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Level C2

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.

Quantum Consciousness

Few ideas in contemporary philosophy of mind are as contentious as quantum consciousness, a hypothesis that seeks to explain subjective awareness by reference to processes at the subatomic level. Rarely (0) HAS a theory attracted such fascination while remaining so resistant to empirical confirmation. Its defenders argue that classical accounts of cognition are all (1) .......... exhausted, in as much as they fail to explain why neural computation should ever give rise to experience at all. Critics, however, maintain that the theory rests on analogies, many (2) .......... which are rhetorically impressive but scientifically fragile. Had stronger evidence emerged, the proposal (3) .......... have moved beyond the margins of serious debate; as it is, it survives largely because no consensus account has yet displaced it. Nor (4) .......... its appeal be dismissed as merely fashionable, for it speaks to a longstanding intuition that consciousness may be irreducible to mechanism. Even so, several of its central claims may (5) .......... been overstated, especially when speculative physics is presented as though it were settled fact. The result is a discourse in which metaphor passes (6) .......... explanation, and in which unresolved questions are sometimes treated as discoveries. All (7) .......... the most committed advocates now concede that any adequate theory must account for the brain's biological complexity, without (8) .......... quantum effects a privileged explanatory status from the outset.

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

Thanasis Kalpaktsis

@thanasis-kalpaktsis

User Prompt

"Generate a C2 Open Cloze on quantum consciousness. Focus on negative inversion, modal perfects, partitive relatives (of which), and rare idioms like 'all but' or 'in as much as'. Use a dense, academic register in which the gaps require deep contextual understanding."

Tone: Professional
Level: C2

Created on:

May 2, 2026

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