Exercises for CAE Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, Paper Three, English in Use

For each space, give the letter of the most suitable of the words given below.

Canada

Canada is the second largest country in the (1)............. in area, although its (2)............. is only some 25 million, most (3)............. in a 200-mile strip (4)............. the southern border. Over 25 per cent of the (5)............. number live in the three main cities. The northern areas of the country are almost uninhabited except for (6)............. settlements.
Canada is (7)............. a rich country, and its national (8)............. per capita is the fifth highest in the world, but its economy in recent years has been rather (9)............. , because of the varied nature of what it does.
Over the last three years, the Canadian economy has been hard (10)............. by falling oil prices and by (11)............ US interest rates. This has (12)............. to a steep fall in industrial production - by as much as a fifth since 1981. Some economists now think Canada is on the (13)............. to recovery, though more cautious spirits say that no (14)............. can be expected until there is a (15)............. to lower interest rates in the USA.

01. A. earth B. planet C. world D. globe
02. A. people B. residents C. population D. number
03. A. residing B. living C. stay D. inhabit
04. A. down B. along C. beside D. near
05. A. absolute B. total C. all D. complete
06. A. isolated B. far-fetched C. separate D. distant
07. A. fundamental B. widely C. overall D. basically
08. A. product B. resource C. production D. manufactures
09. A. seedy B. patchy C. spotty D. scratchy
10. A. affected B. hit C. pushed D. hammered
11. A. lifting B. rising C. mounting D. ascending
12. A. caused B. moved C. amounted D. led
13. A. ascent. B. climb C. mount D. road
14. A. uplift B. cheer C. recover D. improvement
15. A. tendency B. shift C. lift D. hike