FCE and CAE practice for the Cambridge ESOL examinations
Use of English Paper 3, Part 3.
Extract adapted for interactive practice from the book Clearing the Thick Woods of Word Formation, which provides you with extensive practice and explanations.
Art Vazquez, COTE
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The general idea is to change a word to a different one, like a noun into a verb:
organ - organize
An organ transplant
To organize a meeting
According to the position of a word in a sentence, it is a verb, noun, adjective or adverb. These four are the functions of words. If a word needs to function like a noun, it must be transformed into a noun:
visible - visibility
The visibility is very poor under foggy conditions
If it needs to function like an adverb it must be transformed into an adverb:
care - careful - carefully
The inspector looked at the structure carefully
Read the texts below. Use the word given in CAPITALS at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. Write your answer in CAPITALS only. You can consult your score at the bottom of the page. Type the word in the box to cheat your answer.
You can learn how Word Formation works in this book: Clearing the Thick Woods of Word Formation
Computers that play games (FCE)
Computers have had the (277)to play chess ABLE
For many years now, and their (278) PERFORM
In games against the best players in the
world has shown steady (279). However, IMPROVE
It will be years before the designers of
Computer games machines can beat their
(280)challenge yet - the ancient board BIG
game called 'Go'. The playing area is (281) CONSIDERABLE
larger than in chess and there are far
more pieces, so that the (282)of moves is COMBINE
almost (283). The game involves planning END
so many moves ahead that even the (284) IMPRESS
calculations of the fastest modern
computers are (285)to deal with the SUFFICIENT
problems of the game.
In a recent (286)for computer 'Go' COMPETE
Machines, the best machine beat all its
rivals, but lost (287)to three young HEAVY
Schoolchildren, so there is obviously still
a lot of work to do.
Dress Code (FCE)
UK companies have received (288)from CRITIC
a business forum for what their report refers to as
a rather narrow-minded attitude towards the dress
code for office workers. This follows a case in
which a male (289)working in the post room of a EMPLOY
large (290)in the United Kingdom received a ORGANIZE
(291)for wearing jeans to work. SUSPEND
Whilst the report accepts that there is a need for
people dealing with (292)to look well dressed, CUSTOM
it questions whether employees who work behind
the scenes necessarily need to dress formally.
The authors of the report made a (293)between COMPARE
the UK and other European nations where
Employers seem (294)about the need for their CONCERN
workers to wear smart clothes in the office.
Their (295)is based on research that claims ARGUE
workers are far more (296)when they have the PRODUCT
(297)to dress in a way that they feel most FREE
(298)in. COMFORT
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