museum in Copenhagen there is a room that visitors often (1) by accident. It contains, among other things, an electric razor powered by a hand crank and a bicycle with square wheels. All of them were patented, and none of them ever reached the (2) .

The curator, Ida Lund, is (3) that the room should not be read as a joke at the inventors expense. Most of the objects, she points out, failed for reasons that had nothing to (4) with the quality of the idea. Some arrived too early; others were simply too expensive to manufacture at the time.

The collection has (5) an unexpected following among engineering students, who are brought here in their first year. The point, according to one lecturer, is to (6) home the fact that a working prototype proves very little. Students who spend an afternoon among these objects tend to (7) fewer assumptions later.

Ida Lund is aware that the room could easily (8) sentimental, and she resists any attempt to add explanatory panels about persistence and courage. The objects, she says, are quite eloquent enough on their own.

  1. Hueco 1run intocome acrossfall uponmeet withcome across = encontrarse algo por casualidad.
  2. Hueco 2tradebusinessmarketsalereach the market = llegar al mercado. Es la colocación fija.
  3. Hueco 3stubbornrigidsevereadamantadamant = firme en su postura; los otros tienen carga negativa.
  4. Hueco 4domaketakehavehave nothing to do with = no tener nada que ver con.
  5. Hueco 5gainedacquiredwonearnedacquired a following = ha ido ganando seguidores.
  6. Hueco 6pushpressdriveforcedrive home a fact = dejar algo bien claro.
  7. Hueco 7dobuildsetmakemake assumptions = dar cosas por supuestas.
  8. Hueco 8becometurngrowgetbecome sentimental — turn y grow no encajan con este adjetivo en registro formal.

Ejercicio 3 · Multiple choice cloze

Elige la palabra que encaja en cada hueco.

The problem with round numbers

Economists have long known that prices ending in nine (1) better than prices ending in zero, but the reason has proved surprisingly hard to (2) down. The obvious explanation, that shoppers read the first digit and ignore the rest, only accounts for (3) of the effect.

A more recent theory (4) attention to what a round number implies. A price of exactly forty pounds looks decided, even arbitrary, whereas 39.87 looks (5) from something: a cost, a calculation, a negotiation. Shoppers, on this account, are not being fooled about the size of the number. They are drawing a (6) conclusion about how it was arrived at.

This may explain why the trick (7) badly in some contexts. Nobody wants a surgeon whose fee ends in ninety nine pence. Where trust matters more than value, the round number does the work, and the odd one (8) suspicion.

  1. Hueco 1buysellcostpaysell better — el sujeto es prices, que se venden mejor.
  2. Hueco 2putsetpinlaypin down = precisar, concretar.
  3. Hueco 3piecehalfsidepartpart of the effect = parte del efecto.
  4. Hueco 4drawsbringscallspullsdraw attention to es la colocación correcta.
  5. Hueco 5takenderiveddrawnremovedderived from = derivado de algo.
  6. Hueco 6rightfulcorrectreasonabletruthfulreasonable conclusion = una conclusión razonable.
  7. Hueco 7goesrunstakesworksworks badly = funciona mal.
  8. Hueco 8arouseswakesraisesliftsarouse suspicion = despertar sospechas.

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuánto vale cada pregunta?
Un punto. Son ocho.
¿Cómo se estudia esto?
Leyendo mucho y apuntando las palabras en grupo. Un cuaderno de colocaciones vale más que uno de palabras sueltas.