CAE Reading and Use of English Practice Test 18

CAE Reading and Use of English Part 1

For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Canoeist discovers unknown waterfall

We live in an age in which 0 virtually the entire planet has been documented and mapped. Explorers seem to be 1 falling short ofmissing out oncutting down onrunning out of wilderness to explore, so the discovery of unmapped waterfalls in a developed country is a rare 2 episodeundertakingoccurrenceinstance indeed.

Adam Shoalts was canoeing along the Again River in northern Canada when his boat 3 plungedtoredashedflung twelve metres into swirling white water below. Despite the 4 sizeablewidespreadintensiveample damage to his boat, Adam was thrilled to have tumbled down an unknown waterfall. Now with financial backing from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS), he is planning to revisit the falls in order to plot and measure them. His data will be used to 5 bringputtakemark maps of this remote area up to date. Its remoteness is reflected in the fact that it has a population 6 capacitydensityconsistencyfrequency of fewer than one person per 50 square kilometres. It is 7 disclosedgranteddeclaredacknowledged by the RCGS and Adam Shoalts himself that Adam’s discovery may not be of the 8 bulkvolumemagnitudeexpanse of what past explorers found, but it shows that there’s still much to be discovered.

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