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Level B2

Part 2 - Open Cloze

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For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap.

Office Mysteries

People often think that office life is boring, but anyone who has worked in a shared space knows this is far (0) FROM true. Every workplace seems to have at least one mystery: who keeps stealing pens, why the printer jams only when deadlines are near, and how biscuits disappear so quickly. In one office I worked in, there was a fridge (1) .......... nobody trusted. Food placed inside it on Monday had usually vanished (2) .......... Wednesday, and no one ever admitted taking anything. The manager, (3) .......... was determined to solve the problem, even put up a polite notice. This had little effect, and things became (4) .......... strange that people started labelling their sandwiches with warnings. One said, 'This contains hot sauce,' while another read, 'I am watching you.' (5) .......... all this, the thefts continued. In the end, the truth turned (6) .......... to be less dramatic than expected: the cleaner had been throwing food away because she thought it was old. Ever (7) .......... then, staff have become much more careful about writing dates on containers. It is a story (8) .......... still makes everyone laugh.

What to do

This part consists of a short text with a series of gaps. There are no words from which to choose the answers, candidates have to think of a word which fits the gap correctly.

Errors in punctuation are ignored, although spelling must be correct.

Contractions (e.g. don’t, we’ve, won’t) count as two words. However, can’t is a contraction of cannot, which is one word.

Sometimes, there is more than one correct answer. Cambridge will always account for this and all options will be accepted. However, you should not write more than one answer.

Don't spend time in a word you don't know. Wasting time on this activity might cost you points later in the exam because you won’t have enough time to do other tasks well.

Strategy

  1. Read the title and the whole text so that you understand what it is about.
  2. Read the whole sentence in which the gap occurs, to look for clues as to what kind of word you need.
  3. Check the words before and after each gap and look for grammatical collocations.
  4. Remember you must write only one word.
  5. You are never required to write a contraction. If you think the answer is a contraction, it must be wrong, so think again.
  6. Read the whole text through once you have completed it to make sure you have not missed any connectors, plurals or negatives.

Instructions

For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap.

Exercise Details

Author

Vladana Kostić

@vladana-kostic

User Prompt

"Anything"

Tone: Humorous
Level: B2

Created on:

Apr 18, 2026

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