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CAE Reading and Use of English Practice Test 19

CAE Reading and Use of English Part 3

For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Eating in space

Over the years, space 0 exploration has had a huge amount of investment and involved many people. All of this has been 17 to society; without it we wouldn’t have such devices as mobile phones or satellite TV today. There have been countless 18 in many aspects of space travel but advances made to food consumed in space have been 19 slow.

Most early suggestions for the 20 of food for astronauts were unacceptable, for example shredding their printed mission instructions and sprinkling them with water enriched with vitamins. The freeze-dried foods they did initially consume would doubtlessly have been regarded as totally 21 by those of us on Earth.

Today the 22 of the International Space Station fortunately have a more appetising diet, since the larger spacecraft which is now being used 23 them to take tinned foods and flexible pouches containing meat and vegetables. However, despite this, their food still remains limited, due to the 24 challenges encountered with lack of gravity and the necessity for food to be sterile.

0. EXPLORE
17. BENEFIT
18. DEVELOP
19. RELATE
20. PROVIDE
21. EDIBLE
22. INHABIT
23. ABLE
24. GO

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