CAE Use of English Part 2, Test 6 – How hamburgers took over the world

Answers and explanations

9. If/whether. To wonder if/whether something is true means to have a question about it.
10. From. If something is far from complicated, then it is the opposite of that. In this case, it is quite simple.
11. Its. We use a possessive pronoun to refer to the simplicity itself. Be careful not to give (It’s) as the answer – first of all, it is two words (It is), and secondly, the answer itself would be wrong.
12. Up. To come up with something means to invent something, to make something new. More often than not it is used to show the originality of the idea, to talk about something new.
13. Have/did. We have no clear limitation in terms of the tenses here – both past simple and present perfect work well. Remember that the use of the present perfect does not always require a marker like ‘since’ or ‘already’ – it works just as well without them.
14. At. To offer something at a certain price. Note that ‘offered for the price of’ would be more close in the meaning that you get this expensive burger in exchange for a three-meal course – naturally, this is not the message of the sentence. Instead, the idea is that the burger is as expensive as a complete meal.
15. Is. We see a case of a cleft sentence here – the bit that comes after ‘it’ gets more focus and importance. In this particular case, the cleft sentence also makes the explanation of the idea of the index easier to understand.
16. Up. To look something up means to consult something like a book, a website, or any other source of information in order to confirm a fact or a piece of data.